Where did
Celeste, Elsa and Bumper's puppies go?
Have no fear, they've just
moved over
here...
At 13 1/2, Great Grandmother Katie
is still a looker!
Nola
Solomon pups at 5 weeks
June 22
2008: Ben and Rosie's awesome performance and the puppy Get Together
at the Newfoundland Regional Specialty in New Paltz, NY.
See pictures and read all about it!
Oliver (aka "Ben") and Gideon (now 7 months) after their
first professional grooming.
Aunt Lily (aka Blue Heaven's Lily Lightfoot, in the
middle) kept them in line.
These boys are huge (and beautiful of course).
Puppy
News!
Nola Solomon pups at four weeks
Nola had her pups on June 7th! Here's the
report from the front:
Eight pups total: 3 black females, 2 Landseer boys and 3
Landseer girls.
Nola was the most amazing dog, hardly a dog.
The understanding and cooperation between her family and herself
was extraordinary. She created a perfect balance between
instinct and trust. She was steady and strong and totally
responsive and responsible. Unbelievably impressive performance.
The heads are to die for.
Look
to the left of this page for pictures of the parents, Nola and
Solomon.
Just a note: Solomon's other two litters (the l7 and the ll) are
now six months old. All have good hearts, good bites and all the
testicles needed. This is a very very exciting match. Solomon
gets his OFA testing on the 25th of June. His prelims looked
very nice at 14 months. And his Penn Hip is fine.
Two
year old Solomon has now sired 35 puppies!
Four Generations, April 2008 Left to Right:
Ch. Blue Heaven's Catherine the Great (Katie; 13 1/2; Great Grandmother), Ch.
Blue Heaven's Secret Dance (Laa Laa; Grandmother),
Ch. Blue Heaven's Katie's Bumper (Bumper; Mother) and Rosie (4 months)
In this earlier "4 Generations"
photo, from eight years ago,
Laa Laa, who is a grandmother above, was the baby below.
Four generations of Blue Heaven Kennels: From right to left they
are
Molly (our foundation bitch, great grandmother and ROM), Ishtar (grandmother and ROM),
Katie (Mother and VN), and LaaLaa (daughter). January 2000
Recent News From Blue Heaven Newfoundlands and their
progeny
May 2008
Carole Bernard of Tadoussac
Newfoundlands training in the ocean in France
with International Champion Blue Heaven's St. Johns Regatta (aka Rudy,
daughter of Katie & Packard).
In case you are not familiar with
Rescue Training, in this photo, Rudy is saving Carole.
January
2008
Jan 15th Puppy
Baby Shower!
See the
video and
the
article
from the local newspaper!
Jan 15: Juno
gets her first major!
Solomon's sister
Juno is on the Florida circuit campaigning.
Operative syllable is pain.
She did beautifully at the New England
shows but she has been freaking
out in the ring in Florida although
perfectly happy when she isn't in
the ring. As in dragging the handler.
It might be because Solomon was
with her in New England.
Anyway, she seems to be getting her act
together
and took her first major today.
Dec 9th: Solomon (sire of two of the
new litters) became a
champion!
While we wait for his "moment of glory" picture, here is a previous
photo from another show.
Gus:
CH Blue Heaven's Valley Boy (sire of the 3rd litter)
The winter of 35
puppies!
Litter #1 Parents: Solomon and
Elsa
From Laurel Rabschutz:
Ben
earned his Rally-O
RN title in Springfield on Friday. Ben got a score of 100 and first
place.
Two other dogs had scores of 100, but Ben had the best course time (I
still can't believe that). I'm hooked and will definitely
work with him in Advanced and Rollo in Novice next year.
Okay, everyone, Blue Heaven's Tadoussac
Arrow aka Bouba did it. He is so far ahead of everyone in France at the
end of the year, he is #l. (see
rankings here) Soon they'll make it official. Plus, he also has a
championship in Luxembourg, which makes him a MultiChampion. His name is
getting very long: Multi Champion Blue Heavens Tadoussac Arrow. But
that's not all th enews from France. Rudy (Blue Heavens St Johns Regatta) has a
granddaughter named Suki (who is Rudy's spitting image) who is the
#2 Newfy bitch in France followed closely by Rudy's daughter, Ruby, who is #4
! Way to go,guys.This picture is Bouba.
Theo, after lunching at the weekly Rotary Club
meeting,
visits the fourth graders at the Chenango Forks Intermediate School.
Blue Heaven Kennels is a small kennel in Western New York. Many people
know us well because of my book, In the
Company of Newfies, about the dogs at Blue Heaven Kennels and our
relationships with each other.
And many more people know our dogs since so many are in the show ring.
Our outstanding characteristics structurally are balance, large heads, soft expression,
straight topline and race-horse movement. Our foundation bitch, Molly, and her daughter Ishtar,
both now Register of Merit dogs, have produced many champions and titled children. We are
extremely proud of them and grateful to them.
We are very proud of our beautiful dogs, but what we take the greatest
pleasure in is their sweetness and goodness and willingness to live our lives.
In August, 1998 we moved from our house of 26 years in
Cazenovia, NY to our present home in Port Crane, NY which is right outside
of Binghamton. This is the place we had been looking for for years. It is
perfect for our Newfie family. It has 140 acres of wooded land laced with
old lumber trails. And the dogs have a 10 acre pond all to themselves,
except for some resident ducks and some very cheeky beavers. It has been everything we dreamed it
would be...and more. We walk constantly with the dogs and we can't keep
them out of the pond.
We got our first
Newfie, Ben, in 1988. The following
year we got Molly. The next year Molly and Ben gave us Ishtar and Celeste.
And that was it. We had no intention of breeding again, and we weren't
interested in showing.
Until, that is, someone told us we should show Ishtar
because she was, in his words, "the perfect Newfie". And so, we
suddenly became Blue Heaven Kennels. (The name, by the way, came from the
old song, "My Blue Heaven", which goes "Molly and me, and
baby makes three, we're happy in our blue heaven.") Ishtar, of
course, wasn't the perfect Newfie (is there one?), but she was very good,
and 6 months after we started showing her she became a champion and about
a month later took Select at the Nationals. We lost Ben when he was seven,
but dear old Molly is still with us. This March she will be eleven and in
October Celeste and Ishtar will be ten. In 1998 Molly and Ishtar honored
Blue Heaven Kennels by both becoming ROM's at the same time.
Every litter we have had came from Molly.
She is the mother, grandmother, great grandmother and yes, even great
great grandmother of every one of our puppies. We have four generations
here at our kennels and we are so proud that we took a group picture which
is on this page (above).
This adorable picture of Molly at five
weeks came to us from a friend of her breeder who was a dear
friend of ours.
Breeders
of Newfoundlands:
Jan 15: Juno
gets her first major! 
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We got our first
Newfie, 
n and about
a month later took Select at the Nationals. We lost Ben when he was seven,
but dear old Molly is still with us. This March she will be eleven and in
October Celeste and Ishtar will be ten. In 1998 Molly and Ishtar honored
Blue Heaven Kennels by both becoming ROM's at the same time.