Ahmahr Nahr Basenji



Livey, Group 1, Arizona White Mountain KC
September, 2017

Livey, Group 2, Arizona White Mountain KC
September, 2017

Livey
Best In Show, San Angelo KC
November, 2017

This year we were overtaken with crops of incredible puppies.
My friend , Jaa Schefler bred our boy, Gabe, to a girl she had gotten from me, Wild West Spirit, otherwise known as Boo, who came from a breeding we did many years ago, with a Klassic Boy, and produced an
incredible litter of seven puppies.
We kept a boy that we call Walker, and Jaa.
Amy and I kept a little girl who was originally called Luna, but now we call Livey for short. She is named after Olivia de Havilland, the star of stage and screen.

Livey has outdone herself. She is the youngest basenji bitch ever to win Best in Show at 10 months and 11 days. She misses by one day the overall record when she went Best in Show at Concho Kennel Club in San Angelo,
Texas. We knew she would soon have a Best in Show because she had obtained, at that point, multiple group 1s and 2s despite her young age. She finished her championship starting in May in Albuquerque, and went straight to the Hounds Specialty in Houston and finishing there the second day of the show.

Luna
BOW, Houston Area Hound Assoc
July, 2017

Luna
New Champion, Winners Bitch, Beaumont KC
July, 2017

The Banner Year 2017

2017 was definitely a banner year!

First, Billy, Ahmahr Nahr's Billy the Kid, came home from Canada where in 2016 he had been ranked No. 2 Basenji and No.11 Hound and began showing in the United States.


                                              Ahmahr Nahr's Billy The Kid

Billy showed in the U.S.until approximately April 2017. Billy had a little fright
while he was in Canada with a photographer who had a gas gun type of lighting system, and he just didn't like to stand still for pictures because he thought the photographer was going to get him with the flash.
He hated photo sessions.
Nevertheless, Billy maintains a No. 10 ranking All Breed points in the U.S. as the year comes to a close.

Billy the Kid is a great old fashioned style Basenji who has a lovely personality
and is now happily at home visiting all the girls after his nearly two year absence.

Walker had some of his points mixed up with one of his siblings, but he
has all of his majors and is ready to finish. Jaa did keep a second girl who is almost ready to finish her title. Livey will no doubt, continue to be Sergio 's special basenji this next year as she has already ranked No. 8 in All Breeds in the U.S. That is quite a feat for a pup who is not yet 11
months old.

Grand Champion Gold Ahmahr Nahr's Africanadian James T. Kirk at Ahmahr Nahr went to show in Canada with Edgar Rojas and show he did, as No. 1 Basenji in the country and No. 2 Hound. He has won multiple Specialties and multiple Best in Shows there to go with his AKC Best in Show and Specialty wins.

This summer, we met our Canadian pup, a son of Gabe's sister, PBJ, who is called Noah. Noah was dynamite. He reminds me of Jake without stripes. He flew out to Winnipeg to join us at the Canadian National. He went Best Puppy and obtained several Best Puppy in Group wins.
He loves to show, and he loves all the people that he meets in shows. We immediately planned to bring this boy to the states as Sanda and Amy had been holding on to him for us.

Tiby's Wins Internationally

That we did following the World Dog Show where Noah accompanied Tiby, Edgar, and I. The World Dog Show was an incredible event combined as it was with a German National Show known as the German Winner Show 2017. We all made the journey to Germany on Air Canada out of Toronto. There were no issues with customs carriers and multiple stop flights. We travelled very easily, and flew into Munich and drove from Munich to Leipzig, the scene of the World Dog Show.

The World Dog Show this year had 31,000 entries. The German Winners Show had nearly 7,000.
We started out with a bang with Noah going best Junior Dog in Basenjis, winning his very first International FCI Trophy and the title Junior German Winner 2017. The FCI has two special classes and a special award for dogs they consider junior dogs, in this case, I0 months to 18 months. Unfortunately the German show did not have Groups or Best in Show for the junior
winner as FCI shows often do.
So that left us Tiby upon whom to pin our hopes for further wins, and he did not disappoint. Tiby is German Winner 2017, and he also won a Group 2 in a huge group of over 2,000 dogs, second only to the most beautiful Thai Ridgeback I have ever seen under an Italian judge. The breed judge was Besootho from Japan. His group trophy is considerably bigger than
he is.

After a day's rest, the dogs were off to compete at the World Dog show. There was a change in judges for basenjis which split the basenjis into two groups, the junior dogs, and all the rest of the dogs. This occurred immediately prior to the show beginning and made it almost impossible for us to get Noah into the ring. We made a valiant effort, we got a handler friend from Argentina who shows, Fila Brasileiros and Dogos and was therefore tough enough to
handle a basenji junior dog, to handle Noah, and he did that beautifully, to the extent he got that opportunity.

Due to the politics of the FCI, a judge from Brazil was belatedly tapped to judge this group and he favored Brazilian bred dogs to the point of immediately taking Noah out of competition and classifying him only Very Good, rather than the Excellent, he had been classified by the Japanese judge previously, and by other judges in Canada.

Meanwhile, Edgar was showing Tiby in the other ring to the other judge. Without hesitation, this judge gave Tiby first the champions class, the Best Male, then Best Overall, Best of Breed and World Winner Basenji 2017. When he reached this point, he had competed against the winner of the j unior
dogs, and taken that dog out of contention, thereby defeating at least 124, and perhaps 134 for that day, but neither he, nor his friend , the Thai Ridgeback from the German Winners show got the opportunity to proceed further through Groups as local European dogs in the Spitz and Primitive Group 5 obtained those placements, some of whom are dogs that we had never seen
and are very rare German and southern European hunting dogs. Nevertheless, we were thrilled.

This year produced a litter of seven with a couple of black and whites. Out of this, we kept another bitch Red Sheba. Red Sheba is major pointed and is a beautiful bitch that we have also kept for ourselves, at least pending further determinations.
As a result, I did not breed any of my bitches, but bred only boys this year so that I was sharing litter responsibilities with several other people in the hopes of getting brindle or two, and not being tempted to keep so many wonderful
puppies, but then who knows.