There are only about 3 days waiting left before delivery. So today I took the camera on our walk, to make the last pictures of Jazz with her carriage. She's still very active and she likes the water best, because of the ducks and ofcourse because her belly weighs less in the water. And bringing me the dummy I threw is also no problem. She's realy a sweety!
Jazz is doing realy fine! She's eating well and she's still very active, although it's getting harder jumping over the tree-trunks now. Time is going fast. In about 10 days the puppies will be born. Exciting!
On August 15th Jazz's son Kalle has become a father of 3 bitches and 1 dog. On the picture is Kalle's girlfriend Nora the proud mother of the puppies. Congratulations!!
Monday we went to radiology to see if Jazz is realy pregnant. With dogs it can happen that you only discover the last 2 weeks that they are. Well Jazz is definately pregnant. It's hard to tell how many puppies there are inside, but I could easily count 5 of them, so we expect 8 till 10 puppies. At the top picture, with a lot of imagination, you can see a little puppy. The picture underneath is out of a book and shows a puppy-foetus at 28 days after fertilization, like our puppies right now, to get an idea what they look like. The picture is turned the same way as the puppy in Jazz's womb.
On July 7th Falko (Griff vom Silberberg) and Jazz mated. A dog is 63 days pregnant, so Jazz's 2nd litter is expected around September 8th.
Last week I made some beautifull pictures of Jordi, when he was at our place visiting for the Dutch clubmatch. This one is my favorite. He is such a teddybear!
She let us wait for quit a while, but finally it's going to happen. Around the 10th of September we are awaiting Jazz's 2nd. litter. Ofcourse we will keep you informed!
Last Sunday at the Dutch clubmatch, Kalle was Best dog and Jordi Reserve Best Dog! Very well done boys!!
This is another of the 7 brothers of the first Stommeerpolder litter, named Gimli. He is our first born. A very joyfull chap!
Because Kylie and her sister Bonnie (on the picture above in the front) are both in heat, we have to walk some place where no other dogs come. We found a beautifull path along meadows. On these meadows heaps of geese were fouraging and Kylie was very interested in them. Every fence we passed, she had to have a good watch.
A few more nice pictures of Jazz's hard work through the mud. This is the kind of work she realy loves. The top picture is a waterbird, the two pictures below are with a big goose.
How peacefull! And chicken grain tastes much better than dogfood. Don't think we've got peacefull Large Munsterlanders. It's only because these chickens belong to the family that they are not bothered by the dogs. All other chickens have to fear for their lives.
Above: do I hear a pheasant-cock overthere? 
Above and underneath: Jazz is coming back from working out a trail at the other side of the water, bringing in all the game that was at the end of it.
Above: training to give Jazz directions on long distance. She's got to go a long way backwards.
These pictures were made yesterday, on Jazz's huntingtraining.
Yesterday the awards for the Large Munsterlanders with the best achievements of the past year were given... And I'm so proud for Kylie won the award for the best Large Munsterlander in field-trials of the year 2008!!!
Yesterday at the dogshow in Wieze, Belgium, also Django won 2nd place in the Huntingdog Group!! This is very extraordinairy, for except for his brother Kalle, no Dutch Large Munsterlander ever achieved so well at a dogshow. Peggy IJpelaar was beautifully showing Django. Because of her schoolwork she could not join her parents to Sweden where at the same time Kalle had to show. Kalle got BOB and Winner 2009. He now may call himself Swedish Champion. As soon as we have the official pictures of Django's achievement, ofcourse we will publish them.
These beautifull pictures of the girls at Crufts are made by Sue Hall. I'm so happy having them, for ofcourse I was there with my camera, but as soon as Jazz spotted me, she was walking vice-versa, so I had to leave the ring. To be sure I stayed away when Kylie was showing too. Thank you Sue!
From left to right: Kalle, Kylie and Jordi
Jordi 1st in Post Graduate Class (dogs)
Kalle 1st in Special Working Gundog Class (dogs)
Kylie (Nova) 1st in Special Working Gundog Class (bitch)
Jazz (in the middle) was in the Open Class, where all the English champion bitches were shown. Unfortunately she didn't make it, but looked and moved beautifully.
Last weekend we were in England where we visited Marie and Ken for the Crufts. This nice picture is of brother Jordi (sitting) and Kylie, both with long tongues.
What a nice surprice, I received some new pictures of Gimli. Gimli is living with Jeanet en Jeroen Visser in the far north of Holland. As you can see he's a real Stommerpolder dog.
Tough guys carrying a geese. Kylie's got practical experience with it (above), but Kalle wondered what would be the best way to lift it. He's still perfectly bringing it to Hennie, although a little unhandy :-))
Underneath Kalle is bringing in a very bad smelling fitch, you could tell by the way he looks. Kylie totally refused to take the fitch because of that bad smell. She rather fetches pheasants for instance, as in the picture above.
On February 21 the Dutch Large Munsterlander Club organised a Doedag. On that day there were a lot of multiple tests you could do with your dog, without competition. And there was a lot of game provided. A fantastic opportunity to have a good training and a lot of fun. Ofcourse Kalle and Kylie were there, but also Ginny was present. Unfortunately she was not in our group, so I couldn't make any pictures of her performanse.
