KARAT MAKES THE GRADE

What a weekend! Karat won both her classes at the GSPA Ch Show under two different judges.  Thanks to Val Rusk for 1st Yearling and Velda Prior for 1st Special Working.  A really lovely international line up of dogs that it was great to be a part of, well done to all the winners and a big thank you to all organisers.  The day was only surpassed by Karat grading GOOD the day before at Worcester Gundogs GPT  on her very first visit to a grouse moor.  So lovely to see.

The disaster of the weekend was discovering my car battery had blown up while on the moor but MASSIVE thanks to Lloyd Birch, Lee Loveridge and  Ray Davies for help in getting RAC rescue on a Bank Holiday Sunday to the middle of Island Moor on the Brecon Beacons.  Bottles on their way !

GREAT WEEK FOR AYTEE

A fun week for Aytee owners with Aytee Kalimar grading V. Good at his first GPT and his first time on Grouse ! well done "Doc" and owner Ben Barrett  and Aytee Jessie Jay was Page 3's Dog of the Week in Shooting Times and featured in  the Field.  Great stuff "Myrtle" and Hari Lampart !

                                                                                   AYTEE JESSIE JAY better known at MYRTLE

SNOWED IN

A long motorway drive in the snow but we now hope dear Dora is in pup to Sh Ch Barleyarch Rolex!  Ha, trust Dora to pick a difficult day 😳     Great thanks to the lovely Lisle family and of course to Lex.  Snowed in on the side of the moor for now, its a hard life.  

WATER WATER EVERYWHERE

Lots of points for the dogs on flooded river meadows today, Dora even pointed the desperate voles swimming for their lives as their burrows flooded !

😄 AYTEE "L" LITTER PUPPIES PLANNED 😄

We have Puppies planned for late Spring 2018.   Working homes to take priority.

Dam:  Ft Ch Aytee Isadora  Hip score 2-2

Sire:  Sh Ch Barleyarch Rolex   Hip score 2-2

The litter will be a repeat mating of the 'K' litter from 2016.  See below Karat born August 2016 who has been introduced to game this winter.  She is a lovely kind and happy temperament.  A good retriever with a soft mouth, a keen swimmer, hunts hard and has just started pointing.  She has lots of bone, moves beautifully  and was shown successfully winning 6 firsts from 8 Ch Shows during 2017.

I am very particular about the homes that our pups go to preferring them to be with loving active, hunting and working or performance homes.  They do not have to be serious trialling homes but you will need to show that you intend to spend time training your GSP for a job and then I believe they will then be happiest and most settled. 

Do email me or ring for a chat and if you confirm an interest, once Dora has been mated I will meet up with everyone over the coming weeks so your patience would be much appreciated. 

For more pictures and info of what we might expect please see menu under "K" Litter as this is a repeat mating or Karats page (Aytee Katerina) under Aytee Dogs.

WE ALL TAKE THE BEST DOG HOME

Phew, character building this field trialling business.   Ha, sometimes it feels like a conspiracy of wind, birds, shooting, ground, scent, weather and of course j regs !    There's nothing so high and nothing so low as feelings on a trial day, but it's all over now for another season and after the very last day picking up day today I absolutely know that we always take the best dog home!  Even our old FTCH 14 years old this year (facing camera) did two drives  today alongside her 2 daughters and 2 grand daughters.    Have a fun summer everyone ........ enjoy your dogs !    

MOTLEY GANG

A motley gang of disreputables! but 10 lovely dogs to keep us organised. Lovely days this season, Sharon, get well soon! See you for the last hurrah Wednesday x

Zero to Hero

Jerzi was foot perfect today picking up 2nd in Open at a superb trial run by the HVS  at Kingham, Oxon.   Massive congrats to winner Rory who made up his dog today.   Coming so soon after the wonderful Irish Ballinacor  trial where we were taken ill and both Aytee dogs bombed out, it was a great relief to be back on form.    Thanks for today to the HVS, the hosts, judges, competitors and organising team for such a marvellous time.  

Thanks also to Steve McMannus for this picture of the beautiful ground at Ballinacor, Co Wexford  ....  we will return!

GREAT DAY WITH GUERNSEY GUNS

What an amazing day today, walking up for 8 brilliant guns visiting from Guernsey.  Thanks to Nick Elsdon of Anglia Sporting who organised the day and all the great friends who brought their lovely dogs, Maureen Nixon, Rory Major, Steve Pleasance and Hari Lampart.  What a great day,  lovely points, superb shooting and some cracking retrieves.  Some pretty amazing misses as well ! 😯  such fun and banter in the gunline.  Aytee Dogs are exhausted, we are exhausted, a day to remember😊

Sharing the last point of the day Aytee Jessie Jay, Aytee Juniper & Aytee Isadora

BLACK POWDER GUNS AND GSPS HAVING FUN IN THE SUN - AYTEE NEW VIDEO

Shooting in shirtsleeves seems a long time ago but it was only really a few weeks.  Thanks to the Anglian Muzzle Loaders with their Black powder guns who shot over Aytee GSP's and  friends earlier this season when we made this little film. Thanks also to Mark Howard and The Glemham Hall Shoot, as always a brilliant day !