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Hazel Small (Avenelhouse) The Midland
Cairn Terrier Club is sorry to learn of the death, last Thursday July 29th,
of Mrs Hazel Small, aged 89 years. The funeral will take place on Monday 9 August at 4pm at Taunton
Crematorium. Floral tributes or donations to IFAW (International Fund
for Animal Welfare) may be sent to: W H Squires Chapel of Rest 11 Wellbrook Street Tiverton Devon EX16 5JW A plate for donations will be provided at the service. I think the best way of remembering Hazel is for me
to reproduce an article written by Hazel, for the first MCTC Year Book,
published in 1986. “How I started in Cairns”
My first dog was a Westie from Mrs Bird’s “Placemore” kennels which my
sister gave me for my 7th birthday and the next year I bred a
litter and registered my “Jollee” prefix.
Poppie, my sister bred Sealyhams first and then Cairns but I stuck to
my West Highlands until she left home when I was 17. As she left me with all the kennels and
most of her dogs I was more or less driven into Cairns and I must say I have
never regretted that in any way. I
stuck to both breeds until well after the war but when Mrs Parker Tucker,
then Jo Marshall and I became partners, she had registered her prefix as
Uniquecottage so we decided we would keep Uniquecottage for the Cairns and
Jollee for the West Highlands and this we carried on with until I married in
June 1958 and then as we both liked Cairns best, and they were winning more
than the Westies, we dropped the West Highlands and concentrated on the
Cairns. In 1968 when my husband decided he’d like to become a partner, Jo and
I split up and she kept her own Uniquecottage prefix and we took Avenenlhous
as ours. I always think though that
if Poppie hadn’t left home when she did I might never have gone on with the
dogs as I really wanted to train to be a Northern Nurse when I left school
and take children overseas. As my
father was not at all well I couldn’t leave my mother to cope with a 3 acre
garden and a Jersery herd and everything else without my sister’s help. So the Uniquecottage Avenelhouse Kennels
came into being and now, nearly 65 years
from my 7th birthday, I look back and feel I would not
change my life even if I could. Dogs
give you more than most things, their own love and affection, friends from
all over the world and in the end they have given me as much overseas travel
as I would have had if I had become a Northern Nurse, because it was through
the dogs I met my husband and we were able to travel and now I have judged
overseas sometimes as well. The
funeral is to be held at Taunton Crematorium on Monday 9 August at 4pm Linda
Firth (Hon
Secretary) |
