information updated on 28.2.10

 

WELCOME TO THE HOME OF

INGELLA

 

The Kennel name INGELLA has been owned by Ingrid Young since 1986.    

 

 

I live in a small bungalow along with 5 English Setters and 3 Miniature Schnauzers, all mingling together in harmony on the Notts/Derbys Border.   My main breed is the English Setters.   I occasionally breed litters when I have wanted to keep one to show and I also Judge at Open Show level.   All my Setters are Hip Scored under the KC/BVA Scheme at around one year of age.  My big highlight in the show world being when I won the RESERVE DOG CHALLENGE CERTIFICATE with SH CH BELLESETT CAMPBELL OF INGELLA at the CRUFTS CENTENARY SHOW in JANUARY 1991.  In 2007 Hartsett As You Like It At Ingella won Best Special Puppy Dog at Crufts and the same year Wansleydale Waterloo to Ingella gained a CC and RCC.      I have owned 3 Junior Warrant winners, approx 8 dogs with Stud Book numbers, made up a Show champion Bellesett Campbell of Ingella, others with challenge Certificates and Reserve challenge Certificates.      I have also bred but in the ownership of other people, Setters with RCC's and a Junior Warrant namely Ingella Prairie Gold J.W. RCC who is owned by Sylvia Cole and now a Veteran, and Anitas James's bitch Ingella Pinch of Nutmeg with 2 RCC's. 

 

ENGLISH SETTERS are not the easiest of breeds to live with and can at times be quite a handful.   On saying that they are so affectionate and loving, naughty but nice, very willfull and have a mind of their own.   One of their most annoying traits is 'throwing a deaf one' deliberately.   Yet you can tell them off and they still stand there wagging their tails.   They are very very boisterous and need plenty of exercise both road walking and off the lead galloping.   Their coat is long and silky and must be regularly groomed thoroughly and any knots gently teased out.  It is necessary for health reasons to keep both their ears and feet trimmed but NEVER EVER THE BODY.   Every Breed can have health issues and English setters are no different.  They can have skin problems,  hip problems and deafness, which are the main ones (these are outlined in a little more depth under Health Issues) -  and a dedicated Breeder will have tried to eradicate them as much as possible.  However, life has no guarantees.

  

ANITA lives down South in Herefordshire not far from the Malvern Hills with her husband Owen and Daughter Shannon. In 2008 I gave her a separate interest in my Ingella Affix.   She started showing in 2005 and has already won 2 RCC's with Ingella Pinch of Nugmeg  (Indi), which in itself is a great achievement with you first ever show dog.    Indi is just short of a couple of points towards getting her Show Certificate of Merit, which she will no doubt do with ease when she returns to the ring.    Indi was mated to Sh Ch bournehouse royal Quest and gave birth to her first small litter of l Bitch and 2 Dogs on the 22nd December, 2008.  Anita has kept an orange  bitch called Jenna (Ingella Never Ending Dream) .    Shannon, Anitas daughter is already a kean Junior Handler and is hoping one day to have a dog of her own to show if all goes to plan. 

 

 

   MY INITIATION INTO

 ENGLISH SETTERS

  

It has been mentioned in my guestbook that I should show a photo of the name behind my Affix.    So I thought this would also be an ideal opportunity to give a brief introduction into how I got into the world of English Setters in the first place, and also how the name Ingella was formed.

 

I owned my very first English Setter at the age of l5, Registered as Juno of Beachmount.  She was a blue belton bitch with a left black eye patch.   At the time English Setters were quite rare and we ordered her from a Kennel in Nottingham.   The day we went to collect her she had arrived by train from Scotland and was still in the wooden box with the metal strip round the top full of straw.  Some years later We decided it would be nice to have puppies, so my parents duly took her somewhere in Sheffield to be mated.  As she wasnt too happy about the situation we were asked to leave her and collect her in a few days time.   She never did get mated and it wasnt long afterwards we found out she had a very large tumour on her ovaries and unfortunately never made it through the operation.

 

After many years I have just located a couple of photos of 'Juno' - I think at the time she was around 4 years old as I know and I was about 19 or 20. !!!!!!!!!!!!   Wow dont I look a thin 9 st in those days.   How things inflate over the years.

 

A  RATHER YOUNG INGRID

dont know how but we registered her  JUNO OF BEACHMOUNT 

 

My next English was after I had left home and settled down a little.   He was a blue belton dog called Thixandale Charon (Snoopy) bred by John Butkus in Nottingham 1986.  I was encouraged to show him, but never really excelled - both of us being new to the show scene.   I then decided to have a friend for Snoopy and purchased Bournehouse El Dorado of Ingella an Orange belton dog (Brie) from the Bournehouse Kennels 1989 - and this is where the Website really begins.  If you have a look under OUR DOGS at the bottom of the page there is a list ofinformation on all the individual dogs that have been shown over the years.   

