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<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=90 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" background="390785a3.jpg"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><B>Casa La Strega Kennel</B></FONT><B>     </B><B>|</B><B>     </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Casa La Strega Kennel"><B>home</B></A></div> <bR> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#FFFFCC" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="365d2c01ezwnvf.jpg"> <div> <B>Home page</B></div> <div> <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Casa La Strega Kennel"><B>Casa La Strega Kennel</B></A></div> <div> <B>Casa La Strega & Us</B></div> <div> <I><B><IMG SRC="006a9640.gif" border=0 width="169" height="100" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></I></div> <div> <I><B>to see the poodles go to: </B></I></div> <div> <A HREF="id4.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Poodle Puppy Availability"><I><B>Poodle Puppy Availability</B></I></A></div> <div> <I><B>~~~~~~~~~~~~~</B></I></div> <div> <I><B><IMG SRC="0147e4d0.gif" border=0 width="126" height="77" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> </B></I></div> <div> <I><B>For German Shepherds go to</B></I></div> <div> <A HREF="id34.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="German Shepherds"><I><B>German Shepherds</B></I></A></div> <div> <I><B>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</B></I></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" height=390 width="100%" BGCOLOR="#FFFFCC" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <I>Casa La Strega & Us</I></div> <div> <I><B>***************************************************</B></I><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><I><B>                    </B></I></FONT></div> <div> <I><B><IMG SRC="009f72c0.jpg" border=0 width="247" height="300" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">  <IMG SRC="00ab72c0.jpg" border=0 width="183" height="300" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">     </B></I></div> <div> <I><B>**************************************************************************************</B></I><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><I><B>                                                                      </B></I></FONT></div> <div> <I><B> </B></I><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF0000" FACE="Arial" ><I><B>The Province of Benevento, Italy                                                             </B></I></FONT></div> <div> <I><B> is the  place of origin  of the Cenicola ancestors.                                                                                                                                                                                                          </B></I></div> <div> <I><B> It is also the place of origin of Liquer Strega.</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Pictured on the bottle label are witches dancing around a nut tree.</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>****************************************************************************************</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>How we got our kennel name</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <B>When our daughter was twelve years old </B></div> <div> <B>we had our first litter of German Shepherd puppies.</B></div> <div> <B>One day she asked if she could go to a friends house. </B></div> <div> <B> I told her it was too close to dinner time,</B></div> <div> <B> she could go another day.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Disapointed, she went outside and started marching </B></div> <div> <B>around the walnut tree in our front yard</B></div> <div> <B> chanting over and over,</B></div> <div> <B>"  My mother is a mean old witch. </B></div> <div> <B> She's nothing but a mean old witch. "</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>I glanced up on our cabinet </B></div> <div> <B>and noticed the bottle of Liquer Strega </B></div> <div> <B>that we occasionally served our weekend dinner guests.</B></div> <div> <B>I looked out the window and watched our daughter </B></div> <div> <B>marching around the nut tree.  </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>                 </B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><B><IMG SRC="22b7baa0.gif" border=0 width="123" height="170" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></FONT></div> <div> <B>We had not as yet chosen a kennel name. </B></div> <div> <B>I thought how appropriate, </B></div> <div> <B>this is my house, I am a witch.</B></div> <div> <B>Thus the birth of our kennel name.</B></div> <div> <B>Casa La Strega.  House of the witch!</B></div> <div> <B>________________________________________</B></div> <bR> <div> <B> <IMG SRC="011c8a50.jpg" border=0 width="200" height="165" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">  <IMG SRC="013c8980.jpg" border=0 width="200" height="152" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>         Hello, I'm Joy                                                    and I'm Phil</B><B>     </B></div> <div> <B>We live on 52 acres  in the center of New York State.</B></div> <div> <B>Our dogs all enjoy being taken to run and play out there</B></div> <div> <B> in our fields and woods.  We hope you will enjoy your visit with </B></div> <div> <B>our Poodles and German Shepherds. </B></div> <div> <B>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</B></div> <div> <B>Now a little something about our backround.</B></div> <div> <B> </B><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><B>Being an animal lover from early childhood</B></FONT></div> <div> <B>it is only natural that I chose to work with dogs.</B></div> <div> <B>I did a lot of work with horses in my teen years</B></div> <div> <B>inluding giving riding instruction teaching children  </B></div> <div> <B>and beginner adults.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>My older cousin raised, handled and showed collies, shelties,</B></div> <div> <B> and maltese.   