Peter Checkley did have other rare breed connections in the UK and I think he did or does have a share in a Scottish Kennel. You can try to see Mom Somkit dogs by asking Jack or going on his site.

 

I think you have been incredibly lucky to get such a good dog but I dont imagine you will be able to get her ancestors pictures or more details of her pedigree.

 

Visit BATR or The UK Home of the Thai Ridgeback for more info.

My experience was via Rhodesians but I have never bought any dog of another breed, though there were 2 breeds I wanted, via his UK connections.

 

Some businesses in the 'kennel' world change breed or partnership so quickly, in the UK, that it can be difficult to get detail. I will have a look and see if I can get anything off the UK connections, if they are still active.

Fabia

 

 

 

Hi,

 

My dogs are also grazy in searching a mouse. My german shepard also eats them if she catch one, and she also eats the ones Filou and Vichy catch. (She never had any disease or worms she has only the power of 100 mice)

 

My girls get very early good mouse hunter, but Filou catch his first mouse with 2 1/2 years. Before he jump over the gras a few times, and after that he went back to see if he jump on one. This didn´t function but he needed a really long time to recognize that he have to look first and jump than. :)

 

If you ask Filou and Vichy "Where is the mouse?", they start digging and they have a very good condition in digging! Like Tika does it on the picture.

 

greets nadine

Hi Susanne !

 

Were you hear this news, I got to check it for you, but I never hear this.

I never interested in Mom Somkit's dog so I never met her in personel even check out her bloodline. but I think she breed only Red and sometime Black . I never saw her in dog show, so I don't think she will showing her dogs.

 

Thaidane

I mailed Peter Checkley for some years ago, I remember a picture of this mum Somkit, and she was introduced as the breeder of the best dogs in Thailand.

Perhaps someone has this pic o another of her.

I also remember Peters mix of fruits (bananas and so on) he gave his dogs!

/Tina

Tina !

 

You can see Mum Somkit picture every month in Dog magazine, and it's true that she is the Top TRD breeder and the breeder of the best dogs in Thailand. - according what the ADVERTISING  wrote.

 

There are also a lots of information that I saw in the other website are just  COPY or TRANSLATED from Dog magazine, you can believe it if you want.

 

Bananas and  Pumpkin are good resourse for high protein and cheaper than meat, but think about if the protein resourse for dog food are not from meat, what will occur to your dog?

 

 

Thaidane

Yes, I too read Peter's web site and fed Tika bananas, as a snack, and Tika loved them - but - her bowels reacted by getting very speedy as weel as producing liters of flatulence. Not nice. She no longer gets bananas.

If the dog's stomache reacts strongly to a food object, I think one should be carefull not using it again if possible.

Dan-Thai

 

Yes! it's not my thinking and info. It's just said  to Tina this is where Peter's understand from and introducing  her as what the ad wrote.

 

You may wrong, there are no other female TRD breeder here. If I'm not wrong, Jack are talking about Khun Somsit in Edwin place ,the owner of the famous BLUE but not Mum Somkit.

 

Thaidane

I think a more delicate 'translation' is required:

 

Peter Checkley had a number involvements with kennels here (UK) and abroad and still does, not just rare breeds. It is extremely difficult to obtain information about his businesses as he changes fairly often, partners and so on.

 

Mom Somkit commissions her own advertising as do most breeders, but again, it is very difficult to get information in the public realm.

 

I prefer transparency and openness but if course some 'professional breeders' will not have the business capacity for maintaining full, public web sites.

 

I think that says quite clearly that neither would make ideal breeders or buyers for a newcomer from abroad unless they were very clear and specific and visited the animals they wished to purchase. The situation for those more experienced would, of course, be different.

 

I hope that makes what myself and Serge were saying, clearer, for any newcomers to the Thailand market.

Fabia