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Geboortevrouwtje Joke Van Beek
Djaya de Besos – Hniña de Besos – Holalade Djaya
( in loving memory Cocó – Hijo – Ke-sera – Ròsa – Besos – Gala – Rubí )
Van Hoefflaecken’s Cocó

4th quarter

To start off this fourth quarter of the year we had a lovely party!
Yes, we did : for our Holala de Djaya on October 1 celebrated her first birthday!
As did het 3 sisters and 5 brothers.
Doesn’t it always go só fast………..
Sadly enough the birthdaywalk – due to the bad wheather – had to be postponed.
We’ll catch up later.

I Besos di Ròsa Van Hoefflaecken's Cocó – 10 jaar al weer

Holala de Djaya now 1 year old – with cake and present

eating cake with the family

But……after joy. the day thereafter there was sadness.
The owners of Rana Ke-sera ( at home Saartje ) informed us that she also had taken off to our little
cloud up above > 15 years, 8 months and 2 days old!
Now all 10 sibling are together again.

R-litter of Ke-sera de Cocó’s Hijo

In between all our walks with in our house born puppies and their families, it was urgently needed
to demand some time for ourselves and to also show us in Spain!
And once there, do the same in shows there. So said, so done.
We started of in Catalunya, where our little dragon was to try and win a Catalonian Junior point >
and she managed. To make it even more surprising : the lady made BIS Group I Junior!!!
And not only that : a little later she made BIS 3 Group Junior!

Holala de Djaya : after BIS Group I Junior
BIS 3 Group Junior Valls – Spain

And then, before the next show > a wonderfull week of just being a vacationer!

Then it was of to the deep south : Jerez de la Frontera, where there was to be held a National as well
as an International Show.
During the International show the mandatory Spanish point was to be won.
Applying to as well mama Djaya de Besos as a Veteran as to Holala de Djaya as a Junior.
On day 1 ( the National ) both girls surprised me!
Djaya de Besos made Selected Best 6 Group I.
And her dauhgter Holala de Djaya made Selected Best 6 Group I Junior!
What an unexpected party that was!
It became even better when our Spanish friends with one of their Gos d’Atura Català made
Selected Best 6 Spanish Breeds!

And then it was time for the show with that so important mandatory point.
Djaya de Besos would have more chances in the future.
But for Holala de Djaya it was ‘now or never’, for during the next applicable show she would be 1
month too old for that mandatory Junior point! So I was a bit nervous……..
But : both girls did what needed to be done and both won that mandatory point.
Holala de Djaya was even selected Best 6 Group I Junior.
Geboortevrouwtje and supporter sister/aunt Hniña de Besos are super proud of them!

With a load of trofees the girls came home.

Djaya de Besos and Holala de Djaya with their Spanish trophies

Once home it soon was time for a new attempt for the last needed Junior point for the
Dutch Junior title. That we did in Leeuwarden at the Fryslan Cup show.
And she did it! She even made Reserve BOS > the ‘bouncy ball’ as the judge called her!

Holala de Djaya with her Best Junior rosette

Now the little lady only has to try and win the last points for Junior Ch Catalunya.
Catalunya …… the most difficult title to win : for Junior as well as for Adult.
But that we are leaving as to-be-done next year.
For this year…..we are done!

about to enjoy Christmas treats

Christmas

Geboortevrouwtje Joke Van Beek
Djaya de Besos – Hniña de Besos – Holalade Djaya
( in loving memory Cocó – Hijo – Ke-sera – Ròsa – Besos – Gala – Rubí )
Van Hoefflaecken’s Cocó

3rd quarter

As was to read before…….this part of the year started very sad.
With the loss of our old lady, our ‘prima donna’ Ròsa Ke-sera.
But at what a wonderfull age : 15 years, 5 months and 3 days…….
We miss her terribly, but can accept it due to her age.
And the sweet responses ands attentions from our ‘puppy-families’ also help.

