CH Maximal’s Half Pint Hero ROM
(champion producer)
Call name: Huntress
Weight: 10 lbs
Sire: CH Burmack’s Jolly Jazz Man
Dam: CH Maximal’s A Better Mousetrap
Health clearances: JDCM Clear, VwD Clear, Xanthine Clear, Patellas Normal, Thyroid Normal, OFA Eyes Clear
Huntress is from a special breeding. Her grandsire, Amalek’s Jolly Swag Man, was an import from the UK and introduced by his owners at Burmack Manchester Terriers to increase the genetic diversity of our breed in the U.S. Huntress has a big personality, beautiful clear tan markings, and outstanding substance, all in a small package.
Maximal’s Most Wanted
2021 AMTC Brood Bitch of the Year
(multiple champion producer)
Call name: Katana
Weight: 7 lbs
Sire: GCHB Rustic Lane Walks On Water
Dam: CH Maximal’s A Better Mousetrap
Health clearances: JDCM Clear, VwD Clear, Xanthine Carrier, Patellas Normal, Thyroid Normal, OFA Eyes Clear
Katana was photographed for the AKC archives and has accompanied me in some educational videos. She’s a playful little girl and she’s enjoying her retirement in the home of a friend.
CH Regal’s So Many Roads V Maximal
Call Name: Hunter
Owner: Regina Allen, DVM, Regal Manchester Terriers
Dam: CH Maximal Squeak Attack, RA, TT, NTD
Sire: GCH Blossom’s Let’s Dance
Hunter finished with 4 majors! He is retired from the show ring and working on back end titles with Regina.
CH Maximal’s Enchantress at Chesterfield
(champion producer)
Call Name: Hadley
Owner: Madonna Lee, Dark Side Manchester Terriers
Dam: CH Maximal’s A Better Mousetrap
Sire: GCHB Rustic Lane Walks on Water
Hadley finished her championship with ease and is now a multiple champion producer.
CH Maximal Squeak Attack, RA, TT, NTD
(champion producer)
Call Name: Sneaky
Co-owner: Regina Allen DVM
Dam: Bleu Springs Dot Net ME, ROM
Sire: CH Burmack’s Pumpkin Pie ROM
Health tests: Sneaky’s eyes have CERF’d clear and her heart is normal by auscultation. She is xanthine, JDCM and vWd clear. Her patellas are normal.
Sneaky is a very sweet and happy little girl, weighing just about 8 lbs. She passed her ATTS Temperament Test with flying colors! In March 2016, Sneaky won the points 3 out of 4 days of shows in York, PA and finished her AKC championship with a major at the AMTC District 3 Specialty show! Since then, Sneaky has earned her Rally Advanced title. She’s now enjoying retirement in a pet home.
CH Maximal’s A Better Mousetrap
(champion producer)
Call name: Dazzle
DOB: 6/5/2011 Weight: 10 lbs
Spayed Female
Sire: Ch. Bleu Springs William th’ Conqueror, JE, CGC
Dam: Bleu Springs Dot Net, ME, ROM
Health clearances:
JDCM Clear, VwD Clear, OFA Eyes Clear, BAER Normal, Thyroid Normal, Xanthinuria Clear, Patellas normal
Dazzle was chosen to represent the Toy Manchester Terrier in the newest printing of The AKC Complete Dog Book! She finished her AKC championship easily, winning several majors over specials at AMTC specialty shows. Now retired, Dazzle is living the good life with her owners on the beach.
Maximal Frost in All its Beauty
VDH Junior Champion and KFT Junior Champion
Call Name: Frost
Owner: Thomas Teller, Kennel Tomtel, Germany
Dam: CH Maximal’s A Better Mousetrap
Sire: GCHB Rustic Lane Walks on Water
As a puppy, Frost had a very successful career in Germany. She’s just beginning her adult show career and we know she’ll be just as successful!
Maximal Poison Ivy in Heart Hidera
Call Name: Ivy
Owner: Barbara Godau, Germany
Dam: CH Maximal’s A Better Mousetrap
Sire: GCHB Rustic Lane Walks on Water
Ivy is shown winning Best of Breed at the 2017 German Kennel Club Winner Show. She’s making her owners proud!
GCH Maximal Squeak And Destroy
Call Name: Seeker
Dam: Bleu Springs Dot Net ME, ROM
Sire: CH Burmack’s Pumpkin Pie ROM
Seeker is my first Grand Champion and had a ring presence that rivaled his uncle William. This is a new AKC title available to dogs who have earned the championship title, and was not available for dogs to earn just a few years ago. He has beautiful movement and the most charismatic personality. He lives with a friend in the big city and is quite popular wherever he goes. He was recently photographed by The Dogist and featured on their web site here.
