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Not bad for one weekend...

Spring? No! Heavy rain, cold & windy... not a weekend you'd plan to spend outside tramping behind muddy dogs - but we did, and it paid off:

On Saturday Coppersheen Dancing Light 'Dairine',11 months, owned by Heike, passed her Junior Field Trial (Jugendsuche) at a trial organized by the Verein f. Pointer u. Setter, Germany.

Just to make sure, she also ran in the Gordon Setter Club DE Junior Trials on Sunday. This time… Continue

Added by Susan Stone on March 30, 2009 at 6:00am — 24 Comments

International Show Fribourg, Switzerland 21. & 22. Feb 09

A small entry and an even smaller ring;-( ... and hours of waiting due to the allrounder judges having a large number of dogs to go over. This was the first swiss show of the year. Sorry, no pics. Here are the results:

Saturday, 21. February 2009 - judge Rui Oliveira, Portugal

Junior

Exc 1 Ju-CAC Best Junior Coppersheen Daredevil

Intermediate

Exc 1 CAC Chic Choix Quincy Jones

Open

Exc 1 CAC / Res-CACIB Xanthos de la… Continue

Added by Susan Stone on February 25, 2009 at 6:30am — 19 Comments

Crufts or Scotland??? cont'd...

All right, Ursula, this is THE hare that was responsible for Glen almost winning the award for 'best hare course' of the week! Some people had been praising Glen for his obedience and excellent bonding. Little did they know...

One clear morning Glen stumbled across this furry beast... and took off, chasing the hare across an enormous stubble field towards a team of pointers who were happily quartering in the far field under perfect control… Continue

Added by Susan Stone on February 17, 2009 at 3:00am — 32 Comments

last minute greetings...

from The Swiss Family Coppersheen:-))

Added by Susan Stone on December 24, 2008 at 4:08am — 8 Comments

Day in the Fields...

On Saturday Dec. 6th we had the first 'Coppersheen International Field Day' in the Alsace, France. Six Irish of my breeding plus Duncan as a 'special guest' enjoyed learning a bit about setter work in the field. Four of the 'Ds' aged 7 months had their very first bird experience and they took to it like a duck to water... or a setter to the field;-))

We were a very international group with nationalities covering CH, F, D, H, SA and GB and… Continue

Added by Susan Stone on December 9, 2008 at 3:05pm — 27 Comments

Field Trial 20th November 2008 in Muttersholtz/F

The Setter & Pointer Club of Switzerland organised a 4-day session of Field Trials in Muttersholtz, France. Here are some impressions from day 1.

There were two groups of 24 dogs each, making 12 pairs (Field Trial Couple), group 1 was judged by P. Duchein and A. Rogger.

Flash del Zagnis

Winner with 1st excellent and CACT was the… Continue

Added by Susan Stone on November 21, 2008 at 5:30am — 26 Comments

Rostock 12.10.2008

I had the honour of being invited to judge at the international show in Rostock. The Landesgruppe of the Verein Pointer u. Setter made me very welcome and I had a super team to assist me in the ring. The atmosphere was very friendly and I would thank all exhibitors and helpers for making this a pleasant day.

It was a lovely end of day seeing the Irish Setter bitch Brilliant Bronze Siofra Little Elf winning the group.

(Sorry Laura, I do not have any photographs!)

CACIB… Continue

Added by Susan Stone on October 14, 2008 at 3:35am — 8 Comments

Glen & Erin in the Engadin...

view from Muottas Muragl up the Engadin valley

near lake Saoseo

lake Saoseo

We spent a week's holiday in the high mountain valley called the Engadin, the most beautiful part of Switzerland, surrounded by mountains. St. Moritz is known to the rich and famous - La Punt-Chamues'ch is unknown and… Continue

Added by Susan Stone on September 24, 2008 at 4:54am — 21 Comments

13 years today!

Today we are celebrating our Top Dog Shannon's 13th Birthday!

Officially known as Marquiser Shannon by Caskeys (Sh. Ch. Caskeys Blarney x Marquiser Rossoa) she was born on Augst 28th 1995 in Camberly, Surrey and came to Switzerland aged 8 weeks. Shannon was trained and fully qualified as a Search and Rescue dog. I remember her very first call up one night at 23.00hrs to go searching… Continue

Added by Susan Stone on August 28, 2008 at 5:55am — 30 Comments

Training weekend in the Swiss Mountains

Normally our dog training group (search & rescue training) spends their sunday morning in 'lowland' forests. Last weekend was special as we had a two day training session in the mountains of the Berner Oberland .

In Switzerland there is a competitive form of 'search and rescue' training where the dogs are trained to search an area for 'missing' people or articles with human scent. Our… Continue

Added by Susan Stone on August 25, 2008 at 4:19am — 17 Comments

Coppersheen D-litter: off to their new homes...

