HAPPY NEW YEAR

The first post of 2009 - though it's late, I wanted to post this anyways. We had a great year here at Shannon Down. We had 3 beautiful Whippet litters and one awesome Basenji litter as well as a litter sired by Bosley bred by Michelle Bernier (www.awhippetslife.com) And a litter out of a girl we bred, Heidi - the litter was bred by Janis & Art Castle and Sue Vernon. We finished to many titles to even mention and proud of every single one of them. We had 8 dogs finish in the Top 20 AKC lure coursing this year - GiGi, Rupert, Helen, Cuda, Quincy, Anna, Bosley & even Tigger who only ran a few months before his injury. It's been a great year and this year we have some exciting plans. We will be focusing on our performance litters - we will be breeding GiGi to Bosley and most likely will be breeding Winnie to Tigger and Viva to Murphy. We will also be co-breeding a litter with Linne' Wagner - she leased Charlize for her first litter to breed to Bentley - UCI IABCA BIS Int'l Ch, Am Ch. Carry On Von Dutch JC - the litter will be whelped here as I can not part with Charlize but the puppies will move to Linne' (Ortona Whippets) when they are 8-10 weeks old. We also have a new co-owner and wonderful friend - Claudine Hamilton (Dreamwindz Whippets in Canada) who we will be co-owning Lola with. She will be moving up to Canada with Claudine and the Dreamwindz pack and will be showing there until she comes in season. We will be co-breeding this litter together as well - stud dog is still undecided. Through our litters bred this year and the puppies placed, we have some wonderful new friendships. We look forward to 2009 and more showing with some lure coursing and racing thrown in for good measure.

Happy late New Years from Shannon Down!