| Cal-Vo English Goldens Sets the Standard for all the rest Legendary Carol Vogel has been showing and breeding dogs since the early 60's. This page is dedicated to her commitment to breeding better dogs and for being such a wonderful mentor and friend. |
| Can Ch Cal Vo Graceful Genevive CGC We were deeply saddened by the loss of this lovely girl. Geni was my first show golden from Carol Vogel she proved to be an excellent example of this wonderful breed. Geni passed 4/5/95 - 8/24/09 she will be deeply missed by Marsha and her husband. |
| Above Carol Pictured above with a Dreamer son and daughter to the right This picture was taken back in 07' at the Virginia Beach dog show held at the Pavillion. I needed some help with showing dogs that day and Carol rose early to help me and she showed Dreamer and fell in love. So now she owns a Dreamer son AKA Dreamer Jr. |
| Am.Ch. Beckwith Malagold Starfarm |
| Am.Ch.Footprint of Yeo in a stud dog class |
| Am/Mex./Can.Ch, Cal Vo's Happy Ambassadore at 4months |
| Gretchen and Carol at a show California Cow Palace in |
| Carol Vogel and Betty Hoggard |
| Jane Lunow founder of Cameo Goldens sitting with a Cal Vo pup named Pablo |
| Footprint of Yeo offspring |
| Cal Vo Happy Ambassador's daughter Spirit |
| Cal Vo's Reprint of Footprint |
| Cal Vo's Ringside Ranger |
| Cal Vo's Vision of Venus |
| Cal Vo's Wistful Windsong |
| CAL VO's Beginning My name is Teri Kuklica and I was blessed by meeting Carol Vogel after my husband found her ad in Dog World Magazine. She wouldn't sell him a dog until she met me so one day as a surprise he drove me to her home and I met ZJ a beautiful cream male this was 95'. I had fallen in love with the english back in 93' when purchasing new golden books. Carol and I had a close bond from the beginning, she was my mentor and stay a true friend. The stories about how she started are many, so I will do the best I can,Carol got involved in goldens back in the early 60's starting off with a golden from a backyard breeder. 1st golden was Carol's Golden Tara 63'. She was a beautiful golden with a clean white blaze on her chest. Then several months later we went out in a snow storm in North Virginia, someone had a litter of red goldens most had white spots on them but found a male without any white markings his name was Carol's Rebellious Ra. aka Rebel. He turned out to be so sweet had a pointy nose, skinny legs, and we find alot to laugh about over our start with the goldens, but hey it was a learning experience, Carol did obedience with Rebel he was a very smart dog. . Carol received a call from Betty Ann Hoggard with Starfarm kennels she had met at the training club, she wanted to use Rebel for stud, Carol asked if she had hip clearances and Betty said well she walks well. An opportunity arose for Betty Ann to go over to England with her son for a boys choir engagment and she went to Yeoville England and picked up Footprint of Yeo this was Loucille Sawtell kennel. Somehow Betty talked her out of Yeo he was 12 wks old, he was one of the first creams in this country. She brought him back to the states and showed him to his Champion. Betty Ann used Yeo in her kennel for three different litters Carol had already purchased Beckwith Malagold Starfarm aka Becky from Betty Hoggard. Becky finished her championship very quickly which made Carol so proud, she then decided to breed to Footprint Betty and her had trouble breeding the Becky, but when Carol went to leave Betty Ann's home that was when Footprint jumped into action before she could get through the front door. Betty decided to sell Footprint to Carol Vogel for $1,500.00, she charged Carol one hundred dollars per point. Carol husband Carl told her she had to go and get a loan to purchase Footprint, Carol was scared to death to have to explain her loan purchase, The man at the bank ensured her he wouldn't laugh and much to her surprise he didn't he also had just bought a dog for $2,000,00 and was very kind. Within a couple of weeks Carols family moved to California in 1970 they had 5 goldens, 1 black cat and 3 turtles and 3 children and Carol was pregnant with her 4 child. They were quiet the picture at all the motels they stopped at. Becky was pregnant and Annabelle was in season with Footprint ready to roll, he completed he duty at one of them motel stops in Las Vegas. Carol and gang got to Cal. and everydog there was red and 4 years later Footprint had left his mark and left behind nice blocky, nice bone, light dogs. Happy Ambassador was one from that first litter who became a champion. Still under construction |