Ladmar Beagles has recently made the move from our Washington State home to 200 acres in Missouri. That's 10 times the area for our beagles to roam yet not as many bunnies it seems. The beagles will just have to take up squirrel hunting. We're excited about our new home, but it's taking a lot of work to settle in. Pictures coming soon. In honor of our new home, expect to see upcoming changes to the page.

We bought Chelsea as a pet with no intention of showing her, but the more I looked at her the more I thought she should be in the ring.  I ended up sending her to shows with friends of mine. Chelsea got 5 breed wins that show season but there were no majors so when she had 9 points we stopped showing her to wait until there were.  By the time there were majors Chelsea had just decided she didn't care for the show ring any more, just looked bored to death, so she ended her show career and had a litter of puppies sired by a male I bought from Chardon kennels, our Cody. 

We kept 1 puppy from Chelsea's first litter and let our daughter show it. Trisha is very shy and had never wanted to get in the ring before, yet she showed "Talia"  to her championship and then specialed her for 9 months to #10 ranked 13" in 1997 (Breed).  In Chelsea's 2nd litter we kept 2 bitches and sold one male to a friend.  They all finished by 1 year old. Anyway between Chelsea and her sweet beautiful Daughter "Talia"  we were hooked. To date we have bred 25 US champion show beagles (in 5 years of showing) and one Mexican champion.

As far as being dog people:  My parents bred dogs from the time I was born. They field trialed Am. Water Spaniels and had the first ones to come to the west coast. My grandmother was a hobby dog show person when I was in elementary school.  Jim is also from a family that has always had dogs.  His family is from Missouri and he coon hunted with hounds from the time he was a little guy. 

Before Beagles we showed Australian Cattle Dogs  (& still do) and Rotts (really miss Rott puppies, cutest babies in the world!) Way before that we showed UKC Redbones. Before we used Ladmar as a kennel name we used Whidbey.
 

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