Winter - The Deerhound Club

NEWS FROM SWITZERLAND
Hello
Summer is over now. But what a summer!
Sometimes dogs and exhibitors had to suffer
under the unusual heat but on the other hand it
was a real
summer.
3 Deerhound litters were born this year
12.03 : Kennel Fortheringhay's 416 puppies
were born sired by Fritzen's Highland Ghillie out
of Mathilda von der OelmUhle
23 05.: Kennel From Highlanders Yard 1/0
puppy sired by Demian from Highlanders Yard
out of Esprit from Highlanders Yard
17.06.. Kennel Fiadhaich: 6/2 puppies sired by
Lehigh Yanker the Deerhunter out of Clachtoll
Quara.
There were several CC Shows held which
mostly had a good entry. But it was not only at
the shows that Deerhounds were well represented, a good number did also
compete at the lure-coursings. Between 10 and 16 Deerhounds were always
entered what shows that here Deerhound owners are very interested to let
ftt.hf rbrt rr'.tr, one Deerhound male was dominating the coursing scene not
rtrtf r.rr ,rr iiwrtzerland. That was Shadrach, an Australian import from the
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{fdtrr{O.rx) trred by Virginia Hawke and owned by Esther Buhler He had alntaf
.r),r .,cveral imporiant working titles like for example the International
'rrrr,r.f'11 (:lrirrnpion and French Working Champion But this Spring, in the
,r{{r ,rf M.ry, he had a terrible accident Running free on a walk he was hit by
e ,{r' r:l rlot seriously injured. Just in time his owner could bring him to a vet
r. r.r. ,rrrrr froftr bleeding to death. Besides other wounds one shoulder and
r,rri. rt, wr:re open and 2 muscles were torn They operated 4 hours on him to
rr.r,r o,r(t r:lose the deep flesh wounds and to stitch the torn muscles. Luckily,
r.. t*rx' w.rs fractured, 3 further operations followed, the last one a month after
lN l..rlr,rrt, €rtd nobody could believe, that he would ever recover again. But
,'r ,r,et I lrs will to live was unbroken. His owner says, he never lost his appetite
*,r,r oltrrr ir week he wanted to go out for short walks. Two times a day he
* q,rt w,rlk for 10 minutes. After one month he would walk 20 minutes, twice a
hrr tt. was treated rruith a magnetic field therapy and a physiotherapist helped
' .r',, 6 ll rt to get back tlie full mobility of the shoulder and front leg. Then, 2
,,.,,r,1f 1,, ;rfter the fatal accident, he was allowed for the first time to run free. His
*.,or .,1;rrted now to train him with the bicycle, to put up condition and after
irir', .' rrronths he was able to run 280 m on the racing track!What a miracle!
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he was second
,rr r,q11 Olub Coursing, a 700
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