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About Dennis and Tina Homes

We bought our first Cavalier in 1979, a blenheim named Kelly who came from a puppy mill. It was the wrong way to start but like many people we were not aware of the problems of these establishments. However, we were totally besotted with Kelly and charmed by her temperament so six months later we a bought her a kennel mate, but this time from a reputable show breeder. This was Tasha, a little tricolor bitch from whom our line of Cavaliers is descended. Obviously Kelly was never bred from but she lived to the grand age of 15 and was a much loved pet. We bred our first litter at the end of 1981 and we have both been judging the breed for many years.

Since 2007 we have been writing the “Cavaliers as Companions” page for the UK Cavalier Club website. There is a lot of coverage on various websites about the achievements of Cavaliers in the show ring, but we felt that it was high time to highlight Cavaliers as much loved companions. After all, the overwhelming majority of Cavaliers are pets. We were commissioned by the Cavalier Club to write a book about the origins of the breed and were given access to all their archives. This was quite a monumental task, but also a very rewarding one and the book The Cavalier King Charles Spaniel: The Origin and Founding of the Breed was launched at the Blenheim Palace Extravaganza Show in August 2010.

To date we have bred seven UK champions and three AKC champions.  In 2014 we organized an art exhibition called “The  Cavalier and King Charles Spaniel in Art”. It was held in the Kennel Club’s Art Gallery and ran for six months. We had around 250 items on display including, paintings, sculptures, jewelry and figurines, all depicting small spaniels. Some paintings were newly commissioned, while some others were nearly 200 years old.

At present we have ten dogs, some we show and some we don’t. But they are all much loved pets.

Ch Leogem Winter Melody

Ch Leogem Winter Melody, our latest champion who was Best of Breed at Crufts in 2022 and ended up as the top winning Cavalier of 2022. Leogem were also the Top Cavalier Breeders for that year. Melody’s mother Leogem Aliona was also the top brood bitch in 2022.

Tina handling Winter Melody at Crufts and being spoken to on TV by Claire Balding.

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