We live on 60
acres of beautiful, Adelaide Hills land on Paris Creek Road at Meadows, South Australia.
This
we share with
4 Ridgebacks, 2 Jack Russell Terriers as well as a herd of pedigree Salers
cows.
We first found out
about RRs in 1975 when a friend of Rob's showed him his lovely RR
puppy bought from the West. We were at the time looking at Dobermans, Weimaraners or
Dalmatians, but Rob was immediately taken by this special breed.
Tembu our first RR
arrived at the airport from Trezridge
Kennels in Western Australia. That was in January 1976, and we've obviously
been blessed with many more since.
Places have
been visited and many friends made all through the hobby of showing our RRs and we are
proud to say that all our current RRs are homebred and or off our stock!
Di is
a
licensed ANKC judge for Group 1 (Toys), Group 2 (Terriers), Group 3
(Gundogs) and Group 4 (Hounds).
We feed our dogs
exclusively on the BARF (bones and raw food diet) and use no commercially prepared
products at all. Our reference for this diet Dr
Billinghurst's book "Give Your Dog a Bone".
Due
to lifestyle changes we shall not be breeding Rhodesian Ridgebacks any
more, but we are currently showing a young male, Walker, who is
doing extremely well in the show ring.