MY DOGS
I am first starting this with my own dogs and how I find they fit in to my home.
The Rhodesian came in to my family purely by luck. My curiosity to go and see some of these fine dogs as pups started from a film i saw as a child and caught a glips of this stunning dog standing on a wall as a battle was just about to begin and since that day i started my reaserch,my parents breed working sheepdogs and i was not allowed any other breed.
I vowed when i grew up i would own one so when i was 28 i thought i was grown up enough to start looking.
I decided to go along to see some that were not too far from us.I remember my call to Tim very clearly. I wanted to see the pups. I was not getting one, just looking, and Tim was more than happy to let us invade his home.
My conversation went something like "I don't like the liver nose and will never get one; I'm a firm fan of the standard colour and was only interested in seeing the standard. I could never have been so wrong! I fell for his liver nose bitch, Ginger. I spent time with them all and, yes, I came home with a beautiful bitch called Sally.
From the off I found this breed to be very adaptable to any situation and handled any task I threw at them.
I now have three girls who's names are Cala, Sabrina and Kylie. Well I'm glad my kids are too young to read, as I would be told off for that - the names they gave the two youngest are 'Princess Sabrina' and 'Kylie bum' (yes you guessed rite one daughter wants to grow up to be a princess so everything she has around her either looks like a princess or is called one and Kylie bum was after the singer because my kids were listening to a song and in came this little ridgeback wiggling her bum as she walked). My Ridgebacks are two standard bitches, and Kylie who is a liver nose.
Some of the things I was warned about in this breed was their love for chewing and being stubborn, and the biggest was eating anything and everything. My first experience of this was with my Blondie who was sadly taken from us at 3 yrs old. My Blondie had a habit of opening doors from 8 months and often went into my room to sleep while I was out, but one day I was gone longer than she was happy with. I came home to find my best boots had gone apart from a tiny bit of sole on the bed and it was left in a hole. There was material everywhere and Blondie, as the girl she was, just rolled and rolled in it with a look of total satisfaction.
The stubborn side was defiantly there with her but not towards me, she would insist on sleeping on the end of my bed and any attempt to move her could result in a hernia.
The 'food hound' as I have heard them called is most defiantly a good description. Blondie was a good counter surfer - one box of cereal, 24 packets of crisps and a tin of beans was Blondie's best go. Yes the tin was unopened when she got it but not when she had finished with it. The crisps were a mix of flavours and the cereal - OMG, so high in fibre, and you can imagine the rest of the story for yourself.
There was something every day with her and I have found the others no different - but still you can't but help love their funny ways.
I once posted this on a Ridgeback group - DOG OR ALIEN?
Ok, I've got it - I worked it all out; Rhodesian Ridgebacks are not dogs, but aliens - sent to take our thoughts and emotions and the way they do this, and ways they amaze us are:
parrot perching dogs that, hmmmm well, lets face it, too big for most houses, never mind shoulders (could they be shape shifting behind us?)
car eaters (are they trying to find how we build them?)
furniture re-designers (are they just trying to make themselves a mother-ship?)
their own language (goes awwwwwwrrrrrraaaghhhhhhhmmmm - really means "I want you to move up", or is it a call to their other kind? Or "mmmmaaaaaaaaauuuuugggggggrrrrrrrrrrr" really means "I need to stretch", or is it "you stupid but lovely people don't really know we helped make earth!")
We have the speed runners who, let's face it, if you saw how much they slept you would think they are in a coma, but yet can out-run most and cover more ground than Concorde.
Can a dog truly jump 5ft in the air without taking a run (or is it they just say "beam me up Scottie")
Who or what can eat the entire contents of a bin bag and fridge and have no after-effects more than a bit of wind?
After all the stories I have read over the months, do we have dogs or are our heads taken over by aliens?
Well if that's so and they wanted to get close to us they made the Rhodesian Ridgeback perfectly. It's deep in all our hearts and the bad news is peeps we aren't ever going get them out of our lives, so, sadly, we all have to put up with being unconditionally loved by our shape shifters 24-7
As for me now and my future with the breed, I have began to show the two youngest and see how we do, then take it from there, but no matter what, I will do all I can to say this breed is here to stay. As many true dog lovers as possible should experience some part of the breed, even if it is only reading this.
My friends
I have to first add every owner of one of Blondie's pups to this, as I have been so lucky in the homes they have and the people they live with. I do get to hear back and receive regular pictures from the owners.
Others I have been lucky to chat to over the internet on the groups I am a member of. I have found nothing but the best people to chat to and who love nothing more than to share their experiences.
I have to thank the breeders of my three, who are Tim & Son and who have the Skypinda line. I have found them to be nothing but helpful and they are trying their upmost to improve the breed and their lines all the time. I have been welcomed into their lives, or, as Tim & Son would put it, 'our family'.
Other friends i have met are people i would class as some of the best friends i have had and it is so odd because i have known them such a short time.
Liz is a fantastic honest lady who has provided some of the info on this site and also is Sharing her life with ...