June 26 2008

After an eventful and busy 9 weeks Erin's puppies are now leaving day by day... sad to see them go but also pleased they are going out into the world ready for new adventures. The new owners probably don't quite realize what they are in for:-)) but they were warned!!!

Erin is back to her normal wild self, fully recovered from her illness.

News Sunday, May 18th

I am happy to say that today things… Continue

Added by Susan Stone on June 26, 2008 at 5:11am — 35 Comments

Int. Luzern 21. & 22.6.2008

Two extremely hot days with temperature over 30 Celsius. Full results thanks to a friend... a few more pics to follow. First one shows Carmen with Meagan winning another BOB - I think she has lost count:-))

More pics under

http://picasaweb.google.ch/Coppersheen/Luzern210608

LUZERN, 21.6.2008, Ronny Blomme, B

ENGLISH SETTER

RÜDEN

Jugendklasse

v1,JCAC, Jugendsieger Farray… Continue

Added by Susan Stone on June 23, 2008 at 4:00am — 7 Comments

Training session...

Glen and I had a wonderful opportunity of a training session in the field on Saturday. It is well over 4 months since the last training session and I was uncertain as to how he would hunt. We had a fantastic day with loads of wild pheasants, spring sunshine and a relaxed atmosphere. Glen had two good runs: on his first cast he pointed a very surprised hen pheasant and behaved perfectly, then the pheasants started to run, making it hard for the… Continue

Added by Susan Stone on April 6, 2008 at 5:00am — 14 Comments

New International Champion

Glen, Coppersheen Coalville Lad, won his 4th and qualifying CACIB (1 year & 5 days after his first) in Offenburg on March 15th making him an International Champion (subject to confirmation by the FCI). He also qualified in the field last April with a 'very good' 2nd at a spring field trial in France.

Born on Nov. 7th 2005, sired by Anlory Muscavado JW ex my own Int. Ch. Northern Light vh Adelaarsvaren (Erin),

Glen is by no… Continue

Added by Susan Stone on March 25, 2008 at 8:00am — 20 Comments

Int. Show Offenburg, Germany, March15th - judge Stephanie Klinge-Wipfelder

I don't have all the results, but the main winners in Irish Setters were:

BOB - The Red Love XL Fire of Mimosa (from honour class)

males:

CACIB Coppersheen Coalville Lad

Res-CACIB Vicary's Dejavu

females:

CACIB Vicarys Fancy Face

Res-CACIB Astella vom St. Leoner See (I am not quite sure if this is correct)

Many thanks to Nadine Bonjean for the photograph of the CACIB winners.

Irish… Continue

Added by Susan Stone on March 16, 2008 at 12:32pm — 7 Comments

Carmen & Meagan win the Res-CC at Crufts!!!

Carmen Lorenzi from Switzerland has just won he Reserve-CC at Crufts today with her young Irish Red & White Setter Sorley Red Nokomis, generally known as Meagan - or 'Prinzessin' by the family...

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Added by Susan Stone on March 7, 2008 at 10:49am — 10 Comments

Glen and I made it into the local press...

This lovely picture of Glen (and me...) appeared in the local newspaper last saturday. During a training session in the woods for 'search and rescue' I found an old coin or amulett with an engraving of St. George on one side and Jesus in a sailing ship on the other. The inscription said 'In Tempestate Securitas' (roughly: safety in the storm) Not knowing what to do with it I sent it to the local press. They did some research and said it was a 'St.… Continue

Added by Susan Stone on January 11, 2008 at 11:15am — 20 Comments

Winter in Switzerland - with setters too!

Winter in Switzerland can mean glorious sunshine and snow - or it can mean a depressive damp 'greyness' under the fog. We are experiencing the latter... so today decided to load the dogs into the car and search for the sun. We live at around 400m above sea level and knew the sun was out at 1000m. We drove to the hills known as the Jura, hoping for a view of the swiss alps. Here are…

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Added by Susan Stone on December 27, 2007 at 11:26am — 6 Comments

Colour in Gordon Setters

A breeder of working Gordons (aaens) in Denmark has a lovely collection of pictures of Gordon Setters in unusual colours. Have a look under http://www.aaens.dk/gordons_in_many_colors.htm

Added by Susan Stone on September 11, 2007 at 3:43am — 1 Comment

Field Trial SCAV 25.08.07 Corcelles/CH

No luck this time for my dog Glen, the only Irish Setter entered at this summer trial held mainly in sugar beet. The pheasants refused to play the game and went away and hid;-))

Of 12 dogs entered in 'Solo' only one Pointer was placed. Disappointing for us, but hopefully better luck next time!…