Labrador Retrievers of Amadeuze

16/09/2024

A memorable day at the Labrador Retriever Kennel Club Championship Show for Bunnichem Symphony of Love of Amadeuze (Amira)🤩 Amira, aged 14 months, won the 2point Champion Certificate amidst 30 bi***es competing for CC! 🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳 She was also awarded Best Junior in Show, and runner up Best Yellow in Show.

Anastasiya Gavanos handled Amira to perfection. Our sincere thanks to the organizing committee for a well-run show, to show friends for lovely company, to Anastasiya for excellent handling and to the judge, Mr Casey (Sandylands), UK Labrador specialist judge,
for appreciating and awarding our lovely young girl. A special word of thanks to Annemiek van Vuuren (kennel Bunnichem) for entrusting us with this special, beautiful girl, who is such a pleasure both in the show ring and at home. We absolutely adore her.

12/08/2024

Amadeuze Love to Karmina (Mienke, black girl) and Bunnichem Symphony of Love of Amadeuze (Amira, yellow girl) both celebrated their first birthdays recently. And today, we celebrate their excellent gradings on hips and elbows!
Mienke & Amira: both ED: 0-0; HD: A2-A2.
It is always rather stressful to raise them carefully during the first year of their lives: feed carefully, exercise carefully, travel carefully and despite your best efforts, you still hold your breath and pray for the best! Well done, girls, you both do us very proud🥰

21/07/2024

Amadeuze Pawsome Harvey. Born 1-05-2024
Amadeuze Queen of the Night (Queeni) x Ailsacraig Rhapsody in Blue of Amadeuze (Vino)
He is working hard on his "How cute am I pose"! Which started at the age of 6/7 weeks already.
It must be somewhere in the genes. Poplap also used to cross her feet like that, and Gorgeous George also does it!

15/07/2024

Happy Birthday to our gorgeous girl Amira (Bunnichem Symphony of Love from Amadeuze)! We hope you enjoyed your first birthday and that the new year will bring loads of fun and happy play dates and, of course, a few more CCs! Love you to the moon and back, gorgeous girl. You are such a joy to have and love. Thanks to her breeder, Annemiek van Vuuren, for doing this magnificent breeding on imported Polish lines and for allowing us to have her - She is a stunner with a typical Labrador temperament!

14/07/2024

Here's an update on Amadeuze Gorgeous George, who was returned to us in 2023 because he caused his original owners tremendous anxiety and was described as unruly and unmanageable. George, the son of our black boy Don, who had worked very successfully for several years as a therapy dog under Paws for People, lived with us for a few months. During that time, he sired a lovely litter with our yellow girl, Amy. He currently lives with our friends close by, Mitzi and Andries, and I think he kisses every star in heaven every night before going to sleep for the wonderful home bestowed on him! He is fully house trained (previously not allowed indoors, not even in the heat or rain of summer or icy cold winter nights) and is being tucked into bed every night. He prefers to sleep in his crate, although the door remains open. Thank goodness for people like Mitzi and Andries, we wish every dog on earth such a wonderful life as George enjoys with them 🫠

14/07/2024

Safely home after a lovely show weekend, competing in 4 shows with beautiful results for Amira (tomorrow, 1-year-old, her last show in puppy class) and Hazel (age 5½ months, her last show as a baby puppy.

Bunnichem Symphony of Love of Amadeuze (Amira):
2x Reserve Best of Breed; 2x CC; 2x RCC; 4x Best Puppy in Breed

Rowania Phoenix Flight of Amadeuze (Hazel):
1x Best Baby Puppy in Group; 1x Best Baby Puppy in Breed

Our sincere thanks to the organising club committees (Orion KC, Western Gauteng KC, Goldfields Supporters KC) for an enjoyable show weekend, great judging - mostly under international judges, and to our show friends for great company and show support. A huge big thank you to Amira's breeder, Annemiek van Vuuren, for allowing us to have and love this beautiful girl, and to Thania Rowan, Hazel's breeder, for allowing us to have Hazel. She was bred from Maya and Oscar, our Swedish boy (Seabirds Oops I Did It Again from Amadeuze) and is a lovely dark chocolate girl. Quite a challenge to handle her in the ring; her energy levels are sky-high! A huge thank you Lynn Ruddle (with me in the picture), who offered handling assistance in her final competition today 😀

22/06/2024

The first of Queeni's puppies went home today. Here is cute miss Orange, with her very appropriate name, Amadeuze Petit Chiot, snuggling up in her new soft bed with all her huge animal friends. I see that one is going to be spoilt rotten 💖💓💕

19/06/2024

18/06/2024

Today was the first birthday of Amy & Vino's 2023 litter.
It was a happy day for some of the 3 babies from this litter, and a very sad day for others.
Amadeuze Kingsley is living his best life with a wonderful family in Johannesburg, where he is co-babysitter for their two-month-old baby.
Amadeuze Kindred Spirit (Willow) was returned to us 2 weeks ago, being incompatible with her previous family, as they stated, making the family members (including a toddler) desperately unhappy.
Amadeuze Kool Runnings (Luna), made her family desperately happy, but she passed on last week after being spayed, which resulted in internal bleeding. Despite an emergency follow-up operation, she could not be saved. I spoke to her owner today, and they are devasted, mourning the loss of a wonderful family member and missing her dearly.
How can life be so unfair?
How do we deal with this ambivalence, heartache, disappointment and loss? The one was not loved and returned; the other one was so loved but forever lost. The temperament assessments of the 2 girls looked like a carbon copy - busy, lively, happy, high energy levels. Pure puppy, pure dog, pure Labrador.
Sharing a few birthday pictures of Kingsley, Willow, and the late Luna

17/06/2024

Black girl Yellow, no 9, the last but not the least! First picture at age 5 weeks, next at age 7 weeks

17/06/2024

Black girl Turquise, first at age 5 weeks, next at age 7 weeks

17/06/2024

Black girl Red, first at age 5 weeks, next at age 7 weeks

17/06/2024

Black girl Pink, first at age 5 weeks, next at age 7 weeks

17/06/2024

Yellow girl Purple, first at age 5 weeks, next at age 7 weeks

17/06/2024

Yellow Girl Orange, first at age 5 weeks, next at age 7 weeks

17/06/2024

Yellow boy Brown, first at age 5 weeks, next at age 7 weeks

17/06/2024

Black boy Green, first aged 5 weeks and next aged almost 7 weeks

17/06/2024

The awesome nine-some are doing just great. They will soon be seven weeks old. The first picture was taken two weeks ago when they were five weeks old, and the next picture was taken when they were almost seven weeks old. It's just amazing how fast they grow and develop at this age!