CH. Chelsea Charidan Carte Blanc, HIC, ROM Betsy at 3 months DAM of 7 ROUGH CHAMPIONS! (1997- 2011) OFA Good #CO-1784G24F-T Normal Thyroid Through OFA Registry---CO-TH12/21f DNA Profile # V40013 Normal/Non-carrier for Canine Cyclic Neutropenia Rod-Cone Dysplasia Type 2 (PRA) - normal non-carrier
The story of Betsy and how I came to acquire her..............
While judging a puppy match in the summer of 1997, I fell in love with a beautiful 10 week old tricolor puppy, bred & shown by Dante EG Fangon of Charidan Collies. She would have gone 'Best In Match' but she was hating the sun and heat and was not behaving very well! Following the match, I couldn't stop thinking about her….. Normally puppies like this are not for sale, but as luck would have it, she was mine 3 weeks following the match!!! It's amazing how this worked out as several other breeders turned her down. Their loss was ultimately my good fortune!
The breeder, Dante Fangon is Filipino. As is their custom, when company arrives, they make sure there is plenty of food. When I went to pick up Betsy, he had a virtual feast waiting. The food was absolutely delicious but I just wanted to get on the road before he changed his mind about selling her!! She was even more beautiful than she was at the puppy match and I couldn't believe he was letting this puppy go! Most breeders would never have sold her!
I had been wanting to incorporate something a little different, yet similar, into my breeding program. As it turned out, what a fortuitous move! She fit right in here and exceeded all expectations!!!
By the age of 2½ Betsy finished her championship with four majors, all owner handled. By the age of three she passed her HIC! However, the true reason I had wanted her was to incorporate her into my small family of Collies. She was bred to her best buddy "Bailee" (Ch. Chelsea The Crown Prince) and whelped her first litter in August 2000. She proved to be a free and easy whelper and an absolutely fabulous mother! It was one of those events where one just sits back and relaxes! From that litter of six puppies, four went to show homes and all four finished their championships! They are: Ch. Chelsea The Crown Jewel, HIC, Ch. Chelsea Elegan Crown Princess, HIC, Ch. Chelsea T' Crown Heir of Squire, HIC, and Ch. Chelsea T' Crown Regent of Squire, HIC. Click HERE to see their pictures!
In 2001 I repeated the breeding and Betsy whelped a litter of 9 in June (on Friday the 13th!). Three of those puppies ended up being shown and again all three finished! One of my all-time favorites, Ch. Chelsea Summer Blonde, HIC finished her championship at 16 months, with 4 majors and multiple Sweeps wins. Three majors were won from the puppy classes and she was owner handled all the way! Another bitch, Ch. Chelsea Elegan Crowning Glory HIC, went to Janet Hitt and finished her championship with 3 majors. The third sister (owned by us), Ch. Chelsea Sunshine Girl, HIC, finished her championship in the Fall of 2007 with 3 specialty majors, all owner handled!! With SEVEN champions to her credit, Betsy qualifies for the coveted "Register of Merit" title awarded by the Collie Club of America.
All of Betsy's champions are rough-coated and all have won at large specialties under respected longtime Collie breeder judges! Plus….more than pretty faces, all passed their HIC tests with flying colors!
Currently we have daughters, grand daughters, great grand kids and most recently great, great grand kids.
Continuing into the next generation, Betsy's granddaughters, Ch. Chelsea Midsummer Classic finished her championship in 2006 and Ch. Chelsea CoCo Chanel completed her championship in 2008 with four specialty majors! Her grandson Ch. Chelsea Major Obsession just completed his championship (March 2010) with a four point specialty major! Recently Betsy became a 3X great great grandmother!!
Sired by Arcadia's Red October ex Countryview Charidan Isolde Bred by Dante EG Fangon of Charidan Collies
