ISCGB WORKING TEST Special Beginners – 25/06/2006 Article by Keith Wain & Julie Kelly

We wanted a gundog.  Had a Spaniel and they are hard work and barmy. Lets have a retriever.  Julie had had a Golden Retriever called Candy for Christmas when she was just nine years old and loved her to bits. She had Candy for fourteen years and didn’t want to spoil the memory, so she wanted something different.  We had started to settle on a Chocolate Lab when a friend introduced us to the world of Spinone.  We read it all, Kennel Club website, ISCGB website, and all the others, and the more we looked, and the more we read, the more it became apparent a Spinone was for us.  This was spring 2002.  We searched around and found two litters of puppies. One in Hampshire, and one in Conway in North Wales, which is about an hours drive for us.  Before we knew it, we were on our way to view the puppies.  Only looking mind! Should never buy from the first litter you see!   Four weeks later we were driving home from North Wales with a little blonde bundle on Julie’s knee.  Iolyn Porth Llwyd, or Dino to his friends, had arrived.

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