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Introducing Sissy...

AKA Trumphill's Ooh La La - a champion at just 11 months - watch out for this girl in 2010!

Rhodesian Ridgebacks

The lion-hunter, a dog originally bred in Africa for pursuit of large predators, is today popular both as a pet and a show dog. This majestic looking breed is renowned for its loyalty, intelligence and devotion.

The famous 'ridge' is actually a long line of hair growing in a different grain along the back of the animal, with two separate crowns. Although there are many acceptable variations of the shape and length of the ridge, it remains a distinctive mark of a most distinctive breed.

Our Boy

Conifer Ridge's Just Jack

(Jack)

CKC Canadian Champion

Sire: American Ch Juba Lee's What About Bob, CD, CGN, NIC, ROM "Bob"

Dam: Canadian Ch Kopera's Shining Gem "Penny"

Jack is just a young dog so not a lot about his winnings yet. He is a Champion with many group placements. He's a champion in motion, grace and power, a pleasure to watch out on the trail, a gentleman and comic to live with. Sire of our beautiful Waltzing Wilma.

Our Girls

Kopera's Red Tape

(Gheila)

Sire: US & Can Ch Rajataru El Toro

Dam: Ch Wheatenridges Challenger

CKC Champion

Multiple Group 1st winner

Absolute excellent mother and a real lady.

Ch Trumphill's Waltzing Wilma

(Wilma)

Sire: Can Ch Coniferidge's Just Jack

Dam: Can Ch Kopera's Red Tape (Gheila)

Ch Kopera's Lola Shesa Show Girl

(Lola)

Lola is one of Trumphill's rising stars, had her six month birthday at the end of September, and has started her show career with a bang this fall!

Sire: US & Can Ch Rajataru El Toro

Dam: Kopera's all of Me of Course

Breeding tells...

US & Can Ch Rajataru El Toro, sire of Trumphill's own Gheila and Lola...

Rhodesian Ridgebacks at home...

Wilma and young Lola getting acquainted...

did you hear that?

Canine Quotes...

"The reason a dog has so many friends is that he wags his tail instead of his tongue."

Anonymous

Trumphill Kennels

Hazel Parker
74 Old Cemetery Road

RR #1
Stewiacke, Nova Scotia
Canada
B0N 2J0

Tel: (902) 639-2351
Fax: (902) 639-2944

email: hazel747@xplornet.com

Lola at the Moncton Kennel Club under Judge Pam Bruce (at left), with handler Laurinda Parks (at right). Lola is a champion at seven months.

Kopera's All of Me of Course (Olive) dam of our own Lola takes Best in Specialty in Michigan.

What Have I Done Wrong?

I wish someone would tell me what it is

That I’ve done wrong.

Why do I have to stay chained up and

Be left alone so long?

They seemed so glad to have me when I

   Came here as a pup.

There were so many things we’d do

   While I was growing up.

The master said he’d train me as a

   Companion and a friend.

The mistress said she’d never fear

   To be left alone again.

The children said they’d feed me and

    Brush me every day.

They’d play with me and walk me

   If I would only stay.

But now the master “hasn’t time”

   The mistress says I shed.

She doesn’t want me in the house

    Not even to be fed.

The children never walk me

   They always say “not now”

I wish that I could please them

Won’t someone tell me how?

All I had, you see, was love.

I wish they would explain.

Why they said they wanted mine,

And then left me on a chain.

William Custer

Our own Jack as a pup...

Ridgebacks at the show...

Jack winning group 2nd in Halifax...

Gheila winning one of many group firsts...

Jack, Gheila and baby Wilma relaxing in the shade at a PEI show...

In Tribute

Our Beloved 'Nanna' and her girls.

Nualla - Irish Wolfhound
March 6, 1995 - January 7, 2000

My Dog

You lift your soft brown eyes to see
If your love finds response in me.
A touch, a word, is all you seek,
Your faith is strong, mankind's is weak. You are my friend in sun or rain, To share in pleasure or in pain.

Should fortune cease to smile on me, If crust of bread my portion be,
Our cabin floor like pals we'll share:
Together, show we do not care.

And when at last with measured tread, My friends pass by and flowers are spread
A canopy 'neath the heaven's blue,
I know you'll come, my friend so true, And sleep at night on bed of stone, So's not to leave me there alone.

Ruby Altizer Roberts

Our Lola was bred to Conifer Ridge's Just Jack in March - fingers are crossed for

puppies due in May!

For reservations and more info, please phone

Hazel @ 902-639-2351

Rhodesian Ridgeback

(copyright AKC)

General Appearance - the Ridgeback should represent a strong, muscular and active dog, symmetrical in outline and capable of great endurance with a fair amount of speed.

Head - should be of fair length, the skull flat and rather broad between the ears and should be free from wrinkles when in repose. The stop should be reasonably well defined.

Muzzle - should be long, deep and powerful, jaws level and strong with well developed teeth, especially the canines and holders. The lips clean, closely fitting the jaws.

Eyes - should be moderately well apart, and should be round, bright and sparkling, with intelligent expression, their colour harmonizing with the colour of the dog.

Ears - should be set rather high, of medium size, rather wide at base and tapering to a rounded point. They should be carried close to the head.

Nose - should be black or brown in keeping with the colour of the dog. No other colour nose is permissible. A black nose should be accompanied by dark eyes, a brown nose by amber yes.

Neck & shoulders - the neck should be fairly strong and free from throatiness. The shoulders should be sloping, clean and muscular, denoting speed.

Body, back, chest & loin - the chest should not be too wide, but very deep and capacious; ribs moderately well sprung, never rounded like barrel hoops (which would indicate want of speed) the back powerful, the loins strong, muscular and slightly arched.

Legs & feet - the forelegs should be perfectly straight, strong and heavy in bone; elbows close to the body. The feet should be compact, with well-arched toes, round, tough elastic pads protected by hair between the toes and pads.

Tail - should be strong at the insertion, and generally tapering towards the end, free from coarseness. It should not be inserted two high or too low, and should be carried with a slight curve upwards, never curled.

Coat - should be short and dense, sleek and glossy in appearance, but neither wooly nor silky.

Colour - light wheaten to red wheaten. A little white on the chest and toes permissible, but excessive white there, and any white on the belly or above the toes is undesireable.

Size - a mature Ridgeback should be a handsome upstanding dog; dogs should be of a height of 25 to 27 inches, and bitches 24 to 26 inches.

Weight - (desirable) dogs 76 pounds, bitches 65 pounds.