Ròsa Ke-sera

2 days later we for the first time had entered Holala de Djaya – who just made 9 months old – in a
show as a Junior > an outdoor show in Belgium.
Decided to go, despite our grieve.
Due to Ròsa Ke-sera getting older, hardly had been able to practice wit Holala de Djaya.
Even though the judge recognized that, she received a wonderfull judgement and her 1st Exc 1
She was to go to the Ring of Honour 2 x : as Best Junior and as BOB = Best of Breed.
There she to my bewilderment was selected best 6 of Group I…..!!!
One week thereafter she also in The Netherlands won her first point for the Junior title, what’s that I
say : she even made Reserve Best Female and so already won a 1/4 point for the adult Dutch title.
Despite the – due to the circustances – lack of training, lookes like her showcarrier has started
In these first 2 months possible, she managed to win the Junior titles of Belgium, Germany,
Luxembourg.and International. Also made German Junior Winner 2025 end Euskadi Winner 2025
She started in Spain and in The Netherlands the first two poins have been given..
On several shows in Belgium and Spain she was placed or selected in the Ring of Honor!

Her mum Djaya de Besos now also finished for Veteran Champion The Netherlands and by doing
so also made Grand Champion The Netherlands

Holala de Djaya en haar moeder
Djaya de Besos : Best Junior en Best Veteran

And then it is September 13 again, and we celebrate birthday nr 12 of the I-litter of Ròsa Ke-sera.
Celebrate…..for the fist time without our so-beloved I Besos di Ròsa………………
And also without their mum Ròsa Ke-sera.
Ofcourse we congratulate and are happy for the siblings of I Besos di Ròsa.
But tears of sadness and greive did flow.

I-miracles of Ròsa Ke-sera

‘one and only’ I Besos di Ròsa

Believe it or not….there also were positive tears!
For one of the owners of one of I Besos di Ròsa’s siblings > Iduña de Ròsa = Saartje, surpised us
with such a lovely gesture : 7 roses for our 7 deceased Cocódotjes! She keeps on surprising us!
My-oh-my…..do we miss Ròsa Ke-sera and I Besos di Ròsa………….
2025.09.27………already 1 year without Besos di Ròsa.

7 roses for our 7 deceased Cocódotjes

no words

1st6 months
up to and including

First of all
ALL Schapendoes pages
– so the general one but also all individual pages of the girls –
have been updated > go have a look!

Yep – really, 1st. 6 months – all at once!
The first month was spent on saying goodbye to the last puppies – ’the foreighnors’- from
Djaya de Besos her H-litter. And checking, cleaning and putting away all that puppy-stuff again.

The second month we immediately started with a party!
For our Ròsa Ke-sera on 2025.02.01 made 15 years old!
From this litter of 10, now 4 are still alive > true die-hards they are.

Ròsa Ke-sera now 15 years old

This year’s 2nd and 3rd month we used to go visit the H-puppies in the homes of their new families
– our well known ‘we-are-appr-4 months-old’ visits.
As all was well with everyone, gave them all the Pedigrees and they also were provided with a
lovely photo of this litter of 9 – taken just before the first puppy was to leave
We only need to still visit our ‘Swedish little guy’, agreed upon doing that later.

H-litter of Djaya de Besos – almost 8 weeks old

It then was time to let the Raad van Beheer know that they all had found a new loving home
> to sign them over to the new owners! Done.

And so by then it already was second half of March
Shortly before, on March 13 our Djaya de Besos celebrated birthday nr 8!
It goes way too fast > 8 years old also means she now is a veteran!

Djaya de Besos – celebrates birthday nr 8

On March 30 we had the first birthdaywalk with the V-miracles of Hniña de Besos.
It was a very enjoyable happening with only happy and free little miracles.
At the end of the walk we – with almost everone – once again went for pancakes.

1st birthday litterwalk V-miracles of
Hniña de Besos

And then there was end of April, and we were to enjoy the first walk with the H-miracles of
Djaya de Besos. The with us usual ‘we-are-appr.-7-months-old’ first litterwalk.
Out of the 9, 7 were present and ofcourse mama Djaya de Besos was there too.
Due to circumstances 2 puppies could not make it – we missed them.
I was very happy to see the little rascals again – they even behaved perfectly when they for the first
time were to join us when we went for pancakes.

7-months-old litterwalk H-miracles of
Djaya de Besos

Because it could and we felt like traveling agaian, Djaya de Besos started participating in shows as
a Veteran > did so in several countries.

In appr. 9 weeks she managed to obtain the Veteran titles of Luxembourg, Belgium, Germany,
International and The Netherlands
In those 10 shows, she was 6 x BOB ( Best of Breed ), 2 x BOS ( Best Opposite Sex ) and every
time she was Best Veteran…..só!!!
For Spain she also has enough points, just needs the ‘obligatorio’…..
In Spain she even made nr 3 in Group I and in Belgium Nr 2 in Veteran Group