ARCADIA

Our Foundation Stock

How we started in Beardies

My late husband Jim, and I started showing and breeding dogs under the ARCADIA name in 1967, before our daughter Mandy was born. We started with German Shepherd Dogs.  Jim & I had two families put together his mine and ours; this gave us six children.  The shepherds were not good around the kids, so we started in 1973 to look for a good family dog.  

At the time Jim, was in the Navy and we lived up north of Chicago.  We bought a small store and ran it 24 hours a day, we had a police officer that came in all the time to find out what dogs we had showed the past weekend and how we had done.  He knew we were looking for a good family dog. He was friends of Linda Nootbar, of Rich-Lin Kennels, and her mother Jean, they lived down in Chicago at the time.  He is the one that told us all about the wonderful Beardies.  Linda and Rich just happened to have a seven-month-old male they had taken back from a family.  Jim and I went to see this young dog, he ran across the floor and we both knew we could not leave with out  (Max).  What a wonderful put together side-moving animal.  He did not have very much coat at the time as these people who had him, had not taken good care of him.  We sat for hours talking with the Nootbars about beardies and our showing dogs, they had been showing his sire and dam in miscellaneous. 

 We took Max home and it was love at first site for him and the six kids, he went everywhere they did, and waited for the school bus everyday.  We got him into good coat so when we took the shepherds to any albreed shows we showed him our selves in miscellaneous.  He soon started to win & became the top miscellaneous dog that year, competing with other beardies and about five other breeds. 

 We retired from the Navy and moved in June of 1976 to Indiana.  The 2^nd night we were there, Max got out in the middle of the night and was hit by a car. There has never been another dog like him and never well be another.  He left us a grand legacy; we had two pups out of him by two different bitches.  If we had not had them, I think we would have gotten out of dogs.  The male pup Ch Rich-Lins Whiskers of Arcadia ROM, became the top American bred beardie the first year we showed for points, he was one of the first beardies to finish his championship.  The bitch, CH Rich-Lins Molly Of Arcadia ROMX went on to become the top all-time all breed dam in the history of pure bred dogs, a record she holds still today.

We have in the last 31 years bred over 350 AKC champions, Best in Show winners in all colors.  If it had not been for that wonderful silly gray dog, none of it would have happened.

OUR FIRST BEARDIE

MAX

RICH-LINS RISING SON
3-22-1974  to  7-10-1976
Sire of 4 AKC Champions

                                                                         1.                     2.             3.                         4.

                              1.  CH Arcadias Midnight Munday ROMX   dam of 12 AKC Champions 
                                                                  3-25-1977   to  4-5-1990
                                            CH Rich-Lyns Whiskers of Arcadia ROM  X  CH Rich-Lins Molly of Arcadia ROMX

                                            
                        2.  CH Edenborough Quick Silver ROMX  dam of  24 AKC Champions # 2 All Time beardie dam
                                                                  4-17-1977   to  6-13-1990
                                                                 Heyescott Jack Tar 1 res cc x Tambora Penny Black ROM

                        3. CH Rich-Lins Molly of Arcadia ROMX  dam of 33 AKC Champions # 1 All Time allbreed dam
                                                                 10-17-1975 to 12-12-1987
                                                                 Rich-Lins Rising Son x Edenborough full O'Life ROM (littermate to Blue Bracken)

                            4. CH Edenborough Happy Go  Lucky ROMX  sire of  57 AKC Champions # 5 All Time sire
                                                                 4-14-1977   to  12-12-1989
                                                 ENG CH Edenborough Blue Bracken ROM X Davealex Dawn Reign ROM

                                                                          WHISKERS

                                                                         
                                                              CH RICH-LINS WHISKERS OF ARCADIA ROM
                                                                                                                  10-31-1975     8-1979
                                                                              Rich-Lins Rising Son  X  AM CAN CH Hootnanny of Bengray ROM

    We bought our first beardie, RICH-LINS RISING SON, in 1974.  We showed MAX, in the miscellaneous classes until Feb 19, 1977.  Our next male CH RICH-LINS WHISKERS OF ARCADIA ROM, sired by RISING SON, became the # 1 American Bred beardie for 1977, WHISKERS took many working group wins.

    Our Foundation bitch, CH RICH-LINS MOLLY OF ARCADIA ROMX, became the TOP ALL TIME DAM of ALL BREEDS, a record she still holds today thou she has been gone for allmost 14 years now,  MOLLY was also sired by  RISING SON,   MOLLY produced 33 AKC CHAMPIONS.

    In  the spring of 1977, we imported a dog and bitch puppy from Edenborough Kennels in England.  The male CH EDENBOROUGH HAPPY GO LUCKY ROMX , was the top beardie sire for the years of 1979, 1980, 1981 and 1982. He still holds the record of being one of the TOP ALL TIME SIRES

, Lucky was the sire of 57 AKC Champions.   Lucky also took many working group wins, and stayed in the top 10 of the breed for years.

    The bitch we imported CH EDENBOROUGH QUICK SILVER ROMX, was # 1 dam for the years of 1988 and 1993. Sally is also the #2 ALL TIME BEARDIE DAM behind her kennel mate MOLLY, Sally was the dam of  24 AKC Champions.

                     We are the co-breeders of the #1 Obedience dog in the United States for 2 years.

                     Twelve of our sires and dams are in the TOP ALL TIME sire and dam list.

                     Many of our dogs have passed herding test, and some have AKC Herding titles.

                    We are the co-breeders for the Hight in Trail herding beardie at the BCCA National in 2001.

                     We are the co-breeders of one of the TOP Agility beardies in the United States.

                        WE ARE VERY PROUD OF ALL THE TITLES AND WINS ARE DOGS HAVE EARNED,
                        AND ALL THE WONDERFUL PEOPLE THAT HAVE OWNED AND SHOWN OUR DOGS.

                                                                                    Jim & Molly

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