She finished her tricolor collie at Westminster</B></div> <div> <B>in the old Madison Square Garden, when you only needed </B></div> <div> <B>a pointed dog to show there.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>When I was first married, before my children were born,</B></div> <div> <B>I wasn't thinking of breeding and raising dogs. </B></div> <div> <B>I just wanted a companion to love.    My cousin gave me a gift.</B></div> <div> <B>The result of her CH collies one night stand out on the town.</B></div> <div> <B>Even though Lil wasn't a purebred, I loved her with all my heart.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>We had Lil for 5 years. During those years, we had our daughter</B></div> <div> <B> and first son.   Our son suffered severly from allergies.  </B></div> <div> <B>The worst offender was Lil. I was forced to find a good home for her.</B></div> <div> <B>Two years after that, we had our second son.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Three years later, I noticed that son #1 was ok around the neighbors dog.</B></div> <div> <B>I knew it was time to get another dog.   I saw in the paper, a request</B></div> <div> <B>for foster homes to raise puppies for the seeing eye foundation.</B></div> <div> <B>I called for information and told the director that I was worried that</B></div> <div> <B> our son might have trouble living with a dog in the house.   </B></div> <div> <B>I was told that if our boy had any trouble, they would come get the pup</B></div> <div> <B> and place her in another home.  We opted to raise a german shep. pup. </B></div> <div> <B>We had our wonderful Norda 18 months before she had to go back.</B></div> <div> <B>That was our introduction to the fantastic German Shepherd breed.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>We decided it was time to have our own German Shepherd.</B></div> <div> <B>A schoolmate of our daughter had two really nice shepherds. </B></div> <div> <B>Her parents introduced me to the German Shepherd Dog Club of NNJ.</B></div> <div> <B>I went to meetings, watched classes and learned all I could from</B></div> <div> <B>the wonderful breeders & trainers I met there.  It took me 3 months</B></div> <div> <B>before I found my ideal puppy.   A beautiful black & gold</B></div> <div> <B>Ch Falco of Thunder Rock daughter.  I purchased her with the goal</B></div> <div> <B>of having a well trained family companion.  Breeding and showing </B></div> <div> <B>had not entered my mind.  After  a few classes, I was talked into</B></div> <div> <B>showing her for her CD title and as long as I was going to the shows, </B></div> <div> <B>also in conformation.  She did very well.   We even had a couple of reserve wins.</B></div> <div> <B>I handled her myself and was great in obedience, but conformation was definately not one of my talents.  I have since shown a number of our dogs to obedience titles. I also worked with them as therapy dogs.</B></div> <div> <B>I decided I'd like to try my hand at raising a litter, and once I did, I was hooked.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>I was a veterinary assistant for a number of years.</B></div> <div> <B>I taught classes at the Shep. club.  As my boys grew up, they </B></div> <div> <B>enjoyed training and showing the dogs with me.  </B></div> <div> <B>Especially my younger son.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>We moved to our present home in 1970.  We had a top producing </B></div> <div> <B>reg. Jersey herd and we showed the cows at county fairs & NY state fair. </B></div> <div> <B>We retired from farming in 1980. After that, my husband worked for a</B></div> <div> <B>pharmaceutcal firm until his retirement a few years ago.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>I have been teaching canine obedience adult education classes,</B></div> <div> <B>as well as my own private lessons and classes since 1968.</B></div> <div> <B>Our dogs herded our cows and worked with us in security at a</B></div> <div> <B>number of the county fairs.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>I was animal controll officer for our town from 1977 to 1980.</B></div> <div> <B>We aquired my first poodle in 1979. Casa Strega's Peek-a-Boo Silver</B></div> <div> <B>was a rescue poodle, a very nice akc reg. girl. </B></div> <div> <B>Before we had her spayed, we bred her once at the request of our vet</B></div> <div> <B>to have puppies for 3 elderly couples who had recently lost their old dogs. </B></div> <div> <B>We sold all the puppies  with  spay/neuter contracts.</B></div> <div> <B>One of the couples became too ill to keep their girl & we took Diva</B></div> <div> <B>back before she was old enough to be spayed. </B></div> <div> <B>Diva de Casa Strega and </B><B>All Points Rochambeau Gabrel</B></div> <div> <B>(the beautiful young stud that I purchased) became the foundation for </B></div> <div> <B>our Casa La Strega Poodles.</B></div> <div> <B>10 generations later, we are still breeding the lines from our 1st poodle.</B></div> <div> <B>Old Boo lived to be 18 without one sick day in her wonderful, loving life</B></div> <div> <B>Gabe lived to past 17.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Since my husband Phil has retired, he has the time to be a true partner</B></div> <div> <B> in all our endeavors.  Especially the dogs.  It is so nice to have him</B></div> <div> <B> to depend on full time for help, companionship and advice. </B></div> <div> <B>We have been married since 1953.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>                               <IMG SRC="64d2ccd0.jpg" border=0 width="300" height="205" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>     ____________________________________</B></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <A HREF="id4.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Poodle Puppy Availability"><B>Poodle Puppy Availability</B></A></div> <div> <B>or</B></div> <div> <A HREF="id34.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="German Shepherds"><B>German Shepherds</B></A></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>