About us
My name is Dave Beioley, my wife Anne and I bought our first Bullterrier
Bitch in late 1959, we have been Professional breeders of Bullterriers
since the late 1960s in Melbourne under the Prefix, DABEWS, we moved to
Queensland Thirty years ago, to retire, we built a couple of houses,
then being thoroughly bored with life decided to attend the Easter show
put on by the Bullterrier Club of Sydney to have a look at the dogs and
the Miniatures in particular, Margaret Burgoine of the Bodella Kennels
was very kind in allowing us to take Ch Bodella Lil Shepherdess to
Queensland to start our Miniature adventure, this was about 15 years
ago.
The focus of our breeding program has changed. Whilst we are still
interested in Bullterriers, we now concentrate solely on Miniatures,
this threw up one of the most interesting challenges, there was no
breeding stock in Miniature Bullterriers with the outstanding virtues
that could be found in best Bullterriers.
It is now our Thirteenth year of breeding Miniatures, the first litter
of miniatures we bred were nothing to write home about, the word
mediocre would describe them perfectly, We realized that we would have
to work on type, make and shape plus substance..jpg)
We were fortunate that the Canine Control Council of Queensland were
allowing breeders to mate a Standard Bullterrier to a Miniature and
register all of the pups who were Interbred as Miniatures, this helped
greatly in improving breed type and also in cleaning out a lot of the
health problems that were inherent in the Miniatures, the disadvantage
was that all of the offspring were oversize.
The next step was to find a very well made bullterrier to mate to our
Miniature bitch, this was easier said than done, we decided that we
would have to breed one.
A local bullterrier breeder Ray Gault had produced a very nice litter of
Bullterriers and had placed a brindle bitch pup with a friend, the
friend decided to part with her when his girlfriend left him, Ray asked
us to have a look at her, she was beautiful, her name was Wanel Princess
Petite, we took her home with us, besides being an outstanding specimen
she had what we consider a great breeding virtue, she was 5ml
overshot.
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was a very decent miniature dog in Redcliffe that Margaret Bergoine had
sold as a pet his name was Bodalla Lil Sinbad, We decided to mate him to
Princess when she was old enough, there were 9 pups in the litter, the
one that we kept was small dark brindle bitch, very well made with a
plain head, her name was Dabews Wee Bambi. ( Wee )
A few months later I was a spectator at a dog show being judged by a
specialist judge who was busy showing how little he knew about our breed
when I spotted a beautifully made Brindle dog, he ended up in third
place, he went on to become Champion Burkin Sir Basil, as the girl
showing him came out of the ring I approached her to arrange a mating
with our lovely Princess, the resulting litter of 10 produced a very
nice white dog pup who became Champion Dabews Lord Donahue, ( Danny).
We subsequently mated Danny to Bambi, doubling up on Princess thereby
further diluting the miniature bloodlines, their problems, and producing
a very well made litter, I have closely bred to the previously named
dogs and their offspring to produce the lovely animals that have
appeared in the show ring, some of whom appear in Our Dogs.
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