HOF MACH2 Maximal’s Put Your Money Where Your Mouse Is, MXS, MJG, MJP, NF, T2B
Call Name: Dash
Dam: Bleu Springs Dot Net, ME, ROM
Sire: CH Bleu Springs William th’ Conqueror, JE, CGC
Dash is an agility star – which is how she earned all those letters before and after her name! In 2015, Dash earned the Master Agility Championship (MACH) and she was inducted into the American Manchester Terrier Club Hall of Fame (HOF). She is the fist Maximal dog to earn her way into this prestigious classification and we couldn’t be prouder! In Dec. 2016, Dash competed in the prestigious AKC Agility Invitational at the AKC National Championship and was the highest scoring Manchester Terrier.
CH Maximal KCM Bulletproof
Call Name: Scamp
Scamp is a beautiful and affectionate little dog who finished her championship quickly. However, her mark on the breed will be in the form of her genetics. At the time of their mating, there was no way to know that her parents (who were perfectly healthy themselves) both carried a deadly gene mutation for Juvenile Dilated Cardiomyopathy (JDCM). A test simply did not exist for the breed. Scamp was the only puppy from the resulting litter that did not have the disease. Scamp, her sister Ginny, and their parents all played a significant role in the study of the disease which ultimately led to the discovery of the gene mutation, and in turn, allowed a test to be developed for breeding stock. Today, no more breeders or owners need to live in fear of this hidden and deadly disease, providing the proper health screen is done. Scamp lives with her dam in a loving pet home in Kentucky.
CH Bleu Springs Duchess of Daisy
Call Name: Daisy
Sire: CH Blossom’s California Dreamer ROM
Dam: Bleu Springs Princess Aurora
Daisy was my first Bred-by-Exhibitor Champion, which means I was her breeder and owner, and I showed her to her AKC championship myself. Growing up in the sport, I always exhibited and titled my mother’s dogs but she was the breeder and owner of record on their AKC papers up until this point. Daisy was photographed by the esteemed photographer Mary Bloom for the AKC’s breed archives collection. Daisy is now in a retirement home.
Bleu Springs Dot Net ME, ROM
(champion producer)
Call name: Dot
DOB: 8/28/06 Weight: 7 lbs
Spayed Female
Sire: CH. Blossom’s California Dreamer, ROM
Dam: Bleu Springs Princess Aurora
Health clearances: JDCM Clear, VwD Clear, CERF Clear, Thyroid Normal, Xanthinuria Clear, Patellas normal
Dot bears my mother’s kennel name and is the matriarch of Maximal Manchesters. She has been featured in the book Earthdog Ins & Outs by Jo Ann Frier-Murza, and in Dog Fancy Magazine (May 2013) for her accomplishments in the sport of AKC Earthdog. She has been asked to participate in Earthdog demonstrations at AKC Meet The Breeds in NYC, thrilling the crowds with her big heart. On May 14, 2014, she became the second Toy Manchester Terrier in the history of the breed to earn the Master Earthdog title. Master is the highest course level in Earthdog.
Dot did her fair share of winning in AKC dog shows prior to her focus on earthdog. Most notably, she won Grand Puppy Sweepstakes under breeder judge Linda Lewin at an AMTC Specialty show in 2007 and was Reserve Winners Bitch at the 2008 AMTC National Specialty over an historically high entry of females under the esteemed Judge Lydia Coleman Hutchinson. Despite Dot’s love and enthusiasm for the show ring, we switched our focus to Earthdog before completing her championship. Dot’s children have carried on her legacy by earning show ring championships and grand championships. Her daughter, Dash is a Master Agility Champion and earned a place in the American Manchester Terrier Club (AMTC) Hall of Fame! In 2016, Dot earned the AMTC Register of Merit, a distinction which recognizes the achievements of her titled offspring.
CH Bleu Springs William th’ Conqueror JE, CGC, MVP
(champion producer, multiple group placing)
Call name: William
DOB: 7/15/03 Weight: 10.5 lbs
Neutered Male
Sire: CH Blossom’s California Dreamer ROM
Dam: Bleu Springs Princess Diana
Health clearances: JDCM Clear, VwD Clear, CERF Clear, Thyroid Normal, Cardiac Normal (echo), Xanthinuria Clear, Patellas normal
We lost William at 15 years of age. We mourn his loss greatly but also celebrate the many years we had with him. William was as outgoing as he was handsome. He represented the breed for many years at AKC Meet The Breeds in NYC. William was one of the only in the breed to become a Junior Earthdog and was featured in the book Earthdog Ins & Outs alongside Dot. He also made countless television appearances for the American Kennel Club (AKC), representing the breed and the sport of purebred dogs.
