Repeat Breeding Baker at Stud new pups expected!

Baker meets Belle all yellow litter expected April 18, 2010! This is a repeat breeding of Baker and Belle with tremendous success from the last litter. Baker is a GMPR and a SH and comes to us by way of Holzinger Kennels in Minnesota. Holzinger Kennels is a very well renowned kennel throughout the U.S. just south of the Twin Cities. Their reputation speaks for itself producing dogs such as GMPR MHR Rik's Risky Raider MH, MPR Wyvernaze Audley MH (Brock), GMPR Cashingers Cattail Corky, MPR Brocks Golden Nugget, CP Cashzinger Coal Cuts Loose, Cashzingers Special Brew MH, MHR MPR Cashingers Brier Tuck MH (Tucker), and MHR MPR Horse and Hunt Gabe MH. Baker was whelped and trained by Terry Holzinger (professional trainer since 1982), and his father was imported from England as a British stud dog. Baker's mother is a a full sister to Risky Business who was also Raider's father! The accomplishments of dogs from this pedigree are too many too list but there are many GMPR, MH, MHR and National Champions on both sides of this breeding! Baker is a 55-60 pound powerhouse that is built like an animal. Even at age 8, Baker doesn't look a day over 3 with the same build as you see in the picture above. Baker achieved his AKC Senior title in 2006 going 5 for 5, and from there attained his CP and MP from APLA in one weekend. He achieved GMPR and will be running for his AKC master title this coming year. He has hunted extensively on waterfowl and upland, and he lives to hunt and will go strong all day long! For a pedigree and more information on Baker and Holzinger Kennels check out the link. http://www.holzingerkennels.com/ Go to Stud Dogs and Click on Baker.

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Belle
Belle is a 50-55 pound female out of Raider and Grits of Black Forest lines. She is pure muscle and it shows out in the field! She has a never quit mentality and hunts strong all day long! Her marking and retrieving ability is second to none, and also quarters very well and covers a lot of ground in a hurry. She was first introduced to birds at a young age, and since then has hunted 3-4 days per week during the hunting season, mainly pheasant, and has developed into a national qualifier for PHU(Pheasant Hunters Unlimited) and also won the Okoboji Bird Dog challenge at only 2 years of age. Belle can compete with some of the finest dogs in the country when it comes to upland game! She competed in last year's PHU National Championship and placed in the top 20 at nationals and in the top 15 in the final standings. She has gone on to qualify again this year for the PHU nationals. She also qualified for the NBDC Nationals(National Bird Dog Challenge as seen on the outdoor channel) this past March and the World BDC Championship that took place early this fall. I did not run her in the BDC events because she was expecting a litter of pups. Belle has competed with some of the dogs that placed very well at the BDC National and World Championships in PHU competitions and has consistently contended with and/or placed higher than. She gives me the best of both worlds being a solid pointer when the birds hold tight, yet is not afraid to flush a bird on the move. She is extremely intelligent and I pride myself in knowing that she has been trained personally by myself. From the day she came home with me she has lived to please me and retrieve. Whether it be a bird, bumper/dummy, tennis ball, or anything she can get her mouth around, she has never given up on a retrieve even at a very young age. People are amazed at the speed and tenacity she shows in the field, but she is also very calm around my kids and in the house. She knows that when its time to come in the house its time to settle down. She sleeps with my 12 year old son every night, and she even has her own blanky that she drags around the house and to bed every night. She is truly the perfect dog giving me everything I ask for in the field and knowing when to tone it down around children and in the house! Belle lives to hunt, lives to please, and is what I consider a best friend!

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North Dakota Pheasant Hunting Fall 2009

This past fall my son and I had the privaledge of heading to what my father-in-law calls "God's Country" for a long weekend of pheasant hunting. My wifes parents both originate from North Dakota and her uncle Allen still resides there so we had the oppurtunity to get out to North Dakota to shoot some birds. The pheasant hunting was unbelievable and far exceeded my expectations. Belle and Remi were like kids in a candy store smelling, chasing, and retrieving birds until they were blue in the face. It was a great first hunt for Remi. As the weekend progressed so did she! She continually got better and better the more birds she saw and hunted. By the end of the weekend she was far exceeding my expectations of what her first hunt would be and had even made some great long retrieves on running birds. The pheasant population is so great up there everywhere we went, the dogs were on the scent of birds!! In 3 days we saw upwards of around 1,000 birds and had come close to our limit almost everyday. The weather was a little warm so it was tough to get in close as the birds were flighty, but all in all it was a great experience and we look forward to making this an annual trip as a family!

Remi and Belle

Remi and Belle are doing great as you can see from the picture it wont be long until she catches her momma in size. Remi has been a great pup and is coming along quite nicely. She is extremely smart!! She watches me work with Belle everyday and she has picked up on a lot of commands just by watching. It was pretty funny b/c last week I was working on whistle training Belle to sit on the whistle and never had Remi in mind. Now it doesnt matter where Remi is in the yard. When she hears that whistle, she sits! She has really started to pick up her desire to retrieve in the last week. Before, she would do it occasionally when she felt like it, but in the last week, she has shown a much greater desire. This is another thing I think she has learned from wathching. She really loves to retrieve out of the water, and her marking ability is even better than I think Belle's is. She is very observant of where the dummy is going, where as Belle is so high-strung she tries to beat the dummy to where it is going and sometimes doesn't see it land. Remi always knows where the dummy is whether its 100 yds across the pond or 50 feet in the weeds! However, just cuz she knows where it is, doesn't mean she goes and gets it. She'll run the bank of the pond and look at the dummy far off in the distance and whine, but she's kinda a chicken when it comes to getting it that far away. Or she'll jump in and swim about 10 feet out and then turn back b/c its too far away!! All in all she is coming along great, and I look forward to getting her on some Geese next month in South Dakota for the early Goose season. So if anyone is interested in tagging along, my brother lives up by Watertown and we'd be more than willing to take you along. I hope all is well with all of your pups, and I will be emailing everyone here in the near future to see how your pups are coming along and then I can update the blog once again!!

A couple more of Remi