We had a fantastic day at CRUFTS yesterday with our Menna.  She not only won her class, but also took Best Bitch and BEST OF BREED!!  This was a very unexpected result, but a thrilling one!

Thanks to the judge (Mrs Sue Garner) for awarding Menna Best of Breed.

It was wonderful to see her on the television, I hope she did the breed proud!

We are very proud to announce that King (Svarte Konge av Sturtmoor) will be due to arrive from Norway at the end of March 2012!  King is a black Norwegian Buhund (male) and has come to us via May Birkeland in Norway.

Thanks to Britt Marit Halvorsen for looking after King in the interim, and arranging for him to travel to the UK.  What would we do without you Britt!

We are looking forward to meeting this young man and hope he can bring some new blood and black lines to the Buhund gene pool in the UK.

We are very proud to annouce that Menna (Int/Bel/DK Ch. Karabas Likande Lamenna Letta at Sturtmoor (IMP NL) Sh.C.M. WW'10 W'08, W'09) is the leader in the UK's Top Dog competition!

The winners of Best of Breed and Best Opposite Sex are awarded points at all Championship shows in the UK that have breed classes.  Top Dog is a very coveted award that most breeders will strive to achieve, but few will actually gain.

Menna has had a phenomenal career so far, winning some Top Awards previoiusly never won by an Estrela outside of Portugal!!  In this particular competition, Menna was Top Dog in 2007 and 2008 but was them absent from the show ring for the majority of 2009 and 2010 due to maternal duties.  Now - back in the ring after her two year absence, she came back with style!!

We are so proud of our baby, and cannot thank Sietske Christan-Luchsinger enough for allowing her to join us!!

If you wish to see a full list of the leaders in the Top dog Competition (all breeds) please follow this link:  http://www.dogworld.co.uk/product.php/140

We are proud to announce another fantastic Sturtmoor day at the National Working & Pastoral Breeds Championship Show held near Malvern on 16 July 2011.

Our Menna (Int/Bel/DK Ch. Karabas Likande Lamenna Letta at Sturtmoor IMP NL) took her 6th Best of Breed for the year under judge Meg Purnell-Carpenter!  She then went on to win BEST RARE BREED IN SHOW under Judge Jack Bispham!!!!

Also her son - STURTMOOR OMARI, at 11.5 months old and at his 3rd ever show, took his 2nd Best Puppy in Breed award and also Reserve Best Dog!!  Congratulations to Kathleen Garey for doing such a fantsatic job with Rouge!!

Following her son's success at WELKS on Sunday 1st May, Menna (INT/BEL/DK CH. Karabas Likande Lamenna Letta at Sturtmoor (IMP NL) Sh.C.M) took her second BEST OF BREED of the year!  

A fantastic start to the 2011 season for Sturtmoor!!

Only one Sturtmoor Dog was present at WELKS championship show on 1st May 2011 - and what a day he had!!

Rouge (Sturtmoor Omari) who is out of Menna x Jaydee was attending his first show ever with his owner Kathleen Garey, what a start to his career!

Kath took Rouge into his first Junior Class, aged just 9 months, where he was against 3 other puppies that were a little older than him.  He was placed FIRST!!!  Millie (Camille Pentland - co-breeder of Rouge) then offered to take over the handling where Rouge went on to win not only Best Male but also BEST OF BREED!!  There was a total entry of 21 Estrela's, with only 4 being absent.  This was all under judge Robin Newhouse.

Rouge didn't stop there!  Millie then took him into the Group, where judge Zena Thorn-Andrews decided to shortlist our baby boy to the LAST SIX!  The Pastoral group had a total of 1124 entries, and Rouge was one best six in that group!! 

Well done to Kath on doing such a fantastic job with Rouge, and getting him so well socialised.  We hope to see him at more shows in the future!

We are pleased to announce that Foxy (Bernegarden's Reve Enka) arrived safely in the UK in February 2011.  She has settled in very quickly and is adored by all.  She has attended a handful of small shows where she has gained two Best Puppy in Breed's and two Reserve Best of Breed's.  Also, at a Limited Show in March, she was shortlisted in Best in Show and then won Reserve Best Puppy in Show!! 

Foxy makes her Championship show debut on April 16th at Working & Pastoral Breeds Association of Wales, and although there are no CC's on offer at that show, we are really looking forward to getting her to a big show at last!!

We would like to announce that BERNEGARDEN'S REVE ENKA, a Norwegian Buhund called Foxy, will be arriving from Norway in February 2011 (all being well!).


Foxy is owned and bred by Britt Marit Halvorsen of the world famous Berngarden Saint Bernards, and will come to live with Camille (on breeding terms) for the foreseeable future.


We are very excited to have Foxy as part of the Sturtmoor kennels, and Camille is particularly looking forward to getting back to the Buhund ring on a more permanent basis.  We wish all the best to Foxy's siblings, wherever in the world they may be!

This is Foxy aged approx 7 months.

We are very pleased to announce that all of Pi's puppies are now in their forever homes.  We would like to congratulate Jayne on have a very successful first Estrela litter, and wish her all the best with her new baby boy from that litter.

Pi's puppies are now 4 weeks old!!  There is only one left needing a forever home. 


If you are interested, please contact Jayne Lewis via her contact page on Pi's website......  click HERE.