28/03/2022
Supporting Winners 👏👏👏
Unfortunately due to the Pandemic, our Dog Show Scene basically closed down in early 2020 and is only starting to re-open now. So, we wanted to pay tribute to the most recent Dr Clauders/Our Dogs Ireland Top Breeder All Breeds, who were Seamus & Maura Gettings of the Beechillawn German Wire Haired Pointers. They won the Competition which ran for the 2019 season, but due to Covid, never really got the acknowledgement that their achievement deserved. Furthermore, they showed how really caring they are as dog lovers by taking in a recent rescue case, a poor scared dog who was abandoned and is now safe and under their care and attention till a long term solution is found. Wonderful that our community has these special caring people, well done Seamus & Maura.
Now a little piece on their great success in 2019 and road that led them to this great success..
We got our affix, Beechillawn, a combination of our townsland and our house name, in the 90s, and after many years of showing our Weimaraners locally we took the plunge and got a proper "showdog", a Dobermann Pinscher, who we showed to his Ch title. The call of the Gundog was too great, so in 2007 we bought our 1st German Wirehaired Pointer, and like chocolates, one is never enough. We got our 2nd GWP, Kimmax Krystal Klear Of Beechillawn, from Maxine and Peter McCullough to whom we are eternally grateful to for letting us have some of the top bloodlines available, and the rest is history. Krys became the top winning GWP of all times here in Ireland, gaining her UK Sh Ch title and also gaining her qualification as a working dog. We got two more Kimmax dogs, and successfully had our 1st litter of Beechillawn GWPs in 2013, a singleton by a top German dog to Krys, her only litter. We had another litter by our other two Kimmax dogs in 2014, 2 of whom we showed very successfully, one to his UK Sh Ch as well as his Irish title, he won the Group here in Ireland and had multiple placings. We had another 2 litters, in 2016 and 2017, and it is a combination of these dogs that enabled our team to become Top Breeders All Breeds. We had been Runner Up Top Breeders in 2018, and topped G7 for a couple of years.
In 2019 Team Beechillawn won a total of 61 Green Stars, shared out among 7 different dogs, 5 we own ourselves Ben, Sh. Ch/Gb. Sh. Ch /CIE,Beechillawn Sound Of The Underground winning 19, Polly, Sh. Ch/CIE Wired For Sound winning 14, Fizz, Sh. Ch. Beechillawn Eureka Diamond winning 11, Fletch, Sh. Ch. CIE Beechillawn Queen's First In Succession and Prue, Sh. Ch/CIE Beechillawn Super Smashing Great, winning 1 each. Ronnie, Beechillawn I'm Free with Shirostar and Rosa, Beechillawn Amarillo Starlight Of Shirostar won 10 and 5 Green Stars respectively, owned by Paul and Debbie Lovatt. Ben won G7 and was placed several times in the Group as was Fizz and Polly, and Ronnie won G7 and was RBIS at Tralee Championship Show. He had been 2nd in the Group the previous year at Newtownards Ch Show.
We are very grateful to all the judges from Ireland and all over the world for awarding our dogs top honours, we are very lucky to have bred some fabulous dogs.
Thank you to Declan & Michelle (Zudane.com) for the photo
