| Jeffrey Pepper is the breeder of more than 60 Golden
Retriever and 50 Petits Bassets Griffons Vendéens AKC champions
and has been judging since 1985. He has judged all breed and specialty
shows in the USA, Australia, Canada, Colombia, China, , Denmark, , Holland,
Hong Kong, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Korea, New Zealand and the United Kingdom.
He is the author of 4 books, and has just completed a new book on the Golden
Retriever which will be published in the spring of 2010. Mr. Pepper
is approved by the American Kennel Club (AKC) to judge all Sporting Breeds,
all Hound Breeds, Cavalier King Charles Spaniels, and Best in Show.
He has given seminars on Golden Retrievers, Petits Bassets Griffons Vendéens
and dogs in general in several countries. He is currently President of
the Dog Judges Association of America. |
Nick Frost was born into a family with hunting dogs.
His first dog was an English Springer Spaniel. His first show dogs were
Afghan Hounds which is where the 'dehra' kennel name comes from. He first
saw the PBGV while working for an Afghan kennel in Holland in the early
seventies. A little later he joined the Jomil BGV and Fredwell Basset kennel
in the UK where he bred both breeds and later Bassets Fauves de Bretagne
under the Jomil, Varon, Fredwell and Dehra names. Later he and Vivien Phillips
imported the first GBGV into the UK. In 1995 he moved to the USA where
he continued to breed and show his PBGVs and a final couple of litters
of Basset hounds. Dehra has produced well over a hundred champions world
wide.
In the UK Cavalier King Charles Spaniels were added to the kennel
and were bred more seriously in the USA producing a number of Champions
and group placers.
Nick's judging career has taken him all over the world. In the USA he
is currently licenced to judge all Hound breeds, Cavaliers, Labradors and
Irish, English and Gordon Setters. He first judged in Denmark over twenty
years ago. |
Moa Persson Born in 1951 and some of my friends
says I grew up in a whelpingbox. Went to my first dogshows already
as a 5 year old and has kept my interest ever since. I have had the fortune
to have some of Swedens best and most famous dogbreeders and judges as
my mentors such as Ulla Segerström, Bertil Sted-Gren, Sigyn Littorin
and Ulla Magnusson, they all took me under their wings and told me what
was right and wrong in different breeds. This also made me have a great
respect for the knowledge excellent dogbreeders stands for.
In the mid-sixties I started handling dogs of many different breeds
and at the end of the 70-ies I had made up nearly 300 Champions in many
different breeds.
I became a judge in 1979, first for 6 flat-faced toybreeds and after
having judged for 5 years I continued with the bulltyped breeds in all
different groups and also later in the 80-ies the Bassetbreeds. I became
an all –breeds judge in 1992 and have been privileged to judge dogs
nearly all over the world.
Still breed and show myself, Labradors, Goldens and some Pugs under
the prefix of Rossmix.
My first real connection with Basset Hound came through Mrs Joan Wells-Mecham,
Fredwell Bassets whom I got to know in the late sixties and she taught
me a lot about the breed and also later the Petits, that she was the one
to introduce to Britain. I have always liked these breeds and have tried
to keep up with what happends.
I´m really looking forward to meet you and your 4-legged people
in June.
Märsta 7th of February ,2010
Moa Persson |
