Sealyham terriers, puppies, working dogs,
meets, events. A great family pet, the Sealyham
has everything, a big heart in a small body,
personality, character, charm and a great
sense of humour. Originally bred for
ratting and farm husbandry, the Sealyham is now
an endangered breed, but we are doing something about it....
Sealyhams Playing Tig Tag together. Namely Ralph and Ruby and their puppies just before they left for new homes..
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June 22 2010 Two new Sealyham pups from Devon. Eleven weeks old these pups are simply gorgeous and one MAY still be available.
Please contact Gail on Gail gail@gwestcott.wanadoo.co.uk
Cute or what?!!!****
June 3rd 2010
Sealyham Summer
Video of stills for the wonderful summer we have with Sealyhams:
19 May 20210
27 April 2010
Sealyhams on display: The WSTC will be showing at the following fair this Sunday. All are welcome to attend. We will be sending out more details about the fairs we are attending soon.....
British Falconry & Raptor Fair and
Country Fair.Sunday 2nd May.Chetwynd Park,Newport,Telford,Shropshire.
The
Working Sealyham Terrier Club GB will be displaying the pack and
parading in the main arena.
13 April 2010
As we write this Spring is firmly upon us ~ there is even a spring in the Sealyhams stride ! So it seemed like the perfect time to go out and get our boots wet along a stream.Hopefully these photos will make you feel as we did and we look forward to meeting members , old and new, at the Country Fairs and also at the meets that are in the process of being organised and will be posted on the website shortly.
Kind
Regards
Harry & Gail
Updated March 30th 2010:
Pics of fully grown Ilmer Terriers ....
New Ilmer Terriers....
2 Ilmer Terrier dog puppies. 10 weeks old. Legally docked, microchipped, wormed and fully innoculated. They are due to be photographed by Charles Sainsbury-Plaice for a forthcoming article on the breed. Once these photographs have been taken these 2 boys will be ready for sale to suitable homes.
For more information please ring Harry Parsons on 07974948312 or email gail@gwestcott.wanadoo.co.uk
Itinery for Crufts 2010.
We will be at Crufts Saturday13th March. Look out for us as we will be on the Eukanubu stand. We will also be parading from about 3.30pm in the vulnerable breeds section. This promises to be very exciting as they introduce Harry Parsons' Sealyham Terriers as the only working pack in the world! It will also be on More4 and on the internet. See more details below.
To view it on TV.... visit
Look out for it!
There are also some pics here of Ralph and Ruby and pups. They are settled in their new homes now. It was a great experience bringing them into the world and we will definately do it again. There are more WSTC breeders looking forward to new Sealyham puppies so please register or register on behalf of someone else if you want information for when the next litter arrives.
CRUFTS "PARADE" DATE & TIME:
Saturday March 13th 2010 - 3:55pm - Main ARENA - NEC Birmingham
OFFICIAL TITLE:
"A Celebration of Vulnerable British Heritage Dog Breeds"
SEALYHAM TERRIERS:
I am delighted that BHDB have managed to place Harry Parsons and his amazing pack of working Sealyham Terriers (the only pack in the world!) on the huge Eukanuba stand in Hall 2, where he will be all day Saturday dressed in traditional hunting gear. Harry will have at least 8 working Sealyhams and they make quite a sight! Additionally, if time allows, they have promised Harry can have two slots on the stage area behind their stand to talk about the Sealyham Terrier, past, present and future. BHDB are very grateful to Eukanuba fro their support, for Britain's rarest breed (2009 regs) a breed which actually won the show last year! If you get the chance, do please drop by the stand as introduce your selves to Harry, he will be delighted to see you.
http://www.british-heritage-dog-breeds.co.uk/
...........because they're worth it!
Udated Feb 2010
Letter From the Chairman:
I would like to wish everyone a very Happy New Year and hope that 2010 is a good year for the Sealyhams.
The Country Fairs that we attended last summer were a great success and created some very positive interest in the Sealyhams. We have decided that this year we will be doing 2 days at most of the shows, as to try to travel, set up early and stay all day was virtually impossible to do in one day. So camping and staying overnight will make life a lot easier and the response we have been getting certainly makes it worthwhile .Our thanks go out to everyone who gives up their time to make these shows a success for the Sealyhams, especially Frank, Kristine and Alison and their boys Archie, James and Mark without whose help it wouldnít be possible.
