D u n h a m L a k e A u s t r a l i a n T e r r i e r s

A Year in Review

2014 has been a pivotal year for Dunham Lake Australian Terriers in so many ways, it’s hard to even know where to begin.

First and foremost, I want to thank God for his many blessings. We believe every-thing happens for a reason and according to His plan and we try our best to follow.

I thank my family, my

husband for his patience and grace to let me pursue my passion with two of our three amazing daughters who without his support we couldn’t do what we do.

Thank you to my daughters Lydia and Ellie, they are my partners in everything

related to our dogs. I couldn’t do it without them.

A Few Show Highlights

Our 2nd Aussie from our breeding won a Best in Show. He is the 2nd Red Australian Terrier to ever win a BIS

Our first bred by Aussie with her tail finished her Championship

Bred by/co-owned Aussie Scout main-tained the #1 Aussie in the USA All-Breed 3 years in a row

Awarded Excellent at the 2014 World Show in Finland

Best of Breed at Montgomery

Group 1 Win in the Owner/Handler Series

Best of Breed at Westminster

We have greatly enjoyed our dogs, traveling the world as well as cross-country with our RV visiting with old friends and making new ones.

I wrote an important article that was pub-lished in the Canine Chronicle entitled: A new Low in Sportsman-ship through Social Me-dia. Bullying and intimi-dation comes in many forms.

We have been busy with puppies as well!

Our (Private) Dunham Lake Family FB group has been an amazing and important part of our life. We are grateful to all our friends who support not only us but one another.

2014 A Pivotal Year Dunham Lake

Australian Terriers Highlights of 2014.

Over-view and Thank You!

1

BIS GCH Dunham Lake Unanimous Decision “Jake”

2

BOB Montgomery, BOB Westminster & Scout Retires

3

Snooza and Nova 4

Australian Imports and Natural Tails Update

5

Show News and Cham-pion Judy

6

Champions Mara and

Miles 7

2014 World Show Hel-sinki, Finland

8 & 9

Sparrow News 10

Puppies! 11

Our Pivotal Year 12

DECEMBER 2014

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On November 23rd at the Minneapolis Kennel Club Jake won his first Best in Show with his breeder/owner/handler 15 year old

Ellie Goiffon. This was our family’s second Best in Show dog and or 3rd BIS win for dogs we have bred and own or co-own.

Jake is only the 2nd red

Australian Terrier to ever win a BIS and the 17th Australian Terrier to Win a BIS.

Thank you to Group Judge Betsy Dale and Best in Show Judge Gloria Geringer for his

huge honor.

Thank you to Judge Candace

Jake with his breeder/

owner/handlers Lydia and

Ellie Goiffon

Jake #2 Australian Terrier in America All-Breed and Breed

Group 1 Owner/Handler Series

2014 Australian Terrier GCH Dunham Lake Unanimous Decision “Jake” Wins a Best in Show

Best of Breed at Hatboro under Swedish Judge Pia Lundgren

Best of Breed at Devon under Judge Connie

Clark

Breeder/owner/handled by:

Lydia Goiffon

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Gch. Dunham Lake Touched by an Angel "Gabby" was awarded by Judge David Kirkland Best of Breed at the 2014 Mont-gomery Terrier Show, we thank him greatly. She was shown as always by her breeder/owner/handler Ellie Goiffon. There were 26 Aus-tralian Terrier entered.

In 2013 her brother MBIS GCH Scoutmaster "Scout" was also awarded this honor, Best of Breed at Montgom-ery.GCH Dunham Lake Unanimous Decision "Jake"

shown by Lydia Goiffon breeder/owner/handler was also awarded Best of Breed two out of the four days and the days he did not win BOB, he received a Select award. At Devon under Judge Pia Lundberg from Sweden Jake was awarded BOB and Gabby also won Best of Opposite. Having just returned from the world show ourselves, we think Europe has some of the most beautiful Australian Terriers in the world. At Hatboro Jake won Best of Breed un-der American Judge Connie

Clark and Gabby won Best of Opposite. We can't thank these judges enough for these awards and their many positive comments regarding our Aussies and our breeding. We heard several times, our dogs illustrate the Austra-lian Terrier standard. Correct size, medium boned and good movement, to name a few. While we feel truly blessed with these amazing awards, we know there were many other nice Aussies represented at these shows.

2014 The Pennsylvania shows including the World’s Largest Terrier Show, Montgomery County

A few of our families… for updates email me and request to join our private FB group.

In 2014 Scout won Westminster, Montgomery and still holds the record for greatest number of Reserve Best in Show Australian Terrier. For the past 3 years has maintained his ranking of #1 Australian Terrier in Amer-

ica (All-Breed) many Group placements including two Best in Show wins!

A huge thank you to Dr. Tim and Jane Steinmetz (owners of Scout) for their dedication to show this amazing Aussie. He has made us so proud. Thank you to their daughter Jackie Johnson for handling Scout. Visit our

tribute to Scout video here.

