July 2007 Blog Posts (21)

I said the whole winter - no pups this year! I want to show my youngsters this summer so no litter... And when Lisa had her season in Marsh it was easy to remember not to mate but... then allready in May the decition was forgotten!!!

So now I got baby-smell in the house again! It´s hard to describe the sweetness of pups - but for me it´s the best thing in the world! It´s the smallest litter for me ever - only three! And Smilla ,the mum, is a fantastic parent with plenty of milk - so…

[ Draft ]Yesterday on the Belgian Gordon Setter Club Show Woodstock Vom Pulserdamm "Wizzy" was last time enter to Junior Class-Im verry happy of his results:JUNIOR WINNER & BEST JUNIOR IN SHOW:)

BEST OF BREED & BEST IN SHOW for Gorgeous" Pelle":) Champ.Kilnrae Whirlwind - Congratulations for Frits and Yvonne!!!!

Soon all results on:http://www.gordonsetter.be/

and photos you can see already on :http://www.irishhighlands.nl/

As I mentioned in my Week 3 update, Alissa and I ran the first and third legs of today’s Texas-to-Tennessee Setter rescue transport (with Carol Johnson picking up the second leg) for Save Our Setters (www.saveoursetters.org). The trip covered 521 miles (838 km). Our special passengers were Tommy, Aaron, Gulliver, Toby and Georgia Girl. Three Irish and two English, although I thought one of the English was a red and white…

BOB and Group-5 Vinca Thore Galadriel

Breed judge: Esther Joseph, kennel Triseter, Australia

Group judge: Jochen Eberhardt, Germany

Best bitch puppy Fairhaven Glädjeflicka

Puppy judge: Kari Haave, Sweden

News from shows,new info about puppys,new photos of Wizzy in his gallery and new links on "links list"

www.saturnii.eu

Nice day at the show today for me and Laura. Her Ch Coppers Music and Paws went BOB (CAC/CACIB) and my young male Ch M'Eudail The Temptation was BOS (CAC/CACIB). This makes it his 4th CACIB in 4th country and he is only 17 months old. Hope Laura will add some photos to the blog. And let us know how you did in the…

Judge Ricky Lochs-Romans

M'Eudail Teddy Bear 1st Junior Dog

Congratulations to his owners Dorothy and Oliver. They also took BIS 3 puppy with their "Cian" aka Trawricka Gaelic Hero on his first show appearance.

And big congrats…

Brilliant Bronze Siofra Little Elf

We have been to several of shows this last month mostly with nice results! At the Swedish Kennel club in Borås 30 june, Dont Blame Me was best of breeed and Best Of Group. Brilliant Bronze Siofra Little Elf was best bitch. Judge was Mr Harry O'Donoghue, Irland.

The day after it was time for ISF Västra and the judge Anthony Allen picked Brilliant Bronze Soifra Little Elf to be…

Judge: Elizabeth Rose-Hay, United Kingdom

BOB - Karmino Made Eternity, 1st champion excellent, Best bitch (left)

BOS - Clonageera Starstrider by Cataluna, 1st open excellent, CAC, Best dog (right)

I was also showing Applegrove Timespan of Vinca Thore (1st working excellent), Soul Provider Juliette (1st veteran excellent, BOB veteran, BIS 2 veteran) and…

Judge: Gordon Williams, United Kingdom

Vinca Thore Galadriel, 1st junior excellent, Junior-CAC, BOS junior

Clonageera Starstrider by Cataluna, 3rd open excellent, CAC, 4th Best dog

Soul Provider Juliette, 1st veteran excellent, BOB veteran

Applegrove Timespan of Vinca Thore, 1st working…

This group looks FANTASTIC, but oh my goodness where will I find the time to keep up. If it seems I am ignoring anyone please forgive me, we are crazy busy at this time of year.

Right now we have seven beautiful pups at our house 4 girls and 3 boys; they are by Laurice's Mays' lovely boy Jester - Carousel's Just For Fun and out of Pam Legault's Can Ch Palarset's Spring Fling. Spring is a daughter of my boy Murphy BISS Can Am Int'l Ch Cairncross Russells Talisman, so I am…

Often I hear comments arround the ring about judges - and the critics are hard many times! But I was thinking about us!? You know people at dog shows. I think dogs are easy to deal with and to understand - but people? After many years on shows I reflected over how to behave on our shows.

In Sweden - now also in Finland- everybody got their own tent on shows, very close to ringside. Just to get into the ring is complicated and to see what´s happening in the ring is hardly impossible.…

Have you reflected over the dogwalks? For me it´s not only exorcise - it´s meditation! The dayly long walks are realy healing my soul.

Yesterday it was a typical hot summerday - and we are so lucky to have the seabreeze! I thought about how happy I am with my setters - they are all happy, healthy dogs between 1-11 years. And my dogs ARE my best friends - as they say " dogs are mans best friend"!

BUT THEN??? What´s next on the list?

For me, right now, on second place my…

Just home from SKK Alfta National dogshow. A beautiful show a bit up north in Sweden! Judge Joanne Sewelle from Australia. After a cold night the day become very hot - wrong cloths on... Rasmus become best male and BOS. The surprise for the day was my little favourite Stacy, A. Ginger. She decided to take things sereously and behaved well (first time in her short life?). That payed off and she ended 5:th best bitch!!! Lisa, Dunswood Alisa, ended 4:th best bitch so we had all a very nice day!…

Vinca Thore Galadriel, 1st junior excellent, 3rd Best bitch

Judge Joanne Sewelle, Australia

I like to go to shows with my Gordon and Irish Setter , Pelle is a very beautiful gordon setter who has a great show career , Kimmo the irish just started it but the two shows he went he both got excellent and the second show he even got placed on the 2th spot in junior , he is a lovely boy , just like my two gordons , with Pelle we also show abroad in the UK , he became Best of Breed at Crufts this year!

With Kimmo we also planning to go to the UK to show him