Wow, our new calendar is now available. This is the second year running that there is now an Australian based Portuguese Water Dog calendar. All dogs featured were bred in Australia! There is no other pwd calendar like this in the world. Just click on the picture above to order, or click here! It's selling like hotcakes! Just come and meet the Bluegrace family.
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The Home of Bluegrace
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Bluegrace PWD's was started nearly 10 years ago. Although started by Jane Anderson, Bluegrace is now recognised as being the work of a group of people dedicated to the promotion of this breed, and to the helping to breed excellent quality dogs. Working together, this large group of people provide generous time commitment to breed education, financial input, and time into a range of activities including grooming, puppy evaluation, health research, temperament building, etc, because they are dedicated to this wonderful "hobby", or better still, ensuring the long term healthy survival of the portuguese water dog. We work mentoring new people to the breed, assisting those who want to learn how to show, and we've had great personal results to this end. A labour of love, the Portuguese Water Dog is worth our efforts.
- Provide an excellent home to our PWD's
- Liaise with others who have interests in the breed
- Import PWD's of a top rate standard from the best lines
- To show our PWD's in the conformation ring
- Breed healthy PWD's that meet the standard
- Promote health as an important issue for all dogs
- Produce quality family dogs
Jane is Australia's first specialist licenced Portuguese Water Dog judge.
Our dogs are the top winning PWD's under specialist judges in this country. This is due to the efforts of a large number of people including:
A big thanks to the Bluegrace Crew which includes Sally, Anabela, Gayle, Lynne, Linda, Alison, Gerry,, Chris, Kirsty, Darren, Teresa, Royce, Mike, "Sausage", Michelle, Kelly, Elaine, and the many other supporters and volunteers who have all contributed to our success. And although difficult at times, involving considerable work and effort, the intrinsic rewards make it all worth while. Some of our crew are pictured here at left! Jane now spends a large percentage of her time involved in the dog judging scene.
My advice to any of you starting out with dogs - get together a group of fabulous people like we have at Bluegrace, and work together without ego, pooling your resources to get the most out of what little you have.
The planning period was essential to ensure that the complexity of the PWD issues were well understood, and that a solid foundation was gained in understand type, temperament, and health issues. Of course, this learning will continue.
There are now approximately 200 Portuguese Water Dogs in Australia, with a very small number of breeders. Whilst there are about 30 pwds currently being shown around Australia, there are only a handful that are proving good enough, in our eyes, to breed from. It is critical to only breed from the best dogs. We find with our high standards, there is possibly only 1 dog in every 2 litters which is truly good enough to go on to breed from, and that's only after it's passed our strict standards for show status, temperament, gait, conformation, and health.
In conjunction with breeders overseas, we have sought, and continue to seek compatible blood lines. Whether our dogs are for the show ring or the couch, we aim to breed exceptional pwd's that each of our owners can be proud of. We are working to improve both the health and quality of our dogs.
The aims of Bluegrace are to:
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