Tannochbrae Deerhounds
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Latest News Last Updated: August 08, 2010
August 8: Very sad news as we say goodbye to Lorna Doone who died quietly in her sleep this morning. She had a wonderful life with Duff and Mary Weddle in Tulsa OK, and was mentor extraordinaire for young Indie (Tannochbrae's Indira of Glencrag).
June 26-27: Louie picks up two more points at Canby. Way to go Peggy and Louie!
June 19-20: A small entry this year at CHA. Gwynnie, in her first outing since finishing, picks up BOS, and her first Grand Champion points! And Ella looked fabulous as a Veteran. She continues to get better with age, looking more like Blaven every year. Great job Denny, keeping her so fit and well.
June 15: Ahem....I really need to dedicate more time to my own website! Thanks Bob (Wilkins) for continuing to prod me..
Happy Birthday to the Huppies! 5 years old on June 8th, and apart from the sad loss of Harry to pneumonia, all are doing just great. I got to see Hanna and Patryn (aka Hectic Henry) in Vermont this year and I was delighted with them. Hanna is more beautiful with every passing year, and Patryn is almost the spitting image of his dad Tam. And the grandkids are lovely!
On a sad note, we lost Seamus very unexpectedly, and for no good reason, last Monday. Malignant hyperthermia caused by use of Torbutol (absolutely contraindicated for Deerhounds). We all need to stay vigilant and be tough with our vets about what they give our dogs. Much as I have hated to want to do this, moving forward I will be carrying a list of do/don't drugs with me on all trips to the vet. I have been posting a series of "quick guides/reference lists" to the Health section of the SDCA website -- be sure to bookmark it.
May 11-16: National Specialty week. What a great time I had! Vermont in the sunshine was a delight. And so much cooler than 2004, when we sweltered in 80+ heat. This time it was typical temperatures, with cool (actually cold!) winds to remind us we were still early in the year. I saw some fantastic dogs this year, some wonderful puppies (almost brought one home....bad Lyn!), got to visit with friends and family. The official DVD should be great this year so make sure to get your copy (yours truly, and Bob are the narrators)!
Oh, and happy birthday to the "F" kids, 7 years old on the 13th. All going strong
April 12: Happy Birthday to the remaining "D" kids: Andrew, Siobhan, and Seamus. Who can believe they are 9 years old!
April 10: Happy first Birthday to Julia's first litter! Can't believe Sam is now a year old (ah, but there are days I want him to stop being a puppy!)
March 14: Wow I can't believe I haven't updated my website in so long! Been so busy on the SDCA 2010 National site I guess! Plus, call me old, but I'm having a hard time with Windows 7 filing methodology -- I seem to be hunting for files and programs more than I care for. But I do love my new Toshiba E205 laptop -- cool stuff!
Anyway, huge Happy 8th Birthday to the "E" kids. I really can't believe Litter #5 has achieved such a venerable age. Congratulations to all the wonderful people who have done such a great job of taking care of them.
And continued congratulations to Bram for continuing to wave the "A" litter flag -- you're one amazing boy! And Medb and her littermates from the C litter still going strong -- 11th birthday coming up on 3/25!
Feb: Fun at Linn Co, Feb 13-14 and some majors! Iagan is BOB both days. Isa wins a major Saturday and goes BBE Group 1! Sunday Louie gets his first major and the cheering was deafening!
Dec 21: The year just couldn't leave quietly; 2009 had to claim one more child. Cloud (Tannochbrae's Clackamas 3/25/99) left us yesterday at 4pm, probably from a heart attack. He survived hurricanes in Houston, and winters in Calgary, and recently had a fantastic cross-USA road trip vacation. He was a wonderful boy and adored by the Pfau family. I am so sad for them, and his passing has my heart aching again for all my other precious children who are now in the canine Elysian Fields.
Farewell my beautiful friends: Cloud, Cali, Druid, Biff, Fin, Tam, and Arden. And here's hoping 2010 is a much kinder, much gentler year for us all.
Dec 8: A lovely surprise in my inbox! Pictures of Lorna and Indie (Tannochbrae's Indira of Glencrag) who live with the Weddles in Tulsa. Lorna looks just gorgeous at 10.8 years old. And young Indie is growing well. Here's my fav.
Nov: Louie garners a wonderful Best In Match, and follows it up with Winners Dog/Best of Winners for his first point.
Oct 29: Another very sad day as we say goodbye to Cali. We lost her to pneumonia. She will be missed sorely by the Gillespie family. Cali was Mom of my "G" litter, and grand-mom to the "I" litter. Fabulous courser, and great overall presence.
Sept 21: A very sad day as we say goodbye to Druid. His heart just couldn't keep going. Druid was Peggy's first Deerhound, and was the love of her life.
Ch Tannochbraes Ardfillan Hills JC, multiple group placer, gentleman. His Album
Sept 20: Emily finishes her ASFA Field Championship at the Grand National! Way to go Ms Em, Steve and Joan. Emily is now DC Tannochbrae's Feanor, FCh!
