About us......

We are Hanno and Rachel Dijkhorst and we live with our daughter Charlotte, our son
Valentijn and our dogs in a small village called Maarn,
located in the beautifull area of the Utrechtse Heuvelrug, fully surrounded
by woods and historical estates.
Hanno started off with the pembrokes, under his kennelname “Hillberry”.
He bred his first litter in 2005. Several Hillberry Pems obtained different titles and many
Best of Breeds out of different classes. We are still building up our kennel by importing
beautiful but above all great natured dogs from world’s most famous kennels. Certainly
should be mentioned Ch. Whitepoint Orlando Bloom (Irl), bred by Laura Campion and
Ch. Llandians Royale Affaire, bred by Dianne Connolly (USA). And we are happy to
cooperate with Ana Pires from Switzerland.
Rachel started with the Cardigans under the prefix “Waggerland”.
Her first Cardigan was Ch. Floatin’ Cyntaf in Blue, a beautiful Blue with a great character.
Rachel still cooperates with Mrs. Ph. Bitter-van Sliedregt from Floatin’ kennels in Holland.
Phil has imported many well known Cardi’s and has bred 20 champions
and is still going on, nowadays Rachel handles the showdogs.
Also should be mentioned a good friend, Mrs. N. van Gelderen-Parker,
a retired but respectable breeder and judge for the Corgis.
Last but not least should I mention late Mrs. I. Maier
from “Rarebit” kennels in Germany, who sadly passed away in 2007.
She was a good friend and bred Rachel’s first bitch Ch. Rarebit Black Cressida.
Ch. Dragonpatch Big Papa Foster was bred by Mr. and Mrs. D. Anthony in the USA,
he’s not only a big winner, he is a true Cardigan, a once in a lifetime dog!
We both truly appreciate both breeds and when we came to live together we decided
to move on in both breeds.
Rachel is a FCI judge for the Dachshund (FCI group 4), Bearded Collies and Rough and
Smooth Collies (FCI group1). She would like to take exams in the other
English breeds  (FCI group 1), and the Australian Shepherd.
Group 10 has her interest as well. For years now she’s also a member in the committee
of the Australian Shepherd Club Nederland.
She also was a dogtrainer for almost 15 years at 2 dogclubs recognized by the
Dutch Kennelclub, teaching puppies, ringtraining, obedience and so on.
We show our dogs throughout Europe and are members of several breedclubs, including:
the NWCC, the original breedclub for both the Pembroke and Cardigan in Holland,
the Dutch Club for the Pembroke, the German Corgi Club, The French Corgi Club,
the Welsh Corgi League, the Cardigan Welsh Corgi Association,
The Irish Corgi Club and the Cardigan Welsh Corgi Club of America.
We score all our dogs on hips and eyes, we tested our dogs on Degeneratieve Myelopathy and
von WillebrandPembrokes), we do this to know what is going on in our lines. For  example,
talking about DM, we don't want to exlude carriers or affected animals from our breeding as we
think it's very important to know exactly what is going on in the population before doing this, with
the dna-tests that are available nowadays, it's possible to breed clear dogs in a few
generations. And as more and more tests for different diseases come up, we might be forced to
use dogs with for example less quality of hips in a few years as we might have bigger problems
in other areas.
We think of our corgis as individuals with their strong and weaker points, if we use them within
our breeding program, we are convinced that they will contribute to the breed. Of course now
and then we will encounter deseases or abnormalities in our dogs and puppies, but that comes
with breeding and having dogs. Breeders who say that they don't have any problems
concerning health are hard to believe as every dog, every animal and any human being carries
bad genes and with every breeding or birth they might turn up.
We now and then give our dogs for stud but we don't want our dogs te be used over and over
again. Regarding our own breed plans, we look at health, construction and temperament and we
are very internationally orientated
Although we have a heated building for our dogs as well, most of them live with us in the house.
We only breed occasionally and we select our bitches and studdogs very carefully. Our puppies
are of course born and raised in our house.
Socialising our puppies and young dogs is very important to us, we think a good show
and breeddog is one with a sound and even temperament.
Health and soundness come first, as comes behavior!
We would also like to introduce our “kennelmanager” but above all our good friend Wilma.
Whenever we leave our house, Wilma takes care of our dogs.
She’s also great with our puppies. She lives next door and owns a Hillberry Pembroke
and a Waggerland Cardigan. We are very grateful for all her help!
Thank you for visiting our website, we hope you will enjoy looking at our dogs
as much as we do !