KAOS
Kaos was born 7 September 1997
Age: 6 years, 11 months
Kennel name: ISIQA"S ESKO
Bred by: Dorothy Grayson-Wood
ISIQA means 'dog' in Swahili
Kaos was born in Manchester - he is a Sassanach. However he now speaks with a broad Scottish accent. He has been in the Show Ring and did well but he decided it was no fun and retired. He liked going to the Shows to meet the girls but getting in and running around - no way!
He is, funny, handsome, stubborn, loves his Mum, food, lady dogs, walks and sleeping on the couch. He has been joined now by another dog, but that's another story.
ZOLA
Rhodesian Ridgeback x Mastiff
Zola is a pretty lady who comes from Wales.
Her first Mum was Beth, who's site this is. I saw Zola online and fell for her big brown eyes. Zola has no ridge, but in every way she looks and acts like a Ridgeback. She is an avid gardener who loves to dig and look after the plants in her new Mum's garden ;-) She is very loving, very pretty, and loves her Mum and Kaos. She will be 1 year old in August and yet it only seems like yesterday when she arrived.
Zola was the baby of my first Rhodesian, Blondie. Sadly, Blondie was taken from us too young but, thanks to Liz and ALL the other owners of Blondie's pups, I know she lives on in them.
I met Marie and her boy Toby at the midland & northern rhodesian ridgeback champ show.
After a joke was made she ended up being Kylie`s handler and second mum,i owe her so much as i think at times i would have quit if it was not for her spuring me allong,at the same show allong with Marie was Jo and her Girl Riley
At first i was a little shy but as an owner of a rr you can never be shy for long and soon the conversation was flowing ( jo nearly missed her class ) and since then we have met up at a few shows and even had a visit.
Both these ladies have a natural way with there dogs and an great understanding of the breed,Toby was a recent visitor here and for a boy who does not live with children he adapted to my home as if he had always been here and was quick to find his way on to the settee and sitting on the sun lounger with my children.
I am lucky enough to keep in touch with some of the owners of litter mates to mine and the one that i hold the most for is Janet and Graham,they have a litter sister to Cala called Lottie which they have shown with some very good results.
I took in 5 puppies spring time that were in poor condition and Janet was one of the first here with an offer of help which i will never forget.
I would also like to thank Linda at Kantaris RR for being a great help and sorce of advice while i built the pups back up.
A special page has been added for then,
A special thanks goes to all members of rhodesian ridgeback galore group on msn you know there are to many to list.Some of there family will be added to an album.
I have so many friends through the groups i do not have enough bandwidth to mention them but i will try to add as many of there sites to my links as possible.
MY DOGS
I am first starting this with my own dogs and how I find they fit in to my home.
The Rhodesian came in to my family purely by luck. My curiosity to go and see some of these fine dogs as pups started from a film i saw as a child and caught a glips of this stunning dog standing on a wall as a battle was just about to begin and since that day i started my reaserch,my parents breed working sheepdogs and i was not allowed any other breed.
I vowed when i grew up i would own one so when i was 28 i thought i was grown up enough to start looking.
I decided to go along to see some that were not too far from us.I remember my call to Tim very clearly. I wanted to see the pups. I was not getting one, just looking, and Tim was more than happy to let us invade his home.
My conversation went something like "I don't like the liver nose and will never get one; I'm a firm fan of the standard colour and was only interested in seeing the standard. I could never have been so wrong! I fell for his liver nose bitch, Ginger. I spent time with them all and, yes, I came home with a beautiful bitch called Sally.
From the off I found this breed to be very adaptable to any situation and handled any task I threw at them.
I now have three girls who's names are Cala, Sabrina and Kylie. Well I'm glad my kids are too young to read, as I would be told off for that - the names they gave the two youngest are 'Princess Sabrina' and 'Kylie bum' (yes you guessed rite one daughter wants to grow up to be a princess so everything she has around her either looks like a princess or is called one and Kylie bum was after the singer because my kids were listening to a song and in came this little ridgeback wiggling her bum as she walked). My Ridgebacks are two standard bitches, and Kylie who is a liver nose.
Some of the things I was warned about in this breed was their love for chewing and being stubborn, and the biggest was eating anything and everything. My first experience of this was with my Blondie who was sadly taken from us at 3 yrs old. My Blondie had a habit of opening doors from 8 months and often went into my room to sleep while I was out, but one day I was gone longer than she was happy with. I came home to find my best boots had gone apart from a tiny bit of sole on the bed and it was left in a hole. There was material everywhere and Blondie, as the girl she was, just rolled and rolled in it with a look of total satisfaction.
The stubborn side was defiantly there with her but not towards me, she would insist on sleeping on the end of my bed and any attempt to move her could result in a hernia.
The 'food hound' as I have heard them called is most defiantly a good description. Blondie was a good counter surfer - one box of cereal, 24 packets of crisps and a tin of beans was Blondie's best go. Yes the tin was unopened when she got it but not when she had finished with it. The crisps were a mix of flavours and the cereal - OMG, so high in fibre, and you can imagine the rest of the story for yourself.
There was something every day with her and I have found the others no different - but still you can't but help love their funny ways.
