Topsfield team

Sue Frischmann
Resident Handler, Kennel Manager and Webmaster

Sue grew up in a family involved with breeding and showing Bassets and Dobermans, as well as hunters and jumpers. She showed horses from childhood, including top-ranked Riot Free, pictured right, and spent 15 years professionally as a horse trainer and coach.

Sue began with Bassets again about twenty years ago and has continued as a breeder and handler since.

Sue began working with Topsfield in 1996, and is the permanent full-time Resident Handler and Kennel Manager in Vermont.

Sue and BIS Winning CH Sanchu-Topsfield Yahtzee

Sue and Riot Free

In addition to showing the majority of the Topsfield hounds, Sue oversees the breeding and whelping of all Topsfield litters. She brings years of experience as a breeder and handler, as well as an avid interest in computers and photography.

Sue is pictured above left with BIS and multiple group winning CH Sanchu-Topsfield Yahtzee. Pictured right, with breeder/judge Joe Braun, is CH Dem Bones Motion Picture, a multiple group placing hound who was the result of her first litter. Sue is shown left with Multiple Group Winning CH Sanchu-Topsfield Go-Cars.

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and created by Sue Frischmann.

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Sue and BISS CH Topsfield Calypso

SSue and CH Topsfield-Sanchu Pop Art O'Bridi

In addition to the daily care of the hounds, Linda starts table training show puppies at about two weeks of age. She cares for the kennel when we are at the shows. She also trains some of our hounds for Obedience.

Linda pictured above with Topsfield Chopin, CD

Linda above with CH Topsfield Bumper Cars, CD, ROM

Before moving with her family and two children to Vermont, Linda ran a canine obedience center in Connecticut. She and her family live next door to Topsfield.

Linda occasionally meets with new owners of puppies and coordinates their visits to the kennel. Her contribution to Topsfield is invaluable.

Topsfield owes much of its success to the guidance and expertise of Donald Peddie, DVM (pictured left), who has provided veterinary care for Topsfield hounds for almost a decade. In practice for over thirty years, Dr. Peddie is a graduate of Cornell Veterinary School. He specializes in small animal medicine with a specialization in orthopedics.

Don retired from his private practice and closed his clinic, Cider Mill Animal Hospital located 25 minutes south of Topsfield in Cornwall, Vermont (pictured below) last year. He now is associated with Vergennes Animal Hospital, in Vergennes Vermont. Don makes routine visits to the kennel.

Don is a past president of the Vermont
Veterinary Medical Association and has served
as Chairman of the Vermont State Licensing Board and the New England States' Licensing Board. He is also a recipient of the David Walker Award for outstanding practitioner in Vermont and in 1999 received the New England Veterinary Association Special
Achievement Award.

Dr. Peddie describes his experience with the uniquely structured Basset Hound as a wonderful challenge. Topsfield is truly fortunate to have Don and the services of Vergennes Animal Hospital, and their staff as part of its team.