Mastamariner

29/01/2024

TODAY'S STARTER FOR 7

For the first time since 2019 we now finally enjoying the company of a litter of First Cross (F1) Border Collie x Golden Retreiver puppies.

In 2014 we were asked by a diabetes charity if we would provide them with Border Collie x Golden Retriever first crosses to be trained as diabetic assistance dogs.

We don’t let our pups go to third parties (including) charities but as this cross was so highly regarded for producing exceptionally easy, affectionate, willing and very bright dogs we decided to breed a litter as companions and see why charities were so eager to train them as assistance dogs.
The F1s were a huge success, their loving natures, gentleness and quickness to learn made them an annual feature of our breeding programme with us breeding one litter a year from 2015 onwards.

Sadly the global pandemic meant that we have bred very few puppies since it the horrors of Covid were unleashed on an unsuspecting world and no F1s have been bred at all.

Now with the pandemic behind us and with hope for the new year Rufus and Ursa have presented us with 7 little souls who are keeping us very busy and very entertained.

A question for all those interested in the genetics of colour…

All the pups are Black and White although Ursa is a GOLDEN Retriever and Rufus a red border collie - Why must all the puppies be black and white?

Please add your answers in the comments below.

31/12/2023

Today is a special day here at Mastamariner, not only do we say goodbye to the old year and prepare to welcome 2024, not only is it the Birthday of our Hercules children, Tor(nado) and Ty(phone) but today our adored twins become teenagers! So happy 13th birthday to Tor and Ty and may you see Many Happy Returns of the Day.

15/10/2021

Here at Mastamariner we’re celebrating Spitfire’s (Mastamariner spitfire) 15th birthday today. She has spent the day taking a relaxing birthday walk and spending the day with all her family at Mastamariner. The pictures below are of her on her birthday walk and as a puppy she has definitely kept her beautiful looks.

21/08/2021

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05/02/2021

Happy Friday everyone. Things have been busy over here at Mastamariner, so we thought we would share with you a throwback photo! What do you think this beautiful puppy is saying to the lovely River? -Z

02/01/2021

Here are some baby pictures of our birthday trio-A

01/01/2021

Everyone here at Mastamariner would like to wish you all a happy new year. Over the last few days we’ve been celebrating some birthdays with our beautiful girl Luna who is now a teenager after turning 13 and the wonderful Tor and Ty who turned 10...double digits. To mark these amazing dogs specials days the doggy baker Abi made them all a birthday cake topped with homemade dog treats.. it certainly went down very well Spitfire had to come help everyone eat the cake of course see the video of everyone eating the cake in the comments-A

25/12/2020

The Mastamariner team would like to wish all our extended family a happy holidays with lots of hugs a kisses. As a special treat to celebrate we’ve made the wonderful boys and girls some peanut butter cookies-A

24/12/2020

Once again, we at Mastamariner would like to thank you all so much for again participating in our Christmas Competition. All of your dogs are what make our lives special and seeing pictures of your furry friends touches our hearts, reminds us of the fond times we had with your dogs as puppies, and shows us why we love doing what we do so much. All of us here at Mastamariner would like to wish you a very Merry Christmas!

-Zoe

24/12/2020

MASTAMARINER FAMILY FAVOURITE

And to our final category, chosen by our Mastamariner family!

Congratulations to Hannah Clapham with her picture of Eddie, who is now crowned this years MASTAMARINER FAMILY FAVOURITE! This is a beautiful photo of a beautiful dog, and we can see why you all chose it! Congratulations! We send our love to Eddie!

24/12/2020

BEST CHRISTMAS COSTUME

Picking a winner for this category was very hard as we love seeing photos of your dogs dressed up! But we have to say a huge congratulations to Karen Evans with her photo of Jasper! We loved how cosy Jasper looks all snuggled up with his Christmas hat and toy, doing what we all love to do at Christmas time, relax! Congratulations! We send our love to Jasper!

24/12/2020

CHEEKIEST PUPPY

Puppies can definitely be the cheekiest little troublemakers around, causing mischief wherever they can, and especial love being the centre of attention! We loved this photo submitted by Alfie Treseder of Dash (Mastamariner New Light) sitting on Jacks lap! Dash, we think you are a little big for this!!! Congratulations! We send Dash our love!

24/12/2020

DOUBLE TROUBLE DUO

This photo submitted by Nicky Rees made us chuckle, and we hope it makes you all laugh too!! We all know that our Mastamariners love to be involved and get stuck in (even if they are not always helpful..) and we think that this picture is a great representation of that. Congratulations! We send our love!

24/12/2020

GOLDEN OLDIE

When we saw this photo of this golden oldie submitted by Janice Owen we couldn’t not pick it! We love how this perfect Goldie looks to be in the Christmas spirit, singing Christmas songs loud for all to hear and sharing their joy far and wide! Congratulations! We send our love!

24/12/2020

LOVELIEST LADY

It wouldn’t be fair if we chose only one lovely lady when we chose two dapper dogs, and so there are two winners for this category too! Congratulations to Jane Wilmshurst with her photo of Maisy and to Marjorie Ottley with her photo of Meg (Mastamariner Magpie).

We loved the smiles on both the girls faces and what they represent; the loveable personality of our dogs and the happiness and joy that they bring to all that they meet. We thought both of your girls were simply beautiful and both are very much the loveliest ladies. Congratulations! We send our love to them both!

24/12/2020

MOST DAPPER DOG

As it is Christmas, we thought that it wouldn’t be fair if we just chose one winner for this category, so there are two! Congratulations to both Mollie Mountford and Paul Lush who