December
Frankie gains his title by inning Dog CC at the last show for the year!
Nigel finishes the year on 970 points.
We look forward to a great 2009!!
November
On the weekend of 21-23 of November I attended the Spring fair with Nigel and Bonnie. On Friday Nigel was Best of Breed and Bonnie was RBCC. On the Saturday Bonnie was RBCC. On the Sunday Nigel was Dog CC and Bonnie was RBCC, RUBOB. It was a great weekend catching up with all of our Sydney friends!!
More exciting news for November. On the 15th and 16th of November we attended the Junior Kennel Club Shows. Frankie came back to the show ring after a long break to mature and made his mark. On saturday he won a 23 point Best of breed and was shortlisted for the group.
On the Sunday he went 1 better and was awarded BEST EXHIBIT IN GROUP. He also won Open in Show. Thanks to Judge Mrs G Goller (QLD). Benny also won 2 Best of Breeds at these shows. Captain won Junior of Breed on Sunday. Bonnie was BCC on Saturday and Nigel won another Best of breed on Sunday.
On the weekend of the 8th and 9th we attended 3 shows at Millicent.
Evie won Best of Breed at all 3 shows and this gave her enough points for her title. Nigel won Best of breed at the middle show and went onto win Runner Up in Group. We won Best of breed with Frankie at the first show and he was RCC at the third show. Renny won RCC at all 3 shows and was junior in group at the first and third show.
Chanpema Kennels had a few successful weeks of showing. At Clare Ag Show. Nigel notched up another Best of Breed and Aust Bred in Group. Captain gained his first poitns winning dog CC. Vinnie also won Baby in Group!
The following weekend our good friend Rebecca Bush took Nigel down to Mt Gambier for us and won 2 best of breeds with him!
The frist weekend was a great weekend for us at Chanpema Kennels. Andy "Chanpema Last Ride" got the final points he needed for his Aust Ch Title. This is the first Labrador Champion for Amanda and Jeanie who co-own him with us and where he resides. This was our 13th Labrador Champion, and 18th champion overall. It is also Macey's 3rd Champion. Andy was beaten for Best of breed by his half sister Amber. Not to be outdown on Sunday, Hayley who is from Macey's 3rd litter and half sister again to both Amber and Andy won her first Best of breed from the puppy class and Puppy in group.
Bonnie won two best of breeds in border terriers, with Nigel winning the two dog CC's.
Our two GWP's have been having a break from the show ring to grwo coat and they are now looking great and both will be back in the ring in November!
We also look forward to our newst litter who will hit the show ring either late Dec or Jan depending on the weather.
October
I decided it was time for an update again. We have welcomed some new additions here at CHANPEMA KENNELS. Vinnie 'Kirkdell Vintage Destiny' has come to join us after he was brought up here with his brothers and sisters by his adopted mum Katie after his own mum became ill. Bev Jones of Kirkdell kennels will also be campaigning Vinnie's brother and sister.
Amanda and Jeanie raised Angel's litter at their place out of GRAND CH Driftway Flash Dancer, they are running on a few pups and we look forward to seeing them in the ring soon.
I have added a few more photos and a page for Vinne
***NEWS FLASH***
Jack "AUST CH CHANPEMA JACK DANIELS" has left Australia's shores to take up residence in Japan where he will be shown and used at stud. We look forward to hearing about his success in Japan!!
August
I have added photo galleries for Hayley, Cloudy, Reeny, Rosie and there will be more to come.
July
Well it is time for an update! We have been very busy and successful here at CHANPEMA KENNELS, so I shall try and give a brief summary of what has happened and our plans.
- We attended the 5th Lab National In WA and took over two youngsters and came home with MINOR IN SHOW with Hayley!
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- Nigel won a RUBISS at the terrier show with our good friend Rebecca Bush from Atorae GSP's handling him as on the same day we were at the Lab Champ Show in SA where Hayley won BABY IN SHOW and Andy won LIMIT IN SHOW. We also had dogs up at Red Cliffs where we also picked up a few challenges. SO a very successful weekend all round.
- Andy has been doing well in the show ring and is nearing his title!
- Benny, Nigel and Bonnie have all been doing very well in the show ring consitently winning CC's and BOB's.
- We have also been doing great with our four young labs, Captain, Cloudy and particularly Hayley (wins mentioned above) and Chewy who is a multiple BOB winner, and multiple Baby, Minor and Puppy in Show winner.
- There is new photos of nearly all the dogs on the site, so pease check them out
As you can see we have been very busy and hopefully will continue on this roll as we welcome some new members to Chanpema kennels in July and latter on in the year, as well as some exciting overseas news. Continue to check back for more updates
5th of May
We had a successful weekend on the 3rd and 4th of May. On the 3rd we attended 2 open shows, where we picked up Best of Breeds at both shows with the Borders, the GWP's and the Labs. Evie also won a Puppy in Group, Benny a Runner Up Best Exhibit in Group and Intermediate. Hayley won BABY IN SHOW, and Andy an Aust Bred in Group. On the 4th of May we attended the Port Pirie Benefit show, where our new Border terrier owned by Chanpema Kennels "Bonnie" (profile to come soon) gained her title with a 10point BCC and RUBOB. Benny and Evie won BOB and RUBOB respectively. Amber picked up a Bitch CC and RUBOB and to top it all off Hayley won another BABY IN SHOW!!!
On the 29th of April Katie gave birth to 3 Black Males all doing well. This is a repeart mating of Chewy and Captain.
25th March
Mathew attended the 4 shows held up at Pt Pirie on the Easter Weekend and had a very successful weekend with all 3 breeds. Benny took out 2 Best of Breeds and 1 RUBOB. Nigel took out 3 Best of Breeds and 1 RUBOB. The 2 border terrier girls we took shared Bitch CC and Maize took out one Best of Breed and 4 minor in groups. Mathew took 3 Labs away and also showed Andy "Chanpema Last Ride" co-owned with Tidswell/Leibhardt and Angel "Chanpema Light in Heaven" owned by Tidswell/Leiberhardt. At the first show Captain won RDCC and Amber BCC and BOB. At the second show Jack won BOB, Andy RDCC & RUBOB, and Angel BCC. At the third show Andy won DCC & BOB, Jack RDCC & RUBOB and Amber BCC. At the fourth show Jack won DCC & RUBOB, Andy RDCC & Amber RBCC. As you can tell it was a very successful weekend!
17th March
We attended a show yesterday, and had quite a successful day. Nigel the Border won Best of Breed and Dee's two Border bitches we took won BCC and RCC and Minor and Puppy in group! Benny won a 9point BOB and Evie another 7 point BCC RUBOB. Rosie won a 10 point Bitch CC snd RUBOB. What was most exciting was our new Choc boy "Chewy" who had his first show out of Baby won RCC and went on to win MINOR IN SHOW. Thanks to Judges Anne Raymond (Gundog specialist) and John Lewington. We are rapt with Chewy and hope he goes onto many more wins, and even more excited about the repeat mating of Chewy we have just done.