We have been asked to display our Sealyhams at Crufts on Saturday March 13th as part of the British Heritage Breeds Parade ~ this will be aired live on the internet and possibly televised ~ as soon as we have more details we will post them on the website.
We will hopefully be attending several major Country Fairs again this year. The list will be on the website shortly.
Some good news on the breeding front ~ Aliceís daughter Bunch had a lovely litter of 5 Sealyham puppies ~ Frank Salmonís Ralph and Ruby also produced 4 stunning Sealyhams. Frank Humphreyís Lola had 3 wonderful Ilmer Terrier pups, one of which they kept and also Mandy Hubbardís Floss mated Edward our Sealyham resulting on 3 more Ilmer Terrier pups. All of the pups have been successfully homed.
The litter of Ilmer Terriers that we ourselves bred were a year old last October and we are pleased to report that all 6 are doing very well and are all top ratters and hunt well with the pack, rabbiting and on the rivers as well as being loyal companions.
We have at present 2 four week old male Ilmer Terrier puppies from our lovely small Sealyham Rose.
Our A.G.M at Sealyham Mansion in late September was a very pleasant weekend. We had two joint meets with the Pembrokeshire & Carmarthenshire Minkhounds and drew the Sealy Brook with the Sealyham pack. The remainder of the time was spent reflecting on the Club and what it has achieved in its first year. Everyone agreed that it has been absolutely worthwhile and from a personal point of view it gives us great pleasure to know that the Sealyhams can still make such a big impact on people who meet them face to face whether it be hunting in the countryside or being displayed at a country show. We also receive a good amount of positive correspondence which is very encouraging.
Once again we are very grateful for all your support and look forward to another successful year with The Working Sealyham Terrier Club.
Very Best Wishes
Harry & Gail
Starting the Year with NEW Sealyham Puppies.....
Frank and Alison are delighted to announce that Ralph and Ruby have had pups. Ralph has sired 3 girls and 1 boy! Ruby, the loving mother, is never far away, even when we do a 'shoot' with the pups.....
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We'd like to thank Harry, Gail and Mark in particular for their help and advice surrounding the mating and the DELIVERY of the pups! Thank you so much.
The Sealyham world is a really lovely one as we have made such good friends through them.
For details of availability please call 0208 856 8592
Best for now
Devoted Sealyham Lovers
Alison and Frank......
By the way, Gail runs the membership of the Working Sealyham Club. She can be contacted on: gail@gwestcott.wanadoo.co.uk)
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Frank's Sealyham Cross puppies above - all gone! If you are interested in Sealyham puppies - please register in the column on the left. We will notify you as soon as a litter is available. In fact a litter of five was born yesterday. (October 16th.) Please register and then we will send you details when we have them.
October 2009
We had our Sealyham Meet in September this year. Please look at these photographs. They are stunning. We went up the river with the dogs, and as is normal these days, there was nothing to catch, but just to be out there in the river with the Sealyham pack - that was something special. Special thanks to Gail who did a LOT of cooking and looking after us, and to all the crew who camped. It was good to see Joe and Dave and their dogs. A wonderful first year for the WSTC! You can click on the image below to see the pics....
We've also got a little video of the event here. Hope you like it just double click to see it on Youtube and please leave a comment!
Contact us on mail@mysealyhams.co.uk
or gail@gwestcott.wanadoo.co.uk
Also, anyone who wants to see an interesting page on Sealyhams just click here to see a lovely little article about a London Sealyham in the 1920s. It also shows Alfred Hitchcock, Liz Taylor and Humphrey Bogart with their Sealyhams. They were THE most popular dog in Hollywood.....
http://www.british-heritage-dog-breeds.co.uk/sealyham-terrier.html
If you are not a member but would like to join, please email Gail - mail@mysealyhams.co.uk
Sealyham Lovers!!! You can email : mail@mysealyhams.com anytime, especially for editorial or if you want to send a photo of a Sealyham, or any stories or news items.
