A dog with a difference
Cielo is pregnant with puppies. She was scanned on Thursday 6th February. Should be five or six puppies if all goes well.
Dam – Allsong Nuova Luna, (Cielo). Health Testing Details
Sire – Truffalusa November Moon from Mizani, (Sage), Health Testing Details
We’ve had a great year showing all three dogs at, mainly, championship shows and a few open shows.
At championship shows in 2024 Ricco took four best of breed awards making him the most successful British bred dog of 2024. Cielo took five best bitch awards, more than any other bitch and Rosa had one best bitch award. Of those shows we ended up with a couple of best dog and best bitch at the same show!
Our main awards at 2024 championship shows are listed below.
Manchester Show, January, Cielo – Best bitch
West of England Ladies Kennel Society Show, April, Ricco – Best Dog and Best of Breed
West of England Ladies Kennel Society Show, April, Cielo – Best Bitch
Birmingham National, Ricco – Best Dog and Best of Breed
Scottish Kennel Club, May, Ricco – Best Dog and Best of Breed
Southern Counties, June, Cielo – Best Bitch
Blackpool, ,Cielo – Best Bitch
Leeds, July, Ricco – Best Dog and Best of Breed
Leeds, July, Cielo – Best Bitch
we haven’t done much to our website for a year now. So updates are in progress over the next couple of weeks.
There will beva few changes to the main pages. Any significant news will be on a post.
We’ve just had a successful day at the Merseyside Gundog Club open show on 12Nivember 2023.
All three of ours won their classes. Ricco went on to win Best of Breed then, with all the other best of breed winners, he went on to be awarded Reserve Best in Show.
This win is on top of his two best of breed wins at championship shows this year.
We’re in the process of updating the news on our website. Have a look at the successes of each of our dogs on their respective pages.
It’s always a good and busy day out at Crufts showing our dogs. As some of you know the weather was not kind. The logistics of getting three dogs and all the paraphernalia that goes with dog showing is difficult enough but when you have too walk three clean dogs from the car in the snow and grot from the car park to the halls…… you don’t end up with clean dogs.
it was great to see so many of our dog showing friends and a good number of owners/handlers from Europe. It was the European dogs that dominated the Lagotto results with the very successful “Orca” ,Kan Trace Very Cheeky Chic, being awarded best of breed and going on to win first place in the group competition.
What of our dogs? Ricco was entered in the Open Dog class having had so many first places in 2022 but was not placed. Cielo was entered in the junior bitch class having just missed staying in puppy by less than two weeks. Again, she was not placed. Probably being so young compared with the others in the class. Rosa was entered in Limit Bitch. She came away with Very Highly Commended, which is 5th place. We also entered her into the Good Citizen Bitch Class and she got a third place.
At the Manchester Championship Show, held at Stafford, Cielo continued with her winning streak with a best puppy in breed award.
That was her last puppy first place in a Championship show as she’ll move on to the junior class at Crufts.
Cielo is starting to come good this year. At the Boston Championship Show in early January Cielo was awarded best puppy in breed as well as best bitch in breed in the Rare Breeds Gundog competition. At the same show in the Lagotto competition she was also awarded best puppy.
At the same show, Cielo’s mother, our Rosa, was awarded best bitch in the Lagotto competition.
Merry Christmas to all from Rosa, Cielo and Ricco.
