Josh Billings
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Welcome to my Labrador Retriever hobby kennel homepage.
I have always loved animals and had them around me through out my childhood. Fortunately, there were always animal lovers around me who I could have shared my compassion with. I was bringing home sick and homeless animals, and we took care of them and found loving homes for them. However, the dogs become my greatest love and passion, and fortunately my husband became a dog lover as well.
After some bad experience with large working breeds, I decided to look for a different breed, that I could trust, would be smart, and people friendly, that I could take for hiking in the woods, and swimming in the lakes - and I found the breed that I thought was just perfect for me - Labrador Retriever. However, for my first Labrador Retriever I had to wait a few years.
In 2003, after I started the family of my own, my husband and I decided it was the time to make our dream come true. We found a small hobby kennel "z Krainy Jezior" where 9 yellow puppies were born. It was not easy to choose the one puppy, but finally we chose MISTRAL, who passed all puppy personality tests the best. MISTRAL brought to our life a lot of happiness and pleasure.
In April 2004 MISTRAL had his debut at the first show in Kwidzyn, receiving very well promising puppy note and 1st place in puppy class. That day had a big influence on our life, as we caught "the dog show virus".
In May 2004 MISTRAL received his stud dog status, and got his first ticket for Polish Show Champion. The same time, I finalized my dreams about a black female. This time we thought this over very carefully and we planned well in advance. We took a trip to the city of Torun, and we came back with a beautiful black 3 months old girl - FREZJA Xandrina. Because of my fascination of the nature, I named her ETNA, and that name fits her personality very well ;)
I would like to thank Mrs. Jadwiga Szulc (Xandrina kennel) for such a beautiful, lovely and smart Labrador girl.
October 11th 2005, we registered our kennel name. We were looking into many different options, we liked many of them, but none seamed to be the "special one" that we were looking for. We wanted the name to have a special meaning for us, not just a pretty name. Finally, my husband and I combined our first names, and then read it backwards, and this way the name CARGAZI was chosen.
In 2006 show season, our dogs won top confirmation titles: MISTRAL finished Polish Champion title, get CACIB on the International Dog Show in Villnius (Lithuania). Our young FREZJA finished Polish Junior Champion title and won Lithuanian Club Junior Winner title.
In 2007 show season, our dogs won titles: MISTRAL gets another CACs. Our beautiful FREZJA finished Polish Champion title and won two CACIB and gets another CACs and BOS
Welcome to see my dogs on my website, their show results, pictures, and other information, that I hope you will find interesting.
Please sign my guestbook before leaving! I will answer any possible questions to the best of my knowledge.
Presently, we offer our MISTRAL as a stud dog, who is HD-A, only to the approved females, that received a status of brood bitches from any FCI member Club, and are tested HD free. Please visit his home page for more details.
We are members of the Polish Kennel Club (ZKwP), that is a member of FCI, and we do not breed puppies without papers. We are responsible hobby breeders, and we follow FCI and ZKwP rules and regulations, as well as their code of ethics. Thank you for visiting.
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