Greetings from Norway

We received a realy nice email from Madeleine about Muste (Birk) and a few very recent pictures (21-04-10) There's still snow! Brrrrrrr.. She says Muste is a very big puppy now. He's 65cm high and 27 kg weight. He doesn't realize how big he is himself and still wants to sit on your lap, although there's not so much space for him left on the lap :-)) He's very happy, loves people and other dogs. And he loves to learn, so Madeleine and Kjell hope that when the huntingtraining starts this summer, he will do fine. Kjell is a hunter himself and Muste will be trained to be his huntingdog (lucky Muste!) He looks gorgeous on the pictures! And don't he and his brothers look a lot the same! Thank you for the pictures!

Ares at the Austrian VJP

Last Saturday, Ares was also joining a youngsters workingtest. Klaus was very proud at his boy for he gained 155 out of 168 points! Congratulations Klaus!

Kazan and Joy at the VJP in Belgium

Above: what a cute couple!

Above: Kazan is pointing out some game

Above: Kazan is smelling game, closes his eyes, nose up in the air and follows his nose!

Above: the above two pictures belong together. Joy discovered a hare and tries to catch it. On the second picture you can see the hare running around the corner with Joy following.

Above: on the above picture they test if the dogs mind shooting. Ofcourse a huntingdog shouldn't be afraid of shooting!! Both Joy and Kazan didn't mind at all. (Kazan is in this picture)

Above: Kazan is watching other dogs work the field. He'd rather be in there himself.

Above: Jet, the judges and Joy in the field, looking for game.

Underneath: Jet and Joy after good work coming out of the field.

On April 10, Kazan and Joy were, together with 3 other dogs, invited for a youngsters workingtest in Belgium. The natural hunting instincts of the dogs were being tested. The test was identical on the German VJP and was also judged by 2 German judges, Mr. Rolf Jansen and Mr. Tony Schellartz. It was such a beautifull day and all the people were so friendly! We had a great time. Joy started a bit difficult, for there were lots of mice in the field, which she liked to catch and also the butterflies were very interesting to chase, but once she discovered there were also hares and pheasants in the field she started searching the field realy well. She pointed on ducks, chased out a hare and also searched a haretrace realy well. In total she gained 70 points wich is a realy good result on a VJP, especially becauce she's only 7 months old. The judges were very charmed by Kazan. His insincts were very well developped. Only his ears didn't work that well. As soon as the lead came off, Kazan was hunting the field and there was no animal succesfully hiding for him. Kazan had such a good time, he didn't want to stop and it took for about half an hour before we had him on the lead again. He had 10 points for searching, gametrails even 11 points for pointing, but only 3 points for being led/listening :-(( In total still 64 points which is also not bad at all. After the tests in the pub, we had a good chat with the judges and what a coincidence, judge Rolf Jansen is the breeder of Django vom Sülztal, which is the father of the first litter with Kylie, Kalle, Jordi etc. What a small world!

Crufts show reports from Jordi and Kalle

The show reports from Crufts 2010 were published, so here's what judge Mrs. Helen Salmon thought of the boys:

LD (9) 1 Spence's Jordi van de Stommeerpolder from Cicada, super, masculine dog, good size & substance without coarseness, well balanced, correctly angulated, free moving. I was proud to award him the CC & BOB. Both he & his handler showed their steady temperament to ably represent the breed in the group despite the distractions.
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Working D (2,1) 1 Ijpelaar's Int/Dutch Ch Kalle van de Stommeerpolder, handsome boy, well constructed, super outline, well muscled, good coat & condition, a good type of Large Munsterlander.