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Moonshadow Belgian Shepherds, Australia News 28-29 March 2013 Most of Dancer’s puppies are off to
their new homes. Click
here to see them with their new families. 1 February 2013 We are delighted to announce the birth
of Dancer and Trillion’s Groenendael puppies. We
have 2 girls and 5 boys, and their first photos can be seen by clicking on this
link. Christmas 2012 We were pleased to hear from a number
of people who have our puppies, including Laura, Katie, Victoria, Cherrise, Michele, Carly and
Ryan and Leanne and Sam, Elspeth and Michael. New photos can now be seen of Hansie, Freja, Zoe, Zephyr, Mali and
Phyllis! 27 December 2012 An ultra-sound examination confirms
that Dancer/Trillion puppies are on the way, due 2 February 2013 (click
here for details). 1 December 2012 Dancer
and Trillion
get together for a mating! 7 November 2012 Raina does it again!
Elsepeth and Michael’s lovely and
intelligent girl has gained another two titles: Rally Novice (RN) and Snooker
Dog (SD). This makes her official name: Australian Champion Moonshadow Graecious Winterain CCD, RN, ADX, JDX, SPD, GD, SD. Good going Raina! 31 October 2012 Big Happy 6th Birthdays to our “Halloween 2006”
litter. We were very pleased to hear from Stephanie about Avalon, Rhonda
about Magic, Michele about Gracie, Joan and Boris about Indie and Rae about
Kyra. New birthday pictures were received from Joan, and can be found on Indie’s
webpage. 15 October 2012 Congratulations to Gracie on
obtaining her “Companion Dog” (CD) title today! 8 October 2012 Today Coco was
officially awarded her Australian Champion title by the Royal NSW Canine
Council Ltd. Congratulations to our girl! 27 September 2012 Today the first show of the newly formed Japanese Spitz Club
of NSW was held in Newcastle, NSW. It was Poppy’s
first show, as she was just 2 days over the minimum age of 3 months. No, she
didn’t beat the older dogs she was competing against, but was widely praised
by other exhibitors. Coco also
took part and did win her Class and went on to win the Best Opposite Junior
in Show ribbon. Coco is shown in the ring on the left,
with Poppy shown on the right.
21 September 2012 By winning Best of Breed at the Coffs Harbour Dogs shows, our
one year old Japanese Spitz Coco
attained the 100 Challenge points necessary for the award of an Australian
Champion title. Congratulations to our little girl! Coco has also risen to 10th
place out of 49 Japanese Spitz in the 2012 Dogsonline
Japanese Spitz Breed Challenge, and 10th place out of 30 in the Dogsonline Japanese Sptiz
Rising Star of 2012 Leaderboard. 17 September 2012 Big congratulations to Raina!! On this day, Raina was officially awarded her hard to achieve
Agility Dog Excellent (ADX) title, as well as her Gambler’s Dog (GD) title. 16 September 2012 Happy 4th Birthday to
Dancer and her brothers and sister! We heard from Virginia, Laura and Laurie
that Stella, Hansie and Ari were all doing well and
had enjoyed the day, and received new pictures of Stella
and Hansie that are now on their webpages. 24 August 2012 Happy 8th Birthday! Today was the 8th Birthday of
Zoe and Brie, two puppies from our GraeShadow
litter of 24 August, 2004. Both are daughters of our Paco,
and live happily with our friend Marga in Sydney.
Thanks to Marga for the birthday picture of the
girls that is shown below.
23 August 2012 Welcome to “Poppy”!
Today we picked up our new little Japanese Spitz puppy, Esilanna Cupcake, also known as Poppy. She is only 8 weeks
old now, but we are sure she will make a lovely little playmate for our other
Japanese Spitz, Coco, who is now just over a year old. The first pictures of
her are on her webpage,
and one of them is shown below. Many thanks to Liz and Bill Houldsworth of Esilanna Kennels
near Brisbane for entrusting their little girl to us!
28 July 2012 Coco’s first Birthday! She spent the
day at a dog show with her Aunties (Dancer and Dream) and Mum and Dad.
Pictured below, she makes herself at home with Dad on the couch after the big
day. Happy Birthday to our little girl!
