Lilian had sold Alfie to a young couple who very actively showed a bitch and they wanted him so they could start breeding. Alfie was a very handsome boy. The people also had horses and they let their dogs run with the horses. Alfie was kicked by a horse and broke his jaw. Today it may sound absurd, but at the time it was set by a vet with a wire. This meant Alfie had to be fed liquid food several times a day. The owners didn't want to bother with it, so they asked June Hunt if she would keep him till the wire came out -- about three months. They would pay her. Well, they left him with her for nearly six months and didn't pay anything. One day when they knew June was at work they kidnapped Alfie. They also didn't pay board for their horses and left one day without any forwarding address. They left Alfie with the horse people with a note that said he was worth more than what they owed for the horses' board. They signed his papers over to the horse people.

Meanwhile, Lilian had lost track of him but kept trying to find what had happened. Miraculously, one of the drivers at Technicolor, where she was working, saw Alfie at the horse ranch, which was on her route. When she came back she asked if Lilian knew people with a horse ranch in that area that also had IGs. Lilian asked her to get the phone number of the people. She called them and found out that their male was Alfie. They had bought a bitch to breed to him so they could have puppies to sell. Lilian went to look at their litter and tried to buy Alfie back, but they wouldn't sell him. She did buy one of the puppies. That became Ch. La Traviata Di La Scala. She is behind most of La Scala dogs of the next decades. Lilian says Alfie was one of the most beautiful IGs she has ever bred, but he was only shown once and got one single point. Here is a picture of Alfie shown by June Hunt: