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BREAKING NEWS

Snowey River is the First and Only White Swiss Shepherd Dog kennel in South Africa to have bred successfully and qualify dogs in 6 DIFFERENT FIELDS OF DOG SPORTS ! proving the adaptability of our dogs as fun loving sporting and companion dogs.

OBEDIENCE, AGILITY, TRACKING, CD (Companion Dog), BREED, FLYBALL

A Big Thanks to our Puppy Owners who have worked hard in all these disciplines.

CH, CH (FLY) SNOWEYRIVER WINTER STAR, FDX, CGC, owned by Stephen Pickering and adored by Charmaine. Talented Sally is living the South African dream and is fitting comfortably into the pawprints of her famous parents. Stephen has Sally’s future all planned and we are sure to see more qualifications in the working disciplines from this team in the future.

SNOWEYRIVER’S BEST KEPT SECRET!
Snowey River’s BEST KEPT SECRET arrived some months ago and its time for an Introduction !
See GINO’S page...

Handsome Josh with his playmate Sugar

COPPERSPRIDE AMERICAN PIE

Congratulations to our darling little ‘SUGAR’ and Kim
for completing successfully the KUSA CANINE GOOD CITIZEN TEST.
Sugar has turned out to be a lovely and well constructed short coat
with a well-balanced temperament. She is an intelligent girl who learns
quickly at dog school and thoroughly enjoys her human family who adore her. Well done Sugar and Kim ! See Sugar's Page...

Pretty & demure...

SNOWEY RIVER DISKI DANCE
Our awesome new ‘Lady’ shows real promise even at 8 weeks of age ! she has lovely movement and structure and a ‘proud’ and ‘elegant’ look just like her Dad, Luck Dragon and her mom Magnolia Star. We can’t help noticing her incredible presence and show attitude – a real little lady this one is and what an incredible journey to fill her mom’s pawprints.

CH SNOWEY RIVER RAIN MASTER – A WORTHY CHAMPION
We are proud to announce that FALKOR , owned by Stanley and Linda Baney of Kwa-Zulu Natal and exhibited by me has achieved his Breed Championship status in the Breed ring – confident and regal, Falkor can now boast that he has ‘CH’ in front of his name. His parents are Luck Dragon and Magnolia Star - Well done Falkor!

Sally flying high!

QUEEN SALLY CRUISES IN WITH ‘FLYBALL EXCELLENCE’
Ch.Snowey River Winter Star cruised in recently to achieve the title of FLYBALL EXCELLENCE.
The first White Swiss Shepherd dogin South Africa to have been awarded this title! Yippee, Sally - well done - proving she is not just a pretty face! Congrats to Stephen and Charmaine.

Proud dad Senna sired a litter with Tasha

Balou trying his best not to eat the flag!

SNOWEY RIVER DOMINATES THE WSSD RING WITH...

2 x Bests of Breed over the KUSA National Events Show Week-end! NOT ONLY THAT... We bred the mother of the latest KUSA National WSSD for 2010! (Ch Snoweyriver Fara Alphine Empress - from Ch Lord Camto von Sutumer-Grund
by Ch Arizona Frist-Lady of Snoweyriver.) Congratulations to the winner.

Read all about our successful week-end...

Balou in his "Class of 2010"

When a flag flies half mast, you know that a Lord and First Lady are no longer.

This is my Tribute...

On a whistle stop tour of South Africa, we welcomed Jan Jongeneel from the kennel ‘Of The Lovely White Shepherd’ in Holland to our province Kwa-Zulu Natal.

Time was short and although we only had one day to entertain our visitor we took the opportunity to introduce him to our dogs and of course, his special girl Savannah (whom we call our ‘special piece of Cheese). Savannah and Jan were completely focused on each other at times and shared some special kisses………as I watched my Cheese, I couldn’t help thinking – mmm, I think she knows this is her ‘Dad’ from Holland !

My dogs were completely comfortable with Jan and he showed his interest and passion for our breed during his visit. It was great to spend the day talking to Jan who is clearly knowledgeable on our breed.

