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Congratulations with a great result! And as always you have great photos :)
Thank you for the link, it's now published on our website www.irhs.no
It is nice to see that Sh Ch also can do it well in FT, Were did they trial, was it Highland, Open Class? How has the other IRWS done it this year in the different trials?
Congratulations! Well done!! :) It seems like there are something special with these lines :)
Super!BIG congratulations!
Super! The biggest congrats ever!!! Way to go Amazing Skadi! You really are worth your name! :)
Toboggans Amazing Skadi got her 1. AK on field trial today (15th november 2009). This is the first time an IRWS achieves this placing in Norway.
Now she can enter the VK-trials (Winners Class) for the next two years, which are the most prestigeou...
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- At 3:23am on November 16, 2009,
Margaret Sierakowski Dalriach IRWS said…
- Excellent result for Skadi! Congratulations! Now go, go, go in the Winners Stakes!
Two more IRWS puppies are arriving in Norway today, Dalriach Pink Pepper (Dalriach Auchindoun ex Pepperstown Polly) is going to Thor Erik Pape, and her brother Dalriach Philosopher is going to Kari Michelsen Einarsson
- At 6:56am on August 24, 2009,
Fiorella Mathis said… - Thanks so much...I am still bewildered myself...Never would i have imagined years ago when I first started to celebrate such a champion. Plus she is sooo sweet and loving. Thanks again. Fiorella
- At 9:56am on July 15, 2009,
Thor Erik Pape said… - Hei Merete & Thomas. Angel er den tispa som kom på Lennigen forrige vinter. Hun var selvfølgelig alt for tykk og mannen trodde at hunden ble utlært av seg selv. Hun eies av Ann Jess som forteller at hun finner fugl og tar stand, hvis det er utgangspunktet så mener jeg resten er opp til eieren. Astor er en flott hund som jeg kommer til å bruke i avlen om 3-4 år. God apportør og går agillity. Emma, som eier han, liker ikke de metoder som brukes der hun bor så hun savner et godt miljø for fuglehundtrening.
- At 6:41am on July 15, 2009,
kristine thybo hansen said… - Heisann, og takk for det.. Flotte bilder hos dokker åsså, av vakre hunder og natur :) Nei det e en Breton det der.. Kvalpen Wambli kommer ifra Tintoramas Kennel, Tispa Nouit kommer ifra Snyfjellets-Red Kennel og Gamlingen han Loke kommer ifra Tømtlias Kennel.. En dokkers da? :) Ha en knaill uke me dokkers fire beinte :)
- At 7:51am on July 8, 2009,
Pat said… - Hi Merete & Thomas,
Your video of your two Setters is smashing.
Thanks for your comments on my photos both at West Woods near Marlborough, Wiltshire where we spent over an hour walking in this large wood with carpet upon carpet of deep coloured bluebells - the scent was amazing.
The landscape photo was taken at my favourite haunt called The Gallops which is near Calne, Wiltshire and only about twenty minutes drive from my home. You can walk for a couple hours and my boy, Ray, loves it up there both quartering the vast fields and training.
Yes, we are into the working side of the breed and I am really pleased at how much we have achieved.
To answer your question on the Bronze, Silver and Gold Kennel Club Good Citizen's Tests. These are obedience Tests for owners of all dogs to show their handling skills and good manners in their dogs. If you go to the website of the United Kingdom's Kennel Club you can read up on the Tests.
It is a bit lengthy for me to type all of it up on here but if you email me privately I can send you more details. However, try the Kennel Club's website first.
I am hoping to enter Ray, my R/W boy, into the Silver in a short while and then have a go at the Gold Test.
I believe it is important to both exercise our dogs mentally as well as physically. I thoroughly enjoy training Ray on the working side of the breed and have made so many friends and close acquaintances since entering him into the different gundog events.
Hope to speak with you again soon.
Best wishes.
Pat
- At 5:39am on July 8, 2009,
Ann Millington said…
- Hello Merete
It was so good to meet you at the Festival ;o])) I am so pleased you enjoyed the weekend and have reported to Norway.
Would you be so kind as to send a few words about what you thought of the Festival weekend? We would like to have a page of comments from our visitors for the next GB Club Newsletter.
Many thanks
I love your page here!!
- At 2:22pm on June 18, 2009,
Linn Cecilie Moen said… - Takk for kommentar! :D Kommer flere bilder etterhvert! :)
- At 1:52am on May 15, 2009,
Melanie said… - Hi...I'm not sure yet if I can come, it depends on the date of my exams at university..but I hope it will be possible :-)
- At 5:24pm on May 12, 2009,
Wendy Bockman said… - Yes, I've personally been to 3 Trials and there are two owners in CA and one in Ohio that have competed several times. No one has got a first place for points yet, but we have had several placements as high as second place.
