News..Puppies.........................Updated August 6th 2011.
Here are pictures of two of Amour's last litter aged 3 months. We kept Amy and Reece is owned by Linda Smith (Bellicose).
Amy, FV Photogenic
Reece, FV Focus on Me
Our lovely temperament russian born Amour mated to Jack :American Champion Good Fortune It's All Good at Headholme,(there is a picture of him below),produced three baby girls in May.
Pictures below. All have gone to new homes except one we kept as above.
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Amour - latest
Amour and a baby girl
Two of Amour's girls at 10 days
Three girls together at 17 days
Redfawn girl at 17 days
11th January 2011 We recently received pictures of two of Amour's babies from her last litter, and it seemed good to show how Amour's pups develop. Here we see on the right, 7 month old Yana, FV Russian Doll, owned by Gordon Clark in Elgin, Scotland, and below, Hachi FV Troika owned by Tina in Milton Keynes, while below right is Pru FV Black Russian owned by ourselves.
These three are out of a beautiful litter from Amour by Mandarin.
Amour will have her last litter later this year.
Yana in the snow
Hachi at 7 months
Pru at 7 months
3rd April 2010
Raffy, FV The Shining, who has just made Irish Champion, and Sunny, FV Shine on who has just made Champion of Norway & Finland, both out of Cody's (FV Code Red) litter with Jack, GF's It's all Good at Headholme, both won their crowns this last week.
Two more champions to add to Forgevalley's list of successes.
Dinah, Forgevalley Black Pearl, daughter of Bellicose Head over Heels to Forgevalley, (litter sister to Bellicose Head Case- Casey) was mated to Jack, (on the right), American Champion Good Fortune it's all Good at Headholme.
She produced a littter of eight lovely babies who have now all gone to new homes.
Jack, Sire of Dinah's puppies.
Dinah with new 3 day old babies
Playing at 6 weeks
We were delighted to welcome Cherniy Chizh Mon Amour for Chinskys an import bitch from Russia's top breed record holding kennel. We want to extend a very big Thank You to Rebecca Cassidy for letting us have this beautiful girl. She was shown as a youngster to Junior Champion in Russia. In her only Ch. Show here she won a big Junior class shown by a stranger to her which shows her imperturbable temperament.
Amour is a joy to own, a happy loving and outgoing girl with many breed qualities. We look forward to, in the future, the contribution that she will make to our breeding program.
At Driffield Champ Show Judge Paul Harding made this comment:
"...strong head, broad muzzle & typical frowning expression, small ears, correct clear almond eyes, correct scissor bite and dentition, well pigmented, strong neck, muscular shoulders, correct front, well off for bone & rib, pleasing topline with moderate angulation, pleasing harsh coat, moved & handled well."
To the right and below are two pictures of Amour.
Baiting Amour
Amour
Mandarin
We are delighted to welcome to our kennel Mandarin, Cherniy Chizh Mandarin for Chinaskys, another russian import from one of Russia's top kennels. Thank you again Rebecca for letting us have him.
Mandarin is a red dilute, and is available for stud to approved bitches.
On the left is a picture of him as also is below.
Mandarin just arrived
Mandarin
Updated November 21st 2010
I find this the hardest part of the website to keep up. We seem to have lost a number of dogs lately, but this is only to be expected as several were getting quite old.
Bee, Sharosas Bianca at Forgevalley (the mother of Eva) died just before Christmas 2008. She was eleven years old.
Leader also passed away, aged 11 in 2009 and soon afterwards, Lu passed away age 9.
Kaity passed away in October 2009, age 11, never having been to the vet in her life except for vaccinations.
Sadly we lost Boris early in 2010 from a sudden illness. He was a lovely dog.
It was a shock when Indi died September 10th 2010 of a sudden illness. She was the sweetest bitch you could imagine.
We lost our lovely gentle Redford in October 2010 from a very sudden illness. He was thirteen, and very active to the last.
We really miss all our past dogs. The trouble is, the more you love them, the more it hurts when their time comes, but it's worth it for all the love you are given over the years.
Shows
We have not had much time for shows lately.
Here's a picture of Sunny Forgevalley Shine On Bellicose playing in the snow in Finland after winning her first CC.
Sunny playing in the snow.
Sunny, Forgevalley Shine on Bellicose won Best of Breed and bitch CC, her second, 10th July 09 at Kemi, Finland for owner Jussi Vilppunen.(picture below, left).
The picture below shows Sunny winning CACIB at Tromso in her latest show. If she does it once more she will be a Finnish & Norwegian champion.