22 July 2012 With her Best of Breed win at the
Kennel Association of Queensland show today, Dancer moved into first place on
the Dogzonline 2012 Belgian Shepherd Dog Groenendael
Breed Challenge. Good on ya Dancer! 2 July 2012 Today we received an official notification that Dream’s sister
Raina had been awarded another agility title – this
time SPD or “Strategic Pairs Dog”. She is now officially Ch. Moonshadow Graecious Winterain CCD, AD, JDX, SPD. Congratulations to Elspeth
and Michael and of course to the girl herself! 1 July 2012 With Dancer’s Best of Breed win at the Gympie and District
Kennel Club show today, we reached a total of 4000 Challenge Points since we
began showing in 1995. Thanks to all our Australian Champions for their
efforts over the years! Dancer also surpassed Dream in total points, and has
moved into second place in the Dogzonline 2012
Belgian Shepherd Dog Groenendael Breed Challenge.
Little Coco has also continued to win Challenge Points and is now over 3/4th
of the way to her Australian Champion Title. Go girls.... 21 June 2012 Today new mum Dream celebrated her 4th
Birthday. We were very pleased to hear news from sisters Raina
and Zoe, as well as brother Ariel. Thanks to Brittany we have new
pictures of Zoe
and thanks to Rod we have new pictures of Ariel. 7 June 2012 Our lovely Tervueren
puppies who were born on 10 April, 2012 have now all
gone to their new homes. For pictures of them with their new families, click
here. For lots of pictures of them growing up, click
here. 20 April 2012 We are very sad to report that our
lovely old boy, Zulu (Australian Champion Moonshadow
Zulu Magician) today passed away at the age of 14.5 years. For a brief
tribute to his life, please visit Zulu's
Vale. 10th April 2012 We are delighted to report that our lovely girl Dream gave
birth to 6 beautiful Tervueren puppies – 4 girls and
2 boys on the 10th April 2012.
Mother and pups are doing wonderfully well and the puppies
birthweight has doubled in the first week! A picture of mum and pups when the puppies
are almost a week old is shown below. For more pictures, click
here. For background on the parents and pedigree, please click
here.
11 March 2012 Dancer Best in Show! The Belgian Shepherd Dog Club of Queensland held two Open
Specialty Shows on 11 March, 2012. We were delighted when at the first of
these two shows our Groenendael girl Dancer won
Best of Breed Groenendael and went on to win Best
in Show! Below is a photo of the Best
in Show lineup, with Dancer on the left, followed
by the Best Laekenois, the Best Malinois
and the Best Tervueren. Big congratulations to our girl!
1 March 2012 Puppies! Great news! Today an ultrasound examination confirmed
that Dream is pregnant. We anticipate
the puppies will be born around 10 April, 2012. Click
here for more details. 26 February 2012 We
are happy to note that our girl Dancer won Groenendael
female Challenge and Best of Breed at the Canberra Royal Show today. Official
show photos can be seen on her own webpage - click here. 18 February 2012 The Moonshadow
gang went down to the Kangaroo Valley show, and were very pleased when our Dancer
was awarded Runner Up Best Exhibit in the Working Dog Group. We were also
pleased when our 6 month old little Japanese Spitz girl Coco won
her first Challenge and Best of Breed. Congratulations to our girls! 27-29 January 2012 Zulu Triumphs! This was the weekend of 3 days of dog showing in Bungendore,
NSW. While Dream and Dancer were
awarded Best of Breed, and Coco got to practice her show technique, the big
news for us came because each day they offered a Veterans Sweepstakes
competition for dogs over 10 years of age. On the first day, 27 January 2012,
our 14 year old Australian Champion Moonshadow Zulu
Magician, from the first ever Moonshadow litter, won the 3rd place ribbon. On the second
day, he won the 2nd place ribbon, and on the third day he won the
1st place ribbon. Quite an accomplishment for a dog of over 14
years who had not been in the ring since 2007! Zulu was the only dog out of
600+ entered in these shows who was born in the 1900’s! We were so proud of
our sweet old boy! Some pictures of the 14 year old Zulu in the ring with
Lesley are shown below.
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