Ushka

USHKA


Ushka was the first blue bitch I owned, I bought her from a breeder in Krugersdorp, she was not the perfect chow by any-means, but I wanted her, for all her faults, she had a bad over-bite, and was small for her size, but what a loving nature.
I heard about her through the Chow Club and phoned her breeder who told me that I would never be able to show her, and that breeding with her might be a problem because of her over-bite but I was prepared to take that chance, and I am so glad I did, She grew into a very beautiful chow and was the mother to the most beautiful bitch I have ever breed, My Meltari Miss Sharin Gold. I mated her with my Dr Halley and she produced two outstanding puppies exactly two months after I lost my lovely Halley to bloat, Little Sharin and Little Halley weighed in at 500grams each, Sharin was Black and Halley the splitting image of his father a lovely gold.
When the puppies were three months old we were evicted from our flat we had moved into, it was a large 4 bed roomed apartment with a large roof top balcony, and we decided to move back to Durban, It was quite some move but with the help of my brother in law we got all the chows safety to Durban without any mishaps. We moved into a small cottage behind Ralun Kennels and set up out kennels where we stayed for the next 10years. Ushka had an adventurous spirit and loved to roam around the large property, One evening when I got home from work I noticed that she was vomiting up blood, I phoned my sister in a panic, as she Ushka was 9 weeks pregnant and due to give birth to her litter of puppies from Rick’s chow Champ, We rushed her to the vet who suspected a snake bite, a lot of injections and told that we still might loose her we took her home, she settled down during the night but by morning the vomiting started again and the blood she brought up was very bright red, I carried her back to the vet and again a course of injections to try and fight the now definitely snake bite, but what kind of snake could make my girl so sick I asked the vet, possibly a boom slang or a black mamba he said, I went home knowing that things were not going well and in tears phoned the snake park and asked for help, there was very little they could do but they sent a snake serum to the vet to try and save her life. That evening when I went to the hospital to see her she was on a drip and hardly breathing. Carol said the vet I don’t think she is going to make the night out, You must try and save the puppies I cried, do a Caesar now and lets get them out, We did a Caesar but only after my lovely Ushka had passed on to the next world, All he gave her to put her to sleep was a dose of ether, The puppies were delivered but none of the little ones were alive, she would have had 4 little bitches, 2 blue and 2 red, all lovely puppies, Ushka tried so hard to save the lives of her puppies, but just could not make it, she was a very brave little chow and I will never forget her, I just don’t wish a snake bite like this on not even my worse enemy.

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wating for the show to begin

a few of my chows at the dog show in Johannesburg

Sinjon

a photo of my white chow Sinjon

Your dogs are beautiful. I love Chows. My Maggie is half chow but has the reserved nature, is very clean and has a lot of Chow traits.
Thanks for sharing,
Susan

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