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CHAMPION - CH. MERRIBOX LOVE STRUCK
Betty makes Breed History here in the UK by being the youngest
Champion ever to be made up
at 12 months 5 days breaking
the previous record set back in 1911.
I have not known a time as far back as I can
remember that a Boxer has not been part of my life. My Grandmother
always had a Boxer or two around the house as I was growing
up - apparently I learned to walk holding onto the faithful
'Sparky' a huge red and white male dog from Wardrobes breeding.
I showed my first Boxer in 1990 and entered
my first Championship show - the Scottish Kennel Club (August)
in 1993.
New Ch. Merribox Love Struck "Betty"
Winning her crowning
CC from Judge Lesley Chappell.
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At the time I was studying at University in Aberdeen
and dog shows had to take a back seat. However,
during the summer holidays I always went to a dog
kennel or stable to earn some money for term time.
I worked one summer at a small Bernese Mountain
Dog kennel in Cambridgeshire. Another great passion
- horses, took me to Arab stables in Sweden and
a very happy nine month holiday in the Algarve in
Portugal working at a riding school and Lusitano
Stud Stables. It was during one of these summer
work experience holidays that I had the opportunity
to move to the South West of England and work with
a small Boxer kennel and Boxer rescue.
It was also around this time that another door
of opportunity opened for me when I wanted to rekindle
another passion. I had always loved the Great Dane
and as a child I used to walk for a neighbour their
two Great Danes females - a blue and a fawn with
my grandmother's Boxer. When I was living in Devon
I had the urge to buy one as a pet and I approached
Laurence Morgan-Evans of the Vanmore
Great Danes for a puppy at Crufts when his Ch.
Vanmore Hopelessly in Love won Best of Breed in
1996. That day a great friendship began and he and
his partner Bill have been my very best friends
ever since. At the time he offered me Ch. Clausentum
Tyson at Vanmore as a six month old puppy but as
I really wanted a bitch I turned him down, my loss
- he became joint Top Winning dog in 1998.
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In the years that I have known Laurence
I have found him to be an exceptional breeder. He keeps
to type, is never swayed by the latest fashion and winning
dog - quietly doing his own thing and breeding for type,
health and temperament and always coming out with beautiful
stock. I have been extremely lucky in that Laurence has
trusted me to handle many of his top winning Great Danes.
My first ever CC was won with Ch. Vanmore Hopelessly in
Love. I have won many CC's,
RCC's, Best Puppy's and Group Placings for Laurence
with such famous Danes as Ch. Vanmore Hopelessly in Love
and Pat Buttle's Ch. Vanmore Brilliant Disguise at Acuna
and her two daughters Ch. Vanmore Inca Legand from Acuna
and Vanmore Dream Maker (1 CC & BOB & 3 RCC's),
Ch. Vanmore Checkmate, Mickalou Here We Go Again at Vanmore,
Ch. Vanmore Fantastic, Ch. Clausentum Tyson at Vanmore,
Hotpoints Regal Blue Touch at Vanmore (Import Norway) and
Vanmore Bismark (pictured above as a puppy).
Just before Christmas 2004 my partner Mark Denman and I
recieved from Laurence the very beautiful Vanmore
In the Wings with Merribox.
Please enjoy my web site!
Michael Von Bruggenburg-Rothschild.
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