Taking a 14 week old pup on holiday sounds quite daunting but it can work. Keep as much consistency as you can, food, bedding, sleep routine and they are surprisingly resilient. This was our first time taking such a young pup, but it has given her more confidence with strange situations and worked surprisingly well.
Cat Obedience π
Our latest addition Mavis does her best to impersonate a wind up mouse. No cat was injured in this filming π
Celebrating "Harris" top dog
Congratulations to βHarrisβ Islasbraw Ash for winning overall top dog with a fantastic mark at the KC 150 Anniversary Celebration Event and being on the winning Scottish Gundog Team with owner Darryl Elliot. A really brilliant result for Darryl and 3 yo Harris and the owners of our latest puppies are justly proud as he is sire of our recent ββQβ Litter. Here is our own daughter of Harris, 10 week old Mavis celebrating with her first point todayπ
"Q" Litter Leaving Home
pups are within days of going to their new homes β¦this is where they are going
QUEING UPπΎπΎπΎ
Our beautiful βQβ Litter met their new owners this weekend and made the most of lots of cuddles πΎπΎπΎ Thankyou to everyone who has corresponded with us, visited and to our new owners we wish you much fun with these little beauties.
Flat Hunting π
Given a micro-chance Karat would have moved her litter outside yesterday - she spent every loo break searching for the right spot.
Karat flat hunting π
"Q" Litter bang on time πΎπΎ
Q litter dob 2.4.23. FTW Islasbraw Ash X Ch Aytee Katerina
Despite being convinced that Karat would deliver early, she waited βtil the early hours of her due date before whelping our βQβ litter through last night. To all the lovely people who came to visit during March to discuss a pup, we are blessed with a litter of 10 and I will be in touch with you all very soon. Karat knew the ropes and it is a huge relief now, not to have her resembling a stretched balloon π Donβt worry, we take nothing for granted, but she has reared 10 pups before (βNβ Litter) and between us we can do it again.
Waiting patiently πΎπΎπΎ
Thankyou to all our prospective puppy owners from Karat and I for the lovely messages wishing us luck for her whelping this week π It was marvellous to meet some of you over the last fortnight, thankyou for travelling the long distances and we will do our best to get the result that everyone is hoping for. Karat is very well and we are expecting that pups may arrive a tad early - I think she will be very happy about that ! π
whelping box ready for arrivals
π΄σ §σ ’σ ³σ £σ ΄σ ΏTeam Training Group
A beautiful day of training for the Scottish H.P.R Home Internationals Team training group yesterday which took place at Scottish Borders Sporting, Lauder. Huge thanks to SBS owners Stuart and Tracy Ferguson, for team Sponsorship through the use of their fabulous facilities. The sun shone and on such wonderful ground and able to work alongside well known trainer Sarah Miles and of course, with the help of some very capable dummy throwers, the day was perfect and allowed all the dogs to shine. Well done handlers, let's do it all again next month!
GSPs Down-under ... and Over
Just home from a long antiopdean trip to see family where we had the luck of seeing plenty of GSPβs, some used for muzzled work with New Zealands DOC, (Department of Conservation) for counting endangered species. Interesting that DOC also encourage and run Kiwi Avoidance courses which involve training with an EC.
Also spotted, a much loved very large Aussie bred dog and our own Aytee Kimono βTarka" who finally found and retrieved one of the grandchildrens guinea pigs that was safely returned to its pen unharmed ππͺ . We even enjoyed a film at 40,000 feet on french truffle hunting GSPβs courtesy Emirates Airline π πͺπΎ
