Archives for 2014

BENCHED DOG SHOWS-A SPECTATORS DREAM

This kind of dog show in the photos above was called a BENCHED SHOW. All the dogs were partitioned off in designated spaces, on public display for the entire day as the show was running. Westminster Kennel Club is one of the 6 shows left in the USA which are still benched. Exhibitors would […]

FAR EAST KENNELS – TEMPLE OF CHOWS in Columbia Pennsylvania – Lothar Zifferer

UPDATE TO THIS ARTICLE 02-05-14 I can’t believe my eyes…wedged in an old dog book I have had packed away from the 1930’s still wrapped in paper and tape…. was this photo. The Far East Kennels up close and personal!!! The caption reads “1929 Far East Kennels. Mr and Mrs. J.T. Hartwell at Mr. Zifferer’s […]

STUD FINDER-KENNEL ADS

Some of the most celebrated kennels and stud dogs in Chow breed history were advertising in the CLASSIFIEDS in the world’s top publications. Included were COUNTRY HOME ILLUSRATED, HOUSE AND GARDEN and THE DOG NEWS. You may recognize many of these celebrated names of both kennel and chows, generations back in your own chow pedigrees. […]