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Owners and occasional breeders of Munsterlanders. We have been lucky to share our home with Large Munsterlanders since 1997 when Willow came to join our family.

At that time we had nothing to do with gundog work but both her and our older rescue dog took part in search & rescue training with the Lincolnshire police, and played at obedience, agility, tracking and some of the working trials training. It was when Willow was about 18 months old that I thought it would be good to teach her what an HPR was really supposed to do, and since then we have been hook

ed. Willow was followed by Bison, Grouse, Inca and then Ekko. We lost Ekko at 15.5 years old leaving us with four Munsters - Tulli, Tulli's daughter Indie, Tulli's daughter Rivva and Rivva's daughter Mahli. We then sadly lost Indie when she was just 9 years old which was three weeks after Rivva's second litter was born - giving us Ruma. Tulli is now 12 years old, Rivva is 7, Mahli 4 and little Ruma is just 14 months old. They have all taken part in grouse counting and successfully competed in working tests. Tulli, Rivva and Mahli have competed in field trials. Ekko (no longer with us) became a Field Trial Champion in 2012 - only the second Large Munsterlander in the UK to achieve this and 30 years after the first one and in 2019 Tulli won that second elusive 1st to join her mother as a Field Trial Champion. Rivva has won two Novice Field Trials which qualifies her to enter Open trials as well as All Aged, a second in Novice, three awards in All Aged Trials including a 1st and two 3rds in Open. Mahli won 1st place in an All Aged Field Trial last season and then got hit by an electric fence just as she picked up a partridge which really affected her. She managed to get a 4th place in an Open at the end of the season so fingers crossed she will feel happier this year. Little Ruma has just won a Novice Working Test (following in the footsteps of Mahli, Rivva and Indie who all won out of Novice at 13/14 months old) so will now compete with the big boys in Opens. We are hoping to have a litter from Ruma in 2027 if we can find a suitable boy.

22/06/2025

Today was the GSPA Working Test held at Wortley. Luckily the temperature had dropped and we were very lucky with not much rain. Just windy. What a well run day - well done Dawn - (as usual) and we were leaving before 4 pm.

There was a great turnout of Munsters again in all classes.

In Open Annette was awarded a CoM with Michael and Caro won 3rd place with Bea.

In Novice Jack came 2nd with Walt and my little Squidge came 1st :-)

In Puppy Andy came 4th with Ruma's brother Monty and again little Squidge came 1st :-)

What a successful weekend she has had. Lots of prizes today too :-)

Thank you to all the Judges and helpers of which there were plenty.

21/06/2025

Two Shows in one week!! What is happening? :-)

Blackpool Championship Show today being judged by Jean Byrne and Squidge was such a good girl for Granny Jayne again. 1st in Junior Bitch (out of 2) and then Best Junior as there were no boys. Somehow I ended up in the ring at the end - not sure how that happened really 🤣 Thank you Jayne for taking her.

Walt got the Dog CC which was great and baby Groot was a good boy again taking everything in.

Back to a Working Test tomorrow for Ruma and Walt :-)

Nearly forgot! Happy 12th Birthday to Tulli and her siblings ❤️

19/06/2025

We had a fabulous session with Lee this morning. Squidge did really well. Plenty of water work interspersed with the land retrieves as it was so hot (too hot for me).

Happy 7th Birthday to Rivva and her siblings. That seems to have flown past.

17/06/2025

We had a day out today at the Royal Cheshire Show. I haven't been there for over 20 years when we did a display with Clwyd Retrievers.

Luckily it wasn't as hot as it has been and also didn't rain:-)

There were seven Munsters entered in mixed classes but only six were present. (A lot more than when Jayne started entering there). One in a class apart from Open where there were three so four in the final line up. Two boys and two girls.

Rudi got Beat in Breed and little Ruma got Reserve Best in Breed.

