Littlehill Flatcoats - Our Story
I HAVE BRED PEDIGREE CHOCOLATE LABRADOR RETRIEVER DOGS FOR MANY YEARS AND AROUND FIVE YEARS AGO WE LOOKED INTO THE POSSIBILITY OF OWNING AND BREEDING FLAT COAT RETRIEVERS. THIS MAY SOUND A SIMPLE THING TO DO BUT AS WE STARTED APPROACHING BREEDERS WE BEGAN TO REALISE VERY QUICKLY THAT A LOT OF FLAT COAT BREEDERS WERE NOT THE EASIEST OF PEOPLE TO DEAL WITH. THEIR ATTITUDE WAS VERY MUCH THAT THEY HAVE THE RIGHT TO BREED FLAT COATS BUT NO ONE ELSE SHOULD. WE FOUND THE ATTITUDE OF SOME BREEDERS WAS VERY RUDE BUT THEN WE WERE LUCKY ENOUGH TO GO TO SOME BREEDERS WHO WERE MOST HELPFUL AND PLEASANT AND ONLY TO HAPPY TO HELP.
WHEN WE STARTED LOOKING IN EARNEST WE WERE FORTUNATE TO GET IN TOUCH WITH PETER AND AUDREY FORSTER IN STAFFORDSHIRE FROM THE FAMOUS WIZARDWOOD KENNELS AND ALTHOUGH THEY DIDN’T HAVE ANY PUPPIES AT THAT TIME THEY DID HAVE A LOVELY 6 MONTH OLD MALE PUPPY THAT HAD BEEN BOOKED BUT DUE TO A SLIGHT ACCIDENT HAD HAD TO STAY WITH THEM. PETER FORSTER IS A VET AND WAS TREATING ‘TAFFY’ POSH NAME WIZARDWOOD TAWNY TAFFRAIL AN BY THE TIME HIS TREATMENT WAS OVER THE ORIGINAL OWNERS DECIDED THAT THEY DIDN’T WANT HIM SO HE WAS OFFERED TO US. I DROVE 350 MILES INTO THE LAKE DISTRICT AND PETER AND AUDREY FORSTER MET ME THERE. I LOVED TAFFY FROM THE MOMENT I SAW HIM AND AFTER THE FORSTERS HAD DECIDED THAT THEY WERE HAPPY I HAD HIM HE WAS BROUGHT BACK TO OUR FARM IN ABERDEENSHIRE.
TAFFY HAS BEEN A MAJOR PART OF OUR LIVES SINCE THEN. HE IS A LOVELY LIVER DOG, HE HAS THE MOST WONDERFUL TEMPERAMENT AND IS FAITHFUL AND LOYAL, A VERY SPECIAL DOG INDEED.
OUR FIRST BITCH WAS BOUGHT IN THE BORDERS, HER NAME IS ABBIE – DALDARROCH HEATHER ROSALIE, A STUNNING BIG FLAT COAT, TRUE TO TYPE BOTH IN CONFIRMATION AND NATURE. WE MET HER MOTHER AND HER GRANDMOTHER – WHAT A TREAT, THEY WERE BEAUTIFUL DOGS.
SINCE BUYING TAFFY AND ABBIE WE HAVE BOUGHT AN IRISH BRED BITCH PRINCESTAR FAERY SONG OF LITTLEHILL, BRED IN IRELAND BY A.J.FINN.
WE WAITED TWO YEARS FOR A BLACK BITCH PUPPY, THAT CARRIED THE LIVER GENE, FROM THE BELSUD KENNELS IN THE SOUTH OF ENGLAND AND THREE YEARS AGO INDIA CAME TO US. SINCE SHE CAME SHE HAS HAD THE MOST ANNOYING HABIT OF SPINNING AROUND, ALWAYS THE SAME WAY, SHE STILL DOES IT TO THIS DAY AND WHEN WE HAD HER HIP SCORED THE LEG ON WHICH SHE SPINS IS OUTWITH THE AVERAGE FOR THE FLAT COAT BREED. HAS ANY OTHER BREEDER COME ACROSS THIS?
IN APRIL LAST YEAR WE BOUGHT BACK TWO GRANDCHILDREN OF TAFFY AND ABBIE FROM OUR DAUGHTER IN CHESHIRE, ONE LIVER AND ONE BLACK, LOVELY YOUNG DOGS. MEGAN AND MISTY – DUBHBRUJA NIOBE AND DUBHBRUJA MYSTIQUE.
OVER THE LAST FEW YEARS WE HAVE MET MANY NICE PEOPLE WHO HAVE BOUGHT OUR PUPPIES, .WE ARE EXTREMELY PROUD OF THE PUPPIES THAT WE BREED. WE KEEP IN TOUCH WITH MANY OF THESE PEOPLE AND THEY HAVE ALL BECOME GREAT FLAT COAT ENTHUSIASTS WHO TAKE GREAT PLEASURE AND PRIDE IN OWNING SUCH WONDERFUL DOGS.
WE ARE KENNEL CLUB ACCREDITED BREEDERS WHO GIVE A FULL GUARANTEE WITH EVERY PUPPY THAT WE SELL. THIS IS PART OF OUR BUSINESS BUT WE CARE VERY MUCH ABOUT OUR DOGS AND THE PEOPLE THAT BUY THEM.