Sugar first place at the Susquehanna Brittany Club fall trial!

 CH/RU Pine Straw Sweet Tea scored a blue ribbon at the Susquehanna Brittany Club's Fall 2020 trial. Sugar topped a field of 18 dogs under the whistle of Jeanette Tracy. Her 1st place run included six quality finds. Big thanks to Jeanette for her work to make Sugar the best she can be. Great job Jeanette!!

CH/RU Pine Straw Sweet Tea back in form to take 1st at Brittany Club of Upper New York

 Over Labor Day weekend, CH/RU Pine Straw Sweet Tea (Sugar) took 1st place in the Open Limited stake at the Brittany Club of Upper New York's fall field trial. The stake drew 29 dogs and Sugar ran against some stiff competition. Big thanks to Jeanette Tracy handled Sugar to this win. 

Sugar Whelps Two Nice Females in Repeat Breeding to Shamrock

In a bit of a roller coaster pregnancy, CH/RU Pine Straw Sweet Tea produced two beautiful female puppies by CH/RU Erin's Hidden Shamrock. We were told by a vet that she was not pregnant after two ultrasounds. So we thought it hadn't taken. She ran in the National Championship and just didn't have her normal pop after about 45 minutes. When her milk fully came in it became apparent she wasn't having a false pregnancy. And so we have these two pretty girls. We plan on keeping both for a while to see how they develop. (photo credit to Agnes Lynch)

Vitali's Grouse Ringer Justify garners another derby placement.

Vitali's Grouse Ringer Justify took third place in the Open Derby stake of the Bluegrass Walking Shooting Dog club's spring trial on February 22, 2020. A big race and 3 nice finds helped "T" gain the placement for his owner and handler Gary Vitali. We very much appreciate the job Gary's doing with this talented youngster. We also appreciate the BWSD's efforts to hold the trial. The photo is courtesy of the BWSD.

"T" is from our Erin's Hidden Shamrock X CH/RU Pine Straw Sweet Tea litter.

Pine Straw's Tupelo Honey is on the board!

Pine Straw's Tupelo Honey (call name Moxie), seen above in a workout with Jeanette Tracy, recently got her first derby placement by taking third place at the Town Creek Open Derby in Hardaway, Alabama. The stake drew 16 dogs. Moxie's run included some big moves and a broke find on a large Alabama covey.

Moxie is out of our Multiple CH Erin's Hidden Shamrock X CH/RU Pine Straw Sweet Tea litter. She is not yet two years old.

Big thanks to Jeanette for her work with Moxie and the folks at Martino Kennels in putting on the event.

CH/RU Pine Straw Sweet Tea qualifies for the 2020 National Shooting Dog Championship.

CH/RU Pine Straw Sweet Tea has qualified for the 2020 National Shooting Dog Championship. Big thanks to Jeanette Tracy for her work with "Sugar" and getting her to this milestone. The Championship is held near Union Springs Alabama in early February. We are not sure if Sugar will compete, breeding plans might keep her out of the trial.

Shamrock X Sugar Son Earns Derby Placement

Vitali's Grouse Ringer Justify (T) earned second place in the Michigan Brittany Grouse Dog Association Open Derby stake on October 6, 2019. T's race in combination with a woodcock find settled him firmly into the second place spot.  We love when our dogs place and getting it done on wild birds is icing on the cake.

T is from our breeding of our winning female, CH/RU Pine Straw Sweet Tea to CH/RU Erin's Hidden Shamrock. Some may wonder how a son of an AA champion mated to a Shooting Dog champion can result in a successful cover dog competitor. Well, if you look through T's pedigree you'll find prominent grouse dogs top and bottom. His maternal grand-dam is RUCH Pine Straw Katydid that took Runner-Up at the National Amateur Grouse Championship and her sire (T's great grand-sire) was GNGCH Chip's Uncle Buzzy who won the Grand National Grouse Championship. So he's got serious grouse dogs up close in his pedigree.

We appreciate Gary Vitali putting the work in to developing T as a bird dog. Congrats on a qualifying win Gary! And thanks for sending us the picture!