Ch. Old School's Drucilla

Date of Birth:  October 14, 1994

Dru was out of Portia's second litter of puppies.  When we were trying to decide which puppy we were going to keep it came down to Dru and her sister who was a fawn.  We had a puppy buyer who wanted a very nice show quality female, and so what we did was tell that person to pick which puppy she wanted and we would take the other.

The buyer settled on the fawn girl, who was larger than Dru, and so we kept the little black brindle girl.  As you can see, Dru turned out to be quite a tank of a girl, and we are very pleased to have her in our line.

Dru did not burn up the show rings even though she possessed an excellent rear, a good front and a super head and her movement was very nice.  Judges seemed to not know what to do with a bitch that was doggier than most of the males!  She did place 4th in a very large Open Brindle Bitch class at the 1996 MCOA National Specialty.  This is a shot of her in the ring that day.  Her excellent angulation is visible in this shot.

In fact the main thing that helped Dru finish was the fact that mastiff breeder-judges put her up readily.  To the left is Dru going WB, BOW, and BOS over specials for a 5-point-major at the Old Dominion Kennel Club supported entry.  The judge is Mr. Richard Thomas of Bredwardine mastiffs.  The next fall Dru repeated her feat, this time under American breeder-judge Mr. James Zellen, and that one finished her.  Dru ended up finishing with all majors, though that somewhat hides the difficulty we had in finding an all breed judge to accept a mastiff bitch that was both a brindle and a very typey one at that!

We love Dru very much and were very pleased with the puppies she produced in a mating with her grandfather, Sagar.  We kept a female (Leelu) and co-own a male (Don Juan) from this litter.

Dru at 9 years and 11 months of age.

Old School Tintagel's Blake

Ch. Old School Sgt. Major's Sagar

Ch. Old School's Sergeant Major

Ch. Deer Run Ezekiel

Ch. Old School's Ursa Major

Old School Ben's Autumn Major

Ch. Autumn River's Big Ben

Ch. Old School's Ursa Major

Ch. Tintagel's Oreo

Ch. Banyon's Fozzie Bear

Farnaby Fidelity

Ch. Banyon's Charmin

Old School Ski of Tintagel

Ch. Deer Run Ezekiel

Ch. Old School's Ursa Major

Ch. Old School's Lady Portia

Ch. Old School's Majestic Major

Ch. Deer Run Ezekiel

Ch. Deer Run Ivan

Le Mar's Sally

Ch. Old School's Ursa Major

Deer Run Florister Rufus

Old School Trouble

Ch. O'School Blacknight Madalene

Ch. Old School's Panama Red

Ch. Deer Run McMunger

Ch. Old School's Ursa Major

Ch. Blacknight's Victoria O'School

Ch. Hannibal of Makar

Verdune's Darling Lilly