News and updates 2010

Mail from Germany! A nice update, a christmas card and a lot of pictures of Glen (C litter), send by his owner Simone. Below one of the pictures. To see more pictures, click on the "Read more" link beneath the picture.

And yesterday we received these pictures of the handsome PT (litter 2005). Thank you Anne-Marieke!

Last week we received this beautiful picture of Fellow (C litter) in the snow, thanks to Barbara.

This picture of Brit (B litter) we took today at our agility training location, where Brit and owner Gerard came to train with us.

Skippy had her birthday last monday and turned 11 years old!
She is very agile for her age and is still active doing agility and frisbee. Still, we want to do the right thing for her and take things a bit slower in these action sports. Because we still want to give her just as much attention as we used to and want to offer her new challenges we have started to do obedience with her at our local dog club, KC Delft. Exersizes are trained with the clicker. On November 30, in the snow, Skippy and Elise participated in an obedience test. Tonight we got the results: 102 out 110 points and the qualification Excellent.
Skippy and Elise will now participate in the official obedience test for beginners of the Dutch Kennel Club in March.

We received a nice update of Jurre (C litter) and some pictures of him in the snow.
He has inherited his mothers speedy working style: at the dog training centre his nick name is Hurryhurry.
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New pictures have been added to the photo gallery of Lynn. There is also a new agility picture in Skippy's photo gallery..
To see all the new pictures at once, click on "More about..."

This afternoon Choice got the chance to herd sheep for the first time. She liked it so much and did such a good job, and so she convinced us we should do this more often. Unfortunately we didn't bring a photo or video camera.

Beike (B litter) has been put on an advertising site! Fortunately, she is not for sale, but the bicycle pet trailer in which she was transported when she was a puppy. Doesn't she look cute on the picture?

There are some new pictures of Choice. About time, cause she already turned 5 months old. Some pictures have been added to her photo gallery. One of the new pictures is shown below, the other new pictures can be seen by clicking the link "More about...".

Some news and pictures of Paco: he is doing well, and like a real Border Collie he loves everything that moves, balls, cars and autumn leaves, among other things. Below two of the pictures we received, with thanks to Peter and Marieke.

This beautiful picture of Liam (B litter) we got today. Thanks Ingrid!
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We have been visiting 3 puppies from our C litter: Jack, Fellow and Jurre. We had a very nice day and it was great fun seeing the lads again. Choice came with us and enjoyed herself very much. Every visit was a chance to play with another litter brother. Everyone thanks a lot for the warm welcome. Barbara and Julya thanks again for the tasty lunch.
On the picture below Jurre. For more pictures of our visits, click more.

Today Ratu (B litter) competed in agility for the first time at 18 months old and won the jumping class and doing so earned her first promotion point for the second grade! Congratulations to Nico!
The competition was organized by the Border Collie Club of the Netherlands and was held at Bergen op Zoom. Below a video of the Jumping, with many thanks to Delfse Border Collies for filming.
Video clips can be enlarged by clicking on the icon beneath the video window.

For the second time our Skippy became a grandmother! This time because three lovely puppies, two females and a male, were born last night at the Belgium kennel Bonnie Blue, sired by Skippy's son Sem (A litter). Congratulations to all involved!
Below a picture of the proud father.

We visited a city farm with Choice, to socialize her with livestock. She liked all the animals but especially wanted to herd the guinea pigs.

This weekend we visited the dog show in Dortmund, where we met Glen (C litter). We want to thank Simone and her family for the warm welcome.

We received a lot of nice pictures. Also from Jack, Jurre and Glen (C litter). All three are doing really well in their obedience classes, just like their brothers and sister. Jurre even passed his first obedience exam with 100 out of 100 points! He is the youngest dog of his club ever to achieve this.
On the picture below: Jack. For more pictures, click more...

We received sad news: Baloe (2002 litter) died very suddenly in her sleep.
We sympathy deeply with Lenie and Joop and their children and grandchildren.

Fellow (C litter) has been staying over for a few nights. Of course he and Choice had a lot of fun together. We could take some nice pictures of them. We also made some family pictures of Fellow with mother Smooch and grandma Skippy. To view some of the pictures, click on read more...

The dutch agility competition season of the FCI has ended for this year. Sem (litter 2007) has been promoted to grade 3 class C. Dua (litter 2002) already competed in grade 3 class C and will also compete there next year. Baik (litter 2002) will compete next year in grade 3 class B2 as he did this year.
On the picture: Sem competing.

We had an appointment for Smooch today at a Veterinary Specialist Centre. She made a wild jump and has injured her front paw. Probably a muscle or tendon has been damaged. Of course she will get a lot of time to heal. This means no more intensive agility classes or matches for our fanatic little lady for a while.

We received some nice pictures of Paco (C litter). Many thanks to Peter and Marieke.

At last we have added week 7 and week 8 of the Smooch/Jaff litter to our website. And Choice has her own page now.

Today we had to make the hard decision to let our dear Fran go. Last night she had a big epileptic seizure. During the night her condition worsened a lot, probably due to a brain tumor. She could not drink or walk anymore and she could not find any rest. The veterinarian did not expect any recovery. She was put to sleep peacefully at our home.

Fran was a very sweet dog, never did any harm. She was very precious to us and a part of our family. The last year she was deaf but other than that she was in a surprisingly good condition for her age, until last night. At this moment it is very hard to believe she is no longer around.

Somewhere along the road

Someone waits for me

Beyond these present storms that blow

Waiting patiently

No secrets held in an open heart

A spirit that soars over mountains

Somewhere along the road

Someone waits for me

The puppies of Smooch and Jaff have now all left to live with their new owners. We wish everyone will have a lot of fun with their pup and hope for a happy life for every puppy!

One puppy is still here. The little lady, Critic's Choice, call name Choice, will stay with us . She will have her own web page soon.

Today the puppies went to a veterinarian specialized in eyes for their eye examination. All puppies have passed the eye test and were declared free of eye defects

Pictures of week 6 have been added to the site. The weight table has also been updated.

Pictures of week 4 and week 5 have been added to the site. The weight table has also been updated.

Nico was selected to respresent the Netherlands during the European Open in the Czech Republic this weekend with Dua, from our 2002 litter out of Fran. They did very well and were selected for the finals. Unfortunately they were disqualified during the finals, but nevertheless we are very proud of them.

Pictures of week 3 have been added to the site. The weight table has also been updated.

There are new pictures of the puppies on the web site: week 1 en week 2. We have also made a table with the weight of the puppies, so their weights can be followed the next weeks.
The two smallest puppies have grown really well, without any supplementary feeding. Well done Smooch!

Sem earned a first place at the agility match of HSV Amersfoort in the third grade (B2). This is his second promotion point: only one promotion point is still needed to promote to the highest class C.

The puppies of Smooch and Jaff were born tonight! There are five males and a female, the colours are brown-tri, brown-white, black-tri and black-white. To read more about the birth and to see the first pictures click Read more about “Puppies are born!”.

About 10 days to go until the due date of Smooch's puppies!

Smooch is doing great and still as lively as ever.

 

Our vet confirmed Smooch’s pregnancy. So now we need to be patient for another five weeks.

Our web site has a new lay-out!