Emma’s Mommy, Ch BoBac First Light, wins 3rd place as Veteran Girl Hound at 2009 Nationals!
Howllo Fellow Basset Hound and Girl Hound Lovers. I totally forgot to do a blog posting about Emma’s Mommy, who came in 3rd place as Veteran Girl Hound, 7 years and older. Of course the club and all clubs use the word %itch, which I hate. I wish they would change that. It is so derogatory. Anyway, here is her picture!
80 Ch BoBac First Light CDX. HM 95802907. 05-29-01. Breeder: Richard & Sharon Nance. By Ch Birnam’s One Mo’ Thyme Magumn – Ch BoBac Domino Effect Of HobHl CD. Owner: Susan Warren & Sharon Nance.
This is our dear Emma’s Mommy! I am so thrilled that she did not come down with glaucoma like Emma and others in Dawn’s litters. I understand that she is now living with Susan Warren. First light is also know as “Dawn”. That is why I named our Emma after her!
EARLY MORNING MISTY AIR! Good going Mommy!
Love Emma, who can see you through her memory!
More about family later….Love, Cat, Chaps and Emma
Comments(5)
They are both soooo beautiful, but I think Emma has a touch of glamour!
Yes, I agree, Emma is more beautiful and a very special girl. I wonder how old her Mom is?
Cindy – Emma just turned 5 so I would think that Dawn is about 7. I know that she had 2 litters and maybe 3. Dawn is extremely intelligent. She could open all of the runs and let all of the hounds out. Sharon had to get extra locks so she could not reach them. I think Sharon placed Dawn last year. Sharon only keeps hounds for as long as they are showing or breeding and then she re-homes them.
Cat
7 isn’t old! Well, to me it isn’t. Emma must have been her first litter, I hope! I just can’t imagine showing dogs and being in that business then rehoming them. I mean, I’ve fostered dogs and rehomed but it’s so very hard. I’m not so sure that I’ll go back to fostering. I’ll probably just adopt older dogs and keep them.
Cindy – The Nances start breeding the girls as soon as possible. Emma was in Dawn’s first litter. You would think that after Sharon saw Emma’s abnormal eye report she would have held back on breeding Dawn again, but she did not. She made the horrible decision to go forward with another breeding with the same male – Titan. In my opinion this was totally reckless.
BoBac Bassets is huge! They expanded their business after Emma was born. All of the hounds, as many as 50 or more, are kept in a pound type environment. Each one with a run and a doggie door. The Nances never get too attached to any one hound because they have so many. It is like a revolving door. I feel sorry for the hounds that have to live like that for the first parts of their life while the Nances try to put a title on them. I remember Emma’s sister was pick of the litter. Sharon called her Dawn Jr. Apparently she did not do well in her first couple of shows and whamo – she was outta there.
This was a part of the business that really disturbed me. Sharon knew that Emma had abnormal bilateral drainage angles and choose her to sell to me. She never told me that Emma was not healthy. She kept Dawn Jr. for herself, but when she did not perform to her liking she quickly got rid of her. You can see where these are not hounds that are cherished they are part of her business and if you are not helping the bottom line you are moved out.
I am waiting for the day that Sharon keeps a hound that has glaucoma. She has plenty of chances, but she never goes that route. She sells those hounds to the unsuspecting and then lies about her knowledge of what happened.
I am actually pretty angry that Dawn was picked as 3rd in the Veterans class for the 2009 Nationals. How can you award a girl hound’s breeders for spreading glaucoma and not warning folks after they knew what had happened. I have said it before, and I will say it again, I told the Nances that they had glaucoma in their line and they accused me of lying. I even sent them Emma’s medical records. Sharon acquiesced and paid some of Emma’s exorbitant heath care costs but it was a drop in the bucket.
It appears that they were forced to come forward recently with their prior knowledge of glaucoma.
I would be thrilled if someone would explain how the BHCA can award a breeding girl hound that carries the glaucoma gene with a 3rd place win in best veteran? That makes absolutely no sense to me. How can bad behavior be rewarded?
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