Puppy Owners Manual 301
10/29/2011
03/20/2013 Edited to reflect updated and additional information.
Chambray Labradors Owner’s Manual 301
· Harvesting The Fruit Of The Vine
· From 2 Year’s On
The Fruit Of The Vine
From the earliest of times our civilization has been totally built on the premise of sowing, then cultivating to create a bountiful harvest that the many can partake in. Without that broad reaching concept, the now 7 billion-strong inhabitants of the 3rd planet from the sun would have surely decimated the entire planet’s natural occurring resources!
Maximizing those resources by utilizing the cooperativeness of our species has ensured that there will be those resources for generations to come………or so we hope.
As with all successful cooperative ventures, Chambray Labradors Owners Community was built on the exact same premise of sowing, cultivating and harvesting that fruit of the vine that comes with the toil of a far reaching collective program.
By creating a network of owners that have benefited from the collective successes of previous harvests, they in turn would then participate in the next sowing so that there could be a next harvest for themselves and others that would join in as new owners.
In the dog fancy, there is an accepted time period that it takes to become a successful breeder. It is a nebulous stretch that may span 7 to 12 years of actually breeding dogs before someone really produces anything of real value to the top echelons of quality. Years and years of trial and error, mistakes and wrong paths taken, before a semblance of light emerges at the end of the proverbial tunnel for those neophytes that are relatively in limbo for many, many years before they actually “get it” and thus are truly able to contribute to the betterment of the breed on a continuous basis.
The vast majority of new-comers spend an inordinate amount of time in the learning process, a very slow climbing learning curve with much wasted time, energy, money and worst of all a mistake-filled period producing lesser than expected quality litter after litter.
However, with the Labrador Owners Community in action, that time-honored “in limbo” period has been in most cases totally eliminated! Very little wasted energy and time for those that came on board and benefited from the bountiful harvests that have followed each and every year of our planting and cultivating.
We can document case after case starting as far back as 1991 when the first thought waves of “placing the best with the best” occurred. When there was a realization that keeping the best from every litter would soon over populate Chambray Acres and the capacity to actually do the best with each puppy kept would not be in their best interest.
Although it would take us 6 years (1986 to 1992) with breeding show dogs to actually champion a dog that we had bought……..one of a dozen or so that we had invested in for show; then it would be another year (1993) before one of our own bred-by dogs would finish out their AKC championship………………through the “place the best with the best” we would be able to take brand new owners to the promise land with their first-ever show dog and help them avoid the doldrums, years of negative growth and more oft-filled faux pas periods.
In addition, through our Partners Program for breeding, there would be numerous owners that would be breeders of champions with their very first litter bred!
There were those like Joe Gonzalez who joined Chambray in 1990, the first of the co-owners and later co-breeders. Joe would be the proud owner of Am/Can Ch Grandquest Chambray Slapshot, a co-owned and co-developed dog that would be instrumental as a great producing stud dog for our breeding program. Joe would also co-own and co-breed his 2nd acquired Chambray dog, Ch Chambrays Penalty Shot.
There would be the Mc Gown family in 1990 with their first-ever show puppy, which grew up to become Ch Chambrays Indian Summer. By participating in our breeding management program, Summer’s first and only litter produced Ch Chambrays Caleb, so the Mc Gowns first dog was an AKC champion and from their co-bred litter with Chambray, they became the breeders of champions!
There was Julie Dweck in 1991 with her first Chambray dog, Chambrays Princess. Together from Princess’s first co-bred litter another Chambray champion would emerge, Ch Chambrays Colombo.
The Senra family would be the owners of one of Ch Chambrays Indian Summer’s puppies. Through the amenities offered at Chambray Labradors, that dog would excel at the dog shows and later produce 1 co-bred litter for the betterment of the breed producing Am/Int Ch Chambrays Chisholm Chancey, making the Senra family the breeders of champions.
Chancey’s successes are documented through the Chambray website. Here we have Martha Chisholm, a brand new owner into the world of show dogs with her very first dog. Through the Labrador Owners Community vast offerings, that dog would become an AKC champion in record time making Martha Chisholm the owner of 2 champions (she kept Ch Chambrays Chisholm Lance from Chancey’s 2nd litter) and the breeder of 4 champions from 2 co-owned and co-bred litters.
Chancey’s first litter produced 3 puppies and all 3 ascended to their AKC championship for their novice owners. Each of those dogs would shorten the learning curve for their owners by years and years and give each of them a fantastic head start in the breeding world as well. Those 3 dogs would become Am/Int Ch Chambrays Twist Of Fate owned by Roberta Wallach, Am/Int Ch Chambrays Mad About Madeline (Maddie) owned by Rosy Harkow and BISP Am Ch/Int Ch Chambrays Chance N Counter (Connie) owned by Jessica Herzon.
Two of those 2 dogs Connie & Maddie would then themselves produce an astonishing 7 AKC champions with 4 AKC Grand Champions and 2 AKC Bronze Grand Champions for their owners!!!!!
The documentation with case after case could continue with success story after success story for each of the new owners that came on board and took advantage of the highest quality being produced, the mentoring with the vast amenities and offerings provided by Chambray Labradors.
