Ch Mindseye
Pippin
By Jena Voehringer
Pippin was an exceptional Bullmastiff that I bred from an exceptional Dam, and the decision to make her my keeper was the obvious one when she was just a few days old. She became just that – my keeper and discriminating guardian, not to mention constant companion. She was extremely bright, beautiful, sound of mind and body and essentially everything in my mind’s eye that I wanted to see in this breed. From a conformational standpoint - her strengths were many, and she received the most compliments on her facial features, soundness in structure and movement, and particularly her clean backline and front – which she passed on to most of her pups. Her weaknesses were few, however, she could have used more muscle mass, spring of rib and better ear carriage. Pippin was also somewhat sound sensitive – just to loud, though fortunately not unusual sounds, and several of her pups from each litter inherited this sound sensitivity. Her show career was intentionally limited, and she was shown very selectively. A slow maturer - she started showing when she reached 24 inches at just under one year of age and finished before two years of age going best of winners at the Houston Reliant Park Dog Show Series under breeder judge Helene Neitsch. I showed Pippin to her championship and all of her breed wins, as well as group placements – never wanting her to feel more of a show dog than a loved friend and family member; we also traveled to hike and explore while entering conformation or performance events. She was shown only twice in puppy sweepstakes and placed first in her class under breeder judge Taun Brooks at the Southwest Bullmastiff Club, and third in a large class under breeder judge Linda Walton at the 2006 National in Wisconsin. I take great pride in knowing that every placement, every win during her brief show career was one from a judge I had never shown to prior. Pippin achieved both her Companion Dog title and Rally Novice title in just four attempts (per each) at three legs, with respectable scores and some 3rd & 4th placement ribbons. She had only two successful litters totaling thirteen pups. She was an exceptional, attentive mother who could be completely trusted to be left alone to attend thoroughly to her pups. She produced one champion from her first litter that continued the exceptionalism in attaining countless performance titles, including her Companion Dog Excellent, Rally Advanced Excellent, Tracking and Master’s Agility titles. This Pippin daughter is one of the most titled Molosers in performance, and also achieved a breed first by becoming the first Versatility II Bullmastiff in breed history. Half of her second litter became champions with one specialty Award of Merit winner and another who achieved multiple group placements in Canada as well as several performance titles. Pippin was only shown once as a veteran at a specialty competing against her sister who beat her to take Best Veteran. It was around this time that she was loosing weight rapidly for no apparent reason and was taken into my vets to have blood work done. Pippin was diagnosed with diabetes, and it ended up being quite aggressive. She lost her eye sight within one year, and most of her organ function, and nearly half her weight going from 122 to 68 lbs within two years of being diagnosed. I lost Pippin to organ (mainly thyroid, kidney, pancreas) failure from being in the final stages of diabetes at just eight and a half years of age. Like her mother before her – it is a loss I will always mourn. Even when she became skin and bones and each step a painful effort; her twinkling eyes still smiled, her tail still wagged and her grace, courageous and enthusiasm for living kept shining through. Had I sent her off with the pro handlers who wanted her, she easily could have achieved many more great things in the dog show world; I don’t regret needing and
wanting her here in mine. The only regret with Pippin is that I wish I would have completed all of her health testing earlier - before the diabetes started to claim her.
