Chortens Tibetan Mastiffs UK

From time to time we will indulge ourselves and comment on matters which currently interest us in the breed in the UK - and, possibly, further afield. Just click on any of the links below and you will be taken to the titled article

Following the TMC of GB show, October 2006, judge Juliette Cunliffe, wrote in Our Dogs newspaper....

" I had some truly lovely dogs to go over, finding my Best In Show in Bheara Sha Shen for Darchen and Res BIS, Sierra's Yogananada, two excellent specimens of the breed. I awarded Best Puppy In Show to an outstanding youngster which I believe has the potential to do great things. He is Chortens Bhalu Khan Bahadur and I see he was sired by my RBIS winner and out of my Res Best Bitch, Shang-Hai's Chortens Shaydo."

... and Juliette was right, as she proved when she judged Bhalu at Leeds Championship Dog Show in July 2008, when she made Bhalu Best Dog and Best of Breed.

We and Shahid are also very pleased to be able to report that Bhalu has just been hip scored
and has a score of 11 in total, which is well below the current breed average.

We are both delighted to have been awarded a Gold Medal for this website, presented to us by Dog Behaviour Training UK:

"We are proud to present you with the dog-behavior-training.co.uk award for great achievements in dog website information and resources. uktibetanmastiffs.co.uk
was selected for its excellence in Mastiff (all mastiff breeds) information and/or breeding services and proves to be one of the top areas on the net for knowledge on this topic."

Earlier this year Eric was invited by Andrew Wang to submit a contribution to a new book about Tibetan Mastiffs which was going to be published in China later in the year. Eric duly submitted his thoughts on the Tibetan Mastiff to Andrew and this, together with a number of similar contributions from divers TM people from all over the world, has now been published. Obtaining copies though is proving to be difficult but hopefully any problems will be resolved soon and the book will become more widely available.

It is very interesting to read the views of the contributors and this book should prove to be a welcome addition to the libraries of those of us who cannot resist buying books about TMs or even just where there is a chance of the TM being mentioned.

And talking of books, our recent move has enabled us to locate our substantial number of Tibetan books to one bookcase. For the first time these are now easily accessible and those without little slips of paper poking out of the top can be identified as needing reading. It is always interesting searching out those snippets relating to Tibetan Mastiffs, or even less overt descriptions of the large dog of Tibet.

LEEDS CH SHOW 2008

Tibetan Mastiffs
PGD (5,3) 1 Khan�s Chortens Bhalu Khan Bahadur, b/t in fantastic coat for this time of year, such a splendid specimen of the breed, superb skull with correct muzzle proportions & excellent bite, good ribbing & loin, well carried tail, moved soundly, as I would have expected from his pleasing overall assembly. Best Dog & Best Of Breed
Judge: Juliette Cunliffe

.. and even better, the lovely Helen has phoned us to let us know that she has also had Dwt hip scored and it has come back as 4/3 !!!!
Here is a photo of Helen with Dwt on Dartmoor in September 2008. With many thanks to John Parrish for the photo.