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Keith Etling
Kent, OH 44240
(330)256-7449

HANSELDOX' FOUNDATION

AS A CHILD MY ONE DESIRE WAS TO BE A VETERINARIAN. I SHOULD HAVE STUCK WITH THE VETERINARIAN DREAM. MY LOVE OF THE DACHSHUND BREED WAS IGNITED BY A MINI RED SMOOTH THAT CLAIMED MY GRANDPARENT'S AS "HERS" MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. EVERY MORNING AT 8 AM SHE WOULD BE SEEN MAKING THE TRIP DOWN THE OLD COUNTRY ROAD TO MY GRANDPARENT'S PORCH. AT 4PM, OFF SHE WOULD GO TO WHEREVER IT WAS SHE CAME FROM. SHE SPENT THE DAYS WITH MY GRANDPARENTS, STAYED ON THE PORCH AND CLAIMED IT HER HOME DURING THAT DAILY 8 HOUR SHIFT. MY GRANDMOTHER HAD HER OWN NAME FOR HER, PRINCESS, TAUGHT HER TRICKS, AND TREATED HER AS IF SHE WERE HER OWN. PRINCESS WOULD STAND GUARD OF HER KINGDOM AND THEN OFF SHE WOULD GO. IT WAS SEVERAL YEARS LATER THAT MY GRANDPARENT'S LEARNED PRINCESS ACTUALLY LIVED WITH HER FAMILY 2 MILES AWAY AND THEY HAD NO IDEA SHE WAS OFF AND "CHEATING ON THEM" WHILE THEY WERE AT WORK. WHEN PRINCESS BECAME OLD, ARTHRITIS EVENTUALLY STOPPED HER VISITS TO MY GRANDPARENTS, BUT SHE WAS NEVER FORGOTTEN. THUS IT IS WITH DACHSHUNDS AND THUS BEGAN MY LOVE OF THE BREED AND IT'S CHARACTER.

HANSEL

THE NAME HANSELDOX CAME AS A DEDICATION TO MY FIRST PET DACHSHUND. HANS SINCE HAS GONE ON TO THE RAINBOW BRIDGE. IT WAS AT THE TIME OF HIS LOSS THAT I DECIDED MY KENNEL NAME WOULD BE NAMED AFTER HIM. SINCE HE WAS A PET, HE NEVER SAW A SHOW RING, OR WAS USED FOR BREEDING. HE WAS A CONSTANT HUNTER. FEARLESS TO NO END. THE MOST LOYAL AND LOVING. HE OPENLY LOVED AND TRUSTED EVERYONE. AN IDEAL DACHSHUND TEMPERAMENT TO THE HIGHEST DEGREE. HE IS TRULY MISSED. ONE OF THE HANSELDOX GOALS IS TO PRODUCE TEMPERAMENTS EQUAL TO HIS AND TO THIS DAY HIS IS THE MEASURE USED HERE TO DETERMINE ACCEPTABLE TEMPERAMENTS.

HANSELDOX AS A SHOW HOME BEGAN WITH THE PURCHASE OF MY FIRST MINIATURE LONGHAIRED SHOW DOG, CH TAMLYN'S LITTLE DELORIAN ML

WHAT STEEL LACKED IN TYPE AND CONFORMATION, HE MADE UP IN SHOWMANSHIP AND THE STRENGTH OF WHAT COULD BE PULLED OUT OF THE PEDIGREE BEHIND HIM. HIS SHOWMANSHIP AND ATTITUDE WAS WHAT GOT ME HOOKED INTO SHOWING. STEEL CAME NEEDING HIS TWO MAJORS AND GOT THEM IN ONLY THREE SHOW WEEKENDS.

THAT FALL STEEL'S NIECE, CH TAMLYN'S CARELESS WHISPERS ML, CAME TO LIVE HERE, ALONG WITH CH TAMLYN'S TIGER LILLY ML.

CARA AT 5 YEARS OLD

CARA WAS SIRED BY CH WAGSMORE'S CAPTIVATING ML AND THAT ADDED THE SLEEPYTIME AND WAGSMORE LINES INTO THE MIX. CARA FINISHED WITHIN 4 1/2 MONTHS, SHOWN MINIMALLY AND MOSTLY OWNER HANDLED IN ALL BUT ONE WIN. AT HER FIRST SHOW SHE WAS RWB AT EXPO IN 2001. AGAIN, SHE HAD THE SHOWMANSHIP AND LIKE HER UNCLE, WOULD TRY TO JUMP INTO THE JUDGES ARMS DURING TEMPERAMENT TESTS. THOSE TEMPERAMENTS AND THE SHOWMANSHIP AGAIN DREW ME INTO SHOWING EVEN MORE.

TY WAS THE FIRST BRINDLE, LINE BRED ON CANTERBURY AND SIRED BY A CANTERBURY MALE. TY WAS THE SECOND FINISHED GIRL HERE AT HANSELDOX

