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I have always loved hounds, having spent a couple of years on a hunt yard when I was young, and to have Beagles was always an ambition of mine. Now I have the room and the time to dedicate to this lovely breed it just seemed to be the 'right time' when Jackie Marris-Bray (Helenwood) told me she had a litter .....Hannah and I went to view the pups and decided on a bitch puppy, and a few weeks later we picked Bessie up. Helenwood Bounty at Charbonnel that is....hopefully our foundation bitch.....

HELENWOOD BOUNTY AT CHARBONNEL

Parents	Grandparents	Great Grandparents	Great Great Grandparents
Ch. Dialynne Take A Chance	Ch. Int. & World Sentinel of Dyalynne	Ch. Soloman of Dialynne	Ch. Dialynne Gamble
			Kittoch Garland
		Adendale Kennie Inka	Ch. Dialynne Beau
			Dufosee Xebel
	Shelaft Thats My Girl of Dialynne	Monaco Ch Dialynne Sinatra	Ch. Dialynne Tolliver of Tragband
			Ch. Dialynne Sonata
		Shelaft Gin Brummie	Daragot Patriot of Dialynne
			Shelaft Sweet Anona
Helenwood Melody	Ch. Dialynne Hallmark	Stormaway of Dialynne	Ch. Dialynne Augustus
			Excitat Willo The Wisp
		Bianchi Acorn from Buttermere	Dialynne Finalist
			Buttermere Crocus
	Stormpasture Kopy This at Helenwood	Korwin Baffler	Ch. Norcis Moonweaver
			Korwin Splendore
		Korwin Chimer	Deanery Durban
			Korwin Splendore

"Bessie growing up.... "

" Bessie at 2 years of age "

Bessie at 3 and a half years of age.......

Bessie did us proud by producing a lovely litter of 4 pups, 2 dogs,2 bitches, by Ch. Dialynne Masterpiece in September 2006. She has proved to be an excellent mum, attentive and sensible....Bless Her.

We will probably keep a bitch pup to start our small beagle 'pack'. Here are a few photos of the pups.

Unfortunately Bessie stood on one of the 2 bitch pups and damaged her neck, and we had to have her put to sleep as she would never have recovered from the injury, so we decided to keep a dog and the only bitch from the litter....Raider and Rafia, or Riff Raff as we call her...

Raider - 12 Weeks Old

Rafia - 12 Weeks Old

Come January, when they were around 4 months, I took some photos of them in the garden, where they thought they were in heaven...loose chickens, big bushes and open spaces, beagle bliss !!

Then at coming up to 6 months we had another photo session and these 2 photos were the best of many we took !!

Riff Raff at 20 months

On the 1/10/07 Bessie produced her 2nd and last litter, this time to Jill Peaks CH. BAYARD GRAFTER :

These are the four little fatties, doing what beagles do best- filling their bellies !!!

9/11/07

Our four little beauties learning how to stand in show pose ......what chunky monkeys they are !Thank you Monica for the photos....

Bitches

Bitch & Dog

24/1/08

Glossy was our chosen puppy to represent our kennel in the beagle ring in 2008....you have to believe how pleased we are with her !

11/5/08

Glossy makes us proud by winning 3rd in a class of quality Minor Puppy bitches at Birmingham National under breed specialist Anne Tofts. This follows a 1st in Beagle Junior at her first show 2 weeks previous. Thanks for standing her so well Han.....

Glossy is SO pretty, now 8 months old.......

2010

Riffraff has had her first litter this spring, to Ch.Serenaker Devil in Disguise, photo below. We hope to keep 2 of these little beauties ourselves.......

Here are some photos of the bitch pups :