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Moonshadow Belgian Shepherds, Australia Australian Champion Moonshadow
Dancing Bear "Dancer" D.O.B.
16/9/2008
"Dancer"
is shown above with Lesley at home in Bowral, NSW, where she has joined the other
Moonshadow Belgians in the Moonshadow
dog show team. Her pedigree name, Dancing Bear, is in honour of our
beloved girl, Mashiara Moonshadow, or
"Shadow", whom we long referred to as "Mrs Bear". Shadow
had a very successful show career, gaining her Australian Championship title
and amassing 579 Challenge points prior to her retirement in mid-1999. Her
biggest victory was winning Challenge Bitch and Runner-up Best of Breed in
the face of very strong competition and with a Belgian judge at the Sydney
Royal Show in April, 1997. Sadly,
Shadow passed away in December, 2010 at the age of 16 (see Shadow's
Vale.) "Dancer" has been
following in her paw prints in the show ring. Shadow was the start of Moonshadow
Kennels, which was named after her. In 1997, Shadow became the mother of our first
litter, giving birth to five lovely puppies, two boys - Zulu and Mali, and
three girls - Peppercorn, Bumble-Bee and Pixie. Shown
below, Dancing Bear and "Mrs Bear" Shadow (then 14 years of age) getting to know
each other at home, in mid-December, 2008.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dancer has
since had a successful show career. In recent successes, she won 3 Best
Australian Bred Working Dog awards in a row at the Bemboka shows in November,
2011, Runner-up Best exhibit in the Working Dog Group at the Kangaroo Valley
show in February, 2012, Best of Breed at the Canberra Royal Show also in
February, 2012, and Best in Show at the March 2012 Belgian Shepherd Dog Club
of Queensland Open Show. Below are
two of the official 2012 Canberra Royal Show photos of Dancer
as Best of Breed winner
Below is a
photo of the Best in Show lineup at the Belgian
Shepherd Dog Club of Queensland show, with Dancer on the left, followed by
the Best Laekenois, the Best Malinois
and the Best Tervueren. Big congratulations to our
girl!
Other
recent pictures of Dancer were taken at her 3rd Birthday party on
16 September, 2011. She is shown below
with friend Dream and “daddy”
Rob, and of course her Birthday cake.
The next set of pictures of Dancer were taken at her 2nd
Birthday party on 16 September, 2010. Some of our favourites are included
below (and yes, that is the 16 year old Shadow in the background in the final
photo).
We were very pleased when with her Best of Breed win
at the Goulburn show on 1 November 2009, Dancer
reached the 100 Challenge Points total necessary for her to gain the
Australian Champion title. Her title was officially awarded on 18 December,
2009. Congratulations Dancer! Some of
the show highlights along the way are summarised below. At the Penrith Dstrict
show on 28 August, 2009, little Dancer won Best Puppy Working Dog and she
again won this the following weekend at the ACT Junior Kennel Club show in
Canberra. On 8 May, 2009 in Newcastle, our little Dancer was awarded Best Minor
Puppy in the Working Dog Group at both the Newcastle & Northern District
Kennel Club and the Northern All Breeds Kennel Club shows! Shown below are some pictures of Dancer
taken on the day by Ashley Hoffman. Thanks Ash!
We were delighted when Dancer won Best Baby in the
Working Dog Group at the Tarago Show on 15 March, 2009, and even more pleased
when she went on to be awarded the Best Baby Puppy in Show Ribbon! Shown
below is Dancer with our other puppy Dream,
also a big winner at Tarago.
The next two pictures show Dancer at the Penrith
Kennel & Obediance Club show on 10 January,
2009. Although Dancer was well behaved at this, her first Show, her brother Arry, shown further below, won out to gain the Best Baby
Puppy in Group award. However, we are pleased to report that at her second
show, at Dapto on 17 January, 2009, Dancer won 1st place in the 3-6 Months
Sweepstakes, with an entry of 27 dogs.
Congratulations Dancer!
The next pictures below, taken in late December
2008, show Dancer on a visit to her brother Arry. They had great fun running through the
grass, wrestling and even going for a swim.
(Dancer is the smaller one in the pictures!)
Finally, we have Dancer meeting Santa for the
first time, Christmas 2008.
Comments, questions or like more information? Email
us, Rob & Lesley Kane, at robandlesley48@ozemail.com.au |
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