Each and every one of the preceding and the following owners would assuredly benefit from not going through years and years of lost time, energy and investment with the traditionally-honored “time in limbo” period.
All exceptionally succeeding in the dog show world with a top quality Chambray dog; that dog becoming their first-ever AKC champion!!!!! Besides the previous mentioned folk with their first-ever AKC champion, the following would also savor the thrill of their 1st champion as well. Here is a listing of the Florida state record champions produced and the owners that benefited from our Selective Puppy Placement Program, our Mentoring Program, our Training & Conditioning Program, and our Professional Handling Program. Some of these folk would also be selected to participate in the betterment of the breed by working together with Chambray in producing the next generation of superior quality dogs and future champions.
The
symbol are those that would be invited to participate in Chambray's
Partners Program For The Betterment of the Breed as part of Chambray's
Labrador Owners Community by participating in our vast offerings of
training, conditioning, handling and or producing a litter or more
for Chambray Labradors.
The
symbol
are those that have become "breeders of champions" from Chambray dogs.
Below is a listing of the 30 State Record Champions produced by Chambray Labradors & all those owners that have benefited by our "placing our best produce" instead of the time-honored tradition of "keeping the best, placing the rest" that is practiced by the vast majority of people breeding today.
03/20/2013 Now 35 AKC Champions
Dog Name Champion Year Breeders/Owners Status
1) AKC Ch Chambray Acres
Russell (1992) owners Gloria Rodriguez
2) AKC Ch Chambrays Indian
Summer (1992) owners Mc Gown family
3) FCI Ch/Col Ch/Int~W Ch Chambrays Kenya
(1993) owners Lauret Beri
4) AKC Ch Chambrays Caleb
(1994) co-breeders Casey Mc Gown
/owner
Trish Sheekey
5) FCI Ch/Int~W Ch Chambrays Duchess (1995) owners the Lawson family
6) AKC Ch Chambrays
Colombo (1997) co-breeder Julie Dweck
/owner
Herb Cordero
7) AKC Ch Chambrays Chase
(1997) co-breeder Rose Diaz
/owner
Nancy Lord
8) AKC Ch Chambrays Kloi
(1997) co-breeder Nelson Barker
/owner
Mike Gibbs
9) AKC Ch JAMSS* /Int BISV
Ch Chambrays Chisholm Chancey (1999) co-breeder the Senra's
/owner
Martha Chisholm
10) AKC Ch Chambrays
Buckshot Shooter (2000) owner Colleen Cunningham
11) AKC Ch Chambrays
Franco (2001) owner Tony Farias
12) AKC Ch Chambrays
Penalty Shot (2001) owner Joe Gonzalez
13) AKC Ch /Int Ch
Chambrays Storm (2002) co-breeders Wendy Silverstein
/owners
Sharon & Arville Hall
14) AKC Ch /Int Ch
Chambrays Karley (2003) co-breeder Martha Chisholm
/owner
Roberta Walach
15) AKC BISP** Ch /Int Ch
Chambrays Chance N Counter (2003) co-breeder Martha Chisholm
/owner
Jessica Herzon
16) AKC Ch /Int Ch
Chambrays Mad About Madeline (2004) co-breeder Martha Chisholm
/owner
Rosy Harkow
17) AKC Ch /Int Ch
Chambrays Lance (2004) co-breeder Martha Chisholm
/owner
Martha Chisholm
18) AKC Ch /Int Ch
Chambrays Maya (2005) owner Cindy Ceballos
19) AKC Ch /Int Ch
Chambrays Right On Target (2005) owner Cindy Ceballos
20) AKC BIS***Ch /Int BIS
Ch Chambrays Hogan (2006) owner Rosie Feeley
21) AKC BISP Grand Ch/UKC
BIS Ch/Int BIS Ch Chambrays Charmed N Counter (2008) co-breeder & owner
Jessie Herzon
22) AKC Ch/ UKC BIS Gr
Ch/Int BIS Ch Chambrays Hogan’s Hero Rocky (2008) co-breeder Jessie
Herzon
/owner
Karen Gjertsen
23) AKC Ch Chambrays
Dakota On Deck (2010) co-breeder Mike Gibbs
/owner
Jessie Schulz
24) AKC Gr Ch/Int BIS
Ch/UKC BIS Gr Ch Chambrays And The Beat Goes On (2010) co-breeder Jessie
Herzon
/owner
Mary & Bob Jakeway
25) AKC Gr Ch/ Int BIS Ch
WinQuest Chambray Cadbury (2011) co-breeder Geraldo Desouza w/ WinQuest
Labradors
/owners
Nina & Edgar Otto
26) AKC BBE Ch/Int BIS Ch/UKC
BIS Ch Chambrays Bailey On The Rocks (2011) co-breeder Jessie Herzon
/owners
Faith Bandklayder & Neil Wasserman
27) AKC Ch/Int BIS Ch
Chambrays Lady Scarlet (2011) co-breeder Jennifer Shake
/owners
Nina & Edgar Otto
28) Can Ch Chambrays
Cinnabar Carley (2011) co-breeders Dave Baxter & Debra Richmond
/owner
Jeffrey Moore
29) AKC Ch/Int BIS Ch Chambrays Summer Breeze (2012) co-breeder
WinQuest Labradors
/Owners
Rosie & Bill Feeley
30)AKC BIS BBE Bronze
Grand
Ch/Int BIS Ch Chambrays Celestial N Counter (2012) co-breeder Val Till
/owner
Olga and Juan Marrero
31)AKC Bronze Grand Ch
WinQuest Chambray Reaching For The Stars (2012) co-bred with WinQuest
/owner Lisa and Alan Criado
32) AKC BBE Ch/Int BIS
Ch Chambrays First N Counter
(2012) co-breeder Val Till
/owner
Olga and Juan Marrero
33) AKC Ch/Int Ch/UKC
Ch Chambrays Handsome Island Boy Louie (2012) co-breeder WinQuest
/owner
Richard and Eva Arnold
34) AKC Ch/Int Ch
Chambrays Rum Tum Tugger (2012) co-bred with Guardian Labradors
/owners
Chuck Lewis and Scott Brady
35) AKC Ch/Int Ch
Chambrays Diamond Destiny (2013) co-bred with Guardian Labradors
/owners
Pat Norman & Russ Blosse
In addition to those 35 champions, their breeder and owners there have been scores of other owners/breeders that have contributed greatly to the successes that Chambray has achieved in the last 43 years with Labrador Retrievers.
