Being a Grown Up

Happy new year everyone :) Rookie has been celebrating in style by becoming a real life hunting boy. Very proud of him, but aside from basic obedience training it's natural to him, loving letting him do what's in his blood. 

The obedience scene is non existent til May now, so we are just training at the moment. Nothing new to report on the trials training front, business as usual!

I am down to just the gundogs now, after losing my lovely (naughty) collie dog in December. Rookie has been such a comfort, don't think my goldie notices at all but Rookie has been missing her. She was the boss of them all, so there is noone to stop them running riot now!

Post includes pics of him retrieving game.

Can't believe he'll be 3 years old in less than a fortnight! Mad how time goes.

Jess and Rookie

Handsome even when a tad dribbly....

On the look out....

Seahaven's Celtic Commander

I can do this with my eyes shut, mum.

Happy New Year

Well what a busy Christmas period! 

We had seven people and ten dogs here for Christmas, and all had a great time.  Unfortunately I was ill over the holiday period, but all ran smoothly here due to a fantastic family who all rallied round.

Tilly's pups have all been off to their new families over the last few weeks, with only Pumpkin remaining here a little longer.  All have settled well with their new families and we hope to hear from some of them on here in the future.

2014 was a fabulous year for us here at Seahaven.  We had two dogs achieve Stud Book Numbers, one of each breed.  Yvie (LM - Seahaven Olympic Uthopia) achieved hers at Crufts and has since passed the LMC Natural Aptitude Test and is a busy working gundog this winter.  Cooper (NSDTR - Seahaven's Galatic Storm) gained his at The National Gundog Champ Show this summer.  Both are still young and have so much more to come.

Eve exceeded all of our expectations this year, with a number of good wins and placings in the adult classes and finished the season with a Reserve Best Bitch and then a Best Bitch all before she was two years old.

Trio made such a fabulous comeback after her injury in 2013, being highly placed at champ shows, and winning her only agility competition that she attended in 2014.

A number of the Seahaven dogs have also done well this year, and we have a number again qualified for Crufts including our own dogs Paddockridge Madelaine at Seahaven (Maddie), Seahaven Borrowed Heaven (Trio) and Seahaven Parish Bell (Eve).  We're hoping that they will be joined by LMs Max, Megan and Yvie, and NSDTRs Cooper, Milly and Bron.

Eleanor and Tasha were again selected for the Welsh squad for OJAC, but due to other commitments have declined the offer and hope to make the team next year instead.  Both have qualified for The Welsh Junior Handler of the Year in February. Eleanor will handle Eve for the handling finals at Crufts this year, a fantastic achievement for them.

So going into 2015 looks like it could be an exciting year!

Tilly and Woody's pups will make their debuts in the show ring, and they look so promising at the moment.

Crufts, not just for the showing but a chance to get together with the Seahaven family and friends.

We will again be attending a number of Champ shows over the year and hope to fit in a few agility shows too!

We are hoping for a final litter from Trio (Seahaven Borrowed Heaven) this summer, which will give us our much hoped for youngster to continue the Seahaven LM line.

We are also hoping to have a litter from Eve (Seahaven Parish Bell) later on in the year, she has really matured and we look forward to seeing what she can produce.

If anyone is interested in either litter please do get in contact for more information.

Tilly and Woody's puppies

We haven't been busy with shows, but we have been rather busy with Tilly's litter who were born at the end of October. 
This is the much awaited litter between Tilly (Dinaskarrek's Red Vixen at Seahaven) and Woody (Sh Ch Trevargh the Entertainer at Brizewood).

A blog was set up to follow the progress of the puppies and can be found here if anyone is interested in following their progress.

Puppies Blog

How time flys!

Well didn't realise that we haven't updated the blog for a while, so thought that we ought to put something on here!!

Well we haven't actually been doing a great deal, but have still been busy!  Maddie has taken some time to get back to fitness after her spey, but is slowly getting there.  So difficult to get these munsters to take it easy, Maddie thinks that she's still a puppy and it's very difficult to get her to realise that she is a granny.

No shows, so we have just been enjoying some good walks and enjoying the warm weather that we've had recently. 

Some pics of some of our more recent walks.

SWKA Champ Show

Well I think that having a rest from this showing lark, did everyone a world of good!!

