Past
'Dodie'
Chilka Fantasee of Hutaka 1986 - 2002
Sire: Ch Harque to Huntsman
Dam: Chilka Dairymaid
This is Dodie at LKA as a 7 month old puppy in 1986. To read her story click on the following link: Dodie's Story
'Chloe'
Tilegreen Temptation 1987 - 2003
Sire: Ch Carmodian Tawny Knight of Hutaka
Dam: Tilegreen Misty Morning
Seen here in forestry commission near Wells, Somerset having enoyed a jolly good run during the summer of 1991. To read Chloe's story click on the following link: Chloe's Story
Present
'Keira'
High Havoc at Hutaka
Stud Book Number: 3417CQ
Sire: Ch Can Am Nor & Dan Ch Airescot Ruby Rascal
Dam: Tomarkus Creme de la Creme at Hutaka
Keira is seen here at Windsor Championship Show in June 2006.
'Skye'
Mulranny Celtic Princess
Sire: Ch Gilnockie Attitude
Dam: High Havoc at Hutaka
'Lexie'
Mulranny Fair Maid
Sire: Ch Gilnockie Attitude
Dam: High Havoc at Hutaka
Lexie at Crufts 2008.
'Hamish'
Hamish is our little black whippet and is pictured here in our dining room.
Show News
2009
Keira
20 Jun 09 Border Union Agricultural Society Champ Show Open Bitch Res
1 Aug 09 Houndshow 2009 Champ Show Open Bitch Res
3 Oct 09 Driffield Agricultural Society Champ Show Open Bitch 2nd
Lexie
10 Jan 09 Boston & District Canine Soc Champ Show Puppy Bitch VHC
25 Apr 09 West of England Ladies' Kennel Soc Champ Show Junior Bitch VHC
13 Jun 09 Whippet Club of Scotland Champ Show Novice Bitch Res
20 Jun 09 Border Union Agricultural Soc Champ Show Junior Bitch Res
19 Sep 09 Darlington Dog Show Soc Champ Show Junior Bitch Res
8 Nov 09 North Eastern Whippet Soc Champ Show Novice Bitch 2nd
Graduate Bitch 3rd
Skye
4 Jan 09 Carlisle & District Canine Society AV Hound Puppy 3rd
AV Minor Puppy Bitch 1st
10 Jan 09 Boston & District Canine Soc Champ Show Puppy Bitch Res
25 Apr 09 West of England Ladies' Kennel Soc Champ Show Junior Bitch Res
31 May 09 Westmorland Canine Association Junior 3rd
20 Jun 09 Border Union Agricultural Soc Champ Show Junior Bitch VHC
3 Jul 09 Windsor Champ Show Junior Bitch VHC
29 Aug 09 Scottish Kennel Club Champ Show Junior Bitch Res
2008
Keira
Keira was on 'maternity leave' early in the year and I am now pleased and very proud to say that she had 7 beautiful puppies. We have decided, in a moment of madness, to keep 3 and all the others have been found wonderful homes. Not only that but show homes too, so we will get to see them on a fairly regular basis. She managed to get to one show in November:
16 Nov 08 Whitehaven & District Canine Society: 1st in Whippet Open & AV Hound Open and was shortlisted to the last 4 for Best in Show.
Lexie
11 Oct 08 Penrith & District Canine Society: AV Minor Puppy - Reserve
19 Oct 08 Midland Whippet Club Champ Show: Minor Puppy Bitch - Reserve
9 Nov 08 North Eastern Whippet Club Champ Show: Minor Puppy Bitch - VHC
16 Nov 08 Whitehaven & District Canine Society: AV Minor Puppy - Reserve
6 Dec 08 Whippet Club of Wales Champ Show: Minor Puppy Bitch - 2nd
Skye
11 Oct 08 Penrith & District Canine Society: AV Minor Puppy - 2nd
16 Nov 08 Whitehaven & District Canine Society: AV Minor Puppy - 3rd
12 Dec 08 Ladies Kennel Association Champ Show: Minor Puppy Bitch - Res
Archie
11 Oct 08 Penrith & District Canine Society: AV Puppy - 2nd
9 Nov 08 North Eastern Whippet Society Champ Show: Minor Puppy Dog - VHC
16 Nov 08 Whitehaven & District Canine Society: AV Puppy - 1st and RBPIS
6 Dec 08 Whippet Club of Wales Champ Show: Puppy Dog - VHC
2007 was quite a good year for Keira. She didn't get to many shows, however she was placed 3rd in Open Bitch at the Whippet Club of Scotland's Championship Show, in June under judge was Mrs Molly Head, and at the Northern Ireland Whippet Club Championship Show in September she was placed 2nd in Open from an entry of 13 the judge this time being Gwen Hempstock. These are good placings under very stiff competition.
