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written by Rhoda Lerman,
owner of Blue Heaven Kennels
2007's
Week of Puppies
Where did
Celeste, Elsa and Bumper's 2007 puppies go?
They've
moved over
here...
Two
photos from 1994 that we just received in Dec 2009
(Our first) Molly at 4
Pippa (aka Peeh-Pah) at 18 Months
Packard at
10½
Family
resemblance? LaaLaa &
Theo's daughter, Maggie, at 4 yrs.
Great Grandmother Katie at
13½
More family resemblance. Katie's Great
Granddaughter, Rosie at 8 months.
___________________Puppy
News___________________ Was it really 2 years ago that
we had the great puppy litter event? Check out the puppies at 2
years!
________________A New Champion!________________ We are proud to
introduce AM. INT. NAT. UKC AND AKC CHAMPION BLUE HEAVENS SHAKOKA AT
COTKI NOKOSE
Daughter of Ch. Blue Heaven's Stargazer (Solomon) and Ch.Blue
Heaven's Katies Bumper
________________Westminster
Bound________________
Solomon (Champion Blue Heaven's Star Gazer) will be showing at
Westminster Kennel Club
at Madison Square Gardens in New York City in February.
When Bumper last showed at Westminster, we drove down in a
blizzard. And made it.
Here's Ch. Solomon after taking Best of Breed
in January
Judge Adrianna Griffa from Italy, Handler: Joanne Griffith from
Canada,
Rhoda, Roger Frey: President of Newfoundland Club of America
and of course, the beautiful Solomon.
________________Just For Fun________________
Our beautiful, handsome Ben,
son of Solomon & Elsa, at one year.
Gideon the lap dog and Oliver who live with Tom & Bonnie Duff,
who learned that the boys are not the best watch dogs. Got a phone call around 8:00 PM…one of our contractors. Said he
was at the back door, knocking, evidently we couldn’t hear him.
Said Oliver jumped up on the door, looked at him and ran off,
then came back, jumped up on the door again with a ball in his
mouth, wagging his tail. Neither one of them even barked. Some
Watch dogs!
Our French connection, Tadoussac Newfs. Left: Blue Heaven's Cosmo pulling Carol Bernard's daughter, Lou
Ann, and friend. Cosmo, son of Packard and Annie,
is one of the top twenty working dogs in Europe...which is a big deal,
an ocean rescue dog.
Right:
Blue Heaven's Bouba pulling Lou-Ann in the cart. Blue Heaven's Rudi
standing by.
Bouba was the #l ranked Newfie in France for an entire year!
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)
Four generations,
January 2000 From right to left they
are
Molly (our foundation bitch, great grandmother & ROM,
Ishtar (grandmother and ROM),Katie (Mother and VN), and LaaLaa (daughter).
In this photo,
Laa Laa, who is a grandmother 8 years later to the left, was the baby below.
Recent News From Blue Heaven Newfoundlands and their
progeny
December 2009
2007's Year's Mega Litter(s) Puppies Celebrate
their Birthdays Click anywhere on the gallery to go to a page with everyone's
pictures!
September 2008
Here is a picture of LaaLaa winning Best Veteran at the Wine
Country show on 9/27.
Very proud. She is ten years old, and not only did she look beautiful and
move great,
but there are not many ten year old Newfies that can still go
around the ring.
On the other end of the scale, 9 month old Rosie took Best of
Opposite Sex
in puppy sweepstakes at the same show.
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:
Cowboy
We got our first
Newfie, 
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.