Hi, welcome to our website. Here are a few details of how we eventually came into the realm of the show dog..

Owning and living with Maltese dogs has become a way of life rather than a hobby. Our love affair with dogs began around 1985. I was born into a farming family and therefore had a variety of animals around me from a very young age. We had one cow nick-named the old grey. Many times I went out into the field and sat at her side contemplating the day's events. She would never move while I was at her side but would wait until I moved and then follow me back to the barn. 

One morning we woke up to find a litter of puppies in our hay barn, but their mum was nowhere in sight. My  sister and I were so delighted to find them, we wanted to rear them. Needless to say we had no knowledge of hand rearing and the puppies eventually died. In those days, most of the dogs in the village were kept mainly as working dogs and lived outside. Keeping a dog as a house pet was almost unheard of at that time and many roamed wild.  Needless to say, this resulted in many dogs being shot by farmers for the damage caused to livestock.

Another stray dog came into the village and parked herself on our front door. She was a beautiful blue merle Rough Collie and we were so delighted that we fed her and cared for her until one day she strayed out onto the main road and was hit by a car and killed.   We witnessed this accident which caused us to have many nightmares. After that we tended to stay away from the dogs until we left home and were married with families of our own. 

My sister kept dogs, pigeons budgies and rabbits. We, on the other hand, didn't have as much space. One day I was out with my husband and passed a house where we noticed some Akitas and Boxers in their kennels.  We stopped to admire these dogs, causing them to bark and alert their owner to our presence.  She came out to investigate the noise and spotted us at the gate admiring her dogs.  She introduced herself as Linda and told us that she had a litter of Boxer puppies aged approx. 3 weeks and if we were interested we could call back to see them when they were a little older.  Two weeks later we returned to look at the puppies and were so enthralled, we decided to purchase one. Linda was very involved in showing and asked me if we would ever consider going into the show ring but we thought this was well beyond our capabilities and at the time we were really only interested in a pet.  However, she had stirred our interest, so after a while we purchased our second boxer from some breeders who showed her for us. She did very well in the ring, but, unfortunately, was not in our name. Due to lack of space, we could not keep many boxers but had a few litters. We never really got into the ring much with the boxers, but attended many seminars on movement and conformation covering different breeds. We really found these interesting and still continue to attend as many as we can.

Eventually we found that the boxers were a little too boisterous and struggled with having lack of space. Our oldest boxer was diagnosed with the most aggressive form of cancer tragically she had to be humanely put to sleep. This was a major upset for the whole family.

Not long after this, we decided to get a dog which was smaller in size; in fact, quite a lot smaller.  After much research, this led us to enquire about the Maltese.  It took 18 months from the beginning of our search before we managed to get our first Maltese girl in the form of a fluffy bundle of joy. We cannot thank Veronica enough for letting us have this wonderful puppy. The rest, as they say, is history. 

We attend shows regularly and have had our fair share of success. We still attend seminars whenever possible for the Maltese and other breeds. You can never say you know it all. There is always lots to learn. Two of our daughters have dogs of their own. One has a boxer which is descended from our first ever boxer and has produced offspring that are achieving much success in the show ring today.   My other daughter has a love for the pug. We regularly attend ring craft classes which we find is the best way of socialising puppies. 

We are members of both the English and Scottish Maltese Clubs and stick strictly to their code of ethics. On the odd occasion that we sell a puppy we encourage the new owners to keep in contact whenever possible. We can vividly remember the feeling we got at being able to bring our first Maltese puppy home and this gives us an insight into what new puppy owners may be experiencing as we observe the look on their faces when they first come to see the prospective new addition to their family.