Kalama Cavaliers

23/09/2025

So many ask if I think a puppy would hurt or help the older dogs. I always say that I see the older play and get their youthful spirit back. This video is commonplace, happening multiple times a day. 10 yo Mercy is patient and kind to 4 month old Lizzy, running and pouncing, play biting and chasing. All the older girls are enjoying their puppy play!

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21/09/2025

My 4 mo old Lizzy is the biggest Snuggler! Who are you snuggling with today?

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18/09/2025

I may be 14 months old, but Mommy told bunches of people today that I’m the bestest leash walker ever! I was able to give tons of people love on our 7 mile walk in a park close to Paradise. I can’t wait to do it again! Yayyy!!! 🐶🐾

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17/09/2025

Raw, non-weight bearing (legs/necks/ribs/etc.) I start when the teeth come in.

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10/09/2025

We just got our first bag of Vital Farms Cheesy Over Easy Dog Treats and it’s a 🏆 winner! 🐶🐾

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06/09/2025

06/09/2025

We are all doing the happy dance. Today is Mom’s Birthday 🎂🎉🎂

06/09/2025

Knowing History helps all of us…

From Dennis Homes

I put a post here on Facebook two years ago about the early days of the breed after all the false stories that Cavaliers were descended from just six dogs. Several people have asked if I still had a copy of the article so I have reposted it below.
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In practically every book ever written about the Cavalier King Charles Spaniel it tells the story of how a wealthy American named Roswell Eldridge visited Crufts and was saddened to find that there were no small Blenheim spaniels that he had seen depicted in many old paintings. They appeared to have been replaced by shorter faced King Charles Spaniels. He paid for an advertisement to be placed in the Crufts’ schedule the following year where he offered £25 for the best example of an old type spaniel with a longer muzzle. Over the years a great mythology has grown up around this story and it has been widely assumed throughout the dog world that the longer nosed Cavalier type spaniel had virtually become extinct and only the flat face King Charles Spaniels were around in the years from the start of the twentieth century until the revival of the breed in the mid 1920s. This assumption is completely wrong. In 2009 Tina and I were commissioned by the Cavalier Club to write a book about the origins of the breed and we were given all the club’s old archives. We spent many months studying old documents and letters and also spent some considerable time at the Kennel Club’s library and archives. We have in our possession a substantial number of photographs and postcards of longer muzzled ‘Cavalier’ type spaniels that were taken during the first twenty years of the 20th century, which proves that they were by no means extinct. In the show ring at that time it was only the short faced King Charles Spaniels that were shown, but there were still lots of the longer muzzled ones that turned up in litters which were sold as pets and not shown. The assumption that breeders had to start from scratch to take up Roswell Eldridge’s challenge and revive the breed is not totally true, and nor is it that they all came from just a small handful of dogs.

In the first year that they were shown at Crufts (1926), there were only four dogs entered. But this was only just a short time after Roswell Eldridge’s advert appeared. These dogs were Ferdie of Monham (Vital Spark x Monham Reece), Lord Sukey (Coppergold Cupid x Mischief), Fey (Kismet x Faith) and Flora (Laddie x Rene). As you can see several of these dogs did not have a kennel affix as they were just pet dogs but they were registered with the Kennel Club. So even in this first year with only four dogs entered we have the names of eight different parents.

In 1927 there were six dogs entered all with different parents and in 1928 fourteen dogs were entered and only two of these had the same father (a dog named Buckingham Boysie). This was also the year that Ann’s Son (considered to be the ideal prototype of the breed) was first shown and won at Crufts. So, in this year there were listed in the Crufts’ catalogue the names of 27 different parents of dogs entered, hardly just a small handful. It was obvious that breeders who had taken up the challenge to revive the breed had simply been using longer muzzled King Charles Spaniels, and there were plenty of them around. Most of these dogs were sold as pets as they were deemed unsuitable for showing due to the length of their muzzle. Ann’s Son was bred by Miss Mostyn Walker who bred both King Charles Spaniels and Papillons. There had long been suggestions that there may have been Papillons in the ancestry of Ann’s Son, but this is mere speculation and has never been substantiated. Another early breeder was Mrs Jennings whose foundation bitch was Blenheim Palace Poppet and came directly from the line of spaniels bred on the Marlborough Estate at Blenheim Palace and not from a show line. The view that Cavaliers are descended from just six dogs is completely wrong, the original gene pool was indeed much wider.