Hello Folks,
Just out some of these old photos of the ISD.. Enjoy a glimpse into the past of this wonderful breed, I think my favorite photo is of the Kennel Ladies holding their dogs in England.. " I love how much the pretty little bitch in the middle, looks like my little Greenstone Black Pearl"
and in a very cool way of bringing someone from the past into the future.. check out this wonderful interview with Jean Lanning..
Jean Lanning
A 'charmed life' in the world of dogs
Simon Parsons talks to Crufts 2005 best-in-show judge JEAN LANNING
“I THINK I have been very lucky and have led what they call ‘a charmed life’,” says this year’s Crufts best-in-show judge, Jean Lanning.Since her schoolgirl years, the world of show dogs has been Jean’s great passion, and many years of successful breeding and exhibiting have been accompanied by a career as a judge. In this she was fortunate enough to start remarkably young; indeed she first judged more than 50 years ago, something those who know Jean’s youthful looks, attitude and enthusiasm may find hard to credit.Like last year’s BIS judge, Margaret Everton, Jean’s success in the show ring came with Great Danes – indeed it is remarkable how many prominent dog people have made their mark in, or owned, this breed. One can think of the great Bill Siggers, of course, Leslie Page, whose parents bred Danes, Gwyn and Olive Davies, Di and Carl Johnson, Karina Le Mare, Sheila Cartwright, Robin Searle, Frances and Jack Krall, Jeff Horswell and others. Even Andrew Brace owned a Dane at one time. Perhaps the skills needed in rearing and handling such magnificent dogs to a high standard give one a head start"
A 'charmed life' in the world of dogs
Simon Parsons talks to Crufts 2005 best-in-show judge JEAN LANNING
“I THINK I have been very lucky and have led what they call ‘a charmed life’,” says this year’s Crufts best-in-show judge, Jean Lanning.Since her schoolgirl years, the world of show dogs has been Jean’s great passion, and many years of successful breeding and exhibiting have been accompanied by a career as a judge. In this she was fortunate enough to start remarkably young; indeed she first judged more than 50 years ago, something those who know Jean’s youthful looks, attitude and enthusiasm may find hard to credit.Like last year’s BIS judge, Margaret Everton, Jean’s success in the show ring came with Great Danes – indeed it is remarkable how many prominent dog people have made their mark in, or owned, this breed. One can think of the great Bill Siggers, of course, Leslie Page, whose parents bred Danes, Gwyn and Olive Davies, Di and Carl Johnson, Karina Le Mare, Sheila Cartwright, Robin Searle, Frances and Jack Krall, Jeff Horswell and others. Even Andrew Brace owned a Dane at one time. Perhaps the skills needed in rearing and handling such magnificent dogs to a high standard give one a head start"
"Most unusual inmate of the Clausentum kennel was an Icelandic Sheepdog. They often boarded a pretty little bitch of the breed until one day the owner was having domestic problems and in desperation offered her to the Lannings, who went on to show her in unclassified classes – those were the days before the imported register. She had been bred by the Hon Mark Watson, a great enthusiast of all things Icelandic, who had imported several of the breed. Concerned about the future, he asked them to breed from their bitch, and eventually they found a half-brother who had also been sold locally. From this came a dog, Clausentum Halloween who, Jean believes, is now behind all Icelandic Sheepdogs in the world through two of his progeny sent back to Iceland in return for two more. The breed fizzled out in this country – Jean was not keen on the coats of the later imports – but has been preserved in its native land where the kennel club was set up in the late ‘60s, mainly to look after the interests of this native breed. Through Mr Watson, Jean was invited to judge the club’s first show, stopping off en route to the States, and remembers the exhibitors’ enthusiasm to learn about their breeds."
How cool is that, that Jean was asked to judge the very first dog show in Iceland and by Mark Watson himself.
For total write up (its interesting and long folks but this is the relative part about the ISD" can be found at
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