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HANDIGE HENK FROM THE BARKING BUNCH

born: Augustus 22, 2000
DOD: December 10, 2006

Goodbye Henk
 

The farewell to Handige Henk was very unexpected. Henk had problems with stones in his urine and bladder. We took an X-ray and it turned out there were dozens of these stones in his bladder. The Vet suggested that he could remove all the stones and with a special diet Henk would be fine (so he didn't neuter him in order to make a new urine-exit which is also common to do).
The operation was successful but it turned out that there were still a few stones left. He couldn't get them out and in 2 days all around his wound was so swollen that another operation was not possible anymore. There was only one solution: we had to say goodbye to our beloved friend at 6 years of age. He brought such a happiness at the Barking Bunch and Henk joined us at many of our vacations and we will miss him dearly!

 

Henk is brought to the other side of the rainbow bridge to the green hunting fields he always dreamed of.



 

 

Here Henk is on vacation

On this picture Henk is just 5 months of age:

Handige Henk (means something like "Handy Hank") is a son of Olijke Otto from the Barking Bunch and Ximena:

  


A few pictures of Henk:




From Henk's sister "Topper Tempi from the Barking Bunch" we got some pictures we want to share with you. Tempi lives in America and Lisa wrote us just after celebrating her 8th birthday:

""Tempi is doing very well. She is still traveling with me and making friends wherever she goes. She loves holding the couch in place, harassing the cats, and playing big sister to all of the other dogs.She always makes friends everywhere she goes. She loves to play and is very silly. When she was younger she was amazingly good at soccer (or football ;-) I've never seen a dog use it's feet like she does! She's also been known to catch birds. Here a few pictures of her; all from 2008. One is from a day in the snow last winter. The second is from two weeks ago at the coast. She is truly a joy - thanks to both of you for such a wonderful Berner.

Best wishes to you both, Lisa and Tempi"

"Topper Tempi from the Barking Bunch" (full sister of Henk)


 

General  information on Henk

The father of Henk is Otto as you just have seen. Otto is a big bear. He is beautiful and powerful: nearly 70 cm and about 65 kg weight. Most of the time Otto is in Austria and/or Switzerland with his owner Hans Melters who is a Mountain guide in the Alps for tourist. Each day in the spring, summer and the beginning of the fall he is 6-8 hours with him in the mountains, at the alms, in the snow or at the Hilton hotel in the weekends :-) 
Otto is out of a combination of the Dutch kennel line of  “Het Hühneböske” en dogs out of the Belgian Tawajah’s kennel. The mother, Ximena, is a beautiful, well build female with wonderful show results. She is also out of Belgian and Dutch lines.

3 generations

Henk is a line breeding on one of our most famous studs: Sir Sirius. This stand for a perfect character and a good health (Sirius was 10 years of age when he died)! No wonder he passed the Swiss temperament test with an "excellent" as end result. 
All parents and grandparents are judged on hips and with the best possible results: all were free of hip dysplasia (HD-A or HD-B). And he himself has also perfect hips, they were X-rayed and judged by the national Dutch W.K. Hirschfeld Stichting. The result:  HD Tc. 

And of course his elbows were also perfect: ED 0/0; no signs of elbow problems so the best result possible was also for him!

Henk is a powerful, beautiful, very harmonic dog of medium size and with a nice character and beautiful movement. Just take a look at the pictures on this page and you will see that for yourself!

You see that Henk is a dog to be proud of and WE ARE!

 


 


PEDIGREE


HANDIGE HENK FROM THE BARKING BUNCH
HD - Tc
/ ED 0/0 (Free)

 
Father

1] Olijke Otto from the Barking Bunch

HD - (minus),  ED 2/0

DOB: February 19, 1999
DOD: January 2006

3] Tawajah's Senna

HD-B, ED 0/0

DOB: October 8, 1994
DOD: 2005

7] Tawajah's Natan

HD -B

Age: 12 years at death

8] Tawajah's Pomeriggio

HD -A

Age: 14 years at death

4] Thyra van 't Huhneboske

HD Tc, ED 0/0

DOB: February 7, 1996
DOD: August 14, 2005

9] Sir Sirius from the Barking Bunch

HD Tc, OCD free

DOB.: August 15, 1991
DOD: April 2001

10] Minou van 't Huhneboske

HD - Tc

DOB.: September 22, 1992
DOD: 2000

Mother

1] Ximena

HD-Tc,  ED 0/0

DOB: February 6, 1998
DOD: November 2, 2006

5] Sir Sirius from the Barking Bunch

HD Tc,  OCD free

DOB.: August 15, 1991
DOD: April 2001

11] Alfo fan de Mounehoarne

HD 0/0

DOB.: April 7, 1984
DOD: February 1994

12] Jonkvrouwe van het Emliwehof

HD - (minus)

DOB: May 31, 1985
DOD: August 14, 1997

6] Toy

HD A

DOB: 15 mei 1995
DOD: 11 februari 2004

13] Qwino

HD A

14] Mick

HD - A