MBIS #1 Australian Terrier in America (All-Breed)GCH Dunham Lake Scoutmaster “Scout” Retires

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Our dear friend Tina Nordgren came for a visit and brought us another treasure by the name of Snooza.

She is a beautiful red Aussie with so much to offer. Our small gene pool.

While she already has one major win, she is

not too inter-ested in the show ring at the moment. We will keep working with her, but she loves being here with us and our pack.

Thank you Tina for this

wonderful girl!

I brought Nova back with me to the US and she will stay with us forever. She fits out pack as if she was born here. Such a smart Aussie with a great temperament.

Also, her sire, is owned by another very dear friend of ours Chris Foskett from the UK, Ch. Wilfnbell Red Bondi “Tailer”. His father is Ch. Jaskarin Magic Number.

Thank you Sylvia for this special girl! Last July I was invited by

Nova’s breeder, Sylvia Knight to come and help her evaluate her litter of Australian Terri-ers. That was my mission, to travel to beautiful Nova Sco-tia, Canada and finally meet my dear friend Sylvia in per-son.

Well, I couldn’t resist this face and this spunky little Aussie, who was named Chestnut for obvious reasons her coat is the color of chestnut brown, just gorgeous.

I had a delightful visit

with Nova’s breeder and

my friend Sylvia Knight,

this past July in

Nova Scotia, Canada

Maybush Radiant Knight “Nova”

Nellyson’s Ava Good Weekend “Snooza”

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In October we added a new line to our breeding pro-

gram from the breeder Steph

Nicholson, Enomis Aussies. Three

beautiful Australian Terriers ar-rived from

Australia to Minnesota. We saw Australian Ter-riers from this line at the World Show in

Finland and knew some day we would like to have one as well. We

didn’t really plan on it so soon, but we are de-

lighted to have them here and

look forward to showing them and having them contribute

nicely to our gene pool here in the USA.

Annie is living and owned by Michael and Sandra, Rugby is owned by and living with Mac and Diana and Jack is living

and owned by Angie and Wal-ter. All are co-owned by us.

Thank you to Steph for this opportunity.

The Australian Terrier Club of America came out with a letter that was sent to all Judges. In summary, the Judges are to evaluate the “whole” dog and when

evaluating the natural tail it is considered a fault, as any other fault.

I found this a positive step forward, as it does give the Judges a better explanation.

“We will continue to breed

Australian Terrier’s in the USA,

leaving their body parts

unaltered.” We believe there are

many valid reasons not to dock.

“There are no reasons to do

something intentional to our

companions, that we know is not

in their best interest.”

Theresa MBIS

AKC Breeder of Merit

Update on Natural Tails

Enomis Aussie’s From Australia join DL

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We are so pleased with our upcoming show dogs… Emma (owned/handled by Mike and Sandra)

Parker (owned/handled by Russ and Nancy)

Scarlet (owned/handled by Chris)

Karla (owned by Debb)

Lucy and Bea (owned by Gerry and Donna)

Archer (owned/handled by Monica)

Nova (owned/handled by us)

Snooza (owned/handled by us)

Looking forward to sharing exciting news about these Aussies in 2015!

Ch. Dunham Lake Goodie Two Shoes “Judy” Owned by: Samantha and Nancy Van Buren

Handled by: Samantha Van Buren

Bred and Co-Owned by: Ellie and Theresa Goiffon

Show News

Judy with her owner/handler finished her AKC Championship

at 10 months of age.

We are very proud of this team and are excited to see what the future holds for

them.

Samantha has taught Judy over

140 tricks. Here is a list of a

few of those tricks:

Close the door

Pick up your toys

Weave

Walk like a Human

Pray

And of course all the traditional

obedience commands as well.

They are amazing!

2014 Dunham Lake Finished Champions Judy, Mara and Miles

Judy is our first bred-by Dunham Lake Australian Terrier shown with her natural tail. The Judges with few excep-tion have shown no bias either way with respect to a natural or docked tailed Australian Terrier.

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Ch. Dunham Lake Moon Dreams “Miles” Owned by: Luisa Bustamante

Handled by: Ellie Goiffon

Bred and Co-Owned by: Ellie and Theresa Goiffon

June 19, 20, 21 2014 Miles

enters the ring for the 2nd

time after 3 years! What a

miracle! Miles finishes his

AKC Championship under

well respected Judges, Elliott

Weiss. Ms. Clem McGowan

and Mr. Randy Garren.

Miles has an incredible story of

determination. Shortly after his

show career began he was in a

car accident. He was traveling in

his crate but the car he was

riding in was rear ended and his

front elbow was severely

damaged. He needed several

surgeries and much therapy to

even use this leg. After much

loving care and time he has made

a full recovery.

2014 Dunham Lake Finished Champions

Miles wins big!

