After the pages on CH Bayard le Tartare, the Wheelers of Willo-Mar and Katay Burg, TDHP has added info about:
1. Ray and Gene Shultis of Gera Smooths
2. Dunkeldorf
3. Harry Howell
4. An Appreciation of Bobby Fowler
5. CH Taunuswald Wee Sakura ML
We hope you enjoy them as much as we enjoyed writing them!
Jean Dieden, DVM, of Clinton, Washington, has been involved in AKC Performance events with her Hathor Farm Wirehaired Dachshunds since 1992. They have earned 12 Field Championships (11 of them Dual) and over 50 “Absolute Winner” awards, including three national specialty trial wins. She has been competing at dog shows, obedience trials and tracking tests for forty years.
She has had three dogs ranked in the DCA annual “Top 20” awards and one (TC M’I Spy of Hathor Farm SW VCD1 RN OA AXJ NAP OJP OF JE) with over 1000 points is among the top 10 lifetime point earners.
Jean has served on the DCA’s Trial Advisory Committee/Performance Events Committee for ten years, the last seven serving as chairman. This committee has been responsible for several successful AKC rule and procedural change proposals also adopted by the other hound events.
Dr. Dieden started in AKC Earthdog at its inception. Her dogs have earned over 300 qualifying scores, including 160 Master tests. She has held over eighty tests at her home, Hathor Farm on Whidbey Island. A founding officer of the Puget Sound Earthdog Club and longtime president of the Cascade Dachshund Club she is credited for gaining CDC’s licensing status for Dachshund Field Trials and Earthdog Tests.
Dr. Dieden has enjoyed being a field trial judge for 12 years and an Earthdog judge for 16 years, enjoying judging throughout the country, including eleven classes at DCA national events.
(Thanks to Cindi Todd for drawing this signal honor to our attention!)
George Richards passed away on June 17th at the age of 100.
George was well known in obedience circles and was an icon to Dachshund performance enthusiasts. At the tender age of 98, he was even an internet sensation after video of George and his beloved miniature long, Hummel, competing at the 2009 DCA National Obedience Trial, went viral.
George was the first (and to date, only) performance competitor with his own page on TDHP. While his accomplishments in dog sports are more than worthy of note, it was George’s spirit and attitude as much as anything else that inspired me to dedicate a page to him some months back when we first created TDHP. I updated George’s page today to include the news of his passing. Despite the sadness I felt in doing so, revisiting his life also brought a smile to my face.
George’s obituary can be found here. The funeral home offers an electronic guestbook for those who would like to offer their condolences to George’s family. Be sure to do so today, though. I am not sure how long the guestbook will be available since the burial is scheduled for tomorrow morning.
Tracy Freeling
Thanks to some research by Alicia Rescek, Midachs Jaqueline has been elevated to #2 All Time Top Producing MS Bitch! Well done, breeders Roy Colverd and Sharon Michael as well as owners Dr. and Mrs. W. G. Thomas!
https://www.dachshundhistoryonline.com/?p=13073
TDHP just added a remembrance of Frank Hardy by Stanley Orne, editor of “The American Dachshund”, from that magazine’s December 1967 issue. The article was published after Mr. Hardy’s death and was a reflection on the influence this giant presence (both figuratively and literally) had on Dachshunds and Bassets from the time he married Dorothy until his death.
He and Dorothy dominated the East Coast Dachshund rings for years, showing for Mrs. Nancy Onthank, Mary Howell, Peggy Westphal, Mrs. Charles Statler, Miss Delano, Dorothy Pickett, Vera Falco and others too numerous to mention. In Bassets, he was the handler for Peg Walton and Pat Fellman among others. They won too many DCA BVs and BBs to enumerate. Their crowning achievement was Frank’s winning back to back Group 1’s at Westminster in 1968 and 1969 with CH Crosswynd’s Crackerjack for Mrs Charles C. Statler’s Barberry Knowe Kennel.
The list of great dogs shown by them include the aforementioned Crackerjack, CH Dunkeldorf’s Falcon Forester, CH Pondwicks Hobgoblin, CH Bayard le Souvenir, CH Wilheen’s Knight Wire, CH Westphal’s Wandering Wind, CH Van Tebe’s Draht Timothy … the list goes on and on.
The Hardys bred under the Hubertus prefix as well as guiding many others in their own breeding programs. They also had many assistants through the years, but perhaps the most well known were Bobby Fowler and Dee Hutchinson, both of whom literally came of age in dogs working for the Hardys.
To read more about Frank and the sincere outpouring of affection for him at his passing, go to:
Wow! In the two and half months since we started, TDHP is pleased to think we have had that much interest in our Project.
Remember, this site is for everyone so please feel free to make some suggestions as to what we should add or emphasize. Keep in mind though, that we do want to keep the focus on our history and sharing that rich heritage as well as learning from it!
For details about this historic picture, check out our Facebook Group:
TDHP wants to congratulate all the winners as well as all who attended last week’s DCA at Callaway Gardens , Georgia!! Sounds like everyone had a great time. Complete results are now up here: http://wp.me/P20hQd-465
As a reminder, if you send us a copy of your win photo, we will publish it on that page for all to see.
I updated the page for CH GrandGables Wee Mr. Red Thorn ROMX and he now has 25 confirmed American Champions. This is enough to put him tied for Number Two on the All Time Top Producing Miniature Smooth Sires List! Congratulations to his owners, Guy Jeavons and Mark Houston-McMillan!! ‘
I also posted a couple of interesting articles by Rick Beauchamp on the TDHP Faceboook page. I hope you enjoy them when you have the time to read them.
Chatting with a friend today about when we considered a ‘line’ to actually start, we had a sharp difference of opinion. By ‘starting a line’, we both meant when did the dogs you bred become a distinct ‘line’, recognizable as yours. He felt that the breeder shouldn’t take credit for that until the puppies were produced from a bitch that he/she bred and sired by a dog that he/she bred. I, on the other hand, felt that my line started with that first litter I bred that I picked the parents to mate and that I then picked the puppies to present as ‘my’ puppies.
While I can see the merits of both opinions, there are some breeders who just never develop a clear vision of what they want despite many generations of ‘their’ breeding on both sides and then some others have such a clear vision of what they want , that they are able to present that ‘look’ from their very first litter
Would you consider CH Falcon of Heying Teckel ROMO to be part of the Heying-Teckel line? They bred neither his father nor his mother, but is any dog a better example of their ‘line’? Would you consider CH Dunkeldorf Falcon’s Favorite ROMO a typical example of the ‘Dunkeldorf’ line ? Actually, neither parent was bred by the Dunks. Could a dog be more identified and emblematic of Hannelore Heller’s Han-Jo line than CH Han-Jo’s Flaming Flare L ROMO despite the fact that he was from two Bayard parents. Is CH Starbarrack Malachite SW ROMO (pending) less emblematic of Liz and James Heywood’s Starbarack line because he was sired by a Saytar dog? As you can see, IMO, taking advantage of the best available quality is much more important than the breeders of the parents. As long as the resulting puppies develop the desired look, they are just as representative of the Breeder’s ‘line’ as any dog he may breed.
I guess the bottom line is whether the person has a clear vision of what they want to achieve and can translate that vision into puppies they produce and choose to represent them in the show ring .Couple that vision with the talent and consistency to pick out the puppies that encapsulate that look and a line is truly born. If they are able to incorporate dogs other than their own into that vision, does that make the ensuing puppies any less their line? Isn’t the line really more about the phenotype (look) of the puppies than their genotype (pedigree).
What are your thoughts on what point a ‘line’ begins?
We can discuss it here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/334643526580701/