I once posted this on a Ridgeback group - DOG OR ALIEN?
Ok, I've got it - I worked it all out; Rhodesian Ridgebacks are not dogs, but aliens - sent to take our thoughts and emotions and the way they do this, and ways they amaze us are:
parrot perching dogs that, hmmmm well, lets face it, too big for most houses, never mind shoulders (could they be shape shifting behind us?)
car eaters (are they trying to find how we build them?)
furniture re-designers (are they just trying to make themselves a mother-ship?)
their own language (goes awwwwwwrrrrrraaaghhhhhhhmmmm - really means "I want you to move up", or is it a call to their other kind? Or "mmmmaaaaaaaaauuuuugggggggrrrrrrrrrrr" really means "I need to stretch", or is it "you stupid but lovely people don't really know we helped make earth!")
We have the speed runners who, let's face it, if you saw how much they slept you would think they are in a coma, but yet can out-run most and cover more ground than Concorde.
Can a dog truly jump 5ft in the air without taking a run (or is it they just say "beam me up Scottie")
Who or what can eat the entire contents of a bin bag and fridge and have no after-effects more than a bit of wind?
After all the stories I have read over the months, do we have dogs or are our heads taken over by aliens?
Well if that's so and they wanted to get close to us they made the Rhodesian Ridgeback perfectly. It's deep in all our hearts and the bad news is peeps we aren't ever going get them out of our lives, so, sadly, we all have to put up with being unconditionally loved by our shape shifters 24-7
As for me now and my future with the breed, I have began to show the two youngest and see how we do, then take it from there, but no matter what, I will do all I can to say this breed is here to stay. As many true dog lovers as possible should experience some part of the breed, even if it is only reading this.
My friends
I have to first add every owner of one of Blondie's pups to this, as I have been so lucky in the homes they have and the people they live with. I do get to hear back and receive regular pictures from the owners.
Others I have been lucky to chat to over the internet on the groups I am a member of. I have found nothing but the best people to chat to and who love nothing more than to share their experiences.
I have to thank the breeders of my three, who are Tim & Son and who have the Skypinda line. I have found them to be nothing but helpful and they are trying their upmost to improve the breed and their lines all the time. I have been welcomed into their lives, or, as Tim & Son would put it, 'our family'.
Other friends i have met are people i would class as some of the best friends i have had and it is so odd because i have known them such a short time.
Liz is a fantastic honest lady who has provided some of the info on this site and also is Sharing her life with ...
KAOS
Kaos was born 7 September 1997
Age: 6 years, 11 months
Kennel name: ISIQA"S ESKO
Bred by: Dorothy Grayson-Wood
ISIQA means 'dog' in Swahili
Kaos was born in Manchester - he is a Sassanach. However he now speaks with a broad Scottish accent. He has been in the Show Ring and did well but he decided it was no fun and retired. He liked going to the Shows to meet the girls but getting in and running around - no way!
He is, funny, handsome, stubborn, loves his Mum, food, lady dogs, walks and sleeping on the couch. He has been joined now by another dog, but that's another story.
ZOLA
Rhodesian Ridgeback x Mastiff
Zola is a pretty lady who comes from Wales.
Her first Mum was Beth, who's site this is. I saw Zola online and fell for her big brown eyes. Zola has no ridge, but in every way she looks and acts like a Ridgeback. She is an avid gardener who loves to dig and look after the plants in her new Mum's garden ;-) She is very loving, very pretty, and loves her Mum and Kaos. She will be 1 year old in August and yet it only seems like yesterday when she arrived.
Zola was the baby of my first Rhodesian, Blondie. Sadly, Blondie was taken from us too young but, thanks to Liz and ALL the other owners of Blondie's pups, I know she lives on in them.
I met Marie and her boy Toby at the midland & northern rhodesian ridgeback champ show.
After a joke was made she ended up being Kylie`s handler and second mum,i owe her so much as i think at times i would have quit if it was not for her spuring me allong,at the same show allong with Marie was Jo and her Girl Riley
At first i was a little shy but as an owner of a rr you can never be shy for long and soon the conversation was flowing ( jo nearly missed her class ) and since then we have met up at a few shows and even had a visit.
Both these ladies have a natural way with there dogs and an great understanding of the breed,Toby was a recent visitor here and for a boy who does not live with children he adapted to my home as if he had always been here and was quick to find his way on to the settee and sitting on the sun lounger with my children.
I am lucky enough to keep in touch with some of the owners of litter mates to mine and the one that i hold the most for is Janet and Graham,they have a litter sister to Cala called Lottie which they have shown with some very good results.
I took in 5 puppies spring time that were in poor condition and Janet was one of the first here with an offer of help which i will never forget.
I would also like to thank Linda at Kantaris RR for being a great help and sorce of advice while i built the pups back up.
A special page has been added for then,
A special thanks goes to all members of rhodesian ridgeback galore group on msn you know there are to many to list.Some of there family will be added to an album.
I have so many friends through the groups i do not have enough bandwidth to mention them but i will try to add as many of there sites to my links as possible.
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