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Champion Higgin's Checkov - Our Stud Dog - Pick-up riding dog - and chief smiley dog! He has gotten darker as he got older, from red wheaten to a dark steel grey.
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AKC Champion Higgin's Checkov
Checkov is 11 and in good health! His vet checkup this week was BAD! -- He's too FAT!! So, on a diet he goes, and we rejoice at all his other heart, lungs, kidney, and blood tests were GREAT! Dr. Spangler said, "We are having fun with Checkov here at the office"!
Ch. Higgin's Checkov is now in the BANK! - the International Canine Semen Bank. We have vials of semen available to approved females who are too far away to visit. Contact us if you have a female who can use this awesome dog's genetics to widen your genetic pool.
Ch. Higgin's Checkov is now in the BANK! - the International Canine Semen Bank. We have vials of semen available to approved females who are too far away to visit. Contact us if you have a female who can use this awesome dog's genetics to widen your genetic pool.
Ch. Higgin's Checkov at 3 years old.
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Ch. Higgin's Checkov in action at a dog park at 5 1/2 years old.
Checkov has gotten darker as he has aged - and is now a silver-grey. Still active at age 7 and loves to snuggle as well as run in the yard.
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Checkov - earns his Championship in Helena Montana September 23, 2012. Here, Norma and handler Andrew Mansfield are pictured with the judge holding the ribbon.
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Checkov and Ziggy relaxing on the hot tub! Summer 2011. Rough and ready are these two, fast friends from puppyhood. Ziggy retired and went to her second career - as a therapy dog for a foster child with separation anxiety, in Montana who bought her with her own money!
 Checkov gets really relaxed! when he is in his crate at bedtime! It is a raised crate in the dining room that he views as his throne! Even with the door open he is up and can watch everything! And he's not shy about asking for a table snack!  Maryann Enloe with Amber and Norma holding Checkov at 5 months. |
 Here is Norma with Checkov at 8 weeks old. He was a very active puppy like his Auntie Cricket was, but quick to learn and lovable from the get-go! Everyone loves his smile!  Here is sister Amber on the left and Checkov on the right at about 5 months. |
More of our dog pictures below:
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Marma's I'm Talon On You
(now has a job as therapy dog for a group of friends in Washington)
Talon is an International KC Champion
and has 9 AKC Championship points.
She is daughter of Ch. Higgin's Checkov and
Ch. Happy Hills Zippy Haute Couture
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Talon is daughter of Zippy and Checkov and is such a delight! I think trouble is her middle name - or maybe snuggler - depends on the time of day. She raised a litter of 6 little gems, then dazzled many judges and fans in the Bred By Exhibitor class in a few months of shows. She earned her International and National Championships with IABCA.
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Talon - "I like just laying around"!
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Our red dog - finally~ MARMA'S MORA THE SAME, Checkov's granddaughter, daughter of Bentley (Snowdon's Mr. Fancy Pants). (Mora has left to be on staff with a Mental Health Counselor in Portland Oregon as her companion and therapy associate)
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Mora, groomed to go in the show ring, only to have them shut down for the pandemic.
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Mora, groomed for the showring, only to have them shut down for the pandemic.
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Happy Hill Zippy Haute Couture
Zippy places as Winner's Bitch at Coeur D' Alene at age 6 months and 3 days, defeating her sister, mother, and another bitch who finished her championship the following day!
Zippy shown by Soni Mask taking a major win at the Redmond Oregon show!
Here is the family photo: left rear, Freesia, front, Zippy, and parents, Miss Flossie Brown, and Greenstones Buffalo Bill Cody.
Happy Hill Freesia at 13 months, and sister, Happy Hill Zippy Haute Couture at 6 months.
Zippy relaxing.
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Zippy just came back from grooming and show training with Soni Mask, and will be shown in Albany shows - February 19-22
Zippy raised an awesome 8 puppies! Then went back in the showring and finished her championship! Actually, she loves BOTH her jobs!
Zippy is named for action! so this casual picture is unusual, but she also likes snuggling in the recliner! And after she and I spent a week travelling to Salt Lake City to meet a Bronze Grand Champion boyfriend, she is really connected to me!
