There are MANY imports who have finished their AKC Championship! All you have to do is go to K9data and select a country or origin, then in the front titles field put any variation of Am.Ch., Am Ch, AM CH, etc.

There are several imports from Brazil and Columbia that have finished in AKC.
Pedigree: WW'06, Am.Ch, Ch. Gr. Col. Ch. Gr.Arg. Ag-Golden Age Diamond Intican SDHF

Pedigree: Am-Can CH Golden Dreams Alto Claro Cristal

Pedigree: Ch. Col. Am. Ch. Ag-Golden Age Porto Alegre

Here are several Am CH's imported from AUS:

Pedigree: Am Ch Perrecca Xoxox CDX RAE

Pedigree: Am. CH. Perrecca Grenada OS

Pedigree: Am. CH. Alubyc Trelawny

Pedigree: Am. CH Karrell Joint Venture WC

Pedigree: Am. CH Nordlys Australis

Pedigree: Am. CH Semperidem Sunrunner

Pedigree: Am. CH Tessa Of Rustledene

Other counties:

Pedigree: Ch. Col. Am. Ch. Ag-Golden Age Porto Alegre

Pedigree: Am. CH. Golden Trip Nothing Can Stop Me

Pedigree: Am. CH Gorca's Sandpiper Morgana

Pedigree: BISS Am. CH Gorca's Vega Runawaybride OD

Pedigree: Br. Am. CH SUN'S BAY GOLDEN TRIP STRAWBERRY

There are many more from many other countries.

Pedigree: Am CH Rooftreetop Branca

Pedigree: Eng & Am CH Vesta Of Woolley

Pedigree: Am Ch Westley Modesta

There are 47 from English with Am. CH. and I didn't even try the other countries with the other variations.

I'm a huge Sydney fan myself ; )

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I have one out of Dewmist lines, but I have sent them many letters and not one response. Nice dogs, but a shame they don't respond to one with their lines. In my area, I don't believe imports are even shown AKC, if they do show it is in the Int'l shows because they are usually lighter in color than the favored, or they put with a prof. handler and show in Canada. I do not know how true this is, but have been told this by Golden owners I met at shows.

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Ok I just took a quick look at that list and didn't look at every dog....
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at least a few of those go back to american lines... so they were imported after the american lines were exported...like the very first multi-titled dog. Again I didn't look at all the dogs...

several of them are very old dog... at least one that I took a quick look at was in 1927, 1974, 1991 now to some of us oldsters 1991 doesnt seem that long ago but it is 21 years ago... times change.


Imported dogs not out of American lines to begin with that are able to finish AKC championships NOW are few and far between without chasing judges using handlers. Sure if you want to send your dog and handler across the country to chase specific judges and throw enough money at it, it's possible. For the majority that is not fiscally possible.

Deber, that has been my experience.... if we are only dealing with a color issue... then the AKC standard penalizes variations from medium gold, the canadian standard does not... but there are other appearance issues where they simply just look different in the ring. Most UK imports that I know of are showing in Canada, Intnl (which I don't put a lot of stock in) and UKC which also penalizes color but they seem to be more accepting of color differences and there are fewer pro handlers. Also keep in mind that Dewmist is a huge kennel setting with many many dogs honestly many of us would be uncomfortable with the number of dogs that they have but it is not all that uncommon... one of the largest best respected flat coat kennels in the same region is also a large kennel that many here would be uncomfortable with. With that number of dogs and the number of puppies produced my guess is having the lines wouldn't mean much to them for better or worse...

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I did meet Eddie, Scandal Lover De Zelkova, in Springfield. The day though, went to our forum member KDowning's dog Sammy for the 2 points handled by team Mammano.

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He looked very beautiful from the photos, but pretty far from home (MA and AK are about as far away as you can get). I think if showing forced me to ship my dog in Cargo, which that likely would, I wouldn't do it. No title is worth putting my dogs life at risk. I question letting Sam travel has much as he does with the handlers (which isn't a lot). Flying would be out of the question for me at least.