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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...
"Snowpocolypse
2010"
click the picture for more
snow pics & videos
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.
More family resemblance. Katie's Great
Granddaughter, Rosie at 8 months.
Instructions from the Newfie
manual: Keep mouth & eyes shut tightly
when getting a smooch
____________________Ben's First Point____________________
On August 21, Ben got his first point at the Tioga County Kennel
Club in Owego, NY.
Look at that head!
__________________PUPPIES!__________________
On June 29 Elsa had a litter of one puppy out of Solomon. Elsa is
the girl who had 17 puppies 2 1/2 years ago.
On July 2 Juno had a litter of two puppies out of Ben. This was
her first litter. Here are pictures of them at 5 weeks of age.
Elsa's son, Elias
Juno's son, Mr. Jones
Juno's daughter, Willow
Be careful, Elias...
Elias, she is just sucking you in...
We warned you, Elias!
_______________________Agility Girl_______________________
Annie Simone (daughter of Solomon and Top Mast Nola) running a
Standard Novice agility course
________________Jedi________________ son of
Ch. VN Bacchanal's Captain Nemo and Ch. Tadoussac U Rise n
Shine, our Celeste
at Half Moon Bay near San Francisco, July 2010
________________A
New Champion!________________
Rosie CH Blue Heaven's Miss America, daughter of Solomon and
Bumper (both champions)
finished her Championship at the all-breed show hosted by the
Louisville KY Kennel Club in mid-March
________________Solomon at Westminster
2010________________
Solomon (Champion Blue Heaven's Star Gazer) showed at
Westminster Kennel Club
at Madison Square Gardens in New York City in February.
http://www.westminsterkennelclub.org/ 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.
___________________Puppy
News___________________ Was it really over 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
________________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.
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:
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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.