written by Rhoda Lerman,
owner of Blue Heaven Kennels
Blue and Puppy
Cheffy
Puppy Dale and Raven
Gunner and his new
Aunt Maggie
Maggie really is his aunt!
She is the sister of his mama Elsa.
Little Kiya is now
a Floridian, who dares you to try to ever tell her "no".
Jersey has found
her spot!
Resident Newfies
have paved the way to a cozy life for Thor in his new home.
The smiling Brigus.
Lovely Olivia
Loki is already
learning the family trade
Nana in South
Carolina.
Prince Harry and
Princess Grace
in San Jose, California
Jeter and Reggie
in yet another
picture perfect moment
Happy Endings...
3/10:
Update. By this week all the puppies will be in their new homes,
have names, be free. We're keeping a boy from Elsa and Solomon
whom we are naming Ben, a girl from Bumper and Solomon, who we
are naming Rosie, and a boy from Celeste and Gus who we are
naming Blackjack. We have placed them in wonderful, wonderful
homes. We are all very lucky.
Everyone has adapted beautifully. We are very thankful for our new owners.
...New
Beginnings
Puppies are landing in their new homes!
(The page got a
little wide with these new pics,
just scroll to the right so you don't miss a thing!)
Happy Easter
from Samson & Delilah in Minneapolis, who seem to be following
the footsteps of Rollo, Ben & Gus
Halo gets two
newfies and a Fountain Goddess. He is with his real uncles,
Blue Heaven's Omen and Tadoussac Jules who is a son of Blue Heaven's Rudy.
Cooper arrives at
his new home to find two dolled up Valentine Aunties,
Lola and Blue, both Blue Heaven Newfies
Sasha fits right in
with Uncle Duncan.
Duncan is the son of our Theo.
Shakoka sitting for the camera with sisters,
Indigo & Shena.
Shakoka flying.
Hank's picture
arrived with the
caption,"Hank is very sweet".
Easy to see why.
Caleb, one of Elsa's 17 pups,
now lives in Moorestown, NJ
Here is Clio,
an Elsa daughter,
who lives in State College, PA.
Clio plans to study
physics
at Penn State.
She wants to find out
how ice forms in a water bowl.
This is Leo, as in
Leonardo,
an Elsa son who lives in Sleepy Hollow, NY
Gideon, Feller of
Trees
Picture Perfect
Reggie
(see reggie above with Jetter)
The San Antonio
Sampson & Delilah (aka
Samee and Lila)
(yes, that's two puppy pairs with the same names)
That's one really
lumpy rug.
Oh wait, it's Samie & Lila's new dog.
The Port Crane
puppies BlackJack, Rosie and Ben, one from each litter, are staying with us.
Recent News From Blue Heaven Newfoundlands and their
progeny
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.
Bouba & the
butterfly. This came to us from Carol Bernard in France. Here is
Bouba, the #1 Newfie in France, with a winter visitor!
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.
New Champion! CH Tadoussac U Jules
Verne Trophy Son of Rudy (Blue Heaven's St. John's Regatta), brother of Celeste,
Solomon's uncle and Elsa's uncle. (Celeste, Solomon and Elsa are all
about to become parents, see above!) Owned by Alex Rose and Rob Meadows in Los Angeles.
Theo, after lunching at the weekly Rotary Club
meeting,
visits the fourth graders at the Chenango Forks Intermediate School.
Four generations of Blue Heaven Kennels: From right to left they
are
Molly (great grandmother and ROM), Ishtar (grandmother and ROM),
Katie (Mother and VN), and LaaLaa (daughter).
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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Jan 15: Juno
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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.