The Tenfield family live in the village of Durrington within three miles of Stonehenge on the edge of Salisbury Plain. Our dogs are pets first and foremost and although we have a kennel and run, they all live and sleep indoors. We try to give them as active and varied a life as we are able and love each and every one of them dearly.

We are lucky to have many beautiful walks nearby and our dogs enjoy daily free-running on the open spaces of nearby Salisbury Plain.

We have been owned by a Golden Retriever continuously since 1975 and owned Basenjis from Basenjis - Bwindi and brother Malek

1978, until losing 'Bwindi' in August 2005. Of the dogs we have actively shown - we have owned one Champion, two Best in Show winners, ten Open Show Best of Breed winners, three Open Show Group winners, three Reserve Challenge Certificate winners, ten Best Puppy winners, three Best Puppy in Show winners and four Junior Warrant winners, including the Kennel Club's Top Junior Warrant Winner (All Breeds) 1999. Four of our current Goldens have their Show Gundog Working Certificates, three have won Championship Show Stakes classes, another four have Championship Show Stakes class places and every Golden and Basenji owned by us has won first prizes. We have owned seven Goldens and two Basenjis with Stud Book Numbers and bred other Goldens who have won their owner's first Junior Warrants and SBNs. We have competed in agility, obedience and working tests over the years and six of our Goldens are trained to the gun and work regularly retrieving for local shoots during winter months. Eight of our present Goldens have Kennel Club Good Citizen awards and one of our boys is one of only a handful of Goldens (along with his grandson) to have passed the Kennel Club's Working Gundog Certificate. We like to keep them busy!

Reiver, Rowan and Teal July 2007 We breed only occasionally and usually have a waiting list for our home reared Golden Retriever puppies. Temperament is our first consideration, we try to breed Goldens with happy dispositions, smiley faces and waggy tails.

We endeavour to produce sound healthy and hopefully long lived dogs from parents who meet all of the requirements for health as laid down by the Kennel Club/British Veterinary Association and who conform to the Kennel Club Breed Standard. Our aim is to produce not only a good looking, sound moving and old fashioned Golden, but biddable and active family companion with brains and will to please, able to do the job for which they were originally bred.

We are proud to say that that from relatively few litters, several households now have more than one Tenfield Golden Retriever sharing their lives and others have a second generation Tenfield. Dogs bred by us are not only much loved pets, but are also now winning show awards for other people, in Tor, Rowan and Reiver cluding Open Show Best of Breeds and Best Puppy awards, as well as Championship Show firsts, Stud Book Numbers and qualifying for Crufts. We encourage all of our puppy owners to keep in touch and are always available to offer help and advice to anyone interested in either breed.

Two of our boys are currently AT STUD to quality bitches who have been hip scored and eye tested. All three of our boys (pictured right) are Championship Show first prize winners, Open Show Best of Breed winners and are also working Goldens. The older boys hold their Junior Warrants and are Gundog Group and Gundog Puppy Group winners. All three have their Show Gundog Working Certificates and all have sired Junior Warrant winning, Crufts qualifying and working progeny. Both Tor and Reiver have progeny working for the Charity Canine Partners and Tor is also the father of their first brood bitch 'Xyla'. Reiver is the father of Tenfield Tern, who joined Dogs for the Disabled in February 2007. See the boys' own pages on the 'Our Goldens' menu for more information.

You can also see our kennel pages on Champdogs website.

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Pepper and half brother Reiver July 2007 If you wish to contact us, send us an email by clicking on the icon below. Please note, however, that we are often busy and although we try to reply to all emails within a couple of days, looking after dogs and puppies means a reply sometimes takes longer. For the same reasons, we are not always there to answer the telephone, but we have an answer-phone, so please do leave a message. We do not return calls where a mobile number is left, in which case, please keep trying! We usually know of someone with puppies available, even if we don't have any ourselves and give advice freely on either breed. See our 'Puppies' page for information on forthcoming litters.

If you are interested in a puppy, we require some background information about yourself, your family members, your home and lifestyle, including where you live, whether you have owned a pet before, opportunities for exercise and when you hope to welcome a new addition to your home.

If you can answer these questions in detail (and others) we would be glad to hear from you! Be warned, that we won't sell a puppy if we don't think you are suitable, no matter how far you have travelled - our puppies' welfare is our greatest consideration and we will hold on to them for however long it takes for the right homes to come along.

Kim Ellis
Telephone: Stonehenge (01980) 653109

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We are indebted to Julia Barnes (Gloucestershire) for allowing us to use photographs taken during a photo shoot for the newly published book 'Golden Retriever (Best of Breed)' edited by Maurice Shortman - see our READING page for more information.

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This site was updated by Kim Ellis
Pages updated: 4th May 2008 - Our Goldens - all of 'Our Boys' pages are now up to date
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