- At 8:45pm on May 11, 2009,
Maggie Skene said… - Hello, ...very busy weekend...just catching up. Duncan is from Canada..his sire is Shireoak Caniscaeli Windsong and the dam is Caniscaeli Just One Look. To go back farther, I would need his paperwork...which I left at work!!
It looks wonderful where you live...Duncan can run for days!!!I am sure he would enjoy your countryside very much!!
Maggie & Duncan
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- How many Irish Setters do you have?
- 2
- How long have you owned Irish Setters?
- 4 years
- About Me:
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My fiance Thomas and I got our IRWS bitch named Toboggan's Amazing Skadi (Dalriach Highpoint x Dalriach Goshawk) from the norwegian breeder Thor Erik Pape in 2006. We live on the West Coast of Norway and we use our dog for hunting and field trials. We are very pleased with our dog and we would like to add another one with good hunting and field trial abilities to our little family during the next year. Norwegian field trials often take place in deep snow and up in the mountains on large plains (hunting grouse), where the dogs need to be tough, fast and have a very good "engine" to excel. Especially in the winners class, where the dogs compete against each others, finding birds first and most often being the number 1 criteria.
If you know of any upcoming litters that has the potensial to excel in norwegian field trials (good hunting desire, high intensity, among others), please let us know!
This february we got a red addition to our family. Her name is "US" Snoop Dogg" (Snoopy) (FTCH Valeheia's Killakee x "US" Lara) and she is from Elin Wittusens "US" kennel in Norway. She is from pure hunting lines and we are looking forward to see how the "pocket rocket" is doing in Field trials next year :)
We have not given up our hunt for a new IRWS pup, but we have realized that it will take some time to find just the right one :) It's a challenge to get an overview of the different lines when the breeders are spread all over the world :)
- Website:
- http://www.irskrodoghvitsetter.no
Below you can read a translation of the new 2008-2012 Breed Program for the IRWS in Norway, by the Norwegian Breed Committee (translated from norwegian, may contain som minor translative errors...):
The new breeding program has four main issues in its criterias, in which working ability has the strongest focus:
1. Working ability
2. Behaviour/temperament
3. Health
4. Conformity/exterior
The reason working ability has the strongest focus, is due to the fact that this is where the IRWS in Scandinavia has the biggest challenge. Data from field trials will be used as an objective expression for the working abilities. Increase in hunting desire is the foremost target for the breeding program at this point. The average hunting desire for Norwegian IRWS in field trials up to and including 2007 is 2,68. The maximum for this scale is 6. The average for all pointing dogs in Norway is 3,95. For Norwegian IRWS who has entered field trials the average points for pace, style, independence, search range and search pattern is approximately half of the average for the red irish setters. The method of index-based breeding has shown good results for other breeds i.e. Breton. The 2008-2012 breeding program will foremost focus on the working abilities such as hunting desire, gamebird finding, search pattern/-range and cooperation. It is very important for the index-based breeding program that as many IRWS as possible enters field trials, and that each dog enters multiple times. To encourage this NISK arranges field training gatherings for IRWS, and for 2008 and on there will be a IRWS of the year-award based on points collected on field trials similar to the Irish Setter of the year award.
Regarding behaviour/temperament, health and conformity/exterior the breeding program also has high standards, which will not be discussed or attempted translated in this article.
The new breed program 2008-2012 sets the following criteria for breedings recommended by the Breed Committee (freely translated from Norwegian to English):
Field trials:
One of the parents should have achieved minimum 2nd on a field trial. The other parent should at least have been started in field trials or field training gatherings, or have parents or siblings with achieved field trial results.
Show:
Achieved at least 2nd place in show.
Other criteria:
Documented no HD (A)
Tested or documentet no CLAD
Good health, good temperament, no physical or behavioural abnormalities
Father-daughter or mother-son combinations not allowed
The Breed Committee can decline approval of other combinations or close related parents in which earlier matings have produced “unfortunate” results.
Widening the gene-pool
In addition to the breeding criterias the Breed Committee has its focus on widening the gene-pool for the IRWS in Norway and Scandinavia. This will also be a factor when The Committee approves new matings. Today there are approximately 30-40 IRWS in Norway, and very few have been tested in field trials. To widen the gene pool the Breed Committee will encourage importing new dogs, preferably from bloodlines not too closely related to existing lines in Norway. Also there will be produced a outcross program in cooperation with SISK (the Swedish Irish Setter Club) and IRWS Club (the Irish Red and White Setter Club), if approved on the highest level in Ireland and Norway (NKK – the Norwegian Kennel Club).
