The second most important thing in a companion animal is its temperament, well before looks. We have over the last 10 years paid great attention to temperament, and now have dogs that are very clever and are happy to participate in any activity on offer, but are generally not very high energy dogs. This makes them very suitable as family pets living in a suburban setting, and many of our puppies have gone to families with small children.

Where possible, we will try to meet the future sires from Europe we plan to use 'in person' so that we can see whether their temperaments will suit our ideals.

We are on a constant quest to improve conformation, coats and movement in our dogs for the showring. We have been very lucky to have the help of Grand Calvera kennels in the Czech republic, who has produced World Dog Show winners and sent us the best available bloodlines.

We went on a couple of 'reconnaissance' missions to Europe, the World Dog Show in Helsinki in 2014 and Eurodog 2019 to see for ourselves. We learnt lots, critically viewing so many dogs during judging. We have since imported another 8 dogs in frozen semen, as well as another stud dog from the Czech Republic.