Welcome to our world
Our names are Karen Firlotte, and Kelly Reilly. We have been friends for many years, Karen living in St. Stephen New Brunswick, and Kelly living about 20 minutes away in Calais Maine. Living so close together has given us the opportunity to work together with our Miniature Australian Shepherds since 1997 and explore the world of pure bred dogs.
In 2004, after attending many dog shows and spending hours and hours of research we became interested in the Long Coat Chihuahua!! We wanted something small enough that transport would be easy to take to dog shows, they would be wonderful companions, have minimal health issues, and could still do many of the things that our Aussie could do!! These little ones fit the bill!. They have proved to be all that we wanted to add to our dog world and more. The other thing that we did discover is that the smooth coat Chihuahua also has all those attributes as well.
And so our story begins
The first Chihuahua to come into our lives was Shinybrooks Just for Kix, better known as Kix, Mr, and other things that are not all that fancy. Kix was bred by long time breeder Nancy Shonbeck from New Hampshire. We are very thankful to Nancy for the opportunity to own Kix as he was the first Chihuahua that we have finished a Canadian Championship on, and he is also my husbands very best couch buddy in the evening. Something every man needs. Kix came home to live with me, Karen, in May of 2006. He went to work with me everyday for the first few months, and when we would go down town, people would call out to him, having met him at my work. He became a very popular little boy.
Later that year we started his show training and career. He took his first points in November at the Moncton Kennel club show. From there we continued on and by the end of 2007 Kix had made us all really proud as he had finished his Championship and proven to us that he was all that we had expected him to be.
Later that first year we realized that we would need to start researching for our first female so we could put our Chihuahua breeding program to the for front.
We contacted many breeders and finally found what we wanted out of Lori Edmons Kennel in Alberta. Lori was very busy at the time with a new job, and so she entrusted me with a beautiful little smooth coat female that she felt was worthy of helping me get started in the right direction. Her name is
Lalynns Carman
and she has become a beloved family member as well as the dam to our first home bred litter in 2007.
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This is now Ch. Firlottes Washville Star This is now CKC pointed Sidekicks Canadian Idol, soon to be the dam of our first home bred litter!!
This is Dallas This is paco This is Mika
SO THIS WAS THE BEGINNING AND NOW WE MOVE ON