Sept 6: Ioan and Iona win at Eugene KC. Only one point each but we'll take it! Iagan was a beautiful Best of Breed, and put on a lovely turn in group.
We were able to get some okay photos of Blade/Sam. Side Rear Front
August 29: No particular news, just thought it was time I updated the page. Here's some more Blade/Sam pix. Favorite sleeping spots: 1, 2, 3
Oh, and I forgot I did this page. I need to do one for each of the litters now so there's a "together" photo record
July 5: Some pictures of Blade, Neera's boy, who arrived a week ago today. How soon we forget just how active puppies can be, especially getting into things they should not! Blade is Litespeed's Blade at Tannochbrae, born April 10 2009. Pedigree
June 14 Another Cascade Hound Association weekend has come and gone. Ioan picked up his first major on Saturday under Skip Herendeen. Nothing much else as regards wins, but a great time catching up with Denny, Laura, Allison, Steve and Diana Kass, and Jean. Had a lovely visit with houseguests Joan and Joe.
Meadow has settled in completely (some pix). We all doubt she's purebred at this point, thinking some Borzoi may have crept in there, but it could be anything. There's most definitely a lot of Deerhound in her pedigree, but not 100%. Anyway we love her and she's really enjoying romping around with all the dogs.
June 3: We have a new boarder! Meadow arrived very late Wednesday (actually more like Thursday morning!) and has settled in quite well. She's needy as expected but is getting on very well with the other residents. Here's some pix of her. Today she looks much more fuzzy so as soon as we try and find the dog underneath, I'll get some pictures. At this point, I have no idea where she may have come from except I seriously doubt she's from any UK/European bloodlines.
May 26: What a great National Specialty -- I had a fantastic time and what made it extra special was all those Tannochbrae kids, grandkids, and great-grandkids out strutting their stuff!! Thank you Bob and Ann with Hanna, Berta and Jim with Kate, Carmen and Mark (huge congrats on winning the big money event -- Sweepstakes! -- with Lachie's kids), Gale and George with Selene, and of course Joan with the lovely Emily and Hope! Spending time with Bill Colosimo was truly special, and hanging out with everyone was joyful!
May 1: Pix of Neera's babies on May 1st (approx 3 weeks). By way of comparison, here's the I litter at 4 weeks.
Apr 10: Neera has 5 babies! 4 boys, 1 girl, born of Rosslyn Blade courtesy of some 17 year old frozen semen and the surgical expertise of her Mom Julia. See pix here, and pedigree here.
Apr 4: Pippin gets his first points! Timberland was its usual cold, windy venue, and our major didn't hold because of various injuries (babies will play rough!)
Apr 1: Findlay is gone. Old age finally claimed him, and we're bereft. Going through his photo album was comforting, as has reading the wonderful messages people have sent on the news of his passing.
Mar 10: Today we lost the magnificent Tam. He had complications resulting from adenocarcinoma. Nicole's heart dog, special boy for Barb Smith and myself.
Feb 14-15: Another wonderful gathering of the clan at Linn County KC shows. As this weekend normally coincides with the pre-Westminster weekend, usually it's been a good weekend for us average folk to have a bite at the Group cherry. Unfortunately we in a "move" year and this was the weekend after Westminster. We did have a great weekend, finishing Iagan (Ch #43) not only with BW, BOB, but with a regular Group 1V and a Bred By Group 2!! And little Hebe picks up not only her first major on Saturday with WB/BOS, but Sunday goes Best of Breed for 5 points!! All the others looked fantastic and it was great to see so many of the "I" kids together. Special Woo Hoo to Scottie and David, who brought our two (delightful) Bobsie twins out again and both girls paid attention and really behaved well in the ring. Annie especially finally "got it" and went RWB on Sunday!! Altogether Tannochbrae had 3 litters represented (G, H, and I).
Feb 6: I'm catching up with all the great pix I've been sent recently. First, "The
Destructo Dogs" Iagan and Isa. Christmas 2008:
Medb
Hanna
Hanna &
Chino. Other pix: Elessar
Louie in Oct
Jan 26: Great picture of
George and Fealin
Dec 29: We bid farewell to the
lovely and much loved Arden. My first born girl, my first homebred Champion:
Ch Tannochbrae's Arden House, JC 9/1/98-12/29/08.
Her ad
Dec 18-22+: Worst snow storm in twenty+ years.
See pix.
Hebe Tannochbrae's Hebe at Skeksi 9 points, 2 majors (Tannochbrae's Iona of
Glencrag) 6 points, 1 major (Tannochbrae's Ioan of
Glencrag) 6 points, 1 major
(Tannochbrae's Gwyneira JC) 3 point
Pippin (Tannochbrae
Icon Glencrag at Willow) 2 points
Tannochbrae's Hullabaloo 1 point (Tannochbraes Illusionist from Glencrag) 8
Point Scores
as of 6/27/10
Isa
Tannochbrae's Isa At Glencrag
10 points, 1 major
Oz
Louie
Annie
Tannochbrae's Hurricane
1 point
