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About Tullyheron Bichons

Tullyheron Irish Bichons started 24 years ago, when I fell in love with a beautiful little Bichon puppy called Lucky when visiting Tommy and Erin, friends who had just acquired him. My daughter was given a puppy dog, by Tommy for her fifth birthday a few months later,  we called him Cheeko.   He is still talked about with great love and affection by everyone who knew him because he was quite a character, sadly he died when he was 13 of a heart attack.

I decided after four years I would like to attempt to breed these happy go lucky little dogs and acquired a bitch from Linda Robinson Eithlynn Zandra (Bonnie) in 1988, she was a litter sister to English Irish, Champion Eithlynn Zsa Zsa, I bred her to Pat Kerry’s Dog Spelga Timbit in 1990, and she had seven puppies. Being new to breeding I kept these puppies until they were 11 weeks old and enjoyed every minute of having them, as did the children, we have many photographs  of our very first litter.

Unfortunately I did not keep any of these beautiful puppies, however I decided to Breed Bonnie again and I kept a bitch Tullyheron Fidelite Amour (Twink).

The children and I decided we would like to show her and so we started entering local open shows, she was great for learning with because of her lovely temperament I bred her and acquired Tullyheron Charis Amour (Penny) my first Irish Champion, she was quite a character small and compact, on taking her to Cruft’s when she was only out of Junior, she was third in her class. Penny died Sept 2007 age 15

Two years later I kept another bitch, Tullyheron Kiss of Love, (Kissy), she started winning with a bang, at 13 months she won her first Green Star at the St Patrick’s Day show, her movement was fantastic, she just loved showing herself off.  Kissy was the Irish Annual Champion two years in a row, and also won a Challenge Certificate at the Belfast Dog Show.

My last champion finished at Tipperary 2003 when she won the toy group and reserve best in show is Tullyheron Lily Langtree, Kissy's daughter. On breeding her October 2004 from her litter of five pups she produced a beautiful bitch puppy Tullyheron Baby Love (Phoebe) who is only two green stars from being a champion,, her daugter Daisy is being shown at the moment and her results can be seen on the Show results page, from a litter born in March, 2007,I have kept a beautiful puppy Tullyheron Precious Gift (Poppy) at her first show she won Best Puppy and resrve best puppy in Show this was at the Belfast Open Show in April 2008.