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Marma's Grey Goose Straight Up Patrone
Sire: GCH Ch Grey Goose the V Leader, and Ch. Happy Hills Zippy Haute Couture
Marma's Grey Goose Straight Up Patrone
Sire: GCH Ch Grey Goose the V Leader, and Ch. Happy Hills Zippy Haute Couture
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TEDDY BEAR MCGREEN
Sire: Ch. Devineheart's Sudden Storm and Cairn Terrier Creek Stormy
Sire: Ch. Devineheart's Sudden Storm and Cairn Terrier Creek Stormy
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Marma's Dulci de Crema
Dulci is daughter of Ch. Higgin's Checkov and Hannah of Cairn Terrier Creek
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Marma's Sucha Vested Asset
Sucha is daughter of Dulci and Wee Mikey. She can be "sucha sweetheart" one day, and "sucha brat" the next!
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Jubilee
daughter of Marma's Emerald City Daphne and FAEHOLLOW DUTCH MCBRUN )
Jubilee
daughter of Marma's Emerald City Daphne and FAEHOLLOW DUTCH MCBRUN )
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Marma's Dixie Sweet Tea
So much like her full sister, Gussie!
Marma's Dixie Sweet Tea
So much like her full sister, Gussie!
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Gussy and her sister, Dixie Sweet Tea!
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Cairn Terrier Creek Penny Whistle
Cairn Terrier Creek Penny Whistle LOVES is a snuggle bug. We hoped to get her Championship Title this year but the pandemeic shut the shows. Such a sweetheart and snuggler!
Pennywhistile in the sunshine before she was groomed!
Pennywhisitle watching over her litter of puppies.
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THERAPY DOG - CRICKET - Cricket passed away on August 20, 2016 at age 14.25 years old.
Cricket came to us from Arlene Long, in Nebraska in Spring 2002. She has been the best Cairn Terrier we could have wanted and has served us well. Or have WE served her? I suppose it's a matter of opinion.
Cricket worked with me in our Adult Foster Home for Mentally Handicapped adults and was priceless for me as a guide to what my resident's needed, what their aggressiveness level was (that Cricket understood and I didn't) and was their friend as well.
I took Cricket for training and testing and she was certified as a Registered Therapy Dog with Delta Society and we were able to take Cricket wherever the Foster Home residents needed to go, even into the hospital. When she was there, they were more comfortable and she helped us manage their care more completely with her help.
Cricket gave us several litters of puppies, then retired to watch over ME! for the rest of her life - as well as train the new puppies who come in the house being the best Granny Dog they could want. She teaches them good manners, social behaviors (like don't interrupt Granny Dog's nap).
As a hunter, Cricket is undaunted - even spending hours hunting mice in grass, squirrels in bushes, and chasing chipmunks around a campsite. Digging in soft soil can take hours and she will literally bury herself in the hole she digs.
Cricket is a neutral dog and will not go after a cat and rarely after another dog, except just to identify who he is.
Cricket worked with me in our Adult Foster Home for Mentally Handicapped adults and was priceless for me as a guide to what my resident's needed, what their aggressiveness level was (that Cricket understood and I didn't) and was their friend as well.
I took Cricket for training and testing and she was certified as a Registered Therapy Dog with Delta Society and we were able to take Cricket wherever the Foster Home residents needed to go, even into the hospital. When she was there, they were more comfortable and she helped us manage their care more completely with her help.
Cricket gave us several litters of puppies, then retired to watch over ME! for the rest of her life - as well as train the new puppies who come in the house being the best Granny Dog they could want. She teaches them good manners, social behaviors (like don't interrupt Granny Dog's nap).
As a hunter, Cricket is undaunted - even spending hours hunting mice in grass, squirrels in bushes, and chasing chipmunks around a campsite. Digging in soft soil can take hours and she will literally bury herself in the hole she digs.
Cricket is a neutral dog and will not go after a cat and rarely after another dog, except just to identify who he is.
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Cricket, her daughter Mishka, and Mishka's daughter, Birdie
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Nap Time with Cricket (Granny)
Here are Sancha and Trisket taking a nap with Granny. Do we need a bigger bed? These two girls have left for their new homes now, so Granny can have the whole bed to herself.
