After the performance of her daughter Tara Pul-i-Khumri, as the first Dutch Tibetan Spaniel, at the 2004 Crufts Show in the UK, Tiara did not wake up in the morning of 5 March 2004. The mother of our kennel was born 12 February 1992 in the kennel Kensing of Jane Lilley in the south of England. That this pup was allowed to leave for the Netherlands was a small miracle. When we, at the beginning of the ‘90, wanted to obtain a Tibetan Spaniel, this was not so easy. When we considered the pros and cons, we discovered the British kennel Kensing and we asked Jane Lilley if she had a pup for us. She answered that she usually did not let her ‘precious babies’ go to the ‘continent’ and suggested us to come by for a visit an get acquainted. After that she would consider our demand again……
March 1991 we travelled with our whole family to England, where we, next to beautiful castles, also visited Jane. We were judged and found not too light, so that we could get a pup from the coming litter. June 1992 the time was there and we could come and take Kensing Tiara home with us. By that time she was already 4 months old and had got the necessary injections. During the trip home by car and on the ferry she behaved well educated. At home she was welcomed by our 2 old Saluki’s and then ignored by them being a small monster. A while later the new friends were resting close to each other.
Tiara became a marvelous friend of all our family and she developed exemplary. She went to several shows, but did not liked this kind of work very much. She turned out to be late flowering and obtained, this time with pleasure, her first CAC at the age of 11 years at our P&D Clubmatch 2002. Her children were more successful in the show ring. The Pul-i-Khumri’s Zafan, Za-Khya, Wangdula, Wang-Nang-Wa, Tara and her grandchildren Yamuna, Rimo & Nancee became Champions. Not to forget her great-grandchildren Hira and Enya. Tiara leaves an emptiness in our family, but her life continues in our beautiful memories and in her children.