About Us
Tullyheron Irish Bichons started 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 I would like to attempt to breed these happy go lucky little dogs and acquired a bitch from Linda Robinson Eithlynn Zandra (Bonnie), 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 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 acquired 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 when she won the toy group and reserve best in show is Tullyheron Lily Langtree, Kissy's daughter. My next showdog was Tullyheron Baby Love (Phoebe) who is only two green stars from being a champion,, her daughter Daisy is being shown at the moment and her results can be seen on the results page, I have also aquired a beautiful bitch puppy Tullyheron Precious Gift (Poppy) at her first show she won Best Puppy and reserve best puppy in Show this was at the Belfast Open Show in. My latest showdog is Dylan ,this boy is quite a character as is his mum Roseleigh she is Leewards/Tullyheron,and was bred by Mrs I Drennan. I bought her back and his dad is of American/English breeding and he and I hope to have some fun this year, last year he was shown by June Gould who owns his dad and won almost all of the puppies classes he was entered into. Winning puppy dog at the Belfast Dog Show he qualified for Crufts and is going to be shown by June this year.