PICTURED HERE YOU SEE OUR FIRST NEWFONDLAND. OUR SEARCH FOR THIS BREED STARTED, BELIEVE IT OR NOT, WITH AN UNDERWEAR COMMERCIAL OF ALL THINGS! BRUCE ESIASON OF THE CINCINATTI BENGALS WAS ON A COMMERCIAL WITH HIS NEWFOUNDLANDS, WE DECIDED TO LOOK INTO THE BREED, FINDING A BREEDER PROVED TO BE THE HARDEST, BACK IN 1986 WE WERE LUCKY AND HAPPENED UPON, SEAFARING KENNELS, IN LUXEMBERG,WI.
WE CALLED AND HAD TO WAIT FOR AT LEAST 6 MONTHS AND THAN ALL THE PUPS WERE SPOKEN FOR POSSIBLY. IT JUST SO HAPPENED THAT THERE WERE 2 GRAYS IN THIS LITTER, NO PROBLEM, AS ALL WE WANTED WAS A NEWF TO LOVE.
MIRRANDA GREW FAST, AND WE HAD NO KNOWLEGE OF DOG FOOD AS WE DO TODAY, SHE ALSO HAD TO BE SPAYED AT 6 MONTHS OF AGE AS SHE HAD CYSTS ON HER OVARIES. WE DIDNT CARE, WE LOVED HER VERY MUCH. SHE WAS GENTLE AND A LOT OF FUN. WE BROUGHT HER TO OBEDIENCE CLASSES AND THAT IS WHEN I WAS BIT BY THE SHOW BUG, THE INSTRUCTER HAD SIBERIANS AND MALMUTES AND I WOULD GO WITH THEM TO THE LOCAL SHOWS. THAT IS WHEN I DECIDED I WANTED A BLACK NEWFOUNDLAND TO SHOW. IN 1987 WE BOUGHT MY DEAR SAMPSON, MIRRANDA WAS SOOOOO JEALOUS THE DAY WE BROUGHT HIM HOME SHE IGNORED US FOR TWO WEEKS! SHE DID HOWEVER COME AROUND AS YOU CAN SEE FROM THE PHOTOS BELOW. SAMPSON DID DUAL RINGS, WE SHOWED IN OBEDIENCE AT THE SAME TIME AS CONFORMATION, HIS SCORES WERE IN THE HIGH 180S AND HE ALWAYS PLACED IN THE TOP 4 IN CONFORMATION, AT THAT TIME IT WAS NOT UNUSUAL FOR THERE TO BE AT LEAST 6 DOGS IN A CLASS, HE SHOWED WELL BUT WAS SMALLER THAN MOST MALE NEWFS, BUT OH HE COULD MOVE, HE WAS AGILE, SMART, INTELLIGENT AND LOVED THE WATER. WE BECAME MEMBERS OF THE NCA AND ENJOYED THE NEWF TIDE IMMENSLY.
SAMPSON GOT 3 BEST OF WINNERS, AND I BELIEVE HE ACHEIVED 3 POINTS TOWARDS HIS CHAMPIONSHIP. WE GAVE UP ON CONFORMATION, AS WE DIDNT WIN ENOUGH. I WISH I WOULD HAVE KNOWN ABOUT SAR AND THE WD TITLES.
I KNOW YOU WOULD HAVE DONE ME PROUD DEAR SAM!
SEE PHOTOS OF SAMPSONS FIRST FUN MATCH, HE WON SECOND IN THE GROUP! CLICK HERE TO SEE THE PHOTOS.
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