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Moonshadow Belgian
Shepherds, Australia Vale
Shadow 13 August 1994 – 29 December 2010 (Australian
Champion Mashiara Moonshadow) Shadow was
our first pure-bred Belgian Shepherd, our first show dog, the foundation of
our Moonshadow Belgian Shepherds Kennel and our
very much beloved companion for almost half our lives together. She was a
mother or foster mother to all our other dogs and even on her last day still
padded around the house after her girls.
We were very pleased that she was with us to enjoy her 16th
Birthday in August, 2010 and that she was here with family and friends to
help us celebrate Christmas 2010. We will always remember our lovely girl and
will always be grateful to Melissa Gore for giving us this bundle of joy. Shadow was a
successful show dog during the 1990’s. She obtained her Australian Champion
title on 16 October, 1995 and was awarded 579 Challenge points before she
retired in 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. We were so proud of
our girl! Shadow had
her first and only litter in October, 1997 and her sons Zulu and Mali survive
her. Zulu has been her life-long companion and still lives with us, whilst
Mali lives with our good friend Rae in Sydney. Sadly, she had been preceded
in death by daughters Peppy and Peggy Bumble Bee. For more information on Shadow, see
her web page at: Shadow's
page. For more pictures of her and the
family enjoying her 16th Birthday, see: Shadow's
16th Birthday page. Some of our favourite pictures of “Mrs
Bear” as she was affectionately known, are shown below.
Shadow
started out as the companion for our 14 year old Belgian Shepherd cross,
Kandy, shown
above with cute little puppy Shadow
In
late 1995, Shadow was joined by Tervueren “Baxie”, shown above being
guided by "foster Mum" Shadow
Lesley and the young Show Dog Shadow pose at the Mona Vale
Show ground
Rob
with Baxie and Shadow on the show trail near Port
Stephens in November 1996.
Shadow
with her pups in October 1997
Shadow
at her 11th Birthday party in August 2005
Shadow
and son Zulu relaxing in the garden in November, 2005
Shadow
at age 15 years by the front door ready to go out in May 2010
Finally,
Shadow had plenty of help to celebrate her 16th Birthday on 13
August 2010. First
we see Shadow (left) with son Zulu; in the middle Shadow eyes up her cake;
and in the third picture we see (from left to right) Clyde, Dancer, Shadow
and Dream all ready to play. We’ll
greatly miss our sweet and lovely Mrs Bear. Know that you have left a huge
hole in our hearts and in our lives.
Rest easy our lovely girl, until we meet again... |
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