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Welcome to
Charente
Maritime Kennels
Studding Available All Year
Round On Selective Bitches
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This all started when one night my wife and
I were watching a film
"Turner & Hooch" when we had thought that it would
be nice to own one of those dogs.
The next day my wife had seen a picture of the same breed of
dog in a magazine and from there we found out the name of the
breed,
"Dogue De Bordeaux" from here I started to do some
research into the dog and started to look through the local
papers and luckily I found an advert “Dogue De Bordeaux
pups for sale”.
So I phoned it and spoke to a man called Billy Farrell who invited
me down to have a look at the pups. So with my son, off we went. |
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Walking into Billie’s
yard and seeing the dogs I knew straight away that these dogs
were right for me, and I think Billy seen that to as he asked
me if I wanted to take one home.
This caused a bit of a dilemma as my wife was expecting our
second child and I wasn't sure if she would take to them the
way I did.
But I took a chance and took the pup home with me, and that’s
when she fell in love with it, and wanted more, so with that
thought I decided to start breeding them and asked my father
to come into it with me.
From there we have set up our kennels, joined the Dogue De
Bordeaux club of Ireland, made connections with people in
the business and done more research on how to prepare the
dogs for shows
This wouldn't have been possible without the help of my mother
and father who I offer many thanks.
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Mother cooks nothing but the best Chicken for the
dogs and to top that she even bakes buns everyday for them and treats
them like her own wee babies, my wife and kids help as much as they
can, walking the dogs and washing the yard etc.
Having these dogs as part of my life is one of the best things that
I have ever done and now I have many top quality lines.
From my first bitch Shelly, we had our first litter of seven pups,
all big and healthy it was like a dream come true.
I then saw a dog called Oscar at a show in Dublin, My father and
I fell in love with this dog instantly, Oscar came from the Cairnshaws
and
Ishinrosse kennels and we got to know the owners and arranged for
Oscar to serve my bitch. While waiting for our bitch to come into
season we were invited to a show by the guys who owned Oscar and
introduced to a litter that Oscar had just had. This is where I
bought Ozzy.
We decided that when Ozzy was old enough that he would mate him
with our bitches.
Soon after our bitch Shelley came into season so we took her to
England to have her served by Oscar, Months passed and Shelley gave
birth to a litter of 13 pups which at the start were all healthy
and well, but they all became sick so it was of to the vets to see
what was happening and it was then that we found out that the pups
had a virus called PFS (puppy fading syndrome) from here we were
left with one pup,
So the wife and kids decided to call her Lucky. The vet advised
us to mate Shelley again but to give her a break first, we did and
then mated her with Ozzy, Shelley gave us a litter of ten pups and
all were healthy and well.
This is where we are at now but do check back with us on a regular
basis because with these dogs and the commitment of my family we
know that this isn’t the end of the story and there's a lot
more to come, and to think all this came from watching a film.
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