Considering she hadn't 'posed' or 'pranced' since Crufts she is such a good girl for Jayne ❤️

Little Groot was a good boy all day and took everything in his stride

14/06/2025

What a lovely day we've had taking part in the LMC retrieving day with trainer Anthea Shelley. Four Munsterlanders (including baby Groot), a Viszla and a GSP. Thank you Jack for organising the session.

Retrieves on land and water - seens and blinds with directions and over fences for Ruma - she did really well :-)

I only took one photo today and managed to push the button at exactly the right moment :-) - a blind over the fence and into the water.

11/06/2025

As it was so warm yesterday we decided to stop at the lake on our way to the H. Group meet - it also makes the journey more productive. A couple of blinds across at one end and a long blind out on the water at the far end, followed by coffee and cake :-)

The midges in the forest were horrendous, especially when we got back to where the cars were parked. All four came for a walk/run last night with a couple of retrieves thrown in on the way for Ruma. I did send her from the track through all the thick cover, over some felled trees and into the wood for a blind before we reached the cars.

06/06/2025

Unless we book a training day/session somewhere most of our training is done here in our fields. This morning I decided to pop up on the mountain up near the Bluebell pond. There are a few clear areas amongst all the w**d where fishermen have been. It would be lovely if the w**d was removed - like it was 26 years ago.

A couple of seens from the top of banks in different places and through thick irises and a couple of blinds out on the water.

Looking at the photo it must be so hard for a dog to actually see the dummy amongst all the ripples, reflections and w**d.

03/06/2025

Just waiting for the H Group to arrive for some training :-). Think we're going to get wet!

01/06/2025

Today we went to the Worcestershire Gundog Society Working Test held at Tythe Barn. What a well run day. We had finished our Puppy and Novice tests by 1.40 so could relax while the Opens did their hunting. Thank you to the Judges and to all involved in the running of the day. A lot of thought had gone into who went where and when.

Ruma came 2nd in Puppy again and got the CoM in the Novice class of 30 dogs :-).

31/05/2025

Lara (Ruma's sister) was in the group before ours when we arrived at Trawden this morning. She is so pretty :-)

Just three Munsters in our group - Otto, Bea and Ruma. Some great testing retrieves up on the moorland this morning, especially for a baby dog :-) but they all did well and had fun.

30/05/2025

Managed to catch a couple of pigeons again. Practicing sitting to flush :-). Found my antique Dummyshot which is still covered with pheasant wings :-). Now just need an extra hand 🤣. (I wonder why they stopped making them - they were great)

27/05/2025

We luckily managed to catch a magpie with eggs :-) so hopefully the hundreds will soon reduce now 🤞Good retrieving practice.

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We have been lucky to be able to share our home with Large Munsterlanders since 1997 when Willow came to join our family. At that time we had nothing to do with gundog work but both her and our older rescue dog took part in search & rescue training with the Lincolnshire police, and played at obedience, agility, tracking and some of the working trials training. It was when Willow was about 18 months old that I thought it would be good to teach her what an HPR was really supposed to do, and since then we have been hooked. At present we have four Munsters - Ekko who is 13, her daughter Tulli who is 7, Tulli's daughter Indie who is 4 and the youngster from Tulli’s second litter - Rivva who is now 2 years old. All four have taken part in grouse counting and successfully competed in working tests. Ekko and Tulli have competed in field trials. Ekko became a Field Trial Champion in 2012 - only the second Large Munsterlander in the UK to achieve this and 30 years after the first one. Tulli also become a Field Trial Champion in 2019. Two Field Trial Champions is more than I could ever have imagined. I am planning to have a litter from Rivva (Ekkolander Dark Rivva) in 2021. She is the daughter we kept from Tulli’s last litter to Axl (Sh Ch Quilesta So Majestic of Rockfest. She has been graded in Grouse Pointing Tests and won both Puppy and Novice working tests in 2019 . She has been working very well this last season. She has had her hips (0,0) and elbows (0,0) scored and is HUU clear. Her eyes were tested as Unaffected on 26-07-2020.

Please get in touch for more information or to be added to my waiting list if you might be interested in one of these puppies.