Future
The Litter Keira had in 2008 are doing so well. Their first show was in October and they had very few opportunities to qualify for Crufts. Despite that 3 managed to qualify for 2009 and 4 have now qualified for Crufts 2010: Mulranny Celtic Prince, Mulranny Celtic King, Mulranny Lionheart and Mulranny Celtic Wizard. There are more pictures of Keira's puppies on my Puppy & Photo Pages, in the 'Show News' and 'Present' sections above.
Dodie's Story
This is a story written by my sister a short while after I took delivery of ‘Dodie’.
DODIE’S STORY
Lola, my fourth whippet, was shown only a few times in the puppy classes, until it became obvious that her overshot mouth was never going to ‘come right’. With her basically good conformation and easy going temperament, she would have made a promising brood bitch. I was not however prepared to risk her passing on a bad mouth to her puppies, so I decided to let her go as a pet, to my sister Josephine.
Jo had just bought herself a new house and, feeling rather lonely at leaving our parents, had booked a lurcher puppy. The puppy died of torsion before Jo was due to bring it home, and I had suggested to her that she might like to have Lola as a Christmas present. To my delight she accepted, but would be unable to collect Lola until after she returned from a previously booked holiday.
I was chasing the last 2 points for ‘Bizzie Lizzie of Hutaka’ to attain her junior warrant, so on the 3rd January, I went to a local show to see if we could get them. We did our best, and came home with a 2nd and 3rd. (The Junior Warrant came later)
When we pulled up outside the house, I was puzzled as to where my husband’s car had gone. When I opened the front door and saw the note, my heart sank – “Gone to vets – Lola broken leg”. The wire crate we used had 2 bars which ran the width of the front at the bottom of the cage. Lola had put her leg through those bars and, jumping out, had snapped her right front leg clean in half. The x-rays looked as though a butcher’s cleaver had chopped straight through the bone, just above the knee.
Poor Lola’s leg was plastered from her toes to her elbow, and when I visited her that evening in the ‘hospital’ her tail still managed to wag animatedly. Eventually we were allowed to bring Lola home and we tried our best to keep her calm and settled. Unfortunately, this is not what your average 8 month old whippet pup has in mind. We ran into a few problems too – Lola’s toes swelled up and she had to go back into the vet hospital overnight for observation. Then the top of the plaster, near her elbow, started to disintegrate where Lola had developed a taste for plaster of paris. This had to be re-plastered. But the bone was ‘knitting’ and the prognosis was good.
After consulting my vet, it was agreed that it would be more sensible to let my sister take Lola home 2 weeks before the plaster was due to be removed. This would afford her some protection as she settled into her new house in Yorkshire. At the end of January, with many tears, I watched Lola peeping through the rear window, as Jo drove her new pet home.
It took a few weeks for her to settle in – Lola had always had me and the other dogs around for company. She was now an ‘only’ dog with no competition for food, or she realised, for affection. So then she began her somewhat dramatic personality change. Always a little angel in my home, Lola began to wreak havoc in Jo’s house and car. Things were chewed and destroyed, carpets were tiddled upon and Lola, knowing she was on to a good thing, refused to walk up or down stairs – she made her new owner carry her, even after the plaster was removed.
Then another accident happened to this unfortunate hound, racing around a local field, she turned too quickly, twisting her foot awkwardly and broke a bone in her foot. Strapped up yet again, Lola steadfastly refused to behave like an invalid.