Call Name: Pippin OFA: hips 3900G EL1663
WR054195/02 SB - Mar 2006 Female, Red Fawn CERF-#359
By Jena Voehringer
Pippin was an exceptional Bullmastiff that I bred from an exceptional Dam, and the decision to make her my keeper was the obvious one when she was just a few days old. She became just that – my keeper and discriminating guardian, not to mention constant companion. She was extremely bright, beautiful, sound of mind and body and essentially everything in my mind’s eye that I wanted to see in this breed. From a conformational standpoint - her strengths were many, and she received the most compliments on her facial features, soundness in structure and movement, and particularly her clean backline and front – which she passed on to most of her pups. Her weaknesses were few, however, she could have used more muscle mass, spring of rib and better ear carriage. Pippin was also somewhat sound sensitive – just to loud, though fortunately not unusual sounds, and several of her pups from each litter inherited this sound sensitivity. Her show career was intentionally limited, and she was shown very selectively. A slow maturer - she started showing when she reached 24 inches at just under one year of age and finished before two years of age going best of winners at the Houston Reliant Park Dog Show Series under breeder judge Helene Neitsch. I showed Pippin to her championship and all of her breed wins, as well as group placements – never wanting her to feel more of a show dog than a loved friend and family member; we also traveled to hike and explore while entering conformation or performance events. She was shown only twice in puppy sweepstakes and placed first in her class under breeder judge Taun Brooks at the Southwest Bullmastiff Club, and third in a large class under breeder judge Linda Walton at the 2006 National in Wisconsin. I take great pride in knowing that every placement, every win during her brief show career was one from a judge I had never shown to prior. Pippin achieved both her Companion Dog title and Rally Novice title in just four attempts (per each) at three legs, with respectable scores and some 3rd & 4th placement ribbons. She had only two successful litters totaling thirteen pups. She was an exceptional, attentive mother who could be completely trusted to be left alone to attend thoroughly to her pups. She produced one champion from her first litter that continued the exceptionalism in attaining countless performance titles, including her Companion Dog Excellent, Rally Advanced Excellent, Tracking and Master’s Agility titles. This Pippin daughter is one of the most titled Molosers in performance, and also achieved a breed first by becoming the first Versatility II Bullmastiff in breed history. Half of her second litter became champions with one specialty Award of Merit winner and another who achieved multiple group placements in Canada as well as several performance titles. Pippin was only shown once as a veteran at a specialty competing against her sister who beat her to take Best Veteran. It was around this time that she was loosing weight rapidly for no apparent reason and was taken into my vets to have blood work done. Pippin was diagnosed with diabetes, and it ended up being quite aggressive. She lost her eye sight within one year, and most of her organ function, and nearly half her weight going from 122 to 68 lbs within two years of being diagnosed. I lost Pippin to organ (mainly thyroid, kidney, pancreas) failure from being in the final stages of diabetes at just eight and a half years of age. Like her mother before her – it is a loss I will always mourn. Even when she became skin and bones and each step a painful effort; her twinkling eyes still smiled, her tail still wagged and her grace, courageous and enthusiasm for living kept shining through. Had I sent her off with the pro handlers who wanted her, she easily could have achieved many more great things in the dog show world; I don’t regret needing and
wanting her here in mine. The only regret with Pippin is that I wish I would have completed all of her health testing earlier - before the diabetes started to claim her.
Call Name: Pippin OFA: hips 3900G EL1663
WR054195/02 SB - Mar 2006 Female, Red Fawn CERF-#359
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Sire: CH Maremac’s Comic Relief
Mindseye Play For Keeps (01) Mindseye Play It Again Sammi (02) CH PACH3 Mindseye Maremac Serenade VCD2 (CD CDX TD) GO VER RAE (RN RA RE) MXP12 (NAP AXP OAP) MJP13 (NJP OAJ AXJ), MJPB2 PAX4 MFP (04) Mindseye Playdough Playmate (05) Mindseye Playkateme Playonwords (06) Mindseye Play A Day In The Life (07) Sire: CH Gemini’s Xtreme High Caliber Mindseye Hund Hildegard Von Bingen (01) CH The Apple Of Mindseye RN (02) Mindseye Tickle Me Luke (04) Mindseye Being Ernest (05) Mindseye Shimmering Starlight (06) CH Xtreme N Mindseye’s Arsenal (07) Progeny points: 14, (11 working and 3 ch’s) Level: Silver: Status: new award 2012 |
Whelped: 10/4/2005 Litter # WS153555
M Fawn (Liddell) F Red (T Guidry) F Fawn (LaFlamme) OFA # BMF-3632G28F-PI; BMF-EL1446F28 BMF-TH169/28F-PI; CERF BMF-452 F Fawn (R. Angelo) F Fawn (T. Mclaughlin/ J. Voehringer) F Red (Voehringer & Wenning) Whelped: 9/26/2006 Litter # WS192957 F Red (J. Voehringer) F Red (Kerr & Voehringer) OFA # BMF-3782G29F-VPI; BMF-EL1742F47- BMF-CA407/18F/C-VPI; CERF BMF-497 M Fawn (J. Loscerbo) M Fawn (Dr A Chenault) OFA # BMF-3910G39M-VPI F Red (J. Coodey/ J. Voehringer ) |
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