About AfterAll

Long before the Wire Fox Terriers......

• there were Labrador Retrievers.
  
    
  Me, on the left, when the IKC benched show was still at the stockyards.
  
  During the 1970's I showed and bred some nice Labradors, both black and yellow. Although I kept both, I always preferred the yellow because of their expressive dark eyes in their cream-colored faces. Even in those early years, we finished several and bred some good puppies under our Bailiwick prefix. Our dogs were very tightly linebred, which gave us "cookie cutter" puppies, almost identical in type and in their response on temperament tests. Our foundation bitches came from Shamrock Acres and were either BIS Ch. Shamrock Acres Light Brigade or BIS Ch. Royal Oaks VIP O'Shamrock Acres daughters.
  
  It was during this time that I became really interested in learning about the seven critical stages of a puppy's life and puppy socialization techniques. Nearly 30 years later, I am still interested and continue to research those topics.
  
  
  
  
  
  Puppy we sent to NY with her Bloodhound big sister.
  
  Most show Labs  were routinely given basic field training in those days and we enjoyed working ours in the water and on birds. We were charter members of the newly formed Winnebago Labrador Retriever Club and we had great times training and showing together.

  
  Club Match in 1975 with Ch. bitches, Bawn and Liffey.
  
  
  
     
     There were always puppies as my boys, Shawn and Jason, grew up. Kids & dogs just go together.
  
  
  
  A very muddy Ch. Bailiwick Copyright, with a  guilty expression on her face!

  Three Champion bitches lived with me until they died....all of cancer within one year. They were Ch. Shamrock Acres Bailiwick Ban (Bawn), Ch. Royal Oaks English Toffee (Liffy) and Ch. Bailiwick Copyright (Copy).  That, combined with other health problems cropping up in the breed, discouraged me and I eventually stopped breeding Labradors.
   

   

• and then there were Soft Coated Wheaten Terriers.
  
  
  Holly at 6 mos.  with my son, Jason.
  
  It wasn't that I planned to get a Wheaten, but a friend of mine had one of the first U.S. Best In Show Wheaten Terriers. He was a beautiful and engaging dog whom I had often admired. When she decided to repeat the breeding in the 80's, I offered to help her whelp the puppies.  As soon as they were born, I fell in love with a little bitch who eventually became my own Holly, Ch. Marima's Pipe Dream. She finished easily from the puppy class and introduced us to life with Terriers.
  
  
  Holly, when she came home to us at 8 weeks old.
  
  
  
  
  Holly, even after retiring from the show ring, was always kept in show coat
  
  
  We bred her just once and finished three of the five puppies. We kept two who became Ch.Bailiwick Legal Eagle (Ready) and Ch. Bailiwick Risky Business (Busy).
  
  
  Two of Holly's puppies, Ready & Busy, looking like koala bears,  as babies with Mom.
  
  
  Holly's son Ready, in the stage play, "Annie"
  
  Holly, and her champion kids, Ready and Busy, all lived their  last years as companions to my mother.
  
    
                             Holly with Mom 
  
   
  
                  Ready with me in the 1980's.

• then there were the dalmatians.