Iwan Kennels

09/09/2024

Fun run at sunset on a beautiful September evening.

08/31/2024

A true versatile….

08/27/2024

What are you to do when it’s over 90° and you have to get your dogs out and client dogs well you go play in the water of course .took 11 dogs out for a swim by myself

08/25/2024

Not the best quality photo because I was zoomed in.

When Winnie isn’t formally training for tests she’s living for this boy. This 20 month old pup sits stone cold still next to Ezra while pigeon hunting and constantly scans the sky. She is sitting there holding her bird because Ezra had just shot and she retrieved it and he didn’t give her the command yet’ “give” so, she was patiently waiting while Ezra was scanning for more pigeons.

08/25/2024

Well, ace proved herself at the Pocono Navhda chapter receiving a prize, one 112 what a pleasure watching her work

08/21/2024

Barry the beast. This guy is quite a looker!

08/20/2024

Winnie ran the VHDF(Versatile Hunting Dog Federation) AHAE(Advanced Hunting Aptitude Evaluation) this past Sunday. This test and federation may be unfamiliar to some as it differs from a NAVHDA testing experience. It is notable that the VHDF says’ “no prizes, just results.” This is true. The VHDF provides the opportunity to have a dog evaluated on a single day and breaks down the scores in a way that can serve to provide great information to breeders and handlers alike.

Winnie scored a total of 137. You can read her score card for yourself. We have been working to develop Winnie in these core areas in order to fully prepare her for this test and over the course of the summer she was nailing every one of them.

In the steadiness portion she received a 2 but showed herself to be quite a machine and received a 10 for search. There were some pretty challenging conditions with little to no wind, sparse cover and fog. The one sequence where it all came together, the gunners were not able to take a safe shot because the bird flew so low, (in this test the dog is steady to flush). Regardless; anything can happen on a test day 🙂 We have good data to be able to keep building off of.

The game drag went flawlessly and her score reflects that.

The water portion went flawlessly with her marked retrieve and the judges were particularly fond of her water entry on that retrieve.

The search behind duck went well but Winnie had some barriers to overcome that she struggled to manage. Sometimes ducks don’t cooperate and her duck had to be ushered across the water by the volunteer in the kayak and the track was somewhat distributed. Then as the volunteer came back to shore the kayak was paddled parallel to shore and away from the send location.

When Winnie was sent, she had a great send but then didn’t hit scent right away and went searching a bit. She eventually tracked the kayak trail, tracked her track she was supposed to track, tracked a previous duck’s track from another dog, and then searched more. It didn’t help that it started thundering loudly lol.

Regardless, the barriers are able to be overcome with maturity and time. Winnie ran this test as a puppy at 20 months!

Overall she ranks good to very good with her current scores for that day and we are proud of this black beauty.

This is the first dog I (Jared) have ever tested. I ran her in her NA test and now this AHAE test. The testing process has been a great way to learn and be exposed to many people who know a lot more than I do. I am thankful to John to allowing me to have the opportunity to work with Winnie and learn from the both of them. Winnie certainly is something special….and man does that dog like to track…

08/17/2024

Winnie runs in the North East VHDF AHEA test on Sunday. We’ve been preparing and hope for the best for Winnie! She is a special dog and a real treat to learn from. She’s running this test as a pup, under 2 years old.

08/12/2024

Boone & Kaia have been making great progress with searching, pointing & retrieving.

08/10/2024

Winnie continues her prep for the VHDF AHAE test coming up in a week.

08/04/2024

WINNIE VHDF search behind duck practice

07/27/2024

07/26/2024

Barry the beast searching for his shot bird.

07/16/2024

Big shout out to my new rising fans!

Coleman Lee Thrift

06/19/2024

BARRY the beast loves the water at 9 weeks old!

05/22/2024

Winnie’s 3rd attempt at duck search.

05/20/2024

05/19/2024

Winnie’s 2nd attempt at duck search. She seems to be enjoying the process. She gets a snack in the middle of her experience. Watch the video and find out what she chose to eat. Pretty proud of this pup’s desire.

05/19/2024

05/17/2024

Since receiving a great score at the NA test, it is now time to focus on the next step, UT testing. This video is of Winnie’s 1st ever attempt at a duck search. There has been zero practice or exposure to a search on water. We have many things to improve on but this seems to be a solid attempt for a first time pup who is a hair over 16months.

05/14/2024

05/09/2024

ACE practicing her swimming

05/08/2024

Iwan’s ACE @ 4 months old. Hoping to NA test her in 2 weeks.

05/04/2024

After today’s NA test reflecting in the last four weeks, we’ve had four dogs, Test 2 from y litter and 2 from w litter 3 received prize one 112 and one received prize one 110 and most important thing to note is three of the pups were run with first time handlers so thank you so much of our diligent buyers working with their pups it definitely takes a dedication to go out and give that puppy the exposure it deserves in the first year, so thanks again. 

05/04/2024

Iwan’s Winnie received a Prize 1 , 112 in her Natural Ability Test today at Pocono Mountain NAVHDA chapter. Would reccomend testing there.

05/02/2024

2 days out from NA testing.

05/01/2024

04/28/2024

Iwans yettie was a dream to run at her NA test today getting a prize one 112. We ran at the Bushkill chapter and the test was super smooth. I would definitely recommend running an NA dog in the spring there perfect set up .sorry for the bad picture and yes, she has furnishings just enough . 

04/18/2024

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