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Moonshadow Belgian Shepherds, Australia 2007News Items Click
on a picture to see an enlargement 2 December 2007 - Happy 10th Birthday Paco! Lots of pets and cuddles to our Paco, who turned 10 today. 16 - 18 November 2007 - Championships
achieved, and a new "Personal
Best" for Moonshadow Belgian Shepherds Moonshadow went to Newcastle on the weekend of
16-18 November for three shows. Magic won Best Junior in the Working Dog
Group on the Friday, and by winning BOB each day, he and his sister Avalon
both achieved the required number of Challenge Points to qualify for the
title of Australian Champion. The
rules for this award now require not only a total of at least 100 Challenge
Points, but at least 25 of these points must be earned while over the age of
1 year. We were very pleased that both Avalon and Magic achieved this within
three weeks of their first birthdays!
Big congratulations to our boy and girl!! For the latest photos of
them at the Newcastle show grounds, see Magic's Page
and Avalon's
page And finally, with Magic, Avalon and Paco winning that weekend, Moonshadow
Belgian Shepherds surpassed their 2005 record of 530 Challenge Points won in
a year. Good work Zulu, Paco,
Magic and Avalon! 9 - 11 November 2007 - Paco's Weekend Bemboka is a small village on the Snowy
Mountains Highway, and on 9-11 November 2007 was the site for the Far South
East Kennel Club's weekend of shows.
Our Paco had a very good weekend. His Best
of Breed win on 10 November saw him pass a total of 800 challenge points, and
at the same show he was awarded a "Best Veteran in Show" sash. The
following day he won Best Open Dog in the Working Dog Group. Well done for a
dog just 3 weeks shy of his 10th Birthday! 31 October 2007 - Happy First
Birthdays! We wish all of our Halloween 2006
puppies the Happiest of Birthdays.
Shown below left Magic on the right waits for his Birthday Cake whilst
Mother Rhianne and Dad Paco
are ready to help (Paco was the only one to keep
his party hat on). Below right Rhianne and Magic
close in on the cake.
19 October 2007 - Happy 10th
Birthdays! Happy10th Birthday wishes to our first
litter - Zulu, Mali, Peppy, sadly-missed Peggy, and Pixie. Shown below left Mother Shadow reaches
for the Birthday cake while son Zulu waits patiently; on the right daughter Peppy shares her
cake with her constant companion Baxter.
19 October 2007 - Avalon wins Best
Junior in Group We were very pleased when our little
girl won her second Best Junior in group at the Tuggerah Lakes K&O Club show. 28 September 2007 - Magic wins again Magic does it again! Under Ms Beth Warman, a New Zealand judge, Magic again won first place in the 6-12 month old sweepstakes
event at the 2007 Pedigree Canberra Canine Carnival 17 September 2007 - Bayer Breeder Programme Moonshadow Belgian Shepherds joins the Bayer
Breeder Champions Programme!
16-19 September 2007 - Visitors Roger and Janice Clifford of Ebontide Kennels in the UK, breeders of Rhianne,
visit us. 9 September 2007 - Birthday Happy 3rd Birthday to Rhianne! 11-15 August 2007 - A Magic weekend It
was a very good long weekend of showing for our little boy Magic, who was 9
1/2 months old. At the four Tullamore shows, Magic won first place in the 6-12 Months
Sweepstakes four times in a row! He followed this up the fifth day at Trundle
with a third place. In the Working Dog Group competitions at the same shows,
Magic won Best Puppy in Group three out of five times, and on one of those
times was awarded the Runner up Best Exhibit in Group prize. Quite an
accomplishment for our "baby boy"! Sister Avalon also played her
part, winning Best Junior in the Working Dog Group on one of these days. Big
congratulations to our young ones!
Shown below are at the left, Magic wins the first of 4 consecutive
first places in 6-12 Months
Sweepstakes on 11 August at Tullamore, and at the
right, Magic winning his third Best Puppy in the Working Dog Group on 15
August at Trundle.
13 and 14 August 2007 - Birthdays Happy 13th Birthday on 13 August to
Shadow, and Happy 12th Birthday on 14 August to Baxter! August/September 2007 -
"Highlife" Magazine We
were happy to be interviewed recently about Belgian Shepherds by Judith
O'Connell, a regular Feature Writer on Dog Breeds for the Highlife Magazine.
Her article on Belgians along with photos of our Paco
and his son Magic appears on page 161 of the August/September 2007 Issue.
Hopefully it will help win a few more converts to this beautiful breed. 5 August 2007 - Belgian Shepherd
Specialty Show Paco is having a good year, running up to his 10th Birthday in December 2007. On 5 August, 2007 he competed at the Belgian Shepherd Dog Club of NSW Specialty Show held in Picton, NSW under the famous Belgian Judge Firmin Aertgeerts. Paco and Lesley are shown in the ring below. Paco went on to win Reserve Challenge Dog against a strong field of 11 younger entries. The "critique" given by Firmin is reproduced below: "Almost 10yrs old, complete scissor
bite, good constructed tall male. Good
parallelism and stop, dark eyes and almond, nice ears could be higher
set. Excellent pigmentation and mask,
nice sweep of neck and good strong back, sloping croup. Excellent angulations, good bone structure,
excellent developed chest, excellent coat, warm and excellent charbonne, and very good stance and temperament. Could be a little more compact. Very good movement. Grade:
Excellent"
9-10 June 2007 - Parkes
Shows Magic enjoyed his weekend at the Parkes shows, winning Best Minor Puppy in Group on both
days. He also won 3rd
place in the 6-12 months Sweepstakes on the first day and 1st place on the
second day! Father Paco picked up a 2nd place in
the Veteran's Sweepstakes and both Magic and sister Avalon gained their first
Challenge points. See "Show
Results" for details! Or click for the latest pictures of Magic and
Avalon. 15 April 2007 - Royal Easter Show We
are delighted to announce that our Paco this year
won Best of Breed Belgian Shepherd Tervueren at the
Sydney Royal Easter Show on Sunday 15 April, 2007. Paco,
at 9 years of age, was in the Veterans Class and he went on to beat all the
younger dogs to take the prize! Photos of Paco and
Lesley taken at the Royal Show by the Official Photographer can be seen on Paco's Page! 17& 19 March 2007 - Magic at
Canberra Our Halloween born Magic wins his
first Best Baby Puppy in the Working Dog Group on St Patrick's Day at the ACTCA Canberra Autumn International Festival. Mrs Honey Glendinning, the
Canadian judge, praised both Magic and Avalon, but decided it was his on the
day. When we returned on 19 March, Magic again won Best
Baby Puppy in the Working Dog Group, this time under Ms Cheryl Egerton, another Canadian judge. We were very proud of
our little boy! For pictures, see the Magic webpage
under our Puppies page! 9-11 and 16-19 February 2007 -
Sapphire Coast First dog shows for our puppies Magic
and Avalon at Bermagui and the Sapphire Coast. At
the 18 February show, by winning Best of Breed, Zulu surpassed 700 Challenge
points. Congratulations Zulu!
Lesley and Magic in the line up at
Sapphire Coast Click
here to see News Items from 2006 Comments, questions or like more information? Email
us, Rob & Lesley Kane, at robandlesley48@ozemail.com.au or telephone us on (02) 4862 4738 for more
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