Weaning, developing, growing, playing the ” S” Litter are watched over by half sister Mavis, from the same dam, Ch Aytee Katerina, in 2023. It is incredible to think what 2 years will do!
Big thankyou to Lisa Cornell in the USA for allowing us to breed this litter from Ch Edelmarke Second Coming.
Working pigeon traps has been a focus for our training since arriving in New Zealand. At the moment HPR Natural Game trials are only run in North Island and field trialling in South Island, where we live, is done on pigeons in traps. Here is our first video giving an outline of what you might expect if, for whatever reason, you decide to have a go working with pigeon traps.
Not far away roads were closed with snow but we had a fabulous first day picking up with Mavis today alongside the beautiful Southern Alps. Swimming the river in full flood to make a retrieve way up the bank and amazing me with her retrieves on pricked cockbirds 😀 exciting times.
12 years ago today our Phenomenal “J” Litter arrived. 4 of the litter were to qualified for Open Field Trials, 2 became Field Trial Champions, one in Ireland and one in the UK as well as being placed 3rd and twice 1st in the KC HPR Championships in 2017/2018 & 2019. 2 won UK Open Trials and 2nd’s but didnt make that FtCh. It feels like it could have been a litter record?
Happy Birthday to the whole litter including Hari Lampart’s, Myrtle, Lee Minhinnick’s Bob, Darryl Elliot’s Lewis and our own adorable Jerzi, 😍 laying by the fire tonight, the easiest GSP I will ever own.
We set ourselves the challenge of a bird a day for the Kings Birthday weekend. The last day Yay! 🐾
Day 2 of our Kings Birthday Challenge .. not a pheasant but paradise duck will do 😊🐾
It’s a beautiful morning and bank holiday weekend for the Kings birthday here in New Zealand and today, 31st May, the first day of the North Canterbury Upland Game Shooting Season. With just 7 days a season allowed for pheasant shooting in our area,(1 bird a day) it’s important to get out and train for those trials! Job Done - Mavis filled the bag 😁completing her first HPR in NZ 😊 👌🐾👏🐾
Job Done
Once she had decided, Karat didnt hang about and our “S” Litter arrived 3 days early, Friday 23rd May, apparently a common thing with litters born from surgical AI. Arriving in our kitchen with warmth from the woodburner, the 3 bitches and 4 dog puppies are all feeding well and very content. We are very excited to have such lovely homes lined up and we would like to thank everyone on our waitlist for being so patient and Lucie will be in touch by the end of Monday latest. !! many thanks for the wonderful interest in this litter - all puppies are reserved.
A kinky tail that can be seen taped, (to straighten) was bent by the closeness of his big brother before birth 🥰
Karat, heavily pregnant and soon to have her pups took off on her quiet morning walk this morning to retrieve a wounded duck from a neighbours recent shoot. 🫣🫣
Moving to a different country is mega when it comes to getting everything in place to shoot over your dogs, find access to grounds and hook up with likeminded people. Today Mavis and I made a start (it being the first day of the season) by shooting our first duck, with a new gun, with the first shot and giving Mavis her first live bird retrieve 😁 A fabulous sunny day when hunters could be heard from dawn to dusk and which followed a huge mid week rain storm which in a timely way had swelled the rivers and filled all the ponds. Yay! The surprised face says it all 🤣
