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Talking about Standard Smooths

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Dec 192024
 

Here is the first volume looking at how great and how bad the Standard Smooths had it since WWII ended. Personally, I think they did a great job. Here is my discussion of the good and the bad that happened. This volume pays tribute to the hard workers who did all this work and that means the Van Courts, the Heyings, the Shultis, the Hirschmans, the Dorwards and the buyers like the Wheelers, the Moffetts and Janet Wayack among many others. I hope I have made it interesting to read. Next volume includes the Dunks and the Wayacks and Peggy Westphal. I have to say it was fascinating to write, so I hope some other breeders like it too. Let me know.

Significant Changes, Good and Bad, in the Standard Smooth Line Since WWII, Volume 1 – The Dachshund History Project

 

Albert ‘Kippy’ Van Court- A Loss to the Whole Dog Fancy

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Jun 172024
 

At one point, back in the ’40s, ’50s and ’60s, many Dachshund greats worked for the American Kennel Club and were vitally important to the organization. One of the last greats was Albert “Kippy” Van Court who passed away in early 1970 and was a sterling breeder and exhibitor of his White Gables dogs until the death of his first wife, Miriam. When Miriam passed, they were starting out a new young Dachshund, CH White Gables Basil ROMX, who was very valuable to breed to when the Heyings , the Shultis’ and the Dorwards were really moving the quality along in the late 40s and ’50s.  Mr Van Court was a gentleman and a true expert on what a Dachshund had to have to be a great one. Later, after marrying Ramona, he became a strong fixture in exhibiting the best as well. He truly set the tone of what a Dachshund exhibitor can do to always be vital to the cause.

Later, during his second marriage to Ramona, he and she became the head of the Kennel Club of Beverly Hills and made it one of the great stops on the West Coast. After that, Mr Van Court became an AKC Delegate and later an AKC Director as well when his great personality gave him much sway in the AKC itself. He was quite a gentleman and was a pleasure for anyone to know. He truly set the tone of how popular he was at Dog Shows all over the world.

Soon after, while a member of the Westminster KC , he took over the Show Committee and got the Westminster KC Show to be the best in the USA. He was literally quite an amazing man. Sadly, then he passed away and everyone realized what a great guy who got along with everyone could be in the dog game. His loss sort of shattered the Dachshund Fancy, the Beverly Hills KC, the Westminster KGC and the American Kennel Club.

Sanford Roberts, publisher of The American Dachshund, asked a few people to comment on Mr Van Court’s passing and so I have included that here to show just what effect it was to lose this affable gentleman. He was a great one in my opinion and so read here what others thought about the loss of such a great successful gentleman.

 

This was Kippy Van Court – The Dachshund History Project (dachshundhistoryonline.com)

Peggy Westphal gives party for a couple of old, prepotent Champions

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Jun 062024
 

Pegggy Westphal gave a party for CH Phalarope v Westphalen and CH Kleetal’s Raven Wing ROM, littermates form her first litter. She discusses much about the dog and how much she loved this pair. I found it very interesting and hope yo all do, too.

 

“Face” and “Big Boy” had ‘lively and ‘sentimental’ thirteenth written by Peggy Westphal 1971

A True Dachshund Expert-Woodie Dorward

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May 292024
 

This gentleman spent his life in the Dachshund Breed and he was an expert since the early 1950s. He was a great Breeder and Handler and so started showing some great ones in the Breed in California. Woodie soon became one of the most successful Professionals and showed his knowledge all the way into the 1980s. He still knew what great Dachshunds had to have and always kept that in mind. He was a great Dachshund man and he wrote this article in 1959  so please read about his take on handling Dachshunds right here.

A Handler and his Dachshunds by Woodie Dorward of Red Locket Kennel – The Dachshund History Project (dachshundhistoryonline.com)

Type and Style

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May 202024
 

I guess I had a litte time on my hands so wrote a little essay about type and style. I hope some people do read it and discover why we shoud be doing our breedings.

Type or Dachshund Style ?

Ann Gordon Discussing Judging.

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May 182024
 

Is there anything better than reading that title about Ann Gordon discussing Judging Dachshunds?

As many people do not know, Mrs Gordon has been my mentor from the first time I saw her judge Dachshunds at the DC of the Great Lakes in Chicago back in 1977. She pointed and I knew that she liked everything that I did. I always wanted her to like my dogs and put them up because I felt that she (and John Cook) was the best Judge pointing at Dachshunds here in the USA. Wally Jones and I both wanted our dogs to win under her because she really KNEW what each Dachshund had to have. She was the best and instead of getting mad at her judging, we watched and learned what she wanted and realized that she was indeed right. The Boondox and Walmar dogs changed and got better and following where she pointed led us to the place we wanted to be.

I have won so much under her, but I have really worked to please her. Read this article and her love of the Dachshund Breed and what makes them great shines through. She was a mentor to me and we NEVER talked doigs at all. I just watched her and changed my dogs to be like the ones she liked becuase they were better. I learned so much from her.

“Judging Discussed” by Ann Gordon

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