Congratulations!

Huge Congratulations from everybody at Farlap to Farlap Bargain (Aka Eden) and her owners Peter and Jo on winning the Bloodhound Club Novice trial this week.

Thank you to Nikki Ashton for her photos of the day.

Puppies big day out

Pups had their first show at the weekend, it was the Bloodhound Club open,and Flora was res bitch,

BPIS, and res BIS, and Sherman was res dog and resBPIS. Very proud of them both.

Theyve arrived!

A busy week with a couple f days in Belgium visiting our dear friend Marianne, and bringing home the botanical babies.......Poppy and passion Fruit (aka Sherman and Flora). Theyve settled in so well with everyone and are a real delight.

Then Friday we whizzed up to Builth Wells where bellabella won res CC, so what an exciting week here at Farlap

growing like ....well....weeds!

Poppy and Passionflower (ie Sherman and Florabunda) the botanical Belgians, are growing up fast!

baby update from the Truffe Medievale Kennel Belgium

Our Belgian beauties are growing so fast. Human and hound mothers are doing a great job, and we cant wait to zip over there in a couple of weeks and see them.
Sired by our special boy Fergus, he would hvae been so proud of them.

Third time lucky!

Bellabella won her 3rd CC at the weekend, by winning best Bitch at the Bloodhound Club Championship show under breed specialist Mr Shane O'Keefe, thus making her a champion (subject to the usual KC conformation)

Her companions also did well . Nettle was 1st in PG bitch

and Jaunty a respectable 3rd in a tough limit bitch class

Bella does it again

So proud of BellaBella on her 2nd CC and both with BOB, at WELKS

crufts done and dusted

The annual trauma of Crufts is done and dusted! Thank goodness I wont be going back with a hound til 2019!  it wasnt all bad though, the girls loved it as you can see, and we met some really lovely people who were interested in finding out more about the breed, and having some proper hound cuddles with the girls on the benches. Sadly there were also some not so nice people there, one bloke for some unknown reason came up to jaunty and grabbed her leg and started twisting it and pulling it. I really dont know what he though he was doing, but it was very unpleasant, as was he. Regardless of the negatives, we hope that the little boy who was so scared of them to start with, is still smiling, as he was when he realised how gentle they were and how soft their ears were.

fab photos from Official Crufts accredited photographer Milly Davies.

Bella On Form

Our beautiful Bella (GIOIA DELLE ISOLE LONTANE AT FARLAP) imported from Italy, won the bitch CC and B.O.B at Manchester Championship show January 2016

The good and the bad

As always when you share your lives with dogs, there are good and bad times, and sometimes its hard to see past the bad. We are very sad to have lost our beloved Farlap Festive last week, and her cheery disposition and comical character will be greatly missed. To lose two hounds in just a couple of months has been really heartbreaking, as they are first and foremost our family, and all loved individually for their special characters. Losing two livers has made the gap seem even larger, as we are so used to having three livers all bouncing around us, with that daftness that I think only "Livers" have!

On the "plus" side, our special little Bellabella (Gioia Delle isole Lontane at Farlap) from Italy did us proud at the Manchester Championship Show, where she won her class, best bitch, CC and Best of breed and passed the vet check with what the vet described to me as "the best movement hes ever seen in a bloodhound". We are immensely proud of her. She can be seen competing in the hound group  here

Happy New year

Wishing all our bloodhound friends a wonderfully happy 2016. Last year ended on a sad note for us with the loss of Farlap Cinnamon , a very sweet lady who gave us endless pleasure.

Bella Bella in the limelight again

So proud of our BellaBella for going BIS at the club show this weekend. Also Jara was best male, and Jaunty won PG bitch and Nettle was 2nd in Open bitch.  Lovely show with a really friendly atmosphere, just like it always used to be.

trials

Bella had her first trials this week. Safe to say she loved every minute of her day out, especially meeting so many new fans (just a shame her actual line had to be abandoned through NO FAULT of her own) but here she is starting off really well.

I then had a lovely day on intermediate day as assistant judge, really nice to have such a friendly crowd and all the lines were well walked and well hunted.

not just a pretty face

Our beautiful Bellabella has gained her Working permit this week. So proud of this lovely girl.

 and meanwhile Tetley is trying to  work out how Drizzle gets up there with such short legs!

Welcome to..........

TETLEY!  Tennants son Tetley has come to live with us. What a little cracker he is, although  not a bloodhound we thought he deserved a place on the Farlap Blog just because hes so gorgeous !

Eleven and counting

Happy birthday to our oldest hound Vivid, just turned 11 today. Shes had a great 11 years packed full of adventures and amongst other things has starred in an insurance advert, been top puppy in breed in UK in 2005, been the cover girl on an international calendar, been a wonderful mother and been a proper Auntie to all of our other pups over the years, always the one to look after them and nurture them. Thanks for a great 11 years Vivid, and heres to a few more we hope.

Worrying week

Its been a nightmare week here with Dear old Cinnamon being struck down with a pyometra infection and ending up as an emergency surgery to have it removed. As you can see it was a whopper! She was very lucky it was removed before it ruptured. She is now convalescing quietly on the sofa!

Then on top of that our wonderful little filly Mabel cut her face badly around her eye, resulting in surgery and now we are just hoping that the wound mends as its in a really tricky area around her eye. Shes sporting a fetching zebra print fly mask to keep the pesky flies from the wound

We are just hoping there isnt a third disaster looming!

Foragers award

We are immensely proud of our Farlap Forager who has just been presented with a PDSA commendation award for his work in tracking lost dogs with the charity www.k9searchdog.org

Baffle the proud Daddy

Baffle was thrilled that his daughters Nina Simone Truffe Medieval  and Nettle Truffe Medieval Farlap won the CC and res CC at the Bloodhound Club Championship show at the weekend, and even more so because breeder Marianne Faucq had come all the way from Belgium to watch. As you can see she was thrilled with her babies.

Congratulations

Farlap Bloodhounds and Houndseeker Bloodhounds are proud to announce that due to the wins of our two Czech puppies Cayman and Captiva (aka Jara and Rogue,) the top breeder of bloodhounds for 2014 has been announced as the Od hadiho Potoka kennel, in the Czech Republic. I believe this is the 1st time the award has been made outside of the UK, so Congratulations to Martina who bred these two smashing pups.