Our Kennel's story
Let's start with how it all began: Clementine Lavish is the founder of Lavish Lamb kennel. The lucky Irish Briton was fortunate enough to inherit a savings from her great grandfather who passed away. She's always been very fit and active, she rescued her first dog when she visited Ireland and seen him in an animal rescue. The young dog was very energetic and spirited just like herself and she needed a way to burn off his extra energy, so she tried agility with him and the dog loved it! Soon she started teaching him basic manners, tricks and how to excel in agile sports, before she knew it, it was something she really enjoyed and fancied. She started taking dog training lessons to increase her training skill, eventually she discovered our Founding dog Aubrey was a close last living relative of a very famous royal dog who was renowned for killing many snakes in Ireland using his quick agile skills, this dubbed him King and she was given permission to breed by the Irish Republic, that way his bloodline can live on in hopes of creating highly efficient agile working dogs, so she decided to bring her dream to life and wanted to develop an ideal Agility breed to keep the talented heroic dog Rocky's spirit and effectiveness alive, and to create even better zestful lively dogs. This is where the concept for British Lighthounds started.
A culture of our own
About Our Culture: Our dogs follow a unique royalty hierarchy system to determine their position within their royal ranks, we do partake in formal royalty style events with our dogs' family such as elaborate royal weddings, Charity events, and annual Jubilees! Our dogs are taught good proper etiquette that
is much higher standard than most dog owners would, and they love this way of life.
British royalty is our kennel's finesse, our special way of doing things :) It helps keep our dogs in-check and gives them a sense of specialty and etiquette
Facility photos newly updated as of 11/23/2018
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We are a home based Kennel complete with a large spacious landscape, Agility training area, an indoor training room, a luxury air conditioned whelping room, a flower garden, a pool, and of course plenty of trees and lush foliage for our dogs to enjoy as adventurous animals. The exterior of our house was modeled to look like a castle, and the inside is cozy as can be :)
The British Lighthound Breed Standard
The British Lighthound is a medium sized dog with an hourglass figure when viewed from above, similar to that of a maned wolf's body and foxlike with it's slightly long legs.
Weighing 39 to 48 lbs, this dog is light on its feet and nimble as it's main purpose is to excel at agility.
Non of its features should be exaggerated. They should stand perky and seem attentive to detail holding their head up and their front paws forward, often portraying one front paw held up as a gesture of curiosity.
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Ears are moderately to slightly large and proportionate to the skull, erect and rounded with an Ace of Spade like shape and pointed forward.
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The head is round, strong and sharply shaped, and proportionate to the body.
Their expression sweet, playful and lively sparks of intelligence. Eyes of medium size peering with curiosity, eyes should be round and shaped like
a diamond and not protruding. Eye colour is preferably royal or baby blue, yellow and green is also gladly accepted.
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The neck is at moderate length, strong and sturdy without being very bulky. Proportionate to the size of the head without loose folds of skin. The back is straight and strong without any curve or slouch and ever so slightly elongated.
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The ideal dog has a double coat of medium length fur without being too long and requiring excessive maintenance like their Rough Collie cousins. The outer coat should be somewhat dense and very soft with straight or slightly wavy fur.
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Tail should be at moderate length and compact, ideal for balance and never very large. A wavy and soft brush tail in proportion to their body.
Their legs should be somewhat long but the dog shouldn't be excessively tall, legs should be bony and muscular accompanied with soft proportionate paws.
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Their muzzle should be narrow and moderately elongated and ends in a soft point with a proportionate nose, similar to that of a rough collie's face.
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The British Lighthound dog varies in colour and many patterns are acceptable and celebrated. Strong rich cheerful colours are ideal.
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Ideal colours include
Red, brown, sandy, and tan sable
Black and white
Silver and tan
Black with brown points
Patterns include:
Tri-colour
Bi-colour
Merle
Faults:
solid coloured dogs without any markings
Double merle
Our breed is soon to be registered as official under the Sims International Kennel club as soon as we have a perfect specimen to represent our breed, our breed shall be in the "Non-Sporting" group.
Breed diagram
drawn by CEO of LLK April
SIKC Kennel registration #:K0013
Canine Careers
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All of our mature adult dogs routinely practice advanced agility, a sport that involves running and jumping through obstacles to make sure they are functionally and physically sound dogs, but especially because it's what British Lighthounds were bred to excel in.
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they are also taught basic obedience and commands, once they learn all 6 of them they earn the Title "Master Trick dog"
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We count every Agility trial our individual canines go through and keep records of their achievements and perfect agility runs when they didn't have any faults. We go by our own training curriculum , which makes it easy for us to identify which dog has the most agility experience and the fastest time, when a dog has completed 2 Agility Trials they are declared an "Amateur Competitor", when a dog has achieved 6 agility trials this makes them an "Experienced competitor" and when a dog reaches 6 perfect runs we consider them an "Agility champion", and so on. These terms were created by us, and used to demonstrate a dog's career as well as serving as good documents to show that their offspring had parents who were experienced at competing in agility.
Simplified Training level terms and guide: Good to best! You're free to use this for your kennel or training your sims dogs as well :)
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2 Agility trials Completed = Amateur Competitor
6 Agility trials Completed = Semi-pro Competitor
12 Agility trials completed = Agility Pro
6 Perfect Agility trials = Agility Champion
10 Perfect Agility Trials = Supreme Agility Champion
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Since Sims 4 cats and Dogs did not implement a
skill system for each dog's agility level we
decided to do our own! Starting 1/8/2019
We are using a random generator to determine
the chance of an agility fault for all levels
of Agility competitors.
Below is what we go by.
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Amateur Competitor: Chance of fault = 75%
Semi Pro Competitor: Chance of fault = 60%
Agility Pro Competitor: Chance of fault = 35%
Agility Champion: Chance of fault = 15%
Supreme Agility Champion: Chance of fault = 5%
Faults: Distraction, loosing traction, knocking down a pole, Frivolous playful behaviour (Young pups only, older canines take it seriously)
wrong obstacle, fearfulness.
Fault is random
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We've decided to integrate this additional system due to the lack of perfect trials by our
experienced canines. For instance, it feels like
a dog can be an Agility pro and yet only have a perfect trial once in a blue moon. This way it makes sense for better taught Agility dogs to perform better!
