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About
Us
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Let’s
introduce ourselves.
We are Marco and Natasja van Blanken- Schipper
(44
and 45
years old)
and we live in the city of
Alkmaar.
45 minutes from
Amsterdam.
Alkmaar is famous of his cheese market which is held on the
beautiful Waagplein every Friday morning.
It is visited by many tourists
from all over the world. Furthermore,
Alkmaar is close to lovely villages
like Schoorl and Bergen and close to beaches,
dunes and forests where it
is great to walk with your dogs.
We live on
the outskirts of town with
6
collies in our home.
They are Ice(our male) and Pebbles,Sammy- Jo,Bibi ,Showna and Murron(our Bitches).
3 collies live in co- ownership with other families
(adoption family),
Biba, Yonnie
and Claire
So with 10 collies in total all
the dogs are sure of the attention
they deserve
while we are able to bred
our lines.
Our hobbies are the dogs of course, gardening, the
fish in our pond and the dogschool
(KCWF)
Three nights
a week we do show,Obedience,
Rally- O
and in the past also Agility and Fly Ball
training
at the West Friesland dog Club.
We train and show
our dogs ourselves
and give also lessons in showing dogs on the dogschool.
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Marco is a
gardener who maintains grounds of commercial and public property and
Natasja works 21 Years part- time
in a specialized pet- shop.
We love
hiking and participate in organized trails with our dogs.
We try to take a
holiday every two years, preferably to Austria
where we can make great
tours with the dogs.
Natasja and Bibi,
Sammy-Jo and Murron
Our love
for the collie began in 1986 when we got our first named Bo. Very sadly he
was stolen from us .
After a year of searching
and feeling terrible about
what happened we bought another collie, Daisy.
When Daisy was just over
one year old, we brought a second collie into our home , Shadow
(Night
shadow du Jardin de la Vigne) a Tricolour dog.
In the meantime we became a member of the breeding society
‘The Dutch Collie Club’.
Through them we got our third collie.
Soon after came Dillan
( I'm mister
blue of Paddington Station), a Blue Merle dog.
After having participated in several shows with Dillan we got the urge
to
become breeders ourselves.
We decided to add a sable female, called
Pebble's (Don’t Fool Me of Paddington Station).
After
having acquired the necessary diploma’s and having requested a
name for our kennel,
we searched intensively for
a suitable partner for
Pebbles. Soon after we were expecting our first litter.
Don´t Fool me of
Paddington Station ( Pebble´s 11 years old on the picture )
Don´t Fool me of
Paddington Station ( Pebble´s 13,5 years old on the picture )
November 2010
22 - 6 - 1997
†7
- 2 - 2012
The first puppies
were born on March 26th in 2000 and we decided to keep one of
them:
Sammy- Jo (Royal Highness of the Lovely Bears).
So, Sammy-Jo is our
first self- bred female.
For two years in a row she was in the top 10 of
best self- bred collies,
something we are still very proud of.
In 2005 our
first
tricolour puppy
bitch Black Surprise of the Lovely Bears (Aimie )
daughter of our
Feet of
Flames of the Lovely Bears ( Bibi) ,moved to France.
She was
our first Lovely Bears puppy to go abroad.
She lives at her father’s
place with her owners, the Ventroux family
of kennel Midland Valley
in
France.
In 2008 the bitch Jelly Baby of the Lovely Bears is also going to kennel
Midland Valley in France.
Black Surprise of the
Lovely Bears
In Januari 2010 a blue merle daughter of
Jelly Baby of the Lovely bears came back to Holland.
Eternal Circle de Midland Valley (Murron)
After her pedigree she have 5 generations of our collies and our dream
come tru.
With her we hope to started our blue lines ......
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Dutch Youth Ch. Eternal Circle de
Midland Valley (Murron) 17,5 months old on the picture
Since 1987
we are member of the official Dutch breedersclub S.H.V. "de Collie Club".
We
bred strictly according to their rules and regulations.
Our puppies
are raised in our living- room.
We don’t have children ourselves but the
little ones are fully socialized by children
who come to visit and play.
At the age of 6/7 weeks we always take the puppies to the busy shopping
mall.
They get familiar with all sorts of sounds, noises, people etc.
We
also make sure they get used to loud noises outside the house , like
traffic, trains and lorries.
New owners must continue this process.
If
socializing is not done properly a dog can stay frightened the rest of his
life.
In their first year
puppies go through several phases until puberty
has passed at age one!!!
All our
dogs are tested for HD (hips) and Cea/Pra (eyes).
After chipping at the
age of 6/7 weeks the puppies are tested for eye abnormalities.
Our pups
are sold under conditions mentioned in a sales agreement.
We want to meet
or speak to future owners in advance.
You want to know where your puppy is
coming from, we want to know where he is going to...
Would you
like to read more about our collies, please click here:
Our Dogs -
Our Bitches
Sinds July
2011 we also have the Teddy Dwarf (Rabbit) virus. The first weeks we take
them for joy
but after a view weeks when Kiara our Siam Teddy come into our home we
would like to do a litter
with them and started with breeding for 2012. In August Randy a white
teddy Male became also
in our home and so we have two couples to start with........
For more
visit our page : Our
Teddy's!
Please
enjoy your visit to our site!
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