.Miss Dorothy V. Seaton (Seacross), 84, a major force in the world of Schipperkes, lost her battle with cancer and died peacefully on Monday, January 17th. The funeral service will be held on Friday, 28 January at All Saints Parish Church, Bedworth, Warwicks, at 3:30, with cremation at Nuneaton Crematorium at 4:30. Refreshments will be served at Parish Church following the cremation.

It is with great sadness that I report the death of Dorothy. I have known her from before my teenage years, as I was a Saturday kennel girl for her boarding kennels. I went to visit her in hospital with Diane Forknall (Avidore Schips) shortly after Christmas, and it was Diane who phoned with the sad news. When we know any more about where any donations are to be sent (rather than flowers) I will post it here, and on Facebook.

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The Pie and The Pan by Beatrix Potter

If you read the ‘Schipperke’ page in Wikipedia it states that;

“Beatrix Potter, English author of the Peter Rabbit books, created a story called The Pie and the Patty Pan with a Schipperke named Duchess, who receives an invitation to tea. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tale_of_the_Pie_and_the_Patty-Pan”

However when you click on the link and read about this story, they declare it is about a Pomeranian calle Duchess who is invited to tea.

The plate from the book is reproduced here and indeed it does show a little black dog, and you could say it does look like a Schipperke, albeit with a tail. But is it a Schipperke or a Pomeranian? I must confess I know very little about Beatrix Potter or the animals she kept. She may of had a Schipperke, but would it be undocked at that time?

Could it be, however, that the link between Beatrix Potter and Schipperkes is in fact the ‘Tarnhows’ connection. According to the Visit Cumbria website-

“in 1930 bought the Monk Coniston Estate – 4000 acres from Little Langdale to Coniston – which contained Tarn Hows, now Lakeland’s most popular piece of landscape.”

I await the debate with interest.

Karen