Best Bred by Winner at the 2014 AKC Eukanuba National Dog Show. With

breeder/owner/handler

Ellie Goiffon

Thank you to his wonderful family Luisa Bustamante for doing everything for this boy.

Ch. Dunham Lake Celebration “Mara” Owned by: Wayne Harmon

Handled by: Ellie Goiffon

Bred and Co-Owned by: Ellie and Theresa Goiffon

Wayne is our very dear friend and mentor., we can’t thank him enough

for his continued support. Look for more show news from Mara

in the future.

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Australian Terriers Represented from the USA: GCH Dunham Lake Unanimous Decision “Jake”

GCH Dunham Lake Touched by an Angel Gabriella “Gabby”

CH Dunham Lake Good Two Shoes “Judy”

The 2014 World show in Helsinki Finland

Jake received an "Excellent" evaluation and of the 26 Champion Dogs that were entered, Jake and Lydia finished in the top 10

Australian Terrier dogs at the world show.

In August my daughter's Lydia and Ellie along with their dogs GCH Dunham Lake Unani-mous Decision "Jake" (#2 Aus-tralian Terrier in the US in Breed) and Bronze GCH Dunham Lake Gabriella Touched by an Angel "Gabby" participated in the World Dog Show in Helsinki Finland.

Our new Champion Dunham Lake Goody Two Shoes "Judy" and our friends and her owner's Samantha Van Buren and her mom Nancy also partici-pated in the event.

The feed-back from many judges and breeders world wide regarding our Australian Terriers was overwhelmingly positive. Our two females placed "Very Good" and our male, Jake placed "Excellent" and of the 26 Champion Dogs that were entered, Jake and Lydia finished in the top 10 Australian Terrier dogs at the world show.

We learned more about our breed, were able to spend a great deal of time studying other lines and meeting with top breeders and Judges from all over the world. It was not only an enjoyable trip but one of learning for us as well. The wonderful Australian Terrier folks from Finland we thank them all for their most gracious hospitality!

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A trip of a life-time spent with

great friends both from the US

and abroad. We will have

wonderful memories of this trip

or friends we traveled with, old

friends we met and new friends

we made, forever.

2014 World Show

Lydia, Tina, Ellie and Ida.

It was the most incredible show, with 21,000 dogs entered and only 70 dogs from the United States participating. We were the only US Australian Terriers represented.

Such fun with Katrina, Nancy, Sam, Tina, Ida, my girls, just to name a few.

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Sparrow News

I think Dianne could have taken him home with her if we would

have let her and I am sure Sparrow wouldn’t have objected

one bit. They were instant friends!

It was a very good year for Sparrow! He is doing well, enjoying life and went to a few dog shows to meet some of his favorite peo-ple.

We spent a weekend with our dear friend Dianne Wall where we all finally were able to meet in per-son! What a great time we had. Then as promised Jim Gersin gave Sparrow that belly rub.

We spent a bit more time this year visiting nursing homes and this lady is his favorite patient who is over 100.

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All our puppies are always pre-

promised before the breeding

even takes place. I have an on-

gong waiting list and I require

an application to be completed

for each person interested in one

of our puppies.

Puppies have arrived!

We planned and had 3 litters, a total of 18 puppies! All Healthy and Sassy. CH Nellyson’s Ava Good Weekend “Loretta”/MBIS GCH Dunham Lake Scoutmaster “Scout”

(owned by: Dr. Tim and Jane Steinmetz) 6 pups Born 10-22-14

CH Dunham Lake Take a Bow “Reba”/CH Wilfnbell Red Bondi “Tailer” (owned by Sylvia Knight)

5 pups Born 10-24-14 GCH Dunham Lake Touched by and Angel “Gabby”/Dunham Lake The Natural “Chase”

7 pups Born 11-09-14

All of these puppies have their forever homes. Not all know where they are going just yet.

Looking back at 2014 it was a year that began for many including our family, for various reasons, a year we wish could have done a “do over”. But as the year went on, it has become apparent to us, it is Dunham Lake’s most pivotal year.

We know who we are, we are confident and have strong convictions and moral ethics, that has never and will never change or waiver. Our direction is clear, to continue to produce healthy, good tem-pered quality Australian Terriers.

We are beyond words of gratitude for our many friends, supporters and fans. Thank you for your love, support and wisdom.

To be recognized with Breeding Multiple Best in Show dogs is a huge honor, and we are so grateful! But to be known among our peers and our puppy families, as the breeder that is always there for them, day or night, who only breeds healthy and sound Aussies, as a breeder, that is the highest honor of all.

God Bless.

Theresa Our open FB page is found here. If you would like to join our private group, please email me at Theresaagoiffon@msn.com

Our Pivotal Year...

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Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and a very Blessed New Year! Theresa A. Goiffon,

Multiple BIS Breeder and AKC Breeder of Merit