Sow’s Ear Honey in the Sunshine
Of Mach One

11.25” Tan and White
4/23/01
Sow’s Ear Taltos X Sow’s Ear Snippet

      Honey in the Sunshine, as her bewitching name might suggest she truly is a magical creature. She can conjure a smile on anyone’s face, perhaps that’s because her own is so timeless. The eternal puppy she is often mistaken for on the outside is a far cry from the adult she is on the inside. Quite grown up with her own rules and regulations, Honey is the manner patrol at Mach One.

      Teeny tiny at only 11.25” there’s not much out there smaller than Honey or with more coat. A true combination of her sire’s (Sow’s Ear Taltos “Harry”) coat and head and her dam’s (Sow’s Ear Snippet) itty bitty size and uncanny drive in the field. Though it doesn’t take much to drive this tiny terrier down an earth, when you’re this size earths come easy and so do the groundhogs.

      Perhaps that’s why Honey is the undisputed reigning champion of suitability to groundhog and a member of the undefeated Mach One tool box team; and she’s lives up to every bit of it in the field. “We don’t care how bloody we get so long as we get the job done”, would be her motto on hunting Mr. Chuckles. As well as giving the groundhogs a run for their money she’s also proven herself on possum and raccoon. What hunting tool box would be complete with out Honey, a tiny torpedo to add to the arsenal?

      Out of the field and into the ring. Honey has managed to hold her own in the conformation ring against terriers much larger than she. Her puppy career was on target with puppy championships and reserves. However, her step into the adult class was a rough one. Big wins fell by the wayside due to her size and immaturity, but at the 2002 Nationals, against all odds in such a huge class, Honey managed to take 5th in the American Bred Bitch Class. At nearly three, she continues to fight her way to place in the top half of the huge and impossible under rough and broken bitch class.

      When Honey shows up on the race track the old “David and Goliath” syndrome falls on the air. But in true “David” form Honey can still manage to fight the good fight and tear up the track. And when you’re this size go-to-ground almost seems too easy and Honey’s got the g-t-g championships to prove it.

      The spell this little girl casts doesn’t stop there. A constant presence in her sire’s stud dog group, she has helped prove her sire’s strength and contributed to their high placements. Her pedigree is exceptional with grandsire’s “Garon’s Sailor” and “Windermere Absolut” and granddam’s “Lost Acres Revlon” and “Sow’s Ear Red Witch”. She is a magical concentration of precious old blood, the tried and true.

      When it came time to reproduce the tried and true it was hard to find the right man for the job, one that would compliment this old blood with an infusion of his own. Little did we know we would have to wait and wait and wait. In true Honey fashion she does everything in her own time including when she comes into heat, which seems to be about every 14 months. So at age 2 it was about time to breed this little girl and complete her breeders terms contract. Maypole Jake (an English import owned by John Broadhurst) was the lucky man and in late April of 2003 Honey was bred.

      Breeding Honey would prove to be the “easy” part as she would have a labor that was anything but textbook and would result in an emergency c-section. After a lot of blood sweat and tears for our efforts we would be rewarded with 3 healthy bitch pups; Sow’s Ear Trivial Pursuit, Sow’s Ear Charades and Sow’s Ear Russian Roulette. Honey was an excellent mother, with the same rules and regulations she lays down to all the dogs in the house she reared 3 very sweet girls.

      We have not nailed down our next stud for Honey. Again very careful planning will be needed to compliment her concentrated lines. Check back in the spring of 2004 as she only comes into heat every 12-13 months we won’t know till then which direction we plan to point her.

Her Pups