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Guinn vom Schwarzen Ulan VPG 2; Austrian club winner & Best in Show Markos de la Casa du Barry & Paerle de la Belle Edita |
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Guinn, together with two sisters and four brothers, was born in our home. We quickly became a team. Unfortunately for the rest our dogs, Guinn couldn’t tolerate the others wanting their mistress’s attention. That’s what she was like. She was a dog who didn’t need or want her four-legged companions. The only dogs she tolerated were her mother Paerle and Neptune. At times I thought she felt like a human |
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| Even though she had never been to the training ground before the age of four years and didn’t know anything but “sit” and “stay”, she was an otherwise fast learner. Among other things she learned how to open doors in no time. Due to this ability she let many a dog outside who had been separated from the rest of the pack due to being in heat. in that way making points with Neptune. Going on walks, I never had to watch her because she kept me always in her sight. She followed me like a shadow. Well, in a way, she was my shadow. |  |
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In shows she wasn’t notably successful. She had a remarkably beautiful conformation, but she lacked in the necessary colouring to achieve a desirable ranking. Some judges tend to go by colouring, so I reduced attendance there to a minimum. In 1995 at the DKBS Show, she ranked third best in the junior class behind her sister Gypsy Queen, who was second best under the officiating Belgian judge Y. Dambrain. Gismo was the winner at the show and was awarded the title of club junior champion. The following year we took part in a Club Show of Austrian breeders in Vienna. |
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where she gained the over-all victory, became the Austrian club champion for
1996 and finished as “Best of Show” under the officiating judge, Mrs.
Pauline Stern-Hanf from Belgium. A
month later she received second place and the Res.-CAC at a DKBS Club Show;
the V-1 rank and the CAC as well as the BOB were awarded to her sister, Gypsy
Queen. The judge was M. Georg
Sense from France.
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That concluded my tournament of exhibitions. I considered for a while to use her for breeding; she was X-rayed and free, collected fabulous ranking points and was DKBS-selected. On the other hand, she was unhappy in the group, so I decided to find her a place in a family. As a loner among her own kind, she was to get two-legged companions. There were enough people interested, but I couldn’t get myself to give her up to a stranger. And so the years passed by and Guinn stayed. Jacques died and now she was my only dog with whom I could go to the training ground. She was already four years old, but I wanted to try to teach her some things, mostly just for fun. After six or eight weeks she passed the BH test, half a year later the SchH1. |
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I have to admit that I had only trained her for the B and C requirements, but an acquaintance had taught her tracking. Because of my being jumpy at contests, I had that acquaintance take her to a SchH1 test. They passed the SchH1 and SchH2 and Mrs. Fleischman acquired her. Mrs. Fleischmann already owned a Groenendael named Radscha from my kennel and her service dog, a German shepherd, was not available due to illness. Therefore she asked me to “lend” Guinn to her for a certain period of time. |
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| After about two weeks she called me and suggested that Guinn stay with her because she felt at home there and she got along well with the male dog. That was exactly what I always wished for Guinn. She knew and appreciated her new mistress and it made it easy for me to make the decision to let her go. | |
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Guinn had suffered an accident in service, the consequences of which I believe led to her having to be put to sleep. A week prior to her death, she was visiting here and enjoyed seeing me and her daughter who was living with me. This daughter was from her only litter. A week later I got the message of her death. The final cause of her death has never been revealed. The question “why” remained unanswered. Her only descendants were two puppies - Quivive and Quivi. Breeding efforts were continued with Quivive and Quivi (called Elli) is a bitch that has already passed the SchH3 at not quite the age of two. In the future, she will certainly be led beyond the OG Tests, as much as time and her owner’s business allow. |
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Paerle and Guinn
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It is always hard to lose one dog, let alone two in such a short span of time. As far as I was concerned at that point of time in the year 2000, I was finished with breeding Malinois. All I wanted was to keep Quivive for myself, a dog solely my own and the only one of the Groenendael set with different colouring. Today,
at the end of 2002, I’m again ready for Quivive, Guinn’s daughter, to
reproduce one litter at the end of 2003.
I’m looking forward to a new generation of the Malinois. |
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