Stitch Jones - Retired

Stitch has had an incredible career and is now official retired at 7 1/2  from the show ring and the whelping box.  It is time for her to be our 'pampered pet', and her days will now be spent patrolling the property and working when we can.  She has been so much fun to show and work,  and has contributed so much to our breeding program.  So many of the Amblegreen terriers out there have Stitch Jones in their pedigrees and I hope their  futures will be as bright and exciting as her life has been so far.   Watch for her kids and grandkids ...

Black & White, Broken Coat, 12 3/4"
(Bicester x Sherbert Jones) DOB June 9/97
Bred by David & Susan Jones
Natural Hunting Certificates to Ground Hog and Opposum.
Baer (hearing) Normal, Cerf (eyes) Tested Clear - April 2004

Stitch Jones is my once in a lifetime dog, and I can't thank David & Susan enough for entrusting her to me. She has been an outstanding addition to Amblegreen and is a cornerstone to our breeding program.

Stitch is a lively companion and an excellent worker. She possesses tremendous bone, a strong head, compressible chest and great flexibility.

In the conformation ring she has proven to be a excellent competitor. Since her first trial in '98 she has won her class almost every time and has gone on to be Champion/Best or Reserve over 30 times. This was under twleve different judges, and includes being the 1998 JRTCC National Reserve Working Terrier Bitch & the 1999 JRTCC National Reserve Conformation Champion, Best Working Terrier Bitch and Best Foreign Bred.

Fox Run Chili 1999 JRTCC National Conformation Champion with Stitch Jones Reserve Conformation Champion.  Shown with Judge, Steve Wallace, U.K. 

In 2002 we are delighted with Stitch's latest wins. At the Arizona Rescue Trial - March 2002 - she was the Best Working Terrier Bitch both days. Under Joe Smith, Stitch was also awarded the Working Conformation Champion award! In November 2002 at the  JRTNNC Open Trial  Stitch was awarded Working Conformation Champion and Best Family! Her lovely family included Sultan, Magpie and little Santana.

In 2003 Stitch was once again the JRTNNC Working Conformation Champion, at just shy of 6 years of age!

It looks as though her abilities in the ring and field are also being met in the whelping box. Her litter in 2000 produced Sultan - who is maturing into a fine terrier. In 2001 we are very proud of her litter of four Her lovely daughters, Magpie and Cider, can be seen under the Bitches heading. Her third daughter, Calamity, is owned by Battle Born Terriers.  Her 2001 son was Storm - a striking smooth coated male owned by Lyn Smith - Aurora Terriers.

In 2002 she  produced Santana (Tanner)...sired by Quail Oak Montana, and in 2003 a litter of two bitches by Amblegreen Al Capone.  

This year Stitch has attended three trials and has been shown to 5 judges.  At 7 years of age she is still competitive and has done well.  At the Del Sol Trials she was Reserve Working Conformation Champion under Gary Morgan, and Reserve Working Bitch under David Finlay.  At the Colorado Trial she was only shown one day and was Reserve Working Terrier Bitch - Terry Petrie.  At the Wheatland Classic Trials she was Best Working Bitch under Bob Clough.  Stitch was the Working Conformation Champion on the Sunday - Lynn Clough judging.