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Timbreblue is Walt and Sharyn Hutchens. We share our home in southwest Virginia with a German Shepherd, Dallas; a Lab/Chow mix, Sin-Cin; and seven whippets: Ivy, Juliet, Aero, Blue, Nathan, Katie, and Party. Only Juliet, Blue, Aero, and Party are currently in our breeding program...most of our crew are just pets. We breed a little, show occasionally, rescue when we can, and just enjoy our dogs and life in general. Much of our time is spent on dog owner education through the Petdogs-L email list and various club activities and fighting the radical animal rights movement (more below).
Sharyn was a collie breeder in South Carolina who, due her daughter's persistence, got her first whippet in 1992. Walt lived in Front Royal and was working with Judy Street Dog, U-CDX, on their second obedience title with the United Kennel Club. We both were separated pending divorce when we "saw each other across a crowded room" on a dog email list on the internet in 1997. We met in person at a dog show a month later, married and moved to southwest Virginia a year after that, and are in the process of living happily ever after.
There's not much about dogs that we're not interested in -- genetics, behavior, health, psychology, training, breeding, history -- and especially the relationships between people and dogs and the good that they do for each other. In other words, pets. Between us, we have about 45 years' experience in dogs.
We're fortunate to be able to stay home and devote most of our time to the dogs. No, we're not independently wealthy, and we certainly don't make a living breeding dogs. We're just retired!
We are, of course, strong supporters of animal welfare, and quite unintentionally, we have become very involved in the fight against the animal rights movement. Animal rightists do not love animals; they simply hate people, and they are working incrementally towards ending pet ownership. For more on that topic, visit the Pet-Law site and the Animal Rights section of this site. Helping defeat anti-pet legislation, along with our efforts in pet owner education and breed education take up just about all the time we don't spend directly with the dogs.
Oh, and there's our favorite way to spend time...catching up on the lives of the pups who have left here to live with our friends who have bought them!
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