WHILE CARA WAS GROWING, I HAD HEAVILY EVALUATED HER AND SOUGHT OUT THE THINGS I WANTED TO IMPROVE ON HER AND TRY TO CORRECT. I WATCHED CLOSELY FOR THE RIGHT MALE THAT SEEMED TO HAVE THE PACKAGE I NEEDED AND WHOSE TYPE AND LOOK I WOULD WANT MY FUTURE HERE TO RESEMBLE. I WATCHED, BUT NOTHING STOOD OUT AND CAUGHT MY EYE. THEN I SAW HIM DURING CARA'S FIRST SHOWS, AT NMDC MINIATURE EXPO IN 2001 AT CANFIELD, OH. I WATCHED AS THIS BEAUTIFUL BLACK AND TAN MALE GLIDED ALONG THE GRASS DURING THE BOV COMPETITION. THE JUDGE HAD THIS BEAUTIFUL MALE AND CH MIKLYN'S WINDJAMMER ML GO AROUND THE RING TOGETHER. AS I WATCHED THE BLACK AND TAN'S MOVEMENT, HOW HE HELD HIS PICTURE AND HIS OVERALL ELEGANCE, I KNEW HE WAS THE ONE FOR CARA, WITHOUT KNOWING A SINGLE THING ABOUT HIM. HE DID WIN THE BOV THAT DAY AT EXPO AT THE AGE OF 10 YEARS OLD AND HE TURNED OUT TO BE CH ORCHARDWOOD'S JEREMIAH ROM. I APPROACHED HIS OWNER, ALICIA RESCEK, AND ASKED FOR HIS PEDIGREE. LITTLE DID I KNOW THAT ALICIA WOULD EVENTUALLY BECOME ONE OF MY GREATEST FRIENDS IN THE DACHSHUND WORLD AND MY MENTOR. AFTER LOOKING AT THE PEDIGREE, THE BREEDING SEEMED TO FALL EVEN MORE INTO PLACE, AS IT MIXED THE SAME LINES THAT CARA WAS BASED ON. AFTER CARA FINISHED HER CHAMPIONSHIP, SHE WAS BRED TO JERRY. THE RESULT OF THAT LITTER WAS TO GIVE ME THE STRONGEST PART OF MY FOUNDATION AND THE BEST I HAVE PERSONALLY BRED TO DATE, CH HANSELDOX LITTLE JEREMIAH ML

CH HANSELDOX LITTLE JEREMIAH ML

JER WAS EXCITING TO BOTH WATCH GROW AND DEVELOP. AT THE AGE OF 5 WEEKS OLD, HE WOULD STOP IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FLOOR AND SELF STACK. I KNEW HE WAS THE "ONE" BEFORE THE EVALUATIONS WERE EVEN DONE AT 8 WEEKS OLD. OF COURSE AT THE 8 WEEK EVALUATIONS I HEARD THE LECTURE, "WHY DO YOU WANT TO KEEP A MALE, YOU DON'T NEED A MALE." NEEDLESS TO SAY, I ALREADY KNEW BETTER (IN THIS ONE INSTANCE) AND HE NEVER LET ME DOWN. HIS FIRST WEEKEND OUT HE WALKED AWAY WITH TWO 4 POINT MAJORS. HIS NEXT TIME IN THE RING, HE AGAIN WON A 4 POINT MAJOR. AT THAT POINT I DECIDED TO SHOW HIM AT ONLY DACHSHUND SPECIALTIES TO FINISH HIM. HE WON A 2 POINT SPECIALTY WIN AT THE WPDC SPECIALTY AS BOW AND A WEEK LATER FINISHED HIS CHAMPIONSHIP WITH A 5 POINT MAJOR AT THE NMDC MINIATURE ROUNDUP/LOUISVILLE DACHSHUND CLUB SPECIALTY IN 2003.

JER WAS TAKEN BACK TO A STEEL DAUGHTER (A BREED DOWN BITCH OUT OF A STANDARD MOTHER THAT WAS LINE BRED ON CH BOONDOX PANAMA JACK). THAT BREEDING GAVE ME TWO OF JER'S DAUGHTERS,

HANSELDOX FORTUNATE FATE ML

AND

WENLYN'S HANSELDOX OBSIDIAN ML (PICTURED AT 5 MONTHS OLD)

LATER CAME A JER SON FROM HANNELORE HELLER

HAN-JO'S WEE LAMPLIGHTER ML (PICTURE SOON TO COME)

IN 2003 AT THE DCA NATIONALS IN SYRACUSE, NY, TWO DOGS CAUGHT MY EYE RINGSIDE AS I WALKED THROUGH THE DOORS OF THE BALLROOM WHERE WE WERE SHOWING. THEY WERE AWAITING THEIR TURN TO ENTER THE RING. ONE HAD DEE HUTCHINSON ON THE OTHER END OF IT'S LEAD AND THE OTHER, KAREN KENNEDY. I WATCHED BOTH DOGS CLOSELY AND OBSERVED THEIR MOVEMENT AND TYPE IN THE RING. I ADMIRED THEIR SOLIDNESS. WHILE I KNEW THEY HAD TO BE RELATED, LATER I FOUND OUT THEY WERE FATHER AND SON, HEAVILY LINE BRED ON THE AUSTRALIAN GRAEDON LINE AND ROSE FARM. THE SON, CH TEKLHAUS NAWTYBOY V. ROSEFARM LATER CAME TO STAY WITH PATTI LITCHFIELD (PALDACHS), WHO FINISHED HIM TO HIS CHAMPIONSHIP. WHILE IN OHIO, I BRED CARA TO HIM. OUT OF THAT BREEDING I GOT:

HANSELDOX JOSHUA ML

MY OTHER FOUNDATION, TY, WAS LATER BRED TO BISS CH ORCHARDWOOD'S PALDACHS PDQ ML. THAT GAVE ME MY SECOND GENERATION BRINDLE.

HANSELDOX STRIPED JEWEL ML

AS TIME HAS GONE ON, I HAVE ADDED MORE ADDITIONS FROM BOTH MENTORS, KARYN DIONNE AND ALICIA RESCEK. ALL GIVING ME A SOLID FOUNDATION TO BUILD UPON HERE FOR THE FUTURE.

WAGSMORE'S VOGUE ML

WAGSMORE SINGULAR SENSATION ML

11 MONTHS

PALDACHS HANSELDOX LICORICE ML

11 months

ORCHARDWOOD PALDACHS TGIF ML

CONTACT INFORMATION:

HANSELDOX MINIATURE DACHSHUNDS
KEITH ETLING
KENT, OH 44240

(330)256-7449

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