He loved the show ring. He quickly finished his championship, earned several group placements, and went on to be in the Top 10 nationwide in both breed and all-breed points in 2004. His show career was limited because I was in college at the time so he was mostly shown in the summer. Most dogs that win enough to be ranked in the Top 10 are shown all year, making his ranking an exceptional achievement. He went as high as the #4 Toy Manchester Terrier in the country in July 2004 before losing ground to the dogs that kept showing after I returned to my studies in late August.
William went on to become a champion producer, and his legacy continues in his daughters, CH Dazzle and MACH Dash, his granddaughter CH Hadley, and his great grandchildren CH Quinn and CH Astro. He also has champion granddaughters and great grandchildren in Europe.
Am/Can CH Bleu Springs Catwoman CGC
Call name: Kitty
Kitty was my best friend who passed away at the age of 16 1/2 years. She joined our home when she was 8 weeks old and I was 12 years old. I trained Kitty and showed her myself. Together, we earned the points to complete her championships in both the United States and Canada. She was my first AKC Canine Good Citizen, my first AKC champion, and to date, she is the only dog of mine to accomplish dual championships. Albeit, I haven’t returned to Canada for dog shows since completing her Canadian championship.
Following, is a video tribute and slideshow that I made when Kitty passed away. Click here to watch the video on YouTube instead.
Bleu Springs Little Princess
Call name: Princess
Princess was my first Manchester Terrier and probably the smallest I’ll ever own, tipping the scales at 6.5 lbs. She had a long and adventurous life that lasted 15 1/2 years. Her larger than life attitude shines through in her children, grandchildren and great grandchildren. She was the foundation for my mother’s Bleu Springs line and lives on, in the pedigrees of Maximal Manchester Terriers.
CH Blossom’s California Dreamer ROM
(champion producer)
Call name: Cal
Cal was purchased as a puppy by my mother from Blossom’s Manchester Terriers in California. He was the sire of Dot and William. He was known for producing amazing heads and bone, with his best traits still appearing in Maximal Manchester Terriers today!
CH Special Acres’ Look At Him Go, VCS, SC, THD, CGC, TT
June 13, 2005 – December 31, 2018
What do these titles mean?
CH = AKC champion (conformation, aka dog shows)
SC = AKC Senior Courser (lure coursing, aka fake rabbit chasing)
THD= AKC Therapy Dog (for 50+ therapy visits)
CGC= AKC Canine Good Citizen
TT = ATTS Temperament Test title
VCS = Versatility Silver Award, granted by the Ibizan Hound Club of the US
Alydar came to me at 11-weeks-old and we were inseparable until his death at 13. He was my first Ibizan Hound, and the reason I joined the Ibizan Hound Club of the U.S. and eventually became their rescue chair and AKC Delegate.
In his early years, we participated in conformation dog shows together and he easily earned his AKC championship. His biggest win was Winners Dog at the Ibizan Hound Club of the United States National Specialty in 2007. After completing his championship, Alydar retired from the show ring and earned his senior courser title in lure coursing, a sport where the dogs chase an artificial lure that is strung around a field in a zig zag pattern that simulates how a fleeing rabbit may run. He loved lure coursing and competed for a few years before retiring and trying his paw at therapy work.
In January 2014, he and I became a certified therapy dog team through the Bright & Beautiful Therapy dogs. We completed more than 100 visits before his retirement. We visited two local hospitals twice each week. It’s hard to put into words the transformation that took place in a patient when Alydar walked into the room. His calm demeanor helped them to relax and he often won over people who professed to dislike dogs. We sat with those mourning the loss of a loved one; comforted children scared from a traumatic car accident; calmed stressed out patients, staff and family members; and cheered up long term patients who hadn’t had a visitor in days.
Alydar also had a second job: he came to work with me and helped train service dogs by serving as a “distraction dog”. Simply put, he helped our trainers teach service dogs and their new owners how to behave when a strange dog approaches them on the street. (Hint: They are supposed to ignore the dog and if you ever see a service dog team working in public, you should always keep your pet dog away from them.)
In 2016, Alydar was diagnosed with a primary lung tumor, which is the rarest cancer in dogs (affecting less than 1% of canines), with most dogs passing in a few short months after diagnosis. He underwent an operation to remove the tumor at UPenn, followed by chemotherapy, and was successfully in remission until early 2017 when he came down with pneumonia. He was hospitalized for a week and we didn’t think he would make it. X-rays of his lungs showed they were riddled with tumors, which was the cause of the pneumonia. When the cancer returned, it was so aggressive, there was no treatment available to pro-long his life so we opted for supportive care. Under the care of an amazing team of specialists, Alydar overcame his battle with pneumonia. He beat incredible odds and we had him for 18 more months before we had to say goodbye to him on New Year’s Eve in 2018.
In the fall of 2019, at its National Specialty Awards banquet, Alydar was posthumously honored with the Unbroken Spirit Award by the Ibizan