Many, many moons ago...........in 1773!!!
We were given the opportunity of a wonderful little girl called Tillie.
She was from the Newlin Kennels of Liz Calikes and David Bradley and she already had twelve months of successful show experience.
Tillie, or to give her her Kennel Club title, Newlin Unity had an illustrious show career, winning BEST PUPPY in SHOW at the Scottish Kennel Club Championship Show in 1986.
And so it began, an obsession for Beagles that has never waned.
We quickly multiplied in numbers and found ourselves with Moses, Shona and Dimple.
These were followed by our foundation bitch Caurniehill Melba, who was given to us by Kathleen Cooper of the Caurniehill Beagles.
Melba had already won a lot of Reserve Challenge Certificates and soon she was helping us win quite a few more.
We mated Melba to Champion Mistylaw Chuckles of Millmar and this produced our Top Winning Beagle of all time - Haughmill Sergeant Pepper or to his friends and family Ziggy!
Second mating for Melba was to the Top Winning Beagle for that year, Champion Julemark Hotspur by Nedlaw, Harvey. Out of this mating came a wonderful boy, Haughmill Mark My Words
After many years and travelling thousands and thousands of miles to Dog Shows, we had established ourselves as well respected breeder/exhibitors.
Which is no mean feat! And needed a very large bank balance!!!!
We ended up with 21 Beagles, a few GSDs, a wire coated undocked Jack Russell (named Henry after Hendrix) and Mum the matriarchal cat.
We had accomplished an immense amount with our beloved little Hounds.
PUP of THE YEAR finalist, Numerous STUD BOOK qualifications, Reserve CHALLENGE CERTIFICATES, Over 20 BEST in SHOW awards, 32 BEST PUPPY in SHOW awards, 47 BEST in GROUP awards, 78 BEST in BREED awards, and over 450 First place awards all at Championship and Open shows.
We haven't shown Beagles since the 90's -
but we have decided to start again and hopefully our future with the little hounds will be as
successful as it was.
A New Breed at Crufts '88
Carolyne with some of Dimples puppies
Alasdair with his beloved Melba
Judging Appointment 1991
Kirkcaldy & District Canine Club
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Carolyne & Alasdair Cowan '09
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Charlotte and Treacle
Our Beagles 2009
Accolades Awarded
The First & only Kennel Club Accredited English Foxhound Breeder in Britain
We are also Kennel Club Accredited Breeders for
The German Shepherd Dog & Beagles
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We are now taking bookings
for our puppies due March 2010.