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Since I was a small child I have been ‘into’ all animals ….. Especially dogs! I would borrow any dog I could, to walk and train it … if no real ones were to hand - I had a whole kennel of imaginary ones!!
Not surprisingly my working life revolved around dogs… whilst working with horses my hobby was competitive Obedience, and when for health reasons I gave up horses I ‘went to the dogs’!
Working in several excellent kennels with Breed, Showing and Training; plus time with the "Champions of Dog Causes” the N.C.D.L. (now The Dogs Trust) and as a Vetinary Nurse I always had my own dogs and continued to compete in many varied disciplines with them.
First and foremost my dogs are my pets and live indoors with me, my aim has always been to breed for soundness, health in mind and body, dogs that can fit in, and cope with the bustle which the average modern life throws at them!
Hopefully improving on each breeding... striving, as all breeders should, to produce the perfect dog!!
To do this I only breed from dogs with proven excellent temperaments, which have been health tested themselves and come from lines which have been tested and are as free from hereditary defects as possible.
My puppies go to carefully screened pet homes, but I still breed to the K.C. standards and I am proud to have breed a Champion, plus CC and Reserve CC winners in two breeds.
In my professional life I have seen, and had to deal with, the poor creatures produced by the uncaring, who breed their bitches for money, with no thought of what happens once the cheque clears. The dogs crippled with conditions which should have been screened out, those who are scared of life and all things around them, those who learnt fear and aggression from their mother... who should never have had pups herself. This is why I am totally against those who produce dogs for ‘pocket money’, especially the so called “designer” dogs, who end up in our rescues in ever increasing numbers as crossbreeds and mongrels … unwanted, unloved and doubling up on all of the hereditary defects available!!
This all adds to my hopes that one day EVERYONE will be only breeding from health tested dogs, and taking responsibility for every puppy they breed!
I was granted my affix 'Curnix' back in 1976, when I had my first pedigree dog ... the Irish Wolfhound of my childhood dreams was the first to carry it.
I did not breed a litter of my own untill my first litter of Italian Greyhounds in 1986, the first of the 'Curnix' dogs ! My present Italian is from my 5th generation.