If you don't get a response, or if you have a question about breeding or puppies, or membership, email Gail or Harry direct on: gail@gwestcott.wanadoo.co.uk
The 'Field Magazine came out in June. It has a fantastic article on Sealyhams, so we advise you buy it today. W H Smiths stock it. Inside there are lovely photographs of Sealyhams and a great write up. We think Sealyhams are great and the way things are going, they will make a huge comeback. Everybody loves them!!!!!
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Stop Press The Sealyham has won Crufts Best of Breed March 2009!!
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This may just be the news we want. Check out Ralph and Ruby below.
If you want details of a Sealyham puppy PLEASE register in the form on the left and we will contact you! This video amply illustrates how lovely Sealyham pups are. Check it out. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIk-NL-XK28
You will also be sent our newsletters and other information about Sealyhams as this fabulous terrier makes its big comeback!!!!!
I couldn't help myself this morning. March 18th. I had to film the Sealyham Shadows of Ralph and Ruby. They make the most charming shadows don't they? Anyway, I put it to a bit of music too. I hope you like it. Please leave a comment!
Below we show our fears for the future, but now we feel the Sealyham might just make it back into the fold in 2009! What a shame the BBC didn't screen the event as it normally does.
Save Our Sealyhams
It is tragic that there are so few Sealyhams being registered at the moment. Just look at this article from the Telegraph:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/4512264/Terrier-breed-may-disappear-warns-Kennel-Club.html
Here are pics of Harry and Gail's pups. These crosses are perfect little family pets as well as good hunting dogs! They are Sealyhams crossed with Jack Russell. They will make lovely little companions in any home. I love their Sealyham ears and big paws....
The Sealyham pack with the puppies.....
Joe Kyrollos has just written a letter about his response to getting one of these pups from Harry.
We just got this letter from Guz. Christmas Eve 2008. He is delighted with the new puppy he has - a Jack Russell - Sealyham cross. Pure breeds are controversial at the moment because of the BBC program about pedigrees and faults they may have. As my vet said to me - it only takes one cross to iron out any problems with breeds. Sealyhams are already better than most breeds for their temprement and physical strength, but here we have a dog that is beautiful, carries all the Sealyham traits and is crossed with a lovely Jack Russell. Exactly the kind of dog that Richard and Judy - yes the TV Richard and Judy, have been campaigning for.....
COLLECTING MY PUP "TESS"
I was informed by a friend some months back that a litter of Sealyham Terrier cross Jack Russell pups had recently been born, and that I may be able to purchase one. He explained that I would have to contact the Working Sealyham Terrier Club if I was interested in one. I took the number and phoned the chap who bred the litter. He told me all about the breed, (and I might add "where Sealyham Terriers are concerned, there isn't much he doesn't know"). On listening to him talk, I got a rush of excitement as he described the characteristics, and hunting ability, of the two dogs used to produce the pups. I knew instantly, that a pup bred this way, was exactly the type of dog I was looking for. He explained that there are 6 in the litter, 3 bitches, and 3 dogs. The phone call ended with me securing myself a bitch.
Two months passsed, and I set off to Devon to collect my pup "Tess". The first thing apparent I noticed on meeting her was that she was fairly reserved within herself. She didn't come rushing towards me like an excitable lunatic. When I picked her up, she wasn't a wriggling mass of excitement (as I have known pups to be in the past) but rather she stayed calm, whilst carefully checking out this stranger who was holding her in his hands. It wasn't that she was nervous, far from it. She was displaying what I would interpret to be "signs of intelligence". She was showing me that she has the ability to think before she acts. What we might call assessing the situation first. The guy who bred her explained on the phone two months previously that Sealyhams are an extremely intelligent breed of terrier, and now I was seeing it for myself first hand.
I got her home, and again she displayed this same characteristic, by checking her new environment out carefully, before moving about the place. This is quite different to what I am used to. I have owned Jack Russell - type Terriers over the years, and on returning home with them, they have generally run around the place senselessly, oblivious to risk or danger. But not so with "Tess", she took a little time to take in her new environment, before mooching about her new home. However, within no time she was rolling around the place playing with my 5 month old Jack Russell pup "Ted". Please see attached a photo of "Tess" enjoying the comfort of her new home. She is truly a wonderful thing, and I am proud to own her.
