Cowboy says "See you later."
The animated slide-show explained
The slide-show for Steve's pages contains photos relevent to dogs and bitches that Steve was involved in bringing into Finland, the USA, or helping Carolyn and I obtain some of our Staffords. In photo order:
Brutus (Firestreak Red Rover) and Bella (Bandits Belle-Lettres) - Steve's first stafford (Bella) and his first Stafford male (Brutus).
Steve had already passed when we obtained Cowboy, but Steve had made the original connection with Huntly Pringle in South Africa which led to Carolyn and Huntly bringing in Cowboy (Cravonmark Midnite Cowboy of Yardstick). Without Steve's world-wide Stafford connections...
Portos was sort of a "rescue" brought about by Steve, Carolyn and Huntly. Portos (ZA Ch Niccyn Portos of Sylon) was a high prey drive dog to say the least, in other words a Stafford.
Rugar (Warmaster Go n Straight> was imported originally from Sandra Smid in New Zealand by Steve for Lewis Bogel of Sensational Stafford Kennel in New Mexico. Rugar was a very successful stud for his former owner, Lewis Bogel, and was for us (Stoutheart Staffords), and thanks to frozen semen Rugar is still a prolific producer of fine Stafford puppies.
This is them again. This photo is taken from the top of Steve's advertisement that ran in Dog World Annual 1969.
Vernportsina is one of the Staffords that Steve helped import to Finland but I haven't found any additional information.
Grace (Rioghal Show-off) was our first import from South Africa, again assisted by Steve and Huntly Pringle. We were supposed to be getting a female pup out of Grace (monster Elly) but Elly was delayed in shipping because of a rabbies vaccine problem - so we took Grace in the meantime sort of as a re-home/rescue because her owner/breeder was imagrating to Australia.
Steve holding two unindentified puppies.
Steve's wife Maini with Bella and Brutus on the porch in their collars and leads.
Bella as a puppy in Finland photo taken December 4, 1967.
And that is it folks. But on the other hand, I am continueing to add photos to the album. There are a lot to scan yet. Also I will be needing identities for a large number of the photos because not all have written names and relavent information on the back. If you can please help me out by sending information you may have. We have the contact page.
Thank you.
