BREEDER PROFILE ~ ACOMPLISHMENTS
My experience with Boston Terriers began after high school with a job working for a St. Bernard breeder where I fell in love with big dogs. A few years later I moved to share an apartment so having a large dog with no yard was not a feasible choice for me at the time. As fate would have it, my roommate got a 9 lb. Boston Terrier and that little dog convinced me that this breed was actually a "BIG dog in a small body", definitely not a wimpy breed in relation to its size. I was hooked from then on and in 1979, bought a champion sired bitch for a pet. I decided to line breed her to a champion to try to produce an exhibition quality puppy. The result was my first champion -Ch What's Up Tiger Lily, nicknamed "Oui". She in turn produced my first champion male- Ch Oui's Hi Step'n CocaCola Cowboy, C.D.. He was the first one I showed entirely from the bred by exhibitor class, which is to me, the most admirable class to finish a dog from.
I then tackled the dog show game from the other end of the spectrum. I trained and exhibited Cowboy in obedience competition to earn an American obedience companion dog (C.D.) championship title to add to the end of his name. In the following years, he sired 10 champions (with others pointed) to earn him a top producer/s Register of Merit (R.O.M.) title (given when a male Boston sires 5 champions with one asterisk for every additional 5. A female is given the R.O.M. title for producing 3 champions). Cowboy's first champion was Ch. CG's Hi Step'n Oui Tamborine, aka: Tammy, who was rated the top winning Boston bitch in 1990. Cowboy died in 1999 but his semen has been frozen with plans for a litter in 2008.
In 1993 my double Cowboy granddaughter Ch WC's Mon Ami Of Oui, R.O.M. was #2 Boston bitch nationwide and #1 bitch in 94. Also in 94, my young male Ch Oui's First Class Frequent Flyer ("Pygar") won Reserve Winners Dog and Best Bred By Exhibitor at the Boston Terrier Club of Am. National Specialty Show under Ann Wanner. He went on to sire 5 champions to date with another needing two pts to finish. In 1995 the #1 ranked bitch was "Crissi", my home bred Ch WC's Victoria's Secret of Oui, ROM. She was also in the top ten for 96, barely beat out to finish as #2 top winning bitch. She went to the prestigious Westminster Kennel Club show in NYC in 1997 and took home the first Award of Merit. When she retired following that show she had a long winning record including two Award of Merits at two of the BTCA National Specialty shows, 9 Best In Specialty Shows and 13 Group One wins .
She since went on to produce 4 champions. Her son Ch Oui's Victor Victorious, ROM * is carrying on the family tradition and siring some awesome puppies for co-owner Suzanne Shiloh in Chicago. Victor was Reserve Winners Dog and Best Bred By Exhibitor at the BTCA show in 1999 under the late Jacqueline Hungerland. He has sired two BTCA Award of Merit winners himself, one of who was also awarded AOM at Westminster.
In 2006 my homebred boy Oui's Ticket To The Top was awarded Reserve Winners Dog at the BT Club of America show in Portland, Oregon.
It has especially been my goal in trying to breed sound HEALTH TESTED dogs that win, to focus on good movement. A correct moving Boston terrier is proof that the dogs' structure and all parts thereof come as close to the breed standard as possible. I continually scrutinize my dogs and critique them honestly in order to do this. One must be open minded and willing to breed to males outside your own lines to bring in or correct qualities when needed. There is no place for kennel blindness when breeding quality dogs.
I am proud of my dogs and their accomplishment, however, put simply, they serve their very best as my companions. They are all I could ever hope for and more. As for the future, I hope to continue breeding sound dogs that excel in the show ring with my distant plan to work on an AKC judging license for when I retire from dog grooming.
I am a Houston Kennel Club member, and a charter member of the Greater Houston BTC, formed in 1989, and held the office of Secretary until 1998, president for several years thereafter, and newsletter editor for over ten yrs. I SERVED ON THE BTC OF AMERICA's BOARD OF DIRECTORS FROM 2001-2006.
My dogs have been featured in the 1988 Anna Nicholas B.T. book (out of print), Susan Bulanda's Boston Terriers (1994), and the Official BT book by Muriel Lee (1998).
SUZANNE MAXINE UZOFF
HOUSTON, TEXAS
(713) 468-3064 / Cell 713 569-9190
