In the 1920’s an American, Roswell Eldridge, visited England looking for a spaniel like those in the paintings of King Charles I & II. When he could not find any he offered a reward of ₤25 for 5 years to the breeder who could produce a dog like those in the paintings.

Hence the rebirth of these delightful dogs and you might say saving the breed from extinction.

They were originally used as lap dogs or comforters but have been used “in the field” as they are after all spaniels. The breed standard says their temperament should be “gay fearless but non aggressive” and this is what we aim for in our dogs.

We began in Cavaliers in 1992 buying our first bitch from the Buraba kennels and we have added to this with some Homerbrent lines and believe that we are establishing a sound line of dogs that we can be proud of.

We moved to our current address in 1997 at which time it was no more than a house in a paddock. Therefore establishing the yard and house to be suitable for our animals (and us) has taken priority over showing our dogs. This means that we do not have many recent show ring accolades to speak of. It is now unfortunately the case that due to physical disabilities we are unable to show the Cavaliers as much as we would like.

However this does not mean that we have not been keeping our eye in as to the continuing evolution of the breed as we strive to breed the “perfect” Cavalier and we are proud to say that our home grown Roswell Wishful Thinkin’ gained third place in his very first show which just happened to be the Adelaide Royal Show. He has since produced a lovely son “AJ” who we have unfortunately not been able to show often enough. There is still time yet though as we get closer to having our yards just as we want them.

Recently we have been priveledged to enter the world of Tibetan Spaniels and we have our foundation bitch Telavier Aleisha. Aleisha was sired by Aust. Ch. P Zazz Montana to Lynandra (imported from Sweden) who won the Best of Breed at the Sydney Royal Show 2005.  We also now have a boy in our family of Tibetans "Barrajy Cruizin Round" or Jefferey to is friends. From this impressive beginning we hope to build our own successful dynasty of this heart winning breed.  We are looking forward to having fun showing them and thank Judy Gard, Pam Dron and Chris Scott for their time, advise, help and friendship which has put us on the road to this exciting new adventure.  You will find more information on the Tibetan Spaniels on their own page which at this stage is a work in progress.