Ch.The King Of The Fells Over Granardal
Taz in the Group ring with Seamus Gettings, Swords Championship Show 2010
Photo: At Its Best Photography (Kelly Lawless and Josh Henderson)

Taz came to me in October 2008, the day after his second birthday. His father is the Irish Champion Pollypeck Patinum Point out of a bitch whose pedigree goes back to a well-known and respected line in Northern Ireland.

A dash up to the far North late one evening and we met - in the dark! Taz came flying up to me and without touching me with his paws, leaped up and plonked a lick on my nose, then stood grinning and wagging his tail. How could I refuse! We got back home at 1.30am and he was quickly settled in for the rest of the night. As he had received little training, and Deccy was pretty put out with the arrival of another male, life was interesting for the first few weeks. Diva is completely enchanted with him, which sets Deccy off huffing and puffing and eye-rolling. Training came in leaps and bounds, and rather ambitiously I decided to see whether he might like showing. After a shakey start when he found it all too exciting, he has since won a Best in Show and seven Groups at Limited/Open shows, at Championship shows his tally is currently sixteen Green Stars (eleven with Best of Breed), Group 4 at Cork 2009,  Munster, Swords and Tralee 2010, Group 3 at Cloghran 2009 and Sligo 2010, Group 2 at Dundalk and Banbridge 2009 and Deise 2010. Finally, at Dun Laoghaire on 1st August 2010 he won the Group!