My NMSTC-interview, with Maren Bichel-Schnock

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For tredje år på rad har Nellie Taylor (Wildermist) bedt meg om å lage et intervju med en kjent skotteoppdretter til klubbens (North Midlands Scottish Terrier Club) årbok. I år ble det Maren Bichel-Schnock (Sir Darnley´s) sin tur. Hele intervjuet publiseres i årboka senere i høst, men her kommer en liten forsmak.

Peter: Ser du noen nye trender i skotteverden som du enten liker eller misliker? 
Maren: For øyeblikket misliker jeg mer enn jeg liker, er jeg redd. Jeg føler at vi er i ferd med å miste de store personlighetene og de virkelige skotteoppdretterene. De menneskene med stort engasjement, som vil satse på utviklingen av rasen vår.

Jeg elsker utstillinger. For meg er dette den beste muligheten til å sammenligne mine egne hunder med andres og å se utviklingen i rasen. I dag virker det noen ganger som om en spektakulær presentasjon er viktigere enn kvalitet og korrekt rasetype. (...)

 

For the third consecutive year, Nellie Taylor (Wildermist), has asked me to make ​​an interview with a prominent Scottie breeder for her club's (North Midlands) journal. This year was Maren Bichel-Schnock (Sir Darnley's) turn. The whole interview will be published in the journal this autumn, here is a little teaser for you:

Peter: Do you see any new trends in the Scottie world that you either like, or dislike?

Maren: At the moment there is more that I dislike, I’m afraid. I feel that we are running out of the real Scottish Terrier breeder personalities. Those people who live for the breed, with commitment to the development of our breed. 

I love dog shows. For me they are the best possibility to compare my own dogs with others and also to see the development of the breed. Nowadays sometimes a spectacular presentation seems to be more important than quality and correct breed type. (...)

READ THE REST OF THE INTERVIEW IN THE JOURNAL - SOMETHING FOR ALL CLUB MEMBERS TO LOOK FORWARD TO!

Photo: Sir Darnley's Olivia Offbeat Obsession (Ch. From Dash Mountain Farm's Merlin x Ch. Darnley's Kiss-Curl Kylie) winning Female Veteran Class, at the German Scottie Special this year. Judge was Geoff Dawson (USA).

Vintage Scottie Thermometer

I promised you a photo of this vintage piece a few weeks ago. How time flies.

I found this unique old thermometer in an antique shop in Sweden when I was on holiday there a few weeks ago. Interestingly it´s both in the Celcius- and the Rankine scale. At least I think it´s the Rankine - it could also be the Römer- or Réaumur scale.

Rankine is a thermodynamic temperature scale named after the Glasgow University engineer and physicist William John Macquorn Rankine, who proposed it in 1859.

The symbol for degrees Rankine is °R. Zero on both the Kelvin and Rankine scales is absolute zero, but the Rankine degree is defined as equal to one degree Fahrenheit, rather than the one degree Celsius used by the Kelvin scale. A temperature of −459.67 °F is exactly equal to 0 °R.

Complicated, huh?

Rankine source: Wikipedia

Unity - BIS in Germany

At the yearly Scottie Special in Germany, on Saturday the 22.07, judge Geoff Dawson (USA) made Sir Darnley's Uncut Unity Best In Show out of 34 entries. Best male was Mrs. Betty Smit Kamerbeek´s Lucia's Dream Stevie Wonderful.

Sir Darnley's Uncut Unity is one of two litter sisters to my young boy Hamish (Sir Darnley´s Undercover Urchin). They are out of Sir Darnley´s Rambling Ruby. The Swedish bred Dundee So Classic (Christina Hüttner) sired this litter.

Well done, Maren, and many congratulations from Unity´s brother Hamish in Norway!

Test driving the convertible

Top photo: 

Left to right; HAMISH (Sir Darnley´s Undercover Urchin), TRAVIS (Dundee Obedient Waggler), HUDSON (Dundee Dark Forest), AGNES (Talter Tickled Pink) and LULU (Pocket´s Rocket).
Second photo: 

Left to right; TRAVIS, AGNES and LULU

Third photo: 

Enjoying himself tremendously; HAMISH

Bottom photo: Same as top

Norway´s next top models? They all behaved excellently for their photo shoot, especially considering that Agnes is on her tenth day of her first heat - timed precisely for the holiday in Sweden :-)


PS! Stay posted for my next blog, - another great vintage find!

Ruby BOB & CACIB in France!

My young boy Hamish´s wonderful mother, Ch. Sir Darnley's Rambling Ruby, pulls out the stops again! At the "Championnat de France 2012" in Metz, France, judge Ole Staunskjaer (DK) made her (left in photo) CAC, CACIB and BOB out of 40 Scotties that were entered.

Ch. Sir Darnley's Qubic Q (right) was CAC, CACIB and BOS.

Martine Diederich (left) handled Ruby for best of breed. Breeder Maren Bichel-Schnock with Q on the right.

Congratulations, Maren!

Photo: Tom Diederich

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Show biz and dog biz

"Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down" 

This is a Jimmy Durante quote that refers to life in show business in Hollywood. I think it´s a good guide line for all walks in life, also in the dog world. Success and fame are fickle things which seldom last for ever. Please remember.

Jimmy Durante (1893-1980) was an American singer, pianist, comedian and actor. He was one of America's most familiar and popular personalities of the 1920s through the 1970s.