 

I decided I needed an Affix  (Kennel Club name)  if I was to be serious about showing, and hence I obtained the name INGELLA.   Derived from Ing (part of my christian name) and Ella (a friends Champion Golden Retriever that I really admired) 

 

1989 shows the first photo of me at blackpool championship Show when Campbell won his 3rd CC and became Show Champion Bellesett Campbell of Ingella.    I am sitting outside the Beer Tent celebrating my win and also the same day won Best of Breed and shortlisted in the Gundog Group. In fact if my memory serves me right he ended up winning Best of Breed on another occasion, also being shortlisted again in the Gundog Group.

 

2008 show the second photo taken at the English Setter Association championship Show where I am sitting ready to go in the ring with Tequila.   Ingella Singapore Sling.

 

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1989 - 2008 

 

SH CH BELLESETT CAMPBELL OF INGELLA                

                         

                                                       

This takes us to September 2008 when Anita James  joined us but with a separate interest in the Ingella Affix.    

2009

This starts the beginning of the new journey with the addition of the two  hopefull INGELLA pups (bred by Anita)  Jenna - owned by Anita  and Saga owned by me..   If all goes to plan they should be out and about around August time. Their journey into the world of showing, unfolds on their individual pages.

 

 

2009 started out being very sad for me as in April my Mum passed away amd joined the rest of the Ingellas that are in Rainbow Bridge, the minis and the setters during the last 7 years of her illness takenen it in turn to visit her in a specialist Home for Dementure and Alzeihmers.  This in fact took its toll on me and it took me about 2 months to come to terms with everything, but what are friends for.   I was sooo lucky and special thanks have to go to Lynn & Bill , who in fact I only met in February '09 when they took on Tequila and what a life she now has with them.    Because of this reason I decided I should take time out for me - I firstly in August went to spain with my Brother and his Family, I then  for the first time in !!!!!!! many years,  rented a fabulous cottage overlooking the Northumberland Coast in a lovely village called Embleton.  Linda Taylor of the Wansleydale Affix has a holiday cottage up there, so we met up on the beach and then a chinese meal in the evening.   The easiest beach to get to was Low Newton and it was absolutely beautiful and almost deserted with the exception of William, Dusty, Lewi, Nellie and joining us for a couple of Evenings midweek Lynn, Bill and Tequila .. Williams daughter from his first litter.  Photos below of of us all at varying times of the week.  

 

 

Me, Lewi, Dusty, William

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William Jumping the waves

 

Jenna,   Anitas Puppy is holding her own in the Show Ring and Qualified for Crufts, William too has attended quite a few shows ,  but unfortunately Saga can no longer be shown due to one tiny tooth out of alignment ,and he has well and truly landed on his feet now living  with the most fabulous couple Val & Peter from Rutland Waters.  All the show dogs have their own webpage, and the other INGELLAS  in other ownership can been seen on rogues Gallery.    So if you have just come across my website and have an Ingella, please ensure I have a photo on Rogues Gallery.

 

I  pushed the boat out towards the end of the year and really tried to campaign William - info on that on his webpage (Hartsett As You Like It At Ingella). Veteran Dusty (Ingella Dusty Gold) has also had a few outings this year. 

In October 2009 I went off on Holiday yet again - this time to Saltburn on Sea in Yorkshire.   Rented a Lovely whitewashed Lighthouse Keepers cottage - a terrace in a bank of about 7 literally on the top of the cliffs overlooking the sea. Unfortunately for me my back went 3 days before I went and it wasnt that good on holiday either, so with ta few other problems I went home a couple of days earlier.(Once again I met up with another setter friend Pat Yarrow - Sorrodale Affix) who took me to a fabulous beach and back to her home for bacon butties. But at the cottage the garden unbeknown to me, wasnt attached to the house it was a few doors away plus the 'fully fenced and dog proof' didnt account for gaps under the mesh fencing, and holes.   So that took me ages to sort out, so much so  they could never go in alone, but always accompanied. Wild Willie escaped more than once, followed by Tequila, who  with her owners Bill & Lynn had joined us again for a couple of days. The nearest beach was a bit full of seaweed and wooden wind breakers, so we went back to the beach Pat had shown me which was about 7 miles away and was reasonably pleasant, but on the day Tequila visited there were literally thousands of seagulls and Tequila set off never to return.(Well did eventually to be kept on the lead forever more).  She was followed by Wild Willie but ...... he did actually come back to my whistle.

