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Welcome to our website, and we hope you take the time to enjoy viewing the dogs who are curently living with us, and those who we have loved and still greatly miss.
We are a small kennel who own and breed German Shepherds (GSDs) and Cardigan Corgis (Cardis) all of which have excellent temperaments and appropriate size,  construction, soundness colour and good health. Our dogs are intelligent, stable in mind and body and have loads of character. All our dogs over 12 months old are hip scored and the GSDs are also elbow scored. We are also registered with the Kennel Club's Accredited Breeder's Scheme.
All our GSDs are from German lines, however we do not have overly angulated dogs, ours are fit and able to be on the go all day, and love to swim, run and jump. We do not follow the trend for the type of dogs who have been highlighted on TV recently with the wobbly hind legs or those with restricted shoulder movement. We also insist on good temperaments, both in our dogs and those who we use at stud.
Several of our dogs have done well in the show ring, and although we enjoy showing all our dogs are pets and members of our family first. Several of our puppies have gone to homes which have included a member who has special needs, and those dogs as they have grown and developed have given an extra something to those people's lives.
 We are proud to have dogs who have qualified as Pets as Therapy (PAT) dogs and who also spend time working with children and adults to help them overcome their fear of dogs as well as introducing people to dog behaviour. We go out to many Guide and Scout groups as well as schools on request - please see the "Safe and Sound" page for more information.
We welcome visitors to come and meet us and the dogs as well as the other two and four legged residents that share our home.
Currently living with us is GSDs; Tegan and her daughter, Boudica and our Cardis; Tansy, Miles and Dillon, two cats and our chickens. Please see individual pages for more information on our dogs.
Our dogs lead pretty spoilt lives and we are lucky enough to not only have a fantastic garden that enables the dogs to go and play or just mooch about in, we are very close to both canal towpaths and very large common lands where the dogs get to enjoy a lot of free running which helps to keep them healthy in mind and body.
The dogs also get frequent trips to school where they are always popular in the playground where they seem to enjoy all the attention and being walked round the perimeter of the playground by different children, giving them centre stage for all the attention of so many people. They have even been part of an animal welfare lesson at a Junior School now - they thought everyone was there to see them.
Our dogs love playing together.
About Us
They all live as part of the family, sleep in the house at night and go on holiday with us. Our dogs are expected to have manners and behave appropriately to the situation. They love to socialise both in and out of the home.
 Jo has had GSD's in her life since she was eight, although unfortunately her first dog only made it to 5 months old as he had such severe hip deformities that it wouldnt have been kind to allow him to continue onwards. After that she had the fantastic Rafeki and Radar who both came having had other homes, she has also been fortunate to have been actively involved with many working breeds including Collies, Rottweilers and Dobermans. Martyn had a slightly different introduction to dogs having grown up with Pugs!
We purchased our first GSD together in 1994 and along the way have had many trials and challenges, and our dogs can be found on the other pages on this site.
We are also lucky and very grateful for the support that is given to us by H ilary Linnett at Conquell German Shepherds along with her encouragement with breeding and in the show ring. Martyn now thoroughly enjoys doing the training for the ring as well as being out on show days. We all also get a lot of encouragement from Eileen Eby at Kilvroch with Tansy, Miles and Dillon's careers in the ring and also their exploits outside of the ring.
Our son's Kieran (10 years) and Owen (8 years) both enjoy the dogs and help with their training and as a result of their wanting to start junior handling we added the cardigan's to our family. The boys are also great at helping socialise all our dogs and our puppies are handled by the boys from the day they are born.
 2010 Has so far been good, we had the joy of seeing Dillon go Best Puppy in Breed at the South East Corgi Show and then get 3rd in Special Puppy Dog at Crufts. This was quickly followed by the arrival of Tegan's puppies, April brought the arrival of Tansy's puppies and we are currently enjoying rearing our first Cardigan litter.
 2009 Started with a big high, when Tansy went Best Puppy in Breed at Crufts which delighted us. We then had the arrival of Tegan's puppies, and the introduction of Dillion in April. Unfortunately then in May we had to say farewell to Asher (Conquell Wasko) he had an extremely happy life and we were surprised at how long he lasted, and his final day was one of his favourites, bright sunshine along with a ride in the car. The year didnt end too badly either as in November Dillon went on to be "Best Puppy in Breed" at the Welsh Corgi Show under Margo Hackney.
2008 had its highs and lows, and despite the enjoyment of getting Tansy and learning all about Cardigans and the fun we had with all the dogs, especially the wins with our babies Tegan and Tansy the loss of Carla (Presidio Carmen) in March came as a big blow, especially as it was so unexpected. It ended on a better note with the arrival of our first litter of puppies, girls Anais and Adria, who both are in their new homes, both with families who include someone of special needs.
Carla in the garden watching the youngsters play
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