Welcome to our website.

The West Highland White Terrier Club of Wales is one of the 5 official Westie clubs in the UK.   Our aim is to provide help and advice to Westie owners and to assist potential owners to find a suitable dog and help them care for their dog using the experience of our members.

We are passionate about Westies and for the health and wellbeing of the breed.

Our members live far and wide and are not all breeders or show folk.  As a Club we hope we are of interest to all types of Westie owners.

We run two Open Shows a year – one in April and one in October.  For our 2012 shows we have combined our shows with WELKS Ch Show and South Wales Kennel Association Ch Show.  We tried combining our show in this way in October last year with SWKA and it was a great success and we are delighted that they have agreed to let us run our show with them again.

We also run seminars occasionally and are looking for ideas for seminars that you would like to attend.  We welcome contact from our members and from Westie folk who would like to learn more about the breed.  If you have a request for a seminar or event, please contact our Hon. Secretary in the first instance – Jacky Ash by email: hillcloudwesties@btinternet.com or by phone: 01460 281528

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The West Highland White Terrier Club of Wales welcomes new members and you can find an application form on the Download Documents page.

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We have just heard that Christine Morton has had a wonderful trip to Ireland and her dog Havasu Hey Dude for Swifdon is now an Irish Champion.

Dude was bred by Mr Ken Crockett .

To become an Irish Champion it is necessary to win 7 Green Stars.   The results of his trip are:

04/07/2010 Irish Ladies Kennel Association All Breed Championship - Show Judge Mr S Carroll  - Green Star Dog
24/07/2010 Dundalk & District Canine Club All Breed Championship - Show Judge Mr D Anderson – Green Star Dog BOB & Group Winner
01/08/2010 Dun Laoghaire Canine Society All Breed Championship Show - Judge Ms B Mcovern – Green Star Dog
07/08/2010 Bangor & North Down Canine Club All Breed Championship –  Show Judge Mr R Wright  - Green Star Dog
17/03/2012 St Patrick’s Celtic Winner All Breed Championship Show - Judge Mrs A Taggart – Green Star Dog BOB & 2nd in Group
05/05/2012 Fermoy Canine Club International All Breed Championship –  Show Judge Mr K Kaemling - Green Star Dog BOB & C.A.C.I.B
06/05/2012 South Tipperary Canine Club All Breed Championship Show - Judge Mr J Pastor  -Green Star Dog

We are absolutely delighted for Chris and Ken and send you both our many congratulations.

FULL PICTURE COVERAGE NOW ON THE PHOTO GALLERY

FULL RESULTS NOW ON PAST EVENTS PAGE

OPEN SHOW REPORT – APRIL 2012

The second West Highland White Terrier Club of Wales Open show running immediately after a champ show has been held by kind permission of WELKS.

The Championship Show element proceeded after much speculation that we might have a replacement judge after hearing that Roger Wright was unable to take up his appointment to judge at National Terrier.

Roger duly arrived supported by a walking frame which he ably and quietly managed throughout without disturbing any of the dogs.  The results will be listed elsewhere but the top news must be that  Mrs. Noyce gained her first CC with her homebred Maxula Box of Tricks a 9 month old bitch puppy.  Many congratulations to her and her lovely puppy.

The weather was cold and blustery and we all hoped that our judge, Liz Cartledge would not be  held up as she was judging another breed on the day.

She duly arrived, complete with her wellies,and I believe without stopping for lunch

Some criticism had been heard that the committee had not chosen an up and coming judge to help them  achieve their quota of dogs.   However the decision to ask Liz Cartledge was no doubt the right one on the day.   Liz’s manner and personality shone through with a word for everyone and with her obvious delight at judging our Westies.

The committee thank everyone who managed to stay on to support the club and although 3 of our Welsh committee were unable to be there on the day for personal reasons,, we were extremely lucky to have our latest two committee members, Sheila Jenkins and Carol Lewis who pitched in and were worth their weight in gold, so a special thanks to them.

The running of an Open show following a Championship show seems to be the most economical way for the future.      The Open show element does lose a little of the “club” feeling and personality, which is missed ,   but we can all try to introduce some happening to make it remain a “family” show.

See you at Builth!

Heather Mealing

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