We had only entered two of the dogs, Trio and Eve as we were attending mainly to support the handling classes and give Eve a bit more exposure in the breed ring.

The Royal Welsh Showground in Builth Wells is a fantastic location when the weather is good, however in the torrential rain that we had to endure at the start of the day did test us a bit.  Just walking the dogs into the halls, which wasn't far for us as we were quite early meant that we had to dry and clean the dogs legs and belly's off.

Tasha winning the handling

Both breeds were benched in hall 5, thankfully allowing us to stay in the dry to get from each ring, however the handling was in ring 1.  We managed to find the driest route which meant darting from each hall to the next, with just some short bursts in the wet.  As usual the younger handlers were in the ring first, and this was to be Eleanor's last time competing in the 6-11 year age category.  She worked Eve really well and managed a well deserved 2nd place.  Tasha was in next, and she has found the transition into the older age category hard work with the seasoned older competitors proving hard to beat.  She really held her own, and Trio worked like a star for her throughout the class.  She was delighted to be pulled in first, her first 1st in a champ show handling class in this age category. 

We didn't think that anything could better these results, and with a quick break for some lunch we got ready for the breed judging.

Fist in were the tollers, with only Eve supporting the Seahaven's for a change.  Eleanor handled Eve to win Post Grad Bitch, thus qualifying for the bitch challenge.  She then delighted us all by winning Best Bitch and had to go forward to Best of Breed, Eleanor worked her really well but Vinnie won this.  Not bad for a youngster who isn't yet 2!!

Sadly not a great entry for LMs, but Trio won Best Bitch as well!!  Didn't work quite as well as she had in the morning, so really didn't expect her to do much in Best of Breed which went to the dog (Celtaur Lake Geneva).

We stopped on the way home as the weather had now improved and took the dogs for a run up the Sugar Loaf with the girls.  We managed to get some nice pictures, and a really funny one of Eve flying her ears!!

Some Work and Lots of Play

Rookie and I have been such busy bees lately. Dogsitting three lovely labs, including Alfie who Rookie has shared many tender moments with. They are inseparable. Wrestling one minute, cuddled up kissing the next. Just love them!

We attended CGC open show; he was a good boy and won LM Open and BOB.

Our training is coming along, we only have one obedience show left this year though, but it’s been a fab season, Rookie has come on in leaps and bounds and we’ve had so many lovely comments on our rounds. Excited about next year!

Trials training is also going well, but nothing much new to report on.

Here’s a video of a working trials sendaway at 100 yards to a tissue caught on the fence (sorry about my voice :p ).

We've been hitting the care home as well, entertaining the residents!

And I also managed to get some photos of him on some pheasants this weekend, doing the gundog thing. Multi-talented dogs these munsters!!

Seahaven's Celtic Commander

Not sure that's quite the best bit to hold, Rookie.

Peekaboo

Life is good for a munster! :)

Jess and Rookie

Up Date

Can't believe how long it has been since we last posted!  We haven't had any shows lately, and with the children settling back into school the weeks have rolled by.  We do have bits of news, and as usual we have continued to be out and about for walks, these have been really lovely with the weather being so good and the area much quieter as there are less holiday makers about.

The beach all to us!

Morry/Max was waved off to his new family last month, we kept the news quiet as we wanted to make sure that he settled in well with no problems.  Well the news is positive and he's quickly become part of the furniture and leading a very quiet life which is suiting him down to the ground.

Tilly came into season and although we haven't yet had her scanned it is looking increasingly likely that she is indeed in whelp.  We are keeping our fingers crossed that this is correct and that she produces some gorgeous puppies at the beginning of Nov.

Maddie has now been spayed, this a procedure that was planned for her this year and we were just waiting for the right time for her and us.  The decision was made for us when she developed the serious condition pyometra and she was spayed last Monday.  She is really bouncing back, which is quite remarkable and we're obviously thrilled to have our 'mad Maddie' back with us.



Enjoying a muddy walk!

We are hoping that Trio will come into season with Eve, she has always followed Maddie's seasons but alternatively.  Now that Maddie has been spayed that won't be the case so were hoping that she will fall in with Eve who is showing signs that she may come in season in the near future.



The best puddle ever