• Pearl
• Phantom
• Remi
• Ringo
• Rosie
• Roxie
• Roxy

August 2004

December 31, 2004 - "Hey Loretta, Ellen and I spent the new years eve day training several of our springers and pointers. It was kind of warm for December in Florida but comfortable. As you can see Junior and Pearl have really grown and have been doing well in our training program. Both dogs have excellent noses and after they were gun conditioned have been retrieving to hand . We ran them on wild birds this am and both dogs work hard and have plenty of bottom. They will fit nicely into our guide team for 2005 . Thanks again for all your effort and a fine breeding program."



Pearl's Family in Jupiter, Florida

July 2001 - "Just thought you might like to hear how Phantom is doing. We are really enjoying having him in our family and he really keeps us busy... He has grown to be quite a character. The girls are keeping him busy this summer. He loves the water and chasing bunnies and squirrels..."

Phantom's Family in St. Louis, Missouri

June 2006 - "It has been awhile, so I figured I would send you an update. First I would like to tell you how sorry I was to hear about Bailey. I know she was a wonderful dog, as the proof is lying at my feet. Remi is such a great dog. She is such a happy, loving pup and has turned into to quite the daddy's girl, in addition to being a 35 pound ball of energy. Evenings after a good run at my Grandma's farm or swim in the river, she can be found cuddled up with me on the couch or in the recliner. Otherwise, most evenings, she can often be found redecorating the living room. At 10 weeks she would empty the toy basket then move it to another area of the room. Even now she likes to move her bed to different areas of the living room. As a hunting companion she is doing quite well. She loves the water and has a great hunting drive. Recent trips to the local game farm have been very successful. On her first trip, she caught both birds before they were able to fly. I have enclosed a couple older pictures and will send more current ones soon."

Remi's Family in Eau Claire, Wisconsin

October 2006 - "...Ringo's first grouse and pheasant hunt. On the first grouse hunt we got two birds... The next day me and him went out alone and he flushed three birds for me in gun range and I missed them. I haven't started formal quartering training with him yet, but it seemed toward the end of the first day of pheasant hunting and at the beginning of the second day he picked it up and knew what he was supposed to be doing. He does have one fault so far and that is he bolts to birds and sometimes flushes them out of gun range. One of the guys that I hunt with has had professionally trained dogs and he thinks Ringo has a lot of potential. I think the same. He has picked up training fast.... We are going out to North Dakota in a week for pheasant hunting. After his performance this past weekend I am excited to see how he does."

Ringo's Family in White Lake, Wisconsin

December 2006





Rosie's Family in Urbandale, Iowa

May 2000 - "...We purchased one of your pups five years ago... we named her Roxie. She is a great hunter and a wonderful companion. We are considering another field bred springer... I want another just like Roxie..."

Roxie's Family in Marne, Michigan

2001 - "...(Our family) has absolutely enjoyed Roxy. Roxy came from Trixie on 4/10/97."

"She has almost exclusively been used to hunt grouse and the occasional woodcock. She also has a number of pheasants and chukars from preserves. She has flushed over 300 wild birds and 30 or so preserve birds. She has a great deal of natural talent and only needed training due to bad range habits picked up from our other springer. When hunted alone or with a dog other than our other springer, she works close and doesn't miss a bird. She promptly hups to the whistle in the field... There is no cover this dog will not attempt to go through. Our vet bills confirm this. We thought she was going to loose an eye due to a puncture last year, but it suddenly took a turn for the best. She had a 3/4" thorn buried in one of her pads that was only discovered when I tried to run her on pavement etc. etc...."

"...Additionally and as important, she is very gentle with our two year old. He regularly pounces and pulls on her and the only form of displeasure she has ever shown is to leave the room..."

"...I hope everything is well for you and your family and look forward to another great year with Roxy..."

July 2002 - "...I still think the world of her and can only find faults that have been created by my lack of training expertise. She has now flushed over 440 wild birds. I keep good records of our hunts, about 75% of her flushes have been Ruffed Grouse and the remainder woodcock. Last year was probably closer to 60/40 as we had a number of days with high numbers of woodcock flushed. As more time has passed to learn her ways, I now have a good feel for the difference in her birdiness between grouse and woodcock, she tends to be slower with the Woodcock. I'm certainly not complaining about that, she has such a zeal for grouse that you had better be ready to shoot as soon as she gets birdy because she will go through anything to flush the bird as soon as she can."

"I could tell you many stories, but I'm sure you were not looking for a book as you opened this e-mail. There is one humorous story from 2001. My friend Chad and I took the dogs across the state for a morning grouse hunt and prior to the hunt thought it would be a good idea to get some of the energy out of the dogs in the 25 acre field in front of our cabin and maybe get a rabbit. We did flush and miss one rabbit. It was time to load up the dogs and head for grouse. Roxy was pre-occupied with something about 25 yards from truck and I was pre-occupied with loading my gear in the truck. I called her once and she didn't come in so I figured when I opened the back hatch on the truck she would turn and run back to me. Instead, she went another 15 yards and flushed a big rooster in open field. So much for not paying attention to my dog when she is birdy..."

Roxy's Family in Grand Rapids, Michigan