CANBURNE GUNDOGS
Breeding Golden Retrievers of sound temperament and proven working ability
Our kennel currently contains twelve golden retrievers, all of whom live indoors with us during the day. One is on the retired list, four are still puppies but all the others work full time throughout the year picking up or doing tests out of season.
Monty (Leeglen Montagu of Canburne) has retired from stud as he is thirteen years old. He has a hip score of 5/3 and has sired a litter of nine splendid pups.
We have two bitches, both with hip scores of 5/4 and are the senior members of our picking up team. One is Sorrel (Canburne Sorrel) who is eleven and from Buff's (Deadcraft Dona of Leeglen) third litter. She was trialled extensively in Open stakes but unfortunately luck was not on her side and she failed to get placed. However, she still remains a stalwart member of our picking team. The other is Gia (Tauvechan Honor of Canburne) who is twelve, is a grand-daughter of Buff and, although she has not been trialled, is an excellent picking-up dog.
Gia had a litter of nine dog puppies to Catcombe Clever (field trial winner with a hip score of 6/8) in June 2001. She then had another litter of three bitches and one dog puppy, again to Catcombe Clever, in March 2003 and we have kept a bitch in order to keep our line going. The bitch puppy we kept from the second litter is Canburne Pepper (Pepper), who is absolutely delightful, a real character and very intelligent. She really keeps us on our toes and is a regular member of the working team.
In 2004 we bought in a bitch puppy, Saffy (Trevale Saffron of Canburne) who is now five and is trialling when she is not picking up. She has won an open test and was part of the victorious SW GRC winning team in the 2007 Golden Retriever Interclub Tests.
We bought in a cracking dog, Cane (Millrythe Kinrara of Dovespring), from his owners who were emigating to the United States. He is an invaluable member of the picking up team and has fathered a litter to Pepper last August. We have kept two brilliant puppies, a boy, Tepin (Canburne Tepin), and a girl, Gypsy (Canburne Gypsy), for whom we have great hopes.
Saffy and Cane had a litter of ten splendid pups on 19 May - four boys and six girls. We have kept four puppies from the litter which we are training on and some may be available in May/June 2009 as part trained dogs - please contact the number below if you are interested.
Bruce and Ann started working and breeding golden retrievers in 1985 and since then we have have won numerous awards in field trials and working tests. We have regulary run picking up teams at a variety of different shoots and we have held training classes for retrievers, spaniels and HPR breeds. Bruce is on the panel of the Gundog Club, is an assessor and regulary runs training courses for the club. He also is a field trial secretary and has had to honour of judging many working test and is just started judging at field trials.
For further details contact:
Ann and Bruce Ross-Smith
Telephone: 01647 231656