Here is a lapful of Cairn Terriers! Marland has a gentle and neutral touch with the dogs, especially if they come in to the house from difficult situations. We have since moved to an acre+ outside of Albany with more room for the dogs to run.
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Champion Higgin's Checkov - Our Stud Dog - Pick-up riding dog - and chief smiley dog! He is getting darker as he gets older, from red wheaten to a dark steel grey.
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Ch. Higgin's Checkov
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 improve the breed.
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 last year 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. |
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More of our dog pictures below:
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Our young stud, Marma's Touch of Schwaney, son of our Maggie and German import, MAC CLOUD'S INVISIBLE TOUCH - "Ruben"
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Bentley as a young dog - in his show career days. His registered name is Snowedon's Mister Fancy Pants.
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BENTLEY! AT STUD
Bentley came to us from Cairn Terrier Creek since his quality and the pups he throws are such top quality that a son and grandson replaced him! So, he joined us at our Oregon home for his remaining years. He is a sweetheart and is available for stud, as well as service for our quality Checkov puppies.
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Our red dog - finally~ MARMA'S MORA THE SAME, Checkov's granddaughter, daughter of Bentley.
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Happy Hill Freesia
Freesia joined us from Weippe, Idaho from Happy Hill Cairn Terriers with MaryFrancis Brown in June, 2015. She is an active pup and keeps everyone hopping! She learns really fast, is sociable with other dogs, and never misses a chance for mischief!
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Freesia takes Winner's Bitch!
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Happy Hill Freesia
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Here is the family photo: left rear, Freesia, front, Zippy, and parents, Miss Flossie Brown, and Greenstones Buffalo Bill Cody.
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Happy Hill Freesia at 13 months, and sister, Happy Hill Zippy Haute Couture at 6 months.
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Happy Hill Zippy Haute Couture
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Zippy is named for action! so this casual picture is unusual, but she also like snuggling in the recliner!
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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!
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Millie
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Millie came to us from Cloverleaf Kennels and has become a sweetheart and wonderful playmate for the younger pups!
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Maggie loves lots of attention, and is a cuddler between my knees when I am at the computer. She is a wonderful mother and I was amazed to watch her teach Poppy, the pup, the proper manners about the tiny pups - just subtly and not with snarling and teeth! Such a great mother.
Maggie produces large litters and with Checkov as Dad, they are all black puppies! Reports are of the most adaptable and personable pups around!
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Meena at 2 years old raised a nice litter of puppies from Tyson. She has small litters, but they are great Therapy Dog aptitude and super personality pups.
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Marma's Emerald City Poppy
Poppy has grown up to be a very sweet and active dog. She is the first one to comfort me when I am sad. She is a great house dog, and was a dazzler with the judges when she was shown last year. She knew just what to do to captivate the judges!
Poppy and her siblings! Poppy is the dark female standing up with the green collar - but she also had two light brindle siblings. With Checkov as sire, she could throw a litter of anything! Will be fun to see what colors we get!
Poppy loves the children and will put up with just about ANYTHING they want to do. Here she is buckled in for a ride on Alaira's Barbie Jeep - the first of many rides, I'm sure.
 Poppy has grown into a great and gentle house dog and companion!
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Poppy plays with her friend, Geo.
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Cairn Terrier Creek Lizzy Bella
I showed Lizzy in the Owner Handled Series at the Chintimini Kennel Club Show here in Albany in March 2015. She won her class, but we hope for more as she fills out and matures.
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Lizzy "dog of a different color" keeps changing from shades of gold to red to .....
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Lizzy joined us in February 2014 and has grown to be a lovely little lady - we call her the "dog of a different color" - she is so different than the other dogs. Lizzy was the best of our dogs at the first Earthdog Trial that we went to this spring. She may earn her title as a hunter in these AKC sponsored trials.
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Lizzy was a great camping companion last summer and the children all loved her and she was very quiet in camp, which is a must!
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CHERRY - Checkov's little sister!
Cherry came to us directly from Arlene Long, in Minatare, Nebraska (the 4th dog we have purchased from her). Higgin's Cowboy is her father, and she is probably going to be a wheaton. We hope that she will grow up as spectacular as Checkov and earn her Championship - since she definitely has the personality plus, cockiness, and loving nature as her brother.
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Here is Cherry at 7 months.
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Cherry at 7 months and she is going to be 'what color?' Is that today or tomorrow?!
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Cherry at 9 months
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Schwaney
Sweeney is a sweet little guy who will grow up to be like his Mom, Maggie.
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Schwaney at 6 months
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THERAPY DOG - CRICKET - Cricket passed away on August 20 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 agressiveness 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 agressiveness 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.