Update 9.11.07

I have finally  got around to getting our web page working again after some long periods of illness and some excellent holidays! For those of you who thought we might be moving, well so did we but the property market in such that we are still here and now (finally) building Tim's shed. We have had some sad times losing some of our older and first bred tollers including most of the "Kitchen" litter. It does not seem that long ago since we were invaded by our first toller Halifax who has also passed on now. This January saw the loss of Splash who drowned in the dam probably from a heart attack and Tim spent many a lonely moment in his downstairs office until Meg arrived from Aprilraine kennels to cheer him up and keep him lively. As most Toller babies she has eaten through extensive amounts of wiring and tries to scream him out of having to be put in the crate at night! She is often found eating Blue's nose, pulling on Pyros ear or racing Red flat out up and down the hallway using various acrobatic movements to get from piece of furniture over Red's head and then run away. We hope she will settle soon but as Tim is training her and as he is very soft we may always have a 'wild one' here!

On the Toller front the interest from all over Australia for puppies is now very high but unfortunately there are few litters around with most breeders only doing 1 litter a year. It is however a disease like potato chips, you can't have just one, so many puppies are going to be siblings to an older Toller. We have had several comments from judges over the past 2 years that our Australian Tollers are of good quality and uniform in their breeding. Of course we still have some of the lesser good looking ones but it is encouraging to see that as a small group of breeders we are mostly 'getting it right' and breeding true to type.

Sadly we lost Daisy - Aust Ch. Kirchoff Western Star on November 16th. She was very well up to 2 days before she died and Emma was with her at the end. She had trained Emma to show her and been a mainstay at Junior handlers before being desexed. Her main claim to fame was retrieving Emma's pet duck from the dam still alive tho very soggy. Unfortunately the duck died of shock but Daisy was very pleased to be giving Emma such a wonderful present! We will miss her and her antics. She was one of the first litter of Tollers born at Kirchoff so her passing is almost the end of an era for us.

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