About Me
About Us …..
We don’t have any children, our dogs are our lives. We show a couple of times a month around Sydney, preferring to spend most of our time at home or taking our dogues to the local lakes or parks, we don’t like to travel all over the country for dog shows, we don’t enjoy it and the dogs don’t enjoy it either.
When we returned to New Zealand in 2005 to get married, I knew Shawn was disappointed that we couldn’t have any of our dogues at the wedding. So as a surprise, I had an icing sculpture of a dogue, modelled on our own Chewie, made for the wedding cake.
Our aim is to produce healthy excellent specimens of the breed, but as we release very few breeding dogues, unless in co-ownership or to friends, we are devoted to finding wonderful homes for our good natured puppies mainly as family pets. And we support our puppies for life.
How we and our dogs live…..
We live on a beautiful property in Sydney on the edge of the National Park.
We provide our dogs with the best care and attention possible, ensuring they are sound, healthy, socialised and happy. Our dogues are hip & elbow scored, and cared for in a home environment to produce dogs for show and as family companions. For us, there is no difference between family and pets. Our dogues are our family, often spoilt with more love and affection than the humans in our lives!
Before Shawn, Leanne previously had Bullmastiffs under her prior partner’s kennel prefix in New Zealand. Leanne and Shawn moved to Sydney in 2001. Leanne’s Bullmastiffs have retired now and as they sadly passed on, we filled the voids with the love of the Dogue de Bordeaux. After losing our male Bullmastiff, Hooch, to bone cancer of the shoulder at the age of 7 years, Roxy became very lonely and we would have lost her too for sure if not for Emily, our first Bordeaux. Roxy passed away in December 2005 at 13 years of age.
We have embarked on a breeding program with some of the best bloodlines in the UK and Europe by way of importing juvenile dogs, adult dogs and frozen semen. We hope that many features from these dogues will help improve our kennel here in Australia. Our first import was the male, Ch GrandRouge Lucciano by Redrhino (Argento). Roman is our second import, from Int Ch Ndl Ch Dutch Ch Fr Ch Emberez Apollo, and we now have Lois, Nathaniel and Southern Cross from kennel z’Orisku in the Czech Republic and frozen semen from World Ch Enferno van de Paterhoek. With more developments in 2011 and 2012 to further improve.
Leanne
Phone 0415 275 279
Email info@bellarouge.com