Her leg and foot have now healed and Lola has put on the weight she naturally lost when she first moved house. As an adored and adoring pet, Lola has my poor sister completely under her paw, but she hasn’t forgotten me and still gives me a lovely welcome each time I see her. Jo still maintains that Lola was the best Christmas present ever.
There is a word of warning in this story: Do make sure that your dog cage has no gap at the bottom for your whippet to put its leg through. A broken leg costs the same to put right and will hurt a pet or your budding champion just as much.
Ann K Beckett-Bradshaw
For those of you wondering about ‘Lola’ – when I first took her home she would not respond to her name, in fact she went and hid under my fireside chair. Ann also used to call her ‘dosey’ due to her very sweet nature - in the end I was forced to call her ‘dosey’ to get her to come to me. I couldn’t have the poor dog going through the rest of her life called ‘Dosey’ so I changed it slowly over to ‘Dodie’ and that’s what she stayed. Although in her later years we decided that she was so ancient (16!) that she was pre-historic and was probably really a ‘Dod-a-don’ and her long term friend Chloe became ‘Chloe-iferous’
Jo Beckett-Hughes
Chloe's Story
CHLOE’S STORY
In 1987, a few months after I had taken delivery of my best Christmas present ever – Dodie, I realised that it wasn’t really fair to keep her on her own, and so decided to look for a companion for her. In conversation I told my parents and sister that I would quite like a lurcher as previous attempts to find one had failed, but then Dodie had arrived!
A few weeks later Ann rang in a bit of a panic. She had used her champion dog ‘Carmodian Tawny Knight of Hutaka’ at stud to one of Jean Smith’s bitches – ‘Tilegreen Misty Morning’ and a litter had been produced. Jean had rung Ann to tell her that her husband had been really poorly in hospital and that they were faced with selling their home and moving to a smaller house, and couldn’t keep the number of dogs that they had. Jean had run on 1 or 2 puppies from the litter to see how they would develop and had made the decision to let the younger one’s go to new homes as a result of her husband’s ill health and lack of funds. Ann was very keen to find homes for these puppies as her dog was the sire, so she rang me and persuaded me to have one as a companion to Dodie. I agreed and we arranged to go and see Chloe. When I first saw her she was running around in Jean’s garden playing with her pals and wasn’t interested in me or any other visitor in fact – she just wanted to play. She ran up to me, took one sniff and ran off again as if to say “you’re not a dog to play with!”
In any event the decision had been taken and Chloe and I went back to my sister’s house to stay overnight and introduce her to Dodie. They seemed to get along fine – Dodie had got used to being an ‘only’ dog and no longer liked any competition. With Chloe she was always fine apart from the odd squabble over the years. The following day I headed back up to Yorkshire with 2 whippet girls in the back of my car, my family of dogs complete. Well Chloe turned out to be a bit of a live-wire and definitely a handful. She had no respect for anything or anyone. The whole house was chewed and torn up wherever possible. She ignored me completely and was totally undisciplined I had a real job getting her house trained and getting through to her was a nightmare! However, the unruly bundle of mischief had captured my heart and she was here to stay.
Since then Dodie and Chloe have been spoiled rotten and are very used to getting their own way. They both have me wrapped around their little paws and exactly where they want – at their every beck and call. Sadly Dodie has only recently passed away and Chloe misses her very much, as do I, but she now has 2 boys to boss around – Lachie a poodle/pointer cross and Hamish, another whippet puppy. She generally ignores them but if she has no option but to acknowledge that they’re there, then it is usually with a real look of distain. The boys have learned to be very careful with her although if they get excited they forget to be gentle. They’ve also learnt “ladies first” and will stand and wait patiently until Chloe’s gone through the doorway first! She is most definitely the head of the household and, although quite frail, is going through a second puppyhood at the ripe old age of 15 ¾ yrs! She still gets exactly what she wants and is constantly pampered. She’s now so ancient the poor girl had been nicknamed ‘The Chloe-iferous’!
Jo Beckett-Hughes 2003
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