Regards, Guz
Hi Guz!!! (Message from Frank:)
I'm really delighted about Tess. She looks lovely. She looks like a short-haired Sealyham. And I love the patch. Sealyhams seemed to have more eye patches in the olden days than they do today. She is going to be a fantastic dog and I think she will be your pride and joy. I know Harry - who appears in the video below, is the man you got Tess from - and you are right - he knows as much as anyone else on the planet about these dogs.
There is one of the litter of six left as far as I know. So if you are looking for a pup - this might be the one for you - just contact us.... mail@mysealyhams.com
Here's lovely letter from Anthony Jones about two Sealyham pups he has just got!
Dear Frank,
This is my story on my introduction to Sealyhams.
I retired from the police force in May 2007 and having kept many Jack Russell's. or Russell type terriers over the years, I decided I needed an interest and dog keeping, possibly showing was going to be my main passtime. Never taking these things lightly, I spent many, many hours on the Internet deciding about what might be the right breed for me, it was going to be a Terrier as I'd always kept terriers, and being someone who's never happier than when I'm out with my dogs they must love exercise, I climb the mountains for hours, especially this time of year.
I've never worked dogs but have always had an interest in the working field, again narrowing it down to terriers.
I narrowed my choice down to either the Sealyham or the Norfolk Terrier, although I knew neither was now, sadly, recognised as a working breed, as long as they enjoyed their long walks and displayed a certain gameness when out that would suffice, I found many litters of Norfolk's advertised on the Web but no Sealyhams. I emailed David WINSLEY of Davmar who advised me to telephone Margaret LONGMAN, which I did, she told me about the Sealyham being a rare Welsh origin breed that needed all the support it could get and being Welsh I should hang on for one of them.
That was it promoting the Sealyham Terrier became my cause, I would discuss the breed regularly in my local with anyone who cared to listen, including my local councillor. I found people over a certain age were fully aware of the breed and had had some contact with them as youngsters, and spoke highly of them. Anyone under the age of 60 for argument were totally unaware of the breed.
Having made contact with Margaret she informed me of the long waiting list for puppies, so in March of this year I began looking again and came accross the Lucas Terrier breed. So I thought, as I was now geting desperate for a puppy I put my name down for a Lucas Terrier, within two days I had a phone call from Paul HARRIS a Lucas Terrier keeper, he informed me of his litter and that althugh originally from Northants he now lived some 8 miles from me in a village called Resolven. "Well it wont harm to take a look" I thought, yes, I left having left a deposit for a liitle dog pup. now names scwbi (a welsh turn on Scooby, not my choice I hasten to add).
In the meantime I found a Sealyham Web Site owned by Ade and Michelle http://www.sealyham.org.uk/ and they were advertising a litter for sale. Not ideal I thought bringing up two puppies together but when was another litter going to become available, so my name went on the list and I now have Rwbi as well (a Welsh take on Ruby) If I'm not walking my dogs I'm scouring the Internet reading about them.
I must admit that having vsited the Sealyham Centenary show in Pembroke on the advice of Margaret LONGMAN, I must admit I wondered whether I'd made the right decision, I wasn't going to spend all that time grooming them and I didn't really like the show cut, not ideal for walking. it was only as I was leaving when I saw all the working terriers I realised that I was right in making my decision. And now that you guys are going to begin a working Sealyham Club, I'm really exited and really want to get involved. Scwbi by the way is from working stock anyway as Paul the breeder is a vermin control officer and works his dogs.
I now have plans to start my own working Sealyham pack, when the time is right, I'm sure they'd look great, working along the mountains and rivers around where I live.
He's now 9 1/2 months and she's 8 1/2 months old. Took them to Newquay and St Ives in Cornwall last summer and was inendated with people interested in both breeds.
I have forwarded photos of them following their severe haircuts, but it keeps the house clean, and a few others including the area where I live called the Afan Valley, outside Port Talbot. Really look for ward to meeting up in the future.
Yours
Anthony JONES
Above is a clip from the Discover Dogs show, which we attended! Lovely reference to Sealyhams from Harry. More to come shortly.....
Gary (Guz), Mark, Frank James and Harry show off their Sealyhams at the Discover Dogs Show.
How many Sealyhams can you see?
Below are some pictures taken recently, showing the dogs....
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