 

 

The Lighthouse keepers cottage

Poor Nellie always seems to be missing on photos so here is the proof she was with us

Myself, Lynn and The gang at Saltburn

I think I have now totally lost the plot as  at the end of October, Yes .... 2009, I am collecting 2 new female Pepper/Salt Mini Schnauzers puppies which are in fact from Ingella Breeding lines. Ingella Gooseberry Fool (Berry) who I bred is their mum, and they are going to be called Pepsi & Cola.  Their show names are Ferncliffe Pepsi and Ferncliffe Cola. When my mum died I gave Berry to a friend Karen in Morecambe and she also owns a couple of minis I bred along the way. Berry as luck had it produced a litter and thanks to that friend she kindly gave me two  puppies back., You will then be able to read about their antics on the Mini Schnauzer pages. In fact Nellie who I think is now about 10 years old (Ingella Fiddlesticks) is actual their Great, Great, Great Grandmother.   Think its going to be a busy christmas for me doggy wise .

  

CHRISTMAS DAY 2009 - SILVERHILLS WOODS

WILLIAM

DUSTY

 

This is where Lewi and Nellie were last seen

 

 

2010

I hope you have a very Happy, Healthy and Prosperous New Year

 

 

Lewi and William In the snow 10th Jan

Resolutions are not something in my vocabularly, but I have vowed to get both the dogs and myself even fitter this year by walking further,  along with attempting to handstrip the new mini pups and not give in by clippering them.

Its not been a very good start so far as its the 10th Jan and I have been housebound with the snow for over a week.   In fact we are all lying around liked beached whales - with nothing to do other than eat, sleep and watch TV --- Boring for us all.  Only 56 days to our West Cumbrian holiday - cant wait.

 

CRUFTS dog show NEC 11-14TH MARCH 2010  This will be my first show of the year when Gundog Day is on the Finals Day this year 14th - Entries close on line l5th January, and It ends up being quite an expensive day for Exhibitors and even if you win your class - you dont win money.  £21/dog to enter, Car Parking approx. £10, Catalogue £5,  petrol, Dog Sitter if like me you live alone £30 (three visits) , Refreshments and not forgetting the Bottle of Baileys as a friend is driving my car back for me.   You usually have to be in the Hall by ll a.m. or before and Exhibitors/dogs cannot leave until 4 p.m. So you spend hours the day before, bathing, blow drying and preparing your exhibits. The next morning get up around 5 a.m. to sort all the dogs out, pack your bag with your grooming equipment, dog bedding, make the sarnies, fill the flask, etc. I will this year be leaving about 6.40 a.m. as one of my dogs is in the very first class at 9 a.m.and from where I live it takes around an hour, but then you have to park the car, and get from the car park to the NEC which takes another  half hour at least.  The dogs are then benched in wooden open cubicles, they are allowed off to be exercised and to be shown.  The rest of the time they tend to just either go to sleep,  or lie there and watch the world go by, and occasionally have to grin for a photographer.  At this stage could I mention, if you are visiting Crufts as a Spectator, please dont stroke the dogs without permission even though they do sometimes look irrisistably tempting.   I am not for one minute suggesting they would bite, far from it, but they can  have a stressful and very long day, for some of them it is their first time, it is noisey, sometimes frightening and you have to remember some of the dogs are elderly and just want to sleep undisturbed, and also English Setters have quite white coats and the Exhibitor has probably spent hours and hours ensuring they are clean.  If the bench is unattended then just walk by.   4 p.m. you queue to get out the NEC, (unless of course you have been lucky enough to have won Best of Breed, you then stay for the Gundog Group and if you win that, you go on to the Final for Best in Show.) wander in a tired daze back to the car, queue for ages to get out the Car Park,  and finally get home totally exhausted around 6.45 p.m.  To then be greeted by the house dogs, feed everyone, but before you finally crash you used to turn on the TV to watch the Finals and try and guess who would win BEST IN SHOW. Of course from 2009 r the BBC in their wisdom decided not to show Crufts either before, during or after.   I did manage to watch it live on the internet, I cant remember what site it was on, but it was very intermittent and very difficult to see the images properly so I gave up.   Another year at Crufts been and gone. I will mention on the individual dogs own webpage, how they have done.

I have to say I think in all the years I have been showing, I have only missed Exhihbiting at Crufts on one year when a friend of mine was the Judge.  I still went but just to spectate.

Crufts is now only 2 weeks away, so the dogs are having plenty of exercise, being trimmed and groomed regularly, keep tidying up all those little stray bits and they have both had a pre show bath and blow dry, as a sort of dummy run.

In the meantime as the only Ingella I have is Ingella Dusty Gold (Dusty) who is now 9 years old, I have no more Ingella bitches of my own to continue the lines.  I have been very naughty and at the ripe old age of 63 decided to start over again and just collected a beautiful Blue Dog puppy I am calling Raffles who is 9 weeks old, and a gorgeous Orange Bitch puppy from a different Breeder called Misty who is 8 weeks old.   

   

THANK YOU FOR TAKING THE TIME TO DROP INTO MY WEBSITE AND TAKE A LOOK AT  ENGLISH SETTERS PAST AND PRESENT.    I HOPE YOU ENJOY THE REST OF THE INFORMATION.