Friday, August 13, 2010

Katie's Puppies




Katie's puppies have reached 12 weeks old and are looking good. We decided to keep 2 of the males, Hawk and Smudge. They are bold, curious and crazy about birds already. Hawk is looking like he'll be a brute and Smudge is fast and already scent pointing quail. "Patch" went home to Steve and Ginny Chiappini's house, we miss her and are eager to see just how pretty she turns out to be.

Field Trial Placements for 2009-2010 season


Chip's Charlie Brown and Pine Straw Katydid both had a successful year, Charlie as a derby and Katie as a first year shooting dog. We were very happy with both of them.

Charlie won: 3rd place at the National Brittany Open Grouse Championship Association's Open Derby on October 4, 2009; 1st place at the Wolverine Derby Classic held by the Beaverton Grouse Dog Club on October 18, 2009; 3rd Place at the Joel Collier Derby Classic in March of2010; 3 rd place at the 2010 spring running of the Black Ash Amateur Derby; and 1st place in the Shooting Dog stake of the spring 2010 DuBois Beaver Meadow Field Trial Association.

Katie brought home: 3rd Place in the Central Georgia Pointing Dog Club's Open Gun Dog stake held October 4th 2009 (AKC horseback trial); 4th place at the Vizsla Club of Metro Atlanta (AKC horseback trial) in the Open Limited Gun Dog stake; 2nd place in the Amateur Shooting Dog stake (AF walking) at the IB Parnell Trial held by the South Carolina Bird Hunters in January of 2010; and 3rd place in the Open Shooting Dog stake of the Vidalia Trial (AF horseback) held in the spring of 2010 at Baxley, Georgia.

We would like to thank Scott and Marc Forman (Shady Hills Kennels) for their hard work with Charlie as well as Steve (Chip) and Ginny Chiappini (Chip's Kennels) for giving us the opportunity to co-own Mr. Charlie.

We would like to thank Jamie Fountain (Oconee Kennels) for his efforts and handling of Katie.