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2007
SEASON
2007 was the year, in which many accomplishments were
consolidated. Each
year we sit down and plan the next season, set goals for that
season we hope to meet. 2007
was however,  not particularly one of those years.
It was not really one of those years because, we had really
only two goals in mind, they were; break the all time Canadian
Basenji Best in Show Record and set a new one and win the World
Championship Title for G.Ch Ahmahr Nahr=s
Jake Jamal to Mimbre JC, and Champion C.H. Amahr Nahr=s Just Call Me Madam JC, World Champions.
We have accomplished this and more.
Both, Jake and Madam won the World Title against
stiff competition in Mexico City, in May 2007. Madam completed her second year, as a AKC. Top Dog Basenji,
including all breed statistics and again qualified for the
Eukanuba Classic. She
finished the year with a new handler, our old friend Sergio Espejo,
from Radium Springs, New Mexico.
Jake
finished his year, as a CKC Top Dog Basenji and a Top Dog Hound.
We do not know at this time, whether he will be number one
Basenji or merely number two. What
we do know, is that he will be in the top five hounds, nationally
and we do know that Jake broke all records, for Best in Show, ever
won by a basenji, in Canada and holds the all time dogs defeated
and dogs defeated in a single season record.
Jake
and Madam, both did well, at the FCI shows.
Jake repeated as the Macho SICALAM Champion, Spitz and Primitive Group Winner and Madam won as the Hembra SICALAM Winner.
We
were thrilled to take a new dog, Champion Ahmahr Nahr=s Tears of the Giraffe, to Mexico City with us and onto the SICALAM
Shows and the FCI Las Americas and Caribbean Shows in Puerto Rico.
Precious, did us all proud, as she won ABest@
as Young Basenji, and place in the Spitz and Primitive Joven Group
every single day, taking it on day three.
A
pup out of Champion Ahmahr Nahr=s
Sagitta (Fauna) was Best Basenji Puppy in the World and won the
Puppy Spitz and Primitive Group, all four days.
Jake
and Madam each won the ATop
Basenji Honors@
at the FCI Las Americas and Caribbean Shows, and Precious (Ahmahr
Nahr=s
Tears of the Giraffe) won the Joven Title in Puerto Rico.
Champion
Ahmahr Nahr=s
Mardi Gras Flambeaux Man was Top Joven at the Mexican National Show
in  Mexico City, 2007, and Top Spitz and Primitive Group Winner at
the SICALAM Shows, in Costa Rica in September.
We
were  able to finish FCI and SICALAM Titles on Champion Ahmahr Nahr=s Mardi Gras Flambeaux Man as well as Champion Ahmahr Nahr=s
Just Call Me Madam JC, and earned FCI, Costa Rica and Puerto Rico
titles on those dogs. We
also put Costa Rica and Puerto Rico titles on Precious and junior
titles from Costa Rica and Puerto Rico on our Jake puppy, Lily,
owned by ourselves and Anna Seyller (Ahmahr Nahr=s
High Desert Tiger Lily). In the summer of 2007, we launched her in
Canada by going to Vancouver Island with puppies in search of
sufficient wins against competition to earn CKC titles and were
successful. We put
CKC Champion Titles on Champion Ahmahr Nahr=s
High Desert Tiger Lily, Champion Ahmahr Nahr=s
Sultan=s
Lady, Champion Ahmahr Nahr=s
Blue Angel, Champion Ahmahr Nahr=s
Blue Chip, Champion Ahmahr  Nahr=s
Kokopelli Dancer. Angel
and Chip are owned by friend, Rose Marie Holt. On
the trip to Canada, those pups did very well with major CKC wins,
for Koko and Lily. At
the end of the year Koko lacked one point getting her AKC title
and Lily lacked one major. Sultana
is co-owned by Michelle Smith Barbour, from Florida. Sultana went home after Canadian Shows to Florida, for
showing with her mom.
We
didn=t
really have a definite plan for Jake, once he broke the Best in
Show record and became World Champion.
Since he was young, Jake turned 4 in December 2007,
we left him in Canada to complete the year, though we do not
believe it was quite the record breaker, that the 2006 was.
In
addition, Jake stayed in the top twenty-five in the US.
Both he and Madam qualified for Eukanuba Classic in the US
(Jake also qualified in Canada).
Most
surprisingly, Jake became what we believe to be the first hound
Canadian Grand Champion, when he got an obedience title (CGN)
right after the beginning of the year 2007, with handler Larry
Clark. This suffix
title completed the many necessary requirements, including Best in
Shows and multiple group wins necessary to obtain this new title.
As the year closes, we believe he is still the only basenji
to hold this title.
Sonny,
Champion Ahmahr Nahr=s
Son of the Warrior, went to live with his co-owner, Patricia
Holguin, in Las Cruces, New Mexico.
We are hoping to get him out onto the coursing field, this
year.
DC
Astarte=s
Sultan Siete with Pips JC , worked on his rallie titles RN, RA and
RAE and began polishing these off at the first of 2008, as well as
began work on his CDX. The rallie degrees are a long slow process for a Basenji,
approximately forty (40) different maneuvers to learn.
Siete, by the end of the year had got them all down, but
two (2), and had already earned a couple of legs on his first
rallie degree.
Lady
and Dancer got their pups raised and out on the show circuit and
went back to enjoying life until the Fall.
This
year was a premier year for Basenjis, in that there was, developed
a marker test for Fanconi syndrome.
We were able to test a substantial number of our breeding
stock and ascertain that we did not have, nor have we bred any
affected pups. They
are all are probable clears or carriers.
This lifts a real burden, from our minds, and we are hoping
that the final test will be perfected in 2008.
Unfortunately,
we did not find that rare, red and white Aknock out@ show male we were looking for, at least amongst our own puppies.
This gives us something to strive for in the new year,
perhaps out of these new puppy litters, who knows.
 Beaux,
began his special career by dipping his toe in the water a few
times in 2007. He
will be shown by Larry Clark in the year 2008 in Canada and we
wish him well. In
2007, he finished his title and winners dog in the Dallas Specialty
weekend as did Sonny and Precious.
In 2007, after Shakara=s
last litter, out of Ranger, was weaned immediately, tried to get
right back to motherhood. Considering,
that she was 8 going on 9, we were very concerned
about this and determined despite the fact, that she had been a
wonderful mother, and an African, it was time to retire her from the
whelping box and we did so. The unfortunate part of this, is that she loves puppies more
than life itself and she decided to take over Lady and Dancer=s puppies. She
was not very popular with them.
We really needed to make other arrangements to give Shakara a job. After
a false start or two, with some help from our friends, in the
Greater Phoenix Basenji Fanciers, Shakara, is now in charge of at
the home of Bob=s friends, the Lentz=s. They
live in the Sandia Mountain Foothills.
Janet, walks with Shakara, every day in the mountains, giving
Shakara a chance to track and hunt and she has in less than a month
put Shakara back in tip top shape.
Also, Shakara gets to sleep in the middle of
her own canopy bed and have a closet for her wardrobe, etc.
We have no more fights over who is mother of the puppies.
We can visit with her and hear about her often and she has a
great retirement home.
Could
life be better?
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