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How I got to the Cavalier...
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In the Kirschbaum family,
animals always held an
important place. When I was
a child, I remember roaming
among all kinds of pens
where there were various
kinds of poultry and birds,
which were my first big
passion.
Theere were our
Toulouse Geese,
for instance, which I kept
after the example of the
great behaviorist Konrad
Lorenz and which thus became
very tame. Rats and Rübe,
these were their names,
waited for me each afternoon
at the garden fence, until
they saw me come home from
school and then rushed
toward me to meet their
“Mother goose, Markus”
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Jacob the Magpie,
which I saved from being shot. I got him as
a small chick and raised him, and he for
many years afterwards he tyrannised us with
hiding things. We also bred
chickens and postal
pigeons, the latter passion is
still continued to this day by my brother in
law, Frank. At this stage, I would also like
to thank my parents who saw so many of our
birds grow up under the Infrared light in
their living room and had to bear them.
I was always fascinated by nature and
what it does to procrastinate, which is one
of the reasons I later chose the profession
of gardener.
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"King" as a puppy -
1978
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"King"
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When my uncle Wolfgang
brought his first tricolour dog to
Germany from Scotland at the end of the
70ties, it was clear to me that I had
also caught the cavalier virus. He
simply called the dog “King”
and that was what he was, too.
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My dream of youth, the
Cavalier virus, remained dormant inside me
for 15 years and then it really broke out,
which resulted in my first dogs coming from
an old bloodline that is very similar to
that of King.
This type of Cavalier was exactly the type I
had envisioned for my future breeding
endeavours. |
"PT"
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"Lili"
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To my great joy, I am finding out
that our bitch "Lili",
which stems of the line of PT Party Time
of Homerbrent, I starting to look more
and more like him with each passing day.
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This fits the motto: if the prophet does not go to the mountain, then the
mountain ...
What I want to say is this:
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I struck lucky on two sides,
for I also managed to make my other passion,
dealing with people and plants, my
profession:
I opened my own garden center in
Remscheid-Lennep |
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This is where I
can unite my work and my second hobby:
I simply take the dogs along.
The Cavaliers are well known to our
clients and our staff are also full of
enthusiasm.
Dogs at the office
Since 2009 much
has happened -
we
moved
bag and baggage
and bought an
old farmhouse
in Reichshof
Erdingen.
Now
with more
than 4000
m2 garden
we
can live our dream of
country life.
My
working home
is
now
the
Professional
Gartencentercooperation
Sagaflor "Bellandirs
My Garden
Center".
Here
I
am appointed
as Sales &
Category Manager for
more
than 40
garden centers,
what
gives me
great fun and
gives
me
plenty of time
for
our wonderful
hobby
Bonitos
Companeros.
Wie der Zufall so spielte
lernte ich meinen jetzigen Freund &
Lebenspartner Klaus auch in der Cavalier
Welt kennen. Klaus ist auch schon seit
seinem 15 Lebensjahr mit dem Cavalier
Virus verfallen. Vor allem das
Ausstellungswesen ist seine große
Passion.Seit 2003 teilen wir uns nun
diese Passion für die beiden
Zwergspanielrassen Cavalier King Charles
und dem King Charles Spaniel.Klaus hat
durch seine Lebständigkeit das grosse
Glück seine Arbeit zu Hause bei uns
erleigen zu können.
As luck played I met my current
boyfriend and life partner Klaus in the
Cavalier world. Klaus was also infected
with the "Cavalier virus" since his 15th
birthdays. Above all, showing our dogs
is his passion.
Since
2003, we
now
share
our
passion for
both toyspaniel breeds
- the Cavalier
King Charles
spaniels as
well as the King
Charles
Spaniel.
Luckily Klaus can work
at home and has plenty of time for
taking good care of our doggies.
( Read more about this topic in "Our
Interview" )
That excellent mixture is a very good
foundation for the kennel of the
beautiful companions - Bonitos
Companeros |
We have moved to a new home !
We made
our lifelong dream come true
and bought a small farm in
the countryside - no
neighbors in a secluded
location near the forest in
the beautiful health-resort
Erdingen.
The year 2011 started for us already
in our new home and we are looking
forward to a new step in our life.
Here are some impressions of our
little Companeros-Farm:
 
Nature as far as the eye can
reach ...
 
... and a lot of snow this
winter.
The doggies loved it !
Now we are looking forward to
spring time when the nature is
coming back to green and the flavour
of grass is waking us each morning
 
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