Forest King Vizslas

24/08/2025

Summit went Best Opposite again today for 2 more points towards his GCH! He’s now excited to head back to the field for fall trials!

23/08/2025

In addition to being in the show ring this morning, I met up with my best friends Jeanette and Rebecca for an afternoon of some trailing training! Ravioli’s final (and challenging for a newbie!) trail was a human trail all the way across this field, around the right side of the backstop and up into a trail in the woods.

We had never done any type of trail in an open area, so it was a big challenge (walls or brush help to gather the scent in that area and this was open and breezy).

After a minute of confusion, Ravioli figured out what she was doing and pulled with heart across the field and ran up into the woods and found the hiding person behind a tree. We all had a blast and can’t wait to do it again!

23/08/2025

Junes took Winners Bitch for another point towards her CH and Summit took Best Opposite S*x in Breed!

21/08/2025

Me trying to grind Cava’s nails. Junes and Ravioli insisted on joining in as well. Junes eventually slid all the way down onto that spot and Cava opted to move 🤣

21/08/2025

And he’s done!!! ❤️

Pending AKC Conformation, Summit is now known as CH Forest King Climb Every Mountain JH.

We are so proud of this boy and are looking forward to trial season to continue working towards his field titles.

HUGE thanks to Dawn and Rebecca for getting us here!

Official picture coming but here is a candid with Rebecca, who showed him today. ❤️

Also, Junes took Best of Winners for another point!

10/08/2025

The crew is tired this morning.

10/08/2025

Cava and Ravioli got to try out a new sport today-trailing! Like tracking, but they don’t have to keep their noses to the ground to find whatever they’re looking for, they just scent and find the person/animal in an efficient manner.

I was really impressed at how quickly the girls (as well as friends two Vizslas), picked up the concept and found friends with minimal difficulty. This is something that could come in handy someday, so we thought it would be fun to try!

Below is an image taken by Mallory, a friend and trainer that introduced us all to this idea. This was the fourth total trail of the day for her and you can see she clearly knows she is heading to something she wants (in this case, Rebecca).

Hopefully we will get to do more of this and get into more advanced situations that challenge the dogs’ minds!

07/08/2025

"Puppies walking on stairs from birth to 3 months of age had an increased risk of developing HD. Factors associated with a decreased risk of developing HD included off-leash exercise from birth to 3 months of age, birth during the spring and summer, and birth on a farm. Significant clustering of dogs with HD was detected within litters."

Abstract Objective—To identify housing- and exercise-related risk factors associated with the development of hip dysplasia (HD) as determined by radiographic evaluation in Newfoundlands, Labrador Retrievers, Leonbergers, and Irish Wolfhounds in Norway. Animals—501 client-owned dogs from 103 litt...

06/08/2025

It's here! Junes' official show win photo! I am still in shock that we have a BOB in this household...

And edited to say that yes, she took BOB over specials (champions) to earn a 3 point major!

06/08/2025

Ravioli looks like a different dog than she did a year ago! She is happy, active and sometimes a bit of a lunatic. Wild…

04/08/2025

Junes also got some cool mail today! A puppy of achievement is one who earned enough points in the 4-6 month puppy classes, which she did!

We are so proud of Ravioli’s little girl!

03/08/2025

We had another great day at the Pioneer Valley Kennel Club show! Under judge Alessandra Folz, Summit took Winners Dog for another point towards his CH! He is now a member of the one point club and is SO very close to being finished!

Junes also had a VERY good day and took Reserve Winners Bitch. The bitch who took Winners, also won Best of Breed, so we’ll take the reserve happily.

Both dogs were handled by my very dear friend Rebecca, I can’t thank her enough. ❤️