The new breeding program has four main issues in its criterias, in which working ability has the strongest focus:
1. Working ability
2. Behaviour/temperament
3. Health
4. Conformity/exterior
The reason working ability has the strongest focus, is due to the fact that this is where the IRWS in Scandinavia has the biggest challenge. Data from field trials will be used as an objective expression for the working abilities. Increase in hunting desire is the foremost target for the breeding program at this point. The average hunting desire for Norwegian IRWS in field trials up to and including 2007 is 2,68. The maximum for this scale is 6. The average for all pointing dogs in Norway is 3,95. For Norwegian IRWS who has entered field trials the average points for pace, style, independence, search range and search pattern is approximately half of the average for the red irish setters. The method of index-based breeding has shown good results for other breeds i.e. Breton. The 2008-2012 breeding program will foremost focus on the working abilities such as hunting desire, gamebird finding, search pattern/-range and cooperation. It is very important for the index-based breeding program that as many IRWS as possible enters field trials, and that each dog enters multiple times. To encourage this NISK arranges field training gatherings for IRWS, and for 2008 and on there will be a IRWS of the year-award based on points collected on field trials similar to the Irish Setter of the year award.
Regarding behaviour/temperament, health and conformity/exterior the breeding program also has high standards, which will not be discussed or attempted translated in this article.
The new breed program 2008-2012 sets the following criteria for breedings recommended by the Breed Committee (freely translated from Norwegian to English):
Field trials:
One of the parents should have achieved minimum 2nd on a field trial. The other parent should at least have been started in field trials or field training gatherings, or have parents or siblings with achieved field trial results.
Show:
Achieved at least 2nd place in show.
Other criteria:
Documented no HD (A)
Tested or documentet no CLAD
Good health, good temperament, no physical or behavioural abnormalities
Father-daughter or mother-son combinations not allowed
The Breed Committee can decline approval of other combinations or close related parents in which earlier matings have produced “unfortunate” results.
Widening the gene-pool
In addition to the breeding criterias the Breed Committee has its focus on widening the gene-pool for the IRWS in Norway and Scandinavia. This will also be a factor when The Committee approves new matings. Today there are approximately 30-40 IRWS in Norway, and very few have been tested in field trials. To widen the gene pool the Breed Committee will encourage importing new dogs, preferably from bloodlines not too closely related to existing lines in Norway. Also there will be produced a outcross program in cooperation with SISK (the Swedish Irish Setter Club) and IRWS Club (the Irish Red and White Setter Club), if approved on the highest level in Ireland and Norway (NKK – the Norwegian Kennel Club).
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1. AK for Skadi
Toboggans Amazing Skadi got her 1. AK on field trial today (15th november 2009). This is the first time an IRWS achieves this placing in Norway.
Now she can enter the VK-trials (Winners Class) for the next two years, which are the most prestigeous trials and where the CACITS are achieved (very hard to get though). CACIT is needed to become a field trial champion, in addition to 25 FT points.
In addition she now has the required field trial placings (1. AK) to become a Show Champion, now she ne… Continue
Now she can enter the VK-trials (Winners Class) for the next two years, which are the most prestigeous trials and where the CACITS are achieved (very hard to get though). CACIT is needed to become a field trial champion, in addition to 25 FT points.
In addition she now has the required field trial placings (1. AK) to become a Show Champion, now she ne… Continue
Posted on November 15, 2009 at 3:29pm — 4 Comments
2AK for Skadi
Irish Red and White Setter Toboggan's Amazing Skadi got her 2AK (2.price, Open Class) at Kongsvoll-prøven(Highland field trial on grouse) on october 2nd 2009. She is the only irws with this high placing in Norway, together with Ben of Sugarloaf (visitor from sweden) who got the same placing sometime in the early nineties.
She is also the first norwegian IRWS with several field trial placings, and with placings both on highland and forest trials.
This also makes her approved as a breeding bitch… Continue
She is also the first norwegian IRWS with several field trial placings, and with placings both on highland and forest trials.
This also makes her approved as a breeding bitch… Continue
Posted on October 10, 2009 at 1:56am — 8 Comments
IRWS field training at Hjerkinn, Norway 31.july - 2.august 2009
Just made this teaser for the 2009 Irish Red and White Setter field training and get-together at "US" kennel & camp on Hjerkinn, Norway. Continue
Posted on May 10, 2009 at 5:00pm — 1 Comment
Norwegian Irish Red and White Setter of the year 2008
Toboggans Amazing Skadi was awarded the Norwegian Irish Red and White Setter of the year 2008, due to our results in field trial. The prize was a beautiful trophy, given by Terry O'Leary/The motherclub in Ireland. If we can win it in 2009 and 2010 (3 times), it's ours to keep permanently. We will do our best :)
The Trophy:
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The Trophy:
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Posted on May 8, 2009 at 4:30pm — 4 Comments
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