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OUR FIRST CAIRN<\/strong> In 1980 my mother finally decided to import a cairn bitch puppy from Great Britian in order to start more serious breeding, so off she went to Cruffts. Here she noticed some excellent offsprings after the famous\u00a0GBCH\u00a0“Robinson Crusoe” of Courtrai<\/a>, and fortunately she got in contact at Cruffts with his owners Doris Howes and Chrissie Clark (kennel Courtrai).<\/p>\n In that way and especially since 1986, when Doris and Chrissie visited Denmark for a week, both my mother and I have been very good friends with the two grand old Coutrai ladies. In fact I visited them last time in December 1997.<\/p>\n Through the years I have also been<\/em>\u00a0priviledged to correspond frequently<\/em>\u00a0with Doris and Chrissie, and I simply can’t thank them enough for their great help and many pieces of advise, which made my own breeding success possible.\u00a0In 2005 Chrissie Clark passed away in her late 90th.<\/em><\/p>\n MY MOTHER’S TWO COURTRAI IMPORTS<\/strong> In 1982 my mother returned to Doris and Chrissie and picked up her second import, a bitch puppy called Courtrai “Brumanna” ( after Harlight “Hector” of Lindcoly & Courtrai “Lucky Cuilan”).<\/p>\n These two Courtrai bitches became the foundation brood bitches of kennel Robinson Crusoe.<\/p>\n THE\u00a0ROBINSON CRUSOE<\/a>\u00a0<\/a>PREFIX THE BEGINNING OF MY OWN SHOW AND BREEDING CARREER<\/strong><\/p>\n In 1984 my mother gave me a dark brindle bitch puppy (after “Louisa”) called Robinson Crusoe “Coffee”, who became DKCH in 1989. (sire:\u00a0DKCH IRLCH\u00a0INTCH\u00a0Kilclief “Teddy Edward”). “Murphy” stayed healthy all his life and was put to sleep 15\u00bd years old in March 2003 tired of age as great granddad of\u00a0Denmark’s TOPWINNING MULTI CHAMPION dog\u00a0<\/em>Sensei’s “Sweet Dublin”<\/a>\u00a0(born May 1999)<\/em><\/p>\n From 1984 and through the following years my showinterest and handling abilities slowly increased and improved, and besides making both “Coffee” and ” Murphy” up to Danish Champions in 1989, I also showed and handled two other Robinson Crusoe cairns and succeeded to make both of them up to Danish Champions as well, namely DKCH Robinson Crusoe “Dusty Donovan” & DKCH KLBCH Robinson Crusoe “McDoddy”.<\/span><\/p>\n
My devotion to cairns started already in 1966, when my mother Sonja Scheel (later kennel Robinson Crusoe) bought her first cairn puppy. She had fallen totally in love with this charming breed through her colleague K\u00e4te Ulf M\u00f8ller (later kennel Fettercairn), who owned a cairn at that time.<\/span>
But in 1966 it was simply impossible to find a cairn puppy for sale in Denmark, so our first cairn, a bitch puppy called Stebs “Petruska”, was bought in Sweeden by breeder Sten Persson in Flyinge.<\/span>
Through the years my mother bred only a few litters on “Petruska” and her daughter “Sacha”, and in that way I got my first knowledge of and experiences with breeding and whelping from the side line.<\/span>THE GRAND OLD COURTRAI LADIES<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.mcalister.dk\/breeding\/Tilda%20og%20kiki.jpg\")
\nIn 1981 my mother visited Doris and Chrissie at kennel Courtrai for the first time in order to pick up her first import, a 9 week old bitch puppy, Courtrai “Louisa” (after\u00a0GBCH\u00a0” Robinson Crusoe” of Courtrai & GBCH Courtrai “Triella Trudy”<\/a>\u00a0).
\n2 years later Doris and Chrissie bred a younger fullbrother to “Louisa” : The later famous\u00a0GBCH\u00a0Courtrai “John Julius”.<\/a><\/p>\n
\nThe prefix my mother took in 1983 after permission from Doris Howes and Chrissie Clark.<\/p>\n![\"coffee.jpg](\"http:\/\/www.mcalister.dk\/breeding\/coffee.jpg\")
\nI bred 3 litters from “Coffee”\u00a0in<\/em>\u00a0my mother’s prefix and kept a dog puppy from her first litter in 1987, called Robinson Crusoe “Lazy McMurphy”, who also became DKCH in 1989. (sire:\u00a0DKCH DCH INTCH\u00a0Tjeps “Adonis Socrates”)<\/p>\n![\"murphyhvalp.jpg](\"http:\/\/www.mcalister.dk\/breeding\/murphyhvalp.jpg\")
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