Elvershire Sports Dogs

29/01/2025

Some fun stats for your afternoon!

We tracked our weights up until 12 weeks old and every month after that. It’s interesting to see how the litter fluctuated, and then, at 12 months and maturing, how they have evened up.

They continue to fill out and pack on the muscle, at 13.5 months Concept (FIRST EDITION) is still front runner at 13.8kg, as he has been all his life. Little girl Katniss (FIRST CLASS) remains our tiny little spitfire, and Quby (FIRST STEP) has ended up the smallest!

We will do this with our repeat litter too and compare 🥰

28/01/2025

These Elvershire dogs are such posers 🤭😍

ELVERSHIRE FIRST EDITION ❤️
Elsa x Marvin I - 13 Months

HAPPY BANANI’S AMMO FOR ELVERSHIRE 💛
Bibi x Senna - 4 months

These boys live together and are the absolute best of friends. Brothers from other mothers 🥰

21/01/2025

*ANNOUNCEMENT*

In light of the beautiful outcomes of our recent health testing endeavours, as promised it’s time to confirm our 2025 litter.

In agreement with the wonderful Sarah Layfield, passionate owner of the Winterfell whippet kennel, we are pleased to announce we will be repeating our Elsa x Marvin Borderwhippets in the summer.

The Elvershire FIRSTS (Elsa x Marvin I) have absolutely blown us away. Structure, temperament, talent, movement, drive, workability, stability, everything we could’ve wanted and more, and with their health testing coming back set to improve the next generation in our program we cannot deny the desire to try and reproduce them. We wish to repeat this mating with intent to keep another bitch back alongside our gorgeous Katniss, ELVERSHIRE FIRST CLASS, for the future.

We understand those on the waiting list for Borderpaps will be disappointed with this decision, however we are not discounting Papillon breedings from our program at all, they have simply been bookmarked. With our particular interests in genetics, we would like to investigate the IVDD/CDDY variant in the breed before we take the next step adding Pap into our program. We wholeheartedly think Paps are awesome little dogs - there’s a reason their popularity has increased in recent years in sports like Flyball and Agility! And we have no doubt a Papillon stud would make for some superb sports litters, so we are still very keen. 50/50 Borderpaps are still on the cards for our next generation of Border Collies at Elvershire, and prior to that we have some exciting ideas for other potential Papillon mixes.

Our litter ideas are listed on our website, but below is a concise list of our potential plans for the coming years, all pending seasons, stud hunting and health testing results of course.

*2025*
F1 Borderwhippet (100% Border Collie x 100% Whippet) - Elsa x Marvin II

*Circa 2026 / 2027 (Season Dependent)*
F1b Borderwhippet (75% Whippet, 25% Border Collie)
Purebred Border Collie (100% Border Collie) - this will be our Elsa’s final litter 🤍
Borderpapwhips (50% Border Collie, 25% Pap, 25% Whippet)

*Circa 2028*
Borderwhippetpaps - (25% Border Collie, 25% Whippet, 50% Papillon)

Marvin, WINTERFELLIN WHAT THE HECK, is currently working through his updated eye and heart exams so he is all clear for the mating in the summer. The annual eye examination for Elsa, DEKDAYS ELSA OF TOTTLEFIELDS, has come back clear.

Those who expressed interest in a repeat should have all been contacted, but if you haven’t received anything or wish to get in touch please drop us a message!

Official litter announcement and advert to follow.

Thank you Sarah for allowing us once again the gift of your special boy ❤️

14/01/2025

One of the boys from our litter that we’ve been health testing over the last year. Nothing phases this boy and we are so happy with him in his training as well as his day-to-day life.

14/01/2025

Welcome to our crazy world little man! Thank you to everybody involved with him. Excited to have such an amazing foundation whippet for our program and the start of a new sport for us 💛

12/01/2025

12/01/2025

12/01/2025

Today we took a trip to Suffolk for Elsa, Dice & Katniss to see our favourite Ophthalmologist... James Oliver Veterinary Ophthalmology.

All three dogs came away with a clear British Veterinary Association - BVA eye examination, with Dice & Katniss also receiving a Grade 0 for their PLA (Gonioscopy) exam (Elsa didn't need hers this time around).

This means Elsa is clear for her planned litter this year, with Katniss & Dice just needing their cardiac screening later this year.

We are so proud of how well the "pups" have taken to everything that we have thrown at them in the last month, all of them showcasing their amazing and level-headed personalities.

Certificates will be added to their albums shortly...

09/01/2025

This just in - scores are back!! 🥰

ELVERSHIRE FIRST EDITION “Concept” ❤️
Hips: 5/3
Elbows: 0/0

ELVERSHIRE FIRST CLASS “Katniss” 💚
Hips: 5/5
Elbows: 0/0

ELVERSHIRE FIRST FATE “Dice” 🖤
Hips: 3/3
Elbows: 0/0

We are overjoyed to have a full set of GOOD hips and EXCELLENT elbows from our first litter program keeps, with no obvious concerns on any of our beautiful babies 🫶

We will delve a bit deeper into their individual scores once we receive their certification and score breakdowns, which will of course be shared for full transparency.

What does this mean for the continuation of our program? Stay tuned… 😉

Eye testing is next! 🥳

31/12/2024

So unbelievably proud of two of our gorgeous , FIRST CLASS and FIRST FATE, who officially stepped into the flyball ring today for the very first time, making their PC debut at the HF New Year’s BLAST OFF 😍

They absolutely blew us away and we are so excited for what 2025 brings for them with their team Cambridgeshire Flyball ❤️🖤

Congratulations to Ellen, Pamela and all of Cambridgeshire on all the hard work with these two beauties, they are looking awesome!

From all of us here at Elvershire Sports Dogs, we wish every single person following our program the happiest of New Years. May next year be full of prosperity, positivity and success. 2025 has so much in store, we cannot wait to watch all our plans come to fruition 🥰

20/12/2024

Concept’s hip and elbow X-rays taken for scoring 19/12/24

20/12/2024

Katniss stack at 12 months old. 47cm to the withers. 10.70kg.

20/12/2024

Katniss’s hip and elbow X-rays take for scoring 19/12/24

19/12/2024

Today was a very exciting day as, together with Tottlefields, we took the next step in our breeding programs, with various health testing undertaken ready to start planning our next generations.

Hips and elbows for everybody, plus patella testing for Cuba & Luca (both 0-0) and spine assessment for Vegas.

All 6 dogs were so good and appear to have great x-rays. We will see what the British Veterinary Association - BVA say when they score them, hopefully soon 🤞

Thanks to Breeder Imaging Services for your help and great service.

🩵 Dice 💛 Luca 💜 Cuba 💚 Katniss 🩵 Vegas ❤️ Concept