Hello, my name is Bob Fetting. I found your name searching the internet on bracebeagling.com. Last summer I purchased a beagle pup from a gentleman in Flint, Michigan. I am researching her pedigree and wanted to find out what style of dogs they are. My dog's great grandparents on the top side are Fd. Ch. Gillum's Canadian Ice and Gillum's Canadian Honey. If these are your dogs and you do not mind taking a minute, could you describe the dogs running style? What format did Ice Fd. Ch. in? Is there a web site for these dogs?
Best regards,
Rob Fetting
Rob, the Gillum dogs are all brace trial bred for slow accurate tracking and have been bred this way for many generations. Honey was the eighth generation that I have bred this line of dogs and Ice was the ninth generation. I am now working on breeding the 15th generation.
Ice was a great champion and good producer. He won the 1998 Southern Federation Trial for Champions in a class of 73 and has produced about 15 champions to date. Honey was a litter sister to Fd. Ch. Gillum's Canadian Keeper that was sold to George
Nixon of Pearson Creek fame. You can go to the archives by
clicking on Trial Results in the list of headings along the left side of the bracebeagling.com home page. You can then go to some of the older trials where my dogs have placed and won. If you have any interest in brace trialing, let me know and we can see if it really appeals to you. In brace trialing, we are trying to achieve total accuracy in our beagles. Needless to say, this is achieved at the expense of speed. Since we are putting on performances and not trying to hunt rabbits, it works great for us.