|
Born 20.12.2010
Dam : Schwartz Seide
Sire : Sh Ch Isara Kurzhaar Innkeeper at Katelands ShCM
In 2008 Jack was mated to a solid black gsp called Sox, or Schwartz Seide. The litter produced 4 colour combinations, and grew into strong healthy good looking dogs with a natural apptitude for work.
The owner of the bitch, Matt Cooke, contacted me in 2010, to see if I would agree to a repeat mating.
To cut along story short, Matt kindly allowed me to transfer the bitch, Sox or Schwartz Seide is her pedigree name, into my name.This meant that the pups would be bred by myself and be registered under my kennel Affix of Katelands.
I had done this because I wanted to keep a pup myself, if the litter was anywhere near as good as the last one.
Well it was, and out of it I chose Tyler. Her kennel name is unusual, because normally all my pups have names that start with a 'c' that sounds like a 'k', ie another b/w pup in the litter was called Katelands Capercaillie.
But, she was something I had never had before, a black and white bitch, so hence she became Back In Black, quite fitting I thought.
|
|
 |
|
I have been bringing her on gently, as I don't want to overface or bore her. Retrieves are done only a couple of times a week, with distance and difficulty varying, although if the 1st retrieve is excellent I will walk away, as I always finish on a good note.
The same goes for hunting, at this stage I have only cast her off into a head wind, encouraging her to go out further bit by bit.
A turn around for us was in June, when at just 5 months old, I went to a training day held by the newly formed GSPCI, run in conjunction with Sanjon Gundogs and Roland De Jong, president of the Dutch GSP Club.
Alot of fresh ground was covered, heavy rain in the morning was not a good start, the long grass was hard to travel through, and made scenting difficult. Bright sunshine in the afternoon gave us several good runs. She pointed on 2 hen phesants, but more surprising to me, a hare had been plaguing the group all day. On her final run he bounced out in front of her, I blew my stop whistle and she did, leaving hare to bound away.
On the 28th August we went to the newly formed Hunt, Point, Retrieve Breed Association Show, where they were running a scurry.
This was to be a test, as she had never had a dummy thrown by a stranger, had never run inside a fenced off area, had not been allowed to jump over anything, never mind straw bales, and finally had never had to do all the above and be timed.
The training paid off, 3 excellent runs.
Tyler was then awarded BEST PUPPY SCURRY IN SHOW. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
****************************************************************************
January 2012...........
Well, what a day...my 1st 'trial' with Tyler, a mock field trial ran by Rachel Herbert with Alan Hender judging and Carl Field as gun. Went with the mindset of a training day. She has NEVER been shot over, NEVER retrieved any game, NEVER gone out with any group of dogs in a trial test scenario. 1st 2 runs unproductive over dead sunflower and a large area of long grass thicket, ..apart from the 2 roe deer lying down in the sunflower lol..at least she came back. 3rd run in the wood, cast off, kept close worked tight, went on point in the middle of a ticket of bramble. Told to get in, flushed a cock and hen, sat to whistle, didn't move as both were shot, cock bird was a runner in the wood, hen fell outside the wood landing on edge of another stretch of dead sunflower. I sent her after the runner, she went down the wood, it had doubled back into the next thicket, which she followed, again stauch point, told to fetch bird which ran out onto path which she picked up and dropped due to flapping, bearing in mind she has never picked a bird up, Alan told me to send her again...she had a sniff, the picked up and retrieved to hand unmarked. Asked to retrieve the blind hen from the edge of the sunflowers, which she did again to hand unmarked. What a day. Everything you could ask from a mature dog and then some, and she is still only 12 months old. Whoop whooping! 
|
| |
