Post by sj on Apr 22, 2005 5:33:50 GMT 1
Something which made my toes curl with joy was an email I received from Brit's owners and would like to share it here with you. I know it's a bit long but to shorten it would take away from the excitement and thrill 
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Hey Sally,
We have some great news !!!!!!!!!!!!!! Brit now officially has her Junior Hunt title and will carry JH behind her name forever. We took her the last two weekends for tests and she passed all 4 in a row. She didn't need the last one since she already passed one leg in Oregon last summer but they let us run it anyway. She passed again so she now has 5 passes in that test.
Brit did so well the first weekend at Lincoln Nebraska. She just tore up the course. She ran the same course where they held the Weim Mid America last year.Kim ran her on Saturday and ended up with scores of Hunting 7, bird finding ability 8, pointing 8 and trainability 9. All these are out of a possible 10.
Kim was so excited and Brit looked fantastic.
I ran her on Sunday and she was unbelievable. I lost her a couple of times while she hunted because she ran it like a field trial. The Vizla she ran against looked like a poodle trying to hunt compared to her. She hit all the objectives and ran full speed the entire 20 minutes.The judge rode his horse over to me and said "This Weim isn't from around here is she. I have never seen one run the course like this before." She ended up pointing a bird steady to flush in the bird field and her score the last day was. Hunting 9, Bird finding ability 7, pointing 8, and trainability 9.That is an amazing score because they NEVER give out 10's.
I was even getting compliments from the pointer people. That NEVER happens when you own a Weim. The pointer guys think Weims are not bird dogs here.
She just smoked the course for a full 20 minutes and looked like a polished field trial dog.
This past weekend we ran at the Show Me Vizla Club hunt tests in Kansas City Missouri. We had her hips scored on Friday, which was her birthday, and she was still feeling the effects of the anesthesia on Saturday. She still ran the course superb and was one of only 4 dogs that passed on Saturday.
Her scores were Hunting 8, bird finding ability 7, pointing 7 and trainability 6. She had to get in the heavy thorny cover to find a bird and she was one of the few that did. That's what I love about her hunting drive.
It will take her to places many dogs won't go to find birds.
Kim ran her on Sunday and she ran like she did the weekend before. She was the only Weimaraner at the test. I stood in the crowd of people watching while Kim ran her. The crowd was amazed at her run and were commenting that the Weim was running HUGE. She always runs big when hunting and left the Vizla eating her dust.Here in the central U.S. people aren't used to seeing Weimaraners that can hunt the way she does. The judges were very tough and gave her all 7's on the final score card. I had many people come up to me and said there was no way she deserved anything less than 8's or 9's but it didn't matter because she passed again anyway. Sometimes at all breed hunting tests and trials you have to deal with politics the same way you do in the show ring. Some people still think that a Weim is not a good bird dog. Maybe they should check with the owners whose dogs were braced against Brit. I even had a GSP owner tell me Weims were higher strung than a GSP. He must not have been around the GSP's I have been around. On Saturday Brit smoked a GSP on the hunt test so maybe we gained a little respect for the Weimaraner breed this weekend.
It was really fun for Kim and I both to do it ourselves. It really felt like we accomplished something on our own. Brit is now off to Kentucky for 5 days of shows with a new handler so we will see if that can make a difference. The woman who is showing her is more experienced.
We will keep you posted!!!
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Hey Sally,
We have some great news !!!!!!!!!!!!!! Brit now officially has her Junior Hunt title and will carry JH behind her name forever. We took her the last two weekends for tests and she passed all 4 in a row. She didn't need the last one since she already passed one leg in Oregon last summer but they let us run it anyway. She passed again so she now has 5 passes in that test.
Brit did so well the first weekend at Lincoln Nebraska. She just tore up the course. She ran the same course where they held the Weim Mid America last year.Kim ran her on Saturday and ended up with scores of Hunting 7, bird finding ability 8, pointing 8 and trainability 9. All these are out of a possible 10.
Kim was so excited and Brit looked fantastic.
I ran her on Sunday and she was unbelievable. I lost her a couple of times while she hunted because she ran it like a field trial. The Vizla she ran against looked like a poodle trying to hunt compared to her. She hit all the objectives and ran full speed the entire 20 minutes.The judge rode his horse over to me and said "This Weim isn't from around here is she. I have never seen one run the course like this before." She ended up pointing a bird steady to flush in the bird field and her score the last day was. Hunting 9, Bird finding ability 7, pointing 8, and trainability 9.That is an amazing score because they NEVER give out 10's.
I was even getting compliments from the pointer people. That NEVER happens when you own a Weim. The pointer guys think Weims are not bird dogs here.
She just smoked the course for a full 20 minutes and looked like a polished field trial dog.
This past weekend we ran at the Show Me Vizla Club hunt tests in Kansas City Missouri. We had her hips scored on Friday, which was her birthday, and she was still feeling the effects of the anesthesia on Saturday. She still ran the course superb and was one of only 4 dogs that passed on Saturday.
Her scores were Hunting 8, bird finding ability 7, pointing 7 and trainability 6. She had to get in the heavy thorny cover to find a bird and she was one of the few that did. That's what I love about her hunting drive.
It will take her to places many dogs won't go to find birds.
Kim ran her on Sunday and she ran like she did the weekend before. She was the only Weimaraner at the test. I stood in the crowd of people watching while Kim ran her. The crowd was amazed at her run and were commenting that the Weim was running HUGE. She always runs big when hunting and left the Vizla eating her dust.Here in the central U.S. people aren't used to seeing Weimaraners that can hunt the way she does. The judges were very tough and gave her all 7's on the final score card. I had many people come up to me and said there was no way she deserved anything less than 8's or 9's but it didn't matter because she passed again anyway. Sometimes at all breed hunting tests and trials you have to deal with politics the same way you do in the show ring. Some people still think that a Weim is not a good bird dog. Maybe they should check with the owners whose dogs were braced against Brit. I even had a GSP owner tell me Weims were higher strung than a GSP. He must not have been around the GSP's I have been around. On Saturday Brit smoked a GSP on the hunt test so maybe we gained a little respect for the Weimaraner breed this weekend.
It was really fun for Kim and I both to do it ourselves. It really felt like we accomplished something on our own. Brit is now off to Kentucky for 5 days of shows with a new handler so we will see if that can make a difference. The woman who is showing her is more experienced.
We will keep you posted!!!
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