About Me

I have decided to compose this blog to record the day to day events of my recently established breeding and rearing kennels. I think it is important in the ever changing world that my business has a presence on the internet, hopefully my rambling here will develop into a web-site in due course but one step at a time I suppose.

For those of you looking in that don't know me let me introduce myself. Im Paul McCusker, happily married to Colette and recently moved to Drumscraw. Its a beautiful townland set amongst the rolling hills outside the village of Drumquin in County Tyrone, a hard thing for a Derry man to admit! I moved here after getting married last July, a great occasion, and since then have been setting up my kennels. It was initially to be a hobby, like the majority of doggie men, but since the death of my grandfather I have decided to built up the kennel strength and aim to run a successful commercial breeding and rearing facility.

I have been involved with the dogs since I was able to walk. My family on my mothers side have kept dogs for generations and the saying that its in the blood rings true with me. Mornings before school where spent galloping dogs on the beach at 6.00am and evening trials where far more important than schoolwork ever was!

My late grandfather, Jack Creelman, was the man responsible for my interest. He kept 40 dogs himself, rearing 3/4 litters of pups every year. He was a gambling man and when his money was down 9/10 he collected. He had a great knowledge of breeding and could rhyme of back pedigrees for stud dogs long before the advent of greyhound-data. I hope to use some of the broods and experience that he left behind to try and establish my kennels.