Crufts 2009

Well it comes to something when I have to sit on the Samsung stand at Crufts to update my Blog!! We have been at Newhouse Farm since the June last year and we are still waiting for Broadband! After waiting for months for Virgin to install it, we cancelled our order in November with an assurance from BT that we would be up and running with them within ten days, ha, ha. They did come out on Christmas Eve and attempt it but apparently further works need to be done on the lines before it can be installed. BT have advised us that work is planned in March but lets just see - so for now its any port in a storm and today that means popping into the Samsung stand!!!
We were here yesterday for Gundog day. Lottie (Kimmax Kiss Kurl for Klancraig) and her litter brother Milo (Kimmax Kiss My Brass) both won their respective limit classes which was smashing. Lottie really enjoyed the attention she was getting from everyone who came to meet her and was quick to jump up and give everyone a cuddle and a friendly lick on the face in return for a treat!
Helen has attended Crufts on all four days with Dilise (Kimmax Kiss N Make Up) supporting the Safe and Sound Team. Well done to both Helen and Dilise who by tonight I am sure will both be shattered.
It was lovely to see everyone again at the start of the show season and great to meet up with some of our puppy owners too and catch up on all their news.

Welsh Kennel Club 2008

Lottie (Kimmax Kiss Kurl For Klancraig) won second place in Junior Bitch at the weekend under judge Val Fosse. Her litter brother Milo (Kimmax Kiss My Brass) owned and handled to perfection by Paul Gardiner took second in Post Graduate Dog.
Lottie went on to win Reserve in the Junior Stakes class which had an entry of 46 (gundog and utility) under judge Mr E Engh (Norway).

Paignton August 2008

Lottie (Kimmax Kiss Kurl for Klancraig) won the Junior Bitch class under judge Sandra Marshall. Since I was unable to attend myself, thanks go to Tracy Cartwright for taking Lottie to the show and to Maxine McCullough and Sarah Turner for handling her in her class and the Challenge.

National Gundog Association August 2008

Lottie (Kimmax Kiss Kurl for Klancraig) took second place in Junior Bitch under judge Pat Dempster. Her litter sister Dilise (Kimmax Kiss N Make Up) owned by Helen Hinks took Reserve in the same class and their litter brother Milo (Kimmax Kiss My Brass) owned by Paul Gardiner was third in Post Graduate Dog.

Call Me Easily Pleased...

I had a really wonderful suprise last night when I left home to pick my daughter up from work. It was dusk and as I rounded the bend in the lane, what should be in the road ahead of me but two stags and a doe! I knew that there were deer in the woods and fields around us but hadn't had the pleasure of seeing any. It really made my day to see such magnificent creaures - my only disappointment was that I didn't have my camera to hand.

Meeting the Neighbours

Today we were lucky enough to meet some of our new neighbours who run the local shoot - apparently our farm house sits smuggly in the middle of it! I was delighted to be asked to join them when the season opens - by all accounts it is a really friendly affair.
Hopefully next time we meet I might be more appropriately dressed, since my neighbours suprised me this morning when I was still in my dressing gown and slippers - living so far out in the sticks I wasn't expecting to meet anyone at that time in the morning!!

Eating stones!

We are relieved to say that Ned (Kobnko Y R Ova the Pond to Klancraig) seems to be well on the road to recovery following his ex-laparotomy after eating a rather large stone which got stuck in his lower intestine!
Fortunately for Ned we realised fairly quickly that all was not right and took him to our vet where an X ray revealed the problem. Luckily, the stone had not damaged the intestine so there was no need to remove any tissue.
Back to his lively self and back on a raw diet (without the whole bone for a while) we just need to build his weight back up now to what is was pre-op.