About Us
In 2005, my husband and I started research on the Lagotto breed.
Having owned, shown and bred Soft Coated Wheaten Terriers since 1993, we were interested in another breed that was medium sized with minimal shedding.
After about a year of study, we investigated various breeders around the world, studied photos on the internet, as well as pedigrees. We finally decided upon Kan Trace Kennels in Croatia and requested a show quality bitch from their next litter.
Adrina arrived at 8 weeks of age via cargo at Los Angeles airport (too hot for live cargo in Phoenix in May) in a crate with her litter sister, Augi who also lives in Arizona. Since that day we have been in love with the Lagotto.
Our second Lagotto, Merlino, is now living in Tucson with a great family and is their special dog.
We traveled to Italy in Fall 2007 and brought Vando home with us. Only 3 months
old, Vando rode in a little soft carry-on crate on that long flight from Italy to
Arizona and never cried out or mussed his crate. He only had a potty-break in Atlanta,
Georgia stop over. He is a lovable and sweet little guy who gets along with the rest of
our dogs who accepted him right away.
Ginevra is our newest Lagotto and very cute and sweet. She instantly worked her way into our hearts and the other dogs tolerate her very well. January 2010, Judith flew to Italy to pick her up.
At the beginning of 2007, several Lagotto owners decided to get together to form a
national breed club. The Lagotto Club of America's mission is to preserve and protect
this wonderful breed in the USA. We began taking memberships mid-2007 and hope that
everyone who has a Lagotto or hopes to have one will join us. Judith is the Founding President of LCA and now serves the Board as Past President and Membership Chair. She is also on the Health/Education Committee and is the designer of the club logo.
You can visit the LCA here (website).
More About Us
We have also owned, shown and bred Champion Soft Coated Wheatens Terriers since 1993 and our registration name for both Wheatens and Lagotti is Shivaree. Shivaree means "noisy
celebration" which describes our dogs quite well. We currently own one Wheaten (above), AKC Champion Andover Felicity CGC, "Lissi" who is now 10 years old and has retired to boss around our Lagotti. Lissi used to detest water and even being near water. After living
the past few years with water dogs, she now joins in daily dips in the kiddy pool we keep in the dog run. This photo of Lissi was taken over a year ago when she still hated the water. I was building our water garden and she walked all the way around the edge of the pond to come over to say hi and give me a kiss. To learn more about Wheaten Terriers go here:
http:// www.scwtca.org/
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