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.
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As promissed, this is the official picture of Kalle in Fredericia, Danmark, where he was placed reserve Best in the Huntingdog Group.
Last Saturday on Valentinesday, Kalle won 2nd place again in the Huntingdog Group, this time at the International Dogshow in Fredericia, Danmark!! Well done!! Congratulations to Peggy, Anke and Hennie. They travel throughout whole Europe to show the world our beautifull breed, and succesfully! As soon as we get the pictures, ofcourse they will be shown. For now this lovely picture of Kalle in Valentinesuit will do.
Above: Kalle with speaking eyes
Above: Kylie with the rabbit
Above: Kylie with the pheasant
Underneath: Kylie with pheasant ánd rabbit
These pictures were made last Sunday while training Kalle and Kylie for the hunt.
It realy is time to put some pictures on the blog again and I have some beautifull ones! Like these pictures . They were made of Django jr. on the Large Munsterlander beachwalk on Januari 11th. What a proud dog!
Here's a nice picture of another beautifull Stommeerpolder-girl Ginny, together here with her little boyfriend Tommie in a wheelbarrow.
The wheather was beautifull this morning and we were again asked to help with the hunting. Good modelwork from Kylie with her beautifull game.
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 :-))
Above: too bad, the rabbit had already gone :-((
Above: that's a bit awkward with the clapping wing
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.
Above: together with Dirk on the bicycle
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.
