2 years old today!

Here's our handsome boy on his second birthday. Happy birthday to the rest of the Hollieseast 'P' litter - where has the time gone?!?!?

OMG, how slack have I been recently with this blog? VERY! In fairness though there's not been a great deal to report. In fact the other weekend I realised as I was on my way to visit Jet's breeder with my camera (to take pics of the puppies...more on that in a mo) that I hadn't actually taken his picture in ages. Shame, shame, shame on me! To make a change it was a nice sunny day (seriously...what is going on with the British weather?? Think we've had more thunder storms than I've had hot dinners in the past few weeks!) so I was able to get some nice pictures of the best boy.


Jet's half sister Kiri (same mum, different dad) whelped her second litter just over three weeks ago (I was there! It was amazing!) so in addition to the four adult weimaraners at 'Hollieseast' there are no less than ten, yes TEN beautiful grey babies! Just look at the cuteness!!

There's lots more pics of them on the website - click here if you fancy a look-see.

Jet and I are off to a water training day in a couple of weeks, and then the following week we've got some HPR gundog training so should have more to report soon.

Until then...take care x

HPR Grade 1 Assessment Result

Our treck to Loughborough today for Jet's HPR test was well worth it - he achieved an overall score of 88/100 = MERIT! The only shame is that he was just 2 points short of a distinction! The things he was marked down on were just down to his general enthusiasm so although we've got a few bits to work on I'm chuffed to bits with him :) Plus, our assessor is a Field Trial judge and knows what he's talking about and looking for, so to score so well under the circumstances was an extra bonus.

The breakdown of Jet's assessment scores (graded on many different aspects), were:

Obedience: 35/40 (his heel work score was 9/10!! Yay!!!!)
Retrieving: 34/40
Hunting: 19/20

The assessment is part of a new scheme run by the Gundog Club who have launched these tests that are tailored to the different types of gundog, e.g. Retrievers (labs and the like), Spaniels, and HPR's (the hunt, point and retrieve sub group of gundogs which includes Weimaraners, German Shorthaired Pointers, Vizslas, Italian Spinones etc).

So - next stop....Grade 2! I also plan on entering some GWT's (gundog working tests) with Jet at a novice level to see how that goes.

-x-

Narrowboat weekend

Well, once again, long time no post...! Today, however, I have some pictures to add to the blog from our weekend spent tootling about on the local waterways on a narrow boat. Random yes, but it was the brain child of my mother-in-law, which actually turned out to be very enjoyable, relaxing and good fun. As you can imagine, spending an entire weekend on the water - Jet was in seventh heaven! I was really luck to catch this shot of him in mid air flight, in hot pursuit of his floating kong as it was launched into the river...

He spent the majority of his time standing on his hind legs, peering over the edge of the boat into the water, thus:-

After a quiet spell on the show front, we've got two Championship shows coming up over the next few weeks, so - as always - keep those fingers crossed! x

Fantastic Critique!!

I was very excited to see this write up from Hitchin and District CS, where Jet was awarded his first Best of Breed, in this week's Dog World newspaper....

"Vincent's Hollieseast Polarkreis. Showed like a seasoned campaigner, excellent throughout and not overdone in any way, just what a judge is looking for from head to tail, brilliant movement. Should easily become a Champion. Best of Breed."

(Judge: Mark Pooley, Marvach)

Dog World: March 23rd 2007

Now that is one glowing critique!!!! Lets hope that future Judges will share his vision for the future ;-D

BEST OF BREED!

Last Sunday we had our biggest show win to date - at Hitchin & District Canine Society open show, after winning the Junior Class, Jet went on to be awarded Best of Breed!!! I am still grinning like an idiot almost a week later ;-) We had a fabulous day and the BOB was the icing on the proverbial cake. We are so proud of our clever boy. The judge was really taken by him so we're looking forward to reading his critique in the paper. A good start to the new show season, I hope to have more news of success to post here over the coming months.

Show off!

Doing a spot of training with a pheasant from yesterday's shoot - the last of the season. We came home like a pair of drowned rats from spending four hours in the torrential rain! Joy! Still had a good day though :-)