Plus the following kennels, dogs and owners who co-owned/co-bred with Chambray dogs whose championships were “made up” with our vast offerings or who championed those dogs on their own or placed those dogs with owners who had the dogs professionally finished.
1) AKC Ch Chelons Emma Ducka O’CharDon (1991) Chambray
2) AKC Ch/Can Ch Grandquest Chambray Slapshot (1995) Joe Gonzalez & Chambray
3) AKC Ch KaiDens Chambray Conquest (1999) Chambray
4) AKC Ch/Int Ch/UKC Ch
Surry's Obscured By Clouds (2003) WinQuest & Chambray Labradors
4) AKC Ch/Int Ch Carmays
Ruff Around The Edges (2004) Carmay & Chambray
5) AKC Ch/Int Ch Carmays Duchess (2006) Bobby Harris & Chambray
6) AKC Gr Ch van Dalens Cedartree Hunter (2010) ~ sired by Am BIS Ch Chambrays Out Of The Ruff bred to WinQuest Chambray Van Dalen Onyx {produced by both sire and dam Chambray-bred dogs}
7) AKC Gr Ch/UKC BIS Gr Ch/Int BIS Ch Van Dalen Show Dens Top Gun (2010) {produced from a Chambray co-bred dam}
8) AKC Ch/Int Ch
Summithills Jericho's Battle Of Jericho (2013) owned by Carol & Chip
Wilkening
Other kennels that have co-bred and or owned & co-owned Chambray AKC champion-pointed dogs
WinQuest Labradors ~ Geraldo Desouza
Greenhead Labradors ~ Andy Gonzalez {all of Chambray's chocolate dogs have come from the co-venture breedings with Andy Gonzalez & Greenhead Labradors}
Guardian Labradors ~ Humberto Calvo
Scuba Labradors ~ Jennifer Shake {although Jennifer used the name Scuba Labradors for her own dogs, she chose to breed under the name Chambray for all our co-bred litters}
N Counter Labradors ~ Jessica Herzon & Juan Marrero {Jessie founded the name N Counter for her kennel name in 2001, however she now breeds under the Chambray prefix name and will continue to use Chambray for her own use in the future, she will co-breed with Juan and Olga Marrero using the N Counter name in the future}
Abbreviations used:
Am Ch ~ AKC champion
AM Gr Ch ~ AKC grand champion
FCI ~ Federacion Cynologique Internationale (World Canine Organization)
Can Ch ~ Canadian Champion
JAMSS* ~ Judges Award Of Merit Specialty Show, "Chancey" was the 1st ever JAMSS awarded at the South Florida Labrador Retriever Clubs inaugural specialty in 2001!
BIS*** ~ Best In Show, "Hogan" is the 1st ever Bred-By Exhibitor Best In Show winner in state history and only 1 of 2 Labradors born in Florida to win a Best In Show ever. March 20, 2013 Now there have been 2 Chambray Best In Show champions, Hogan and his granddaughter AKC BIS Bronze Grand Ch/Int BIS Ch Chambrays Celestial N Counter.
BISP** ~ Best In Show Puppy, "Connie" won 2 unprecedented Best In Show Puppy
Int Ch ~ International IABCA Champion
UKC Ch ~ United Kennel Club Champion
Besides these 35 champions & their owners listed above, there are hundreds of other Chambray-bred dogs that have been placed with other owners that are now active or have been participants in many of the programs offered by Chambray that are loving pets & companions, not to mention some of the top show dogs not only in Florida, but dozens of other states as well and to many countries outside the USA. Many of those dogs have produced litters with outstanding puppies that have brought about much joy and love to hundreds of satisfied Chambray owners.
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