There's that moment in a dog's show career when you get this instinctive feeling that they've "arrived". Last weekend we had that moment with Lincoln. He's been consistent with the Best of Variety wins but we've been trying to break into the Hound Group wins with no luck. Typically a dog will land a group 4 or maybe even a group 3 as a start to his group wins. Well, little Lincoln and his lovely handler, Catlin Cahill just pulled off Lincoln's first group win and it was a gr

As many of you know, we love our chocolate and tan dogs. We love all of our dogs but the Chocolates have been a life long passion. I met my first chocolate Miniature Smooth Dachshunds at the Greater Malvern Dachshund Specialty in Great Britain, probably 20 years ago. The breeder of the two chocolates was Mrs. Monk, who was also the breeder (I believe) of CH Pipersvale Pina Colada, a dog found in many pedigrees here and in Great Britain. Mrs. Monk was up there in years, but he