04/04/2024
Per the OFA ophthalmologist, Breeze has perfect eyeballs!
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Shatz Fired Shorthairs breeds German Shorthair Pointers that preserve the breed standard.
Shatz Fired promotes proper medical clearances, hunt and performance testing of the German Shorthaired Pointer breed.
03/16/2024
It's a ruff life being a field trial dog on a beautiful day 😏
02/18/2024
Breeze was the best girl today! She earned a Field Trial placement her first time out in Open Derby in a large field of strong competitors--and we did it on foot! Many many thanks to Karen Conover and the Northern Virginia Brittany Club for hosting the event. All the competitors, volunteers, and judges were helpful and friendly. The victuals for lunch and dinner were delicious. It was fun celebrating the club's 50th anniversary with new friends. The take-home stemless glass was a nice touch to a great day.
01/18/2024
More mail for Shatzi! The jump to Senior level in Barn Hunt is HARD. Crazy 8s can be....overwhelming lol. We conquered both in 2023, and plan to solidify Senior in 2024. That being said, this crazy hunter girl still made the charts in the Top 25 standings in 2023! Shatzi is the
#7 fastest average National Senior Level German Shorthaired Pointer!
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01/18/2024
My favorite sport with my bestest girls!
01/18/2024
Shatzi and Cora also got mail! Cora earned her first Star as a Junior Handler in Barn Hunt. She handled all ten qualifying runs with Shatzi for her RATNX2 title in 2023. Those runs also placed Shatzi in the Top 25 for 2023! Together they earned
#23 fastest average Tennessee Novice German Shorthaired Pointer
#11 fastest average National Novice German Shorthaired Pointer
01/18/2024
Breezy girl got mail! Her Novice and Open Barn Hunt titles have been officially recorded with the AKC. Not only that, the Barn Hunt Association published the 2023 breed stats last week, and Breeze made the top 25 at two levels. Pretty impressive considering there are over 600 GSPs registered with the BHA!
#18 fastest average National Novice German Shorthaired Pointer
#12 fastest average National Open German Shorthaired Pointer
Not too shabby for the new girl! She is now
Grand Champion-pointed
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01/13/2024
HOW I FELL IN LOVE WITH THE GERMAN SHORTHAIRED POINTER: A SHORT STORY
When I was in junior high school, I had a classmate that owned the dog pictured here. Her name was GG, which stood for Good Girl. She had been dumped in their cul-de-sac as a puppy, and they took her in. She was a gorgeous liver/white/patched/ticked female. She had such a great expression, and loved to play. She was ball obsessed, and would run down their steep slope of a yard, clear jump a 6-ft fence, retrieve the ball, climb back over the fence like an Army Ranger, and drop the ball at your feet. She relentlessly hunted birds, squirrels, and moles, and nothing would stop her end game. You could ask her to dig holes to plant trees and bushes, which we did quite a bit on that steep hillside. She was just as happy to lay in the tent with us in the back yard while we pretended to camp in the Sierras on the back lawn. I was forever impressed with her zest for life, her laser focus on tasks, and desire to please, and still want to just hang out with us kids. I swore some day, when I had enough land for a dog of such caliber, I would get at least one.
Fast forward 35 years. I moved cross country onto four acres. I got my first GSP in January 2021 (I've owned many rescue dogs in between). She was field-bred, drivey, and obsessed with ball retrieve. I joined my local kennel club and was introduced to the whole world of dog performance sports. FASTCAT, barn hunt, tricks, field hunting, and I have yet more to try this year. With Shatzi I started studying the GSP breed standard; I learned that her temperament and conformation were not ideal. After breeding horses for 20+ years with careful research back generations, I knew I needed to do a lot of homework before purchasing my next GSP. That year of research led me to Halestorm Kennel and our dog Breeze. She is a lovely dog in temperament and conformation, she trains easily to new tasks, has drive and birdiness, but is not crazy. She has an off switch and loves to snuggle. My 10-year-old daughter showed her in a double-double Junior Hunt test weekend to her JH title with high marks. I was misty-eyed every time Cora called her back and Breeze would return to her. We are working multiple performance sports with her, in addition to AKC Junior Showmanship and AKC Grand Champion title. I've handled many horses and foals through breed inspections, so conformation showing to AKC GCH is an important goal for me to increase my skillset. I'm studying books, interviewing breeders, handlers, and owners to learn more about the history of the GSP. One can get lost just trying to connect call names to registered names 😜.
GG may not have been a perfect representation of the breed, but what she instilled was a love of a versatile breed that literally can do anything--and for that, I will be forever grateful to the Sidlo family, and their dog GG.
01/13/2024
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