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A new world record price of £27,100 or £28,455 to include the buyers premium, and a further eight lots selling for more than £7000 were the main highlights of a timed online sale of working dogs staged through Farmers Marts, Dolgellau. The sale of 126 dogs to include 65 trained, 36 part-trained and 25 pups which met an 80% clearance, saw a new world high paid for Welshman, Dewi Jenkins Kim, a 12-month-old red and white bitch, from Tynygraig, Talybont. A daughter of Ross Games Caefelin Clem and Frank Hickson s Graylees Dollar, this youngster which is able to work stubborn rams as well as cattle, sold to E Vaughan, Partridge Nest Farm, Newcastle, Staffordshire.
Kim by D Jenkins sold for a whopping £27,100 (€30,934).
A new world record was set at an online auction held by Farmers Marts Dolgellau last week, when an 11 month-old Welsh-bred sheepdog, Kim, sold for a mammoth £27,100 (€30,934). The price for Kim, including buyer’s premium, totalled £28,466 (€32,491).
Sheepdog Kim was bred and trained by Dewi Jenkins and is from Caefelin Clem, sired by Graylees Dollar and is described as a smart red-and-white pricked-ear dog. It is said her new owners, E Vaughan of Partridge Nest Farm in Newcastle, Staffordshire, will be very pleased with her.
Kim by D Jenkins sold for a whopping £27,100 (€30,934).
Super-intelligent Welsh sheepdog sells for £28,000 to smash world record price
Kim is still under 12-months-old but she has the ability and skills of a much older dog
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BLOOMINGTON â First-grader Sofia Chambers loves to read â especially when she has a furry audience.
For over a year, Sofia has been taking part in the weekly Tales for Tails program at the Bloomington Public Library, which allows children to read to therapy dogs. While the COVID-19 pandemic has meant a pause on in-person gatherings, the program has continued in a virtual format.
âI read to myself and I like it, but when I read to dogs I really like it more because I donât feel as much lonely,â Sofia said.Â
Sofia Chambers, 6, is a first grader at Corpus Christi Catholic School. She participates once a week in Bloomington Public Library s Tales for Tails program, where she reads to therapy dogs. On Wednesday night, she read 5 Minute Star Wars Stories to Chaco, a poodle.Â