Winterwonderland

Winter can be beautifull!
A picture of Jazz on my favorite walk.

Ginny and Tommie

Here's a nice picture of another beautifull Stommeerpolder-girl Ginny, together here with her little boyfriend Tommie in a wheelbarrow.

Hunting pictures

The wheather was beautifull this morning and we were again asked to help with the hunting. Good modelwork from Kylie with her beautifull game.

Merry Christmas and a happy New Year!

Kalle 2nd in Huntingdog-group Genk, Belgium!

Yesterday Kalle became 2nd in the Huntingdog Group on the dogshow of Genk, Belgium. Well done and congratulations!! This is realy a rare achievement for a Large Munsterlander in our regions, but ofcourse Kalle is gorgeous! Kalle's mum, Jazz ones became 3rd in group at the dogshow of Groningen this year and that's about it. Looking at the picture above I think Kalle fits in perfectly with the other beautifull dogs, so lets see what the future will bring :-))

Kylie and the rabbit hole

Above: too bad, the rabbit had already gone :-((
Underneath: click on the triangle button to start the video

I just found out I can also upload little video's on the blog. That's fun! This one I made with my mobile phone. On our walks Kylie is obsessed by rabbit holes. Jazz always comes by every now and then to check if Kylie made any progress, but then runs off again. In this video Kylie 's been digging for about half an hour already on two exits, so the hole is deep and Kylie is getting a bit less active :-))

Out hunting again

Above: that's a bit awkward with the clapping wing
Underneath: always presenting the game properly

Underneath: how do you solve this? swim? ... no just jump

Underneath: this hare had bad luck, but Kylie loves to fetch

I usually carry a little camera with me to snap a picture here and there, but on huntingdays it can get very exciting and I forget to make pictures. This day I luckily made a few.

Puppy update 25-11-2008

Aren't they totally sweet!! I can hardly await our next litter!

Terschelling

Above: together with Dirk on the bicycle
Underneath: lots of exercising and no cars around

Underneath: the beaches are favorite. No rules there!

Underneath: wet, sandy and tired

It realy is time for an update again! Last month we stayed a few days on Terschelling. In the north of Holland there are five habitable islands in the North Sea and a few smaller ones. They are beautifull. Enormous beaches, lots of moor and wetlands and hardly any cars. The islands are birds paradises and if you visit off-season, there are not many people around. So perfect for a visit with two Large Munsterlanders. And what do Dutch people do on their Dutch hollidays... they cycle all the time. We hired a cycle the dogs fit in, for 6 hours of running next to a cycle is a bit too much asked, so now and then they could rest while my husband Dirk was cycling them around. It was a very healthy and satisfactoring weekend for all of us.

Puppy update 11-11-2008

Above: bitch

Underneath: dog

Aren't they lovely! The little boy is dark, after his parents. But realy, it seems like the little girl looks after her grandmother Jazz :-))

Pax v.d. Stommeerpolder

Today we met Pax. In the summertime Pax lives in Sweden (lucky Pax!) Pax is a very bussy chap. He used to be very tiny, but wow did he grow up well!! Another dog to be very proud of.

Another beautifull huntingday

Above: be quick, be smart and use your nose

Above: you'll have to stand on your backfeet if you want to see anything in these crops

Above: and this is where it's all about

Jazz Bundessieger

We had the crazy plan together with the IJpelaar family to go to the Crufts with our dogs in March 2009. Only for showing there you'll have to qualify and in the Netherlands you can only qualify at the Winner show in Amsterdam. Kalle, Kylie and Jordi already have their qualifications, only Jazz didn't. The IJpelaar family already entered Kalle for the Bundessieger-Zuchtschau in Dortmund and there you can also qualify for Crufts. They offered me to take Jazz overthere and have a try. Well, it did work for sure, thanks to Peggy who excellently handled Jazz! Jazz became BOB (Best of Breed) at the Bundessieger show and again the next day at the National show. I photographed her with all the trofees she gained, although with me ofcourse she doesn't want to stand properly :-)) Handling is a real proffession. Now off we go to the Crufts next year!

Kylie on a real pheasant hunt

Above: Kylie points out a pheasant, hidden in the crops

Last week we were invited to help hunting on pheasants in the field. Well, that's where we did all the practising for! So yes, ofcourse we wanted to help. And Kylie really did very well. She pointed out all the game beautifully (also the hare's) and because of her, several pheasants came out of the crops. Only the cocks were shot. On the picture above Kylie gets petted, because the pheasant-cock was shot because of her, but if you look at her face, she'd rather not have all the attention, instead she'd rather carry on working.

Jordi is a dad now!!

Above: 1 day old
Underneath: 1,5 weeks old. The biggest one is the boy.


Jordi and his girlfriend Blythe (pedigree name: Tarkanya Holly's Heroine) got 2 beautifull puppy's on October 9. Giving birth wasn't all that easy for Blythe this time. One puppy unfortunately got very stuck and because of that he and 6 other puppy's died at birth. But they still got these 2 gorgeous little ones, a boy and a girl. You can watch them grow every day, they have plenty nipples with lots of milk to drink from. So Jazz is a grandmother now :-))

Kylie, Kalle and Django are good fielworkers

Above: Django after a good hunt

Above: Kalle at work

Underneath: Kylie after a good hunt

All three are hard workers in the field. Obsessed by trying to find the game in between the sugarbulbs. We had several tests the last weeks and they all won a qualification, which means they found a pheasant, pointed it and pushed it out.

Sometimes a dog hunts the field very well, but because they are wild birds, there were no pheasants in its part of the field. When the judge thinks the dog did a very good job hunting the field, he gives an honourfull announcement to that dog. Kylie's got two of those the last weeks. I'm very proud. All three now are official Working Class dogs on dogshows.

Walking on the moor

While Jordi is becomming a father in October, Kalle passed the HZP test and we just heard Django jr. was BOB in Luxembourg at the dogshow, we are just having nice walks together. We are inbetween seasons now. In a few weeks time the fielwork season starts where Kylie has to show her talents. But for now we have a few relaxed weeks to look forward to.

Kalle passed the HZP test!

They have been training realy hard for this German test and it's rewarded. Kalle just passed the HZP with a fantastic 173 points. Congratulations Hennie and Kalle! Now Kalle is officially a working-dog.

Kylie out hunting

We've been out hunting for geese with Kylie. She realy does a good job bringing in the shot geese. The hunters who invited us are driving throughout the fields on a trike with a trailer and Kylie is very proud she's one of the team. And I'm very proud of Kylie!

Huntingtraining with the family

Above: 2 pictures of Kylie bringing a dove

Underneath: 2 pictures of Kalle bringing a feasant

Underneath: 2 pictures of grandfather Seppo v.'t Exelseveld bringing a feasant and beatifully sitting in the field

Underneath: Jazz bringing two doves at once

Underneath: Jazz in the picture with the spectators

Last week we did a huntingtraining with our friends, the owners of Jazz's father Seppo. It's very beautifull at their place, they own a farm in the East of Holland. They also raised Jordi until he was old enough to go to England. We made a few beautifull pictures shown above.