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“Gucci”
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Ch Ne Orageux’s VIP Suite
Gucci
is our “dream come true” Briard!
Gucci is the second dog I (Jackie) had ever
handled in the conformation ring, and at Gucci’s first show at 6
months and two weeks of age he won back to back majors!! (This
was something a novice handler like me dreamed of, and it
happened!!) My husband, Frank, made his handling debut in the
conformation ring by showing 7 month old Gucci at Gucci’s second
show.
Much to our delight, Gucci went Best of Breed
over 4 specials for his third major! (Needless to say, Frank
was instantly hooked as a handler!) Gucci easily finished his
championship (owner handled) and at 15 months of age Gucci was
awarded his first Herding Group Placement when he entered the
BOB ring for the first time as a Special pro handled by Sue
Shore!!
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Sue continued to handle Gucci for us in 2006
whenever our schedules meshed (we drove Gucci to shows where Sue
could meet us so Gucci could continue to live with us full
time), and even with such limited showing Gucci had great
success and ranked in the top ten Breed and All Breed in 2006!!
Gucci is a beautiful Briard and is an absolute
joy to live with! Although he can be somewhat “reserved” with
strangers, he warms up to new people in a matter of minutes and
soon has folks in stitches laughing at his class clown antics.
To know Gucci is to love him!!!
Gucci sired his first litter in early 2007 and
has since been a stay at home “Dad” to not risk bringing home
any outside “germs” to his new babes. We are thrilled with the
litter and with Gucci’s potential as a sire!
Gucci was bred by Becca Weber and Pam Ohlsson and
he is co-owned by Becca.
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Ch Ne Orageux’s Tout de Suite
Pronto is a wonderful girl!! She adores all
people and demands to be the center of attention!!! She was
our first show Briard and I take great pride in the fact that
she was “rookie” owner handled (by me!) to her AKC championship
(with the exception of 2 points earned when handled by a friend
when I had knee surgery). Pronto was awarded the esteemed Rass
SELECT at the 2006 National Specialty which was our first ever
Briard National Specialty!! Pronto is a very well balanced
Briard bitch and also has a wonderful coat. She whelped her
first litter this past January (2007) and proved to be an
excellent mother to an excellent litter!
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“Jag”
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Ch. Suite Car Named
Desire
Jag is 13 weeks old as I write this and is the pup Frank and I
chose to keep from the Pronto – Gucci January 2007 litter.
Frank and I had every intention of keeping a female for
ourselves, but Jag was determined from day one to change our
minds!! Jag caught my eye the moment he was born and when I
described him to Becca over the phone (she had to walk me
through whelping over the phone rather than in person because
she was stuck at home in the middle of a blizzard!) she
predicted right then that he would be our keeper! I said, no
way, we already had a boy!! But, low and behold, in the weeks
to follow Frank and I found we just couldn’t take our eyes off
this boy … so Jag stayed, and Becca was right, AGAIN!! Besides
being an eye-catcher, Jag has a wonderful fun-loving personality
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Jag turned three on 1/15/10 and will be specialed on a limited
basis in 2010!! He is OFA Hips Good, Elbows Normal, Patellas
Normal, and CSNB clear by pedigree. He is the sire of Marquise,
who we had all kinds of fun (and success) showing in 2009!
We plan to breed Jag to Brulee this spring (2010)!! Inquiries
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a 2009 Group 4 win with
"Marquise"!
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Marquise
Another 2009 group placement blitz by
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9 month old Marquise (Jag's
daughter) went BOB from the classes both days over 2
Champions and then went on to take back to back Group
Placements! A Group 3 on a Saturday and a Group 2 on a
Sunday! (And she also took a Group 3 in Bred by Exhibitor
competition on Saturday).
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Garth is the other male from the Pronto – Gucci litter, and he,
too, is quite an eye catcher!! Our daughter, Alyssa, a resident
in small animal internal medicine, has always been a “cat”
person but was swayed to Briards when Gucci came into our
lives. When she hinted she was ready for her own Briard and
would love to be owned by a Gucci son, we knew she and Garth
were a perfect match! Garth is a beautiful puppy and a
delightful and outgoing boy. Frank and I plan to show Garth
unless we can convince Alyssa how much fun handling your own dog
is and she somehow finds the time to experience the show scene
for herself!!
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Something Suite from
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CH Briardale Cooked Up
Something Suite
Call name:
(Crème) Brulee
Brulee
indeed lives up to the five-star-standard for her call name -
the perfect balance of crunch and cream!! Brulee is intensely
loyal and yet is happy to meet and greet new faces (human and
canine); she is physically well-balanced and structurally
solid-as-a-rock and yet somehow retains beautiful femininity.
Brulee has the same
exuberant approach to life as her sire, “Higgins Bohemia Elite”
(aka Higgins), and just like her daddy, Ms Brulee has been
turning heads and winning hearts everywhere she goes! Brulee
shows promise to have the same luxurious, beautifully deep tawny
adult coat as her sire which would be the icing on the cake (or
would that be Crème on the Brulee?)!!
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Brulee is currently seven
months old (Feb 08) and has started her show career with a bang.
At her most recent show, Brulee went Winner’s Bitch, Best of
Winners, and Best of Opposite on both Saturday and Sunday and on
Saturday was Best of Breed Puppy and went on to a Group 4 in the
Puppy Herding Group!! (And this was with me (Jackie)
handling her, not a professional handler!!)
Frank and I have fallen head-over-heels for
Brulee and feel tremendously privileged that Liz and Rick have
blessed us with this extraordinary girl!!
Brulee
… the perfect balance of crunch and crème … the perfect recipe
for the promise of things to come ….
2009 Group 3 win for
Brulee!
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