Piwakawaka Ridge Cavalier Kennels

Piwakawaka Ridge Cavalier Kennels We are registered Cavalier King Charles Spaniel breeders from Taupo New Zealand.

Its been a little while since I did a Pup-date....Our Angel & Archie pups are now 7 1/2 weeks🥰They are all around 2kg an...
28/05/2026

Its been a little while since I did a Pup-date....
Our Angel & Archie pups are now 7 1/2 weeks🥰
They are all around 2kg and have free run of the lounge & deck, most of the day.
They are confined to quarters when it's feeding time & night time😴
Pups are booked next week for their first vet check, 8 week vaccination, microchip, patella & heart check😷ì
After that they will be individually registerred with DogsNZ (NZ Kennel Club) with their pedigree names 🤔
Then 1-2 weeks later, three will be heading off on their adventuous journey with their new excited & loving families and one will be starting a Show career with us😘💕..so funny how they all choose different sleeping places- under the coffee table, next to the fire, in a crate and next to the couch 😁🥰

Be very wary of this sort of rubbish circulating.Visual examination is objective- what one person thinks can be quite di...
19/05/2026

Be very wary of this sort of rubbish circulating.

Visual examination is objective- what one person thinks can be quite different from another.
They have absolutely no scientific data to show any direct links from the points noted to actual health conditions affecting the quality of life for a dog.
Who determines such things as 'natural leg length', every dog is different just as people are.

Ethical pedigree breeders are VERY careful to do all the known health tests to ensure their breeding dogs will have minimal controllable health issues. With Nature there can ALWAYS be the unexpected, an environmental issue, a mutated gene...

These people have a chip on their shoulder and are purely grandstanding. Their energies should be directed towards stopping puppy farms and uncontrolled & roaming dogs breeding progeny with unknown health issues :(

Don't buy in to their nonsense.

15/05/2026

I'm about little late doing my weekly weigh-in post.
Pups were 5 weeks old on Tuesday.
I am really happy with how they are doing.
They all weigh between 1.3-1.5kg.
Its been cold here, but nice and sunny, so they had their first experience of the Big Wide World and grass, not just the 'in house' world.

Then and Now...This popped up in my feed yesterday. It was our 2nd litter, hard to believe they are 7 years old now 🙄 ...
09/05/2026

Then and Now...

This popped up in my feed yesterday.
It was our 2nd litter, hard to believe they are 7 years old now 🙄 (The Dam & Sire are still alive & well, living with family members)

Happy Cavalier Mothers Day...

We had a special Easter delivery...Thank you Nicola Rea for allowing your handsome Archie, Champion DALRAY KING ARTHUR ...
05/05/2026

We had a special Easter delivery...

Thank you Nicola Rea for allowing your handsome Archie, Champion DALRAY KING ARTHUR to be sire with our Angel, PIWAKAWAKA ANGELINE SUGAR.

Four pups whelped 07.04.26- 4 weeks old today.
Mum & pups all doing well.
Pups are all about1kg, eyes are open & they have enjoyed starting on solids.

Team Piwakawaka just had a big weekend at the Nelson shows:Piwakawaka Raven's Sonata got her first 2 B**ch Challenge Cer...
26/04/2026

Team Piwakawaka just had a big weekend at the Nelson shows:

Piwakawaka Raven's Sonata got her first 2 B**ch Challenge Certificates and 2x Junior of Breed
However, it was our handsome Piwakawaka Icarus Shelbysta who was our superstar over the weekend:
2 Dog Challenge Certificates
2 Best of Breed and
2 Best Intermediate of Toy Group

There hasn't been much news to report over the last couple of weeks. We have missed the shows as Carl needed his leg op...
24/03/2026

There hasn't been much news to report over the last couple of weeks. We have missed the shows as Carl needed his leg operated on. He will be coming home today... keep watching this space because we should have some exciting news in a couple of weeks...

It was the Piwakawaka Ridge Cavalier Kennels Girls's Weekend at Buller Shows this weekend. We are coming home with 3 C...
15/03/2026

It was the Piwakawaka Ridge Cavalier Kennels Girls's Weekend at Buller Shows this weekend. We are coming home with 3 Challenge Certificates and 5 sashes.
Rory- Ch Piwakawaka Aurora Memphis was our big winner
Her stash was: 2 Best B*tch Challenge Certs, 2 Intermediate of Breed, 2 Best of Breed, 2 Int of Group, 2 Reserve of Group🥰
With lots of comments that she is absolutely beautiful 😍
Our Miss Raven- Piwakawaka Raven's Sonata- decided to 'pull paw' and beat her brother Rusty with 2 Puppy of Breed and one Puppy of Group💕
Cary - Piwakawaka Icarus Shelbysta😘 got one Dog Challenge cert and 1 Reserve Dog, to take him one step closer to becoming a Champion. But I won't be holding my breath for him to catch up to his Superstar sister.

Thankyou 🙏 to the wonderful helpers who stepped up while Carl has been out of action with his sore leg-
Ianlois Strickett Aurora's amazing handler & mentor, Kelly Bennett & Nate for ringside assistance and gazebo installing & dismantling, & Gerard Price for gazebo dismantling assistance. (2 trips to Buller hospital for Carl Chaytor over the w/e🙄)

Something very special arrived in the post yesterday..A couple of weeks ago, our Miss Rory, Piwakawaka Aurora Memphis w...
21/02/2026

Something very special arrived in the post yesterday..
A couple of weeks ago, our Miss Rory,
Piwakawaka Aurora Memphis was awarded her 8th Challenge Certificate for being the Best Cavalier B**ch in the Champion conformation show.
Cavaliers are usually one of the highest entries, so this is no easy feat.
Firstly, we do have a very beautiful and special girl who we bred. But this is a team effort:
Thank you to Carl Chaytor, who has been her primary Show handler for a while.
Thank you to Ianlois Strickett, Aurora's Sire's breeder, our Mentor and often Rory's handler when we could not make a show.
Aurora is a combination of all the great Cavaliers and Kennels that have gone before her to make up her heritage and pedigree, so we would also like to acknowledge their high quality and ethical breeding over the years:
Ch Viewlands Walking Moose
NZ CH Brendamay Walking in Memphis
CH Viewlands Fasination
NZ CH Miniatura Summa Days
Aust CH Elvenhome Youlightupmy Life..and to those that were before.
Thank you for allowing your precious Kennel lines to be shared and bring forth another generation of Champions.

And then there were four...Over the weekend our handsome little Rusty,Piwakawaka Rusty Reflexion,Picked up his 4th sash ...
08/02/2026

And then there were four...
Over the weekend our handsome little Rusty,
Piwakawaka Rusty Reflexion,
Picked up his 4th sash for Best Puppy in the Toy Group. And at 9 months, a couple of weeks before he picked up his first Certificate for the Best Dog in the Cavalier breed.
Super proud of him, and so grateful to Karen Leslie for allowing us access to Azzaro Kennel lines with his Sire, Azzaro Purple Rain.
Also extremely grateful to Mathew Morse giving permission for the Matmore lines to carry through to us, with both NZ and Australian Champion and Supreme Champion Matmor Grandparents and Great Grandparents.

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