Cloughlea Shih Tzu

It has been a bitter sweet year for The Cloughlea Shih Tzus

 February 2007  New Champion Ch Cloughlea Haute Couture - winning Bitch Green Star & BOB

 March 2007  Celtic Winners Show - Ch Cloughlea High Jinks - wins Bitch Green Star & CW 07

April 2007  Cloughlea Gangsters Moll wins Best Puppy in Show at Nos Counties Shih Tzu Club Show (UK)

April 2007 - Combined Canine International Ch Show - Cloughela Gangsters Moll wins Bitch Green Star and BOB and at the same show her dam Ch Cloughlea High Jinks wins the CACIB and her International Title

April 2007 - Combined Canine Pup of the Year - Ch Cloughlea Haute Couture comes fifth overall

Picture of Ch Cloughlea Haute Couture (An Ch 2007)

Photo taken by Joyce Manton - Irish Canine Press

May 2007 - Our new import Ziams Meant to Be for Cloughlea arrives from the Ziams Kennel in Sweden

June 2007 - Irish kennel Club Int Ch Show - Cloughlea Gangsters Moll wins Bitch Green Star and BOB at only 1 year 2 weeks, and twenty fours later we lost her, although all was done to save her.

June 2007 - Irish Kennel Club Int ch show - Congrats to Stephanie & Maura Walsh on Ch Silveross Winters Tale winning his fourth CACIB and his International title. Winters Tale is sired by our Ch/Swed Ch Ziams Puzzling

June 2007 - Swords International Ch Show - Ch Cloughlea Haute Couture wins the Bitch Green Star and CACIB

June 2007 - Blackpool Ch Show (UK) Ziams Meant to Be for Cloughlea wins the Junior Dog Class & Ch Cloughlea Haute Couture comes second in Open bitch

June 2007 - Kilkenny Ch Show - Ch Cloughlea Haute Couture wins Green Star/BOB and Group 9 our new boy Ziams Meant to be for Cloughlea wins his first Green Star

July 2007 Ch Cloughlea Haute Couture and Ziams Meant to be for cloughlea do the double by winning best dog and bitch at Sligo Ch Show

August 2007 Congrats to Stephanie & Maura Walsh on Ch Silveross Second Edition winning her fourth CACIB and her International title. Second Edition is sired by our Ch/Swed Ch Ziams Puzzling

Pictured above Black & White Ch/Int Ch Silveross Second Edition

Solid Gold Ch/Int Ch Silveross Winters Tale

& Ch Ziams Meant to Be For Cloughlea

August 2007 - Munster Circuit, from the four shows Ch Cloughlea Haute Couture is best bitch at the four shows and BOB three times along with a Group 2 placing, while her kennel mate Ziams Meant to be for Cloughlea wins two best males and wins one best of breed

Ch Cloughlea Haute Couture (An Ch 07)

October 2007 Ziams Meant to be for Cloughlea is Res Green Star at the Shih Tzu Club Show of Ireland under Sue Johnson (UK)

October 2007 Ziams Meant to be for Cloughlea wins Best Male and BOB and Group 2 at All Ireland Bull Breeds All Breed Ch Show

Ch Ziams Meant to be for Cloughlea

December 2007 Ch Cloughlea Haute Couture and Ziams Meant to Be for Cloughlea do the double at Dublin Dog Show Ch Show winning Best bitch and best male with Meant to Be winning BOB and his Irish title of Champion and Group 4.

In all the three girls between them won 18 Green Stars, 11 Best of Breeds, 3 CACIBS, Group 1,2 & 3 and Logan has won 7 Green Stars and 4 Best of Breeds a Group 2, and 4 with Cloughlea Haute Couture being Annual Champion in 2007 (subject to IKC confirmation)

With the sudden loss of Gangsters Moll it was hard to keep going, but it was with the constant support and encouragment of my friends that kept me and the dogs in the ring. Thank you to all the judges who thought so highly of my dogs

Photo taken on 3/6/2007 of Cloughlea Gangsters Moll competing at the IKC Int Show

Photo taken by Noel Beggs at  www.everreadyshowdogs.com