It was a very hot day and so we couldn’t take the dogs touring with us, however, we enjoyed the sunshine and Jan was taken to see our traditional Zulu Dancing amidst the rolling green hills of THE VALLEY OF A THOUSAND HILLS, a big tourist attraction. These particular Zulu’s are from a family where generations have danced before them. They danced the ‘courtship’ dance and explained that a man has to buy 11 cows to pay for his bride ! Jan was quite amused at this.

We exchanged gifts and I have a lovely collection of mugs with WSSD prints on and in turn the Jongeneels received a South African made Show Shampoo and a bag of locally made ‘Assagai’ coffee. ‘Ja, its lekker by die see’ as we say in Afrikaans !

We ended the day with a pot of tea and cheese cake at the Tropicana Hotel on Durban’s beachfront – the beachfront looked ‘confused’ to say the least with all the paving and reconstruction going on – anything but attractive for visitors but WE’RE JUST GETTING READY FOR THE FIFA WORLD CUP !

So thank you Jan for sharing your time with us and we hope you enjoyed our country……….by the way Jan, Cito has stolen Savannah’s ‘chicken’ ! All night on Tuesday I kept hearing the toy chicken ‘squeak, squeak’ – I could not sleep !

All in all a great day.

Jan & Zulu man at Phe-Zulu

Jan & Savannah!

Jan & his daughter, Savannah

Jan, Michelle & young Zulu's

A TRIBUTE TO AN OFFICER AND A GENTLEMAN – IT WAS AN HONOR TO WALK WITH YOU

It was a sad moment for all of us in South African dogdom to have heard of the passing on of Captain Kenneth Hogg. Ken was a great supporter of our breed from the time of inception with The Kennel Union and he was a well respected judge not only on our local circuit but internationally as well.Ken was born in 1934, a proud Scotsman ! (and later became a Captain of the deep blue sea’s). I would just like to express my heartfelt sympathies to Edith who has lost a wonderful husband and to Rhonaid who has lost a fantastic father. I know I for one, will miss his sense of humor, his wisdom and role as peacemaker too.
He was a truly remarkable man. Rhonaid, you couldn’t have done the tribute to your dad and your sister any better – it stirred the hearts of all of us. As I sat watching snippets of Ken’s life played on the big screen at his Memorial Service, tears of absolute sadness overcame me – he was as large as life itself and I always felt he played the role of ‘father’ to many of us girls in KZN.

It was an awesome moment for me when Ken awarded me with the medal and title in 2004,KUSA National Herding Dog and an incredibly humble moment for me when I saw Luck Dragonand myself with Ken up on the big screen at his final service – I guess he will never really know how muchthat meant to me.

I leave you all with a photo of ONE GREAT MAN, IT WAS AN HONOR TO WALK WITH HIM – and ONE LITTLE DOG THAT HAD A GREAT FUTURE – little did we know that both although special were to leave us so soon.

GOODBYE KEN, give my boy a big love from his human mom !

THE STORK ARRIVES IN HOLLAND

Well, finally Lux is a proud daddy of 7 beautiful puppies (4 males and 3 girls) born to Laecey - the first successful AI from a South African bred WSS male in Europe ! Congratulations to Wendy ! We wish you lots of luck with your snowflakes.

Please visit Wendy’s link on
http://witte-herder.eu/pupslaecey.htm

Laecey

Coco is going to be father!

January 2010

AND DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER

When Chango, my precious KING OF DIAMONDS passed on he knew what he was doing I guess, he sent me a little gift instead and reminded me that DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER !

Introducing my new boy to the world & proud of the Heritage of our dogs -Snoweyriver Arctic Diamond - ‘BALOU’ In honour of his great grandsire : Balou-Aramis of White Mountain, Austria (the late ‘Super-Hund’ of Manuela Ritzmaier)

Meet Balou ... !

Merlin’s bringing us the News !!
(Snoweyriver Rain Star
Owner: Angela Curtis, Namibia)

PROUD OF THE HERITAGE OF OUR DOGS 

powered by the love of dogsports.........

.......... proudly South African!

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