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AmCH Ebets Dixie Land Jazz for Mansiya
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Out of CanCH Wingborn lady Sings The Blues
B: 3rd Jan 2008

When I lost Maisie I was bereft and Elizabeth Treese of Ebets in Tennessee, USA was one of my friends who pulled me through my darkest hour. Elizabeth had two litters born days after I lost Maisie and she promised me a puppy. She gave me something positive to focus on and I will be forever in her debt. Elizabeth works very hard at her breeding and has very exacting standards. She warned me that she would not send over anything that she didn't think would do well for me so it was an anxious time for me as Elizabeth went through her litters deciding whether there was a puppy that she would be happy to send to England to fly the Ebet flag here. Luckily for me there was and that was Dixie, who had been born on the 3rd of January 2008, exactly one week after I lost Maisie. Dixie is a Toy Manchester Terrier in America and an English Toy Terrier here in England. I watched her grow up via webcam and photos and though hundreds of miles away, I was really excited when she won at her first show and then when she became an American Champion. Dixie set paw on English turf in January 2009, decided that we, as a family, would do, that she liked the woodburner and that big settee was all for her. She is a big personality packaged in a small frame and as she is my first 'toy' dog breed, I was not prepared for such a character and she soon had the whole family at her paws. She does not take any stick from the bigger Manchester Terriers and more than holds her own and everyone falls in love with her. She has had a couple of group successes at the few open shows we have taken her to and won the reserve ticket in very hot company at Windsor under Richard Haynes, a very well respected judge in the breed and was crowned best of breed at Birmingham City, under breed specialist Andy Leonard of the famous Witchstone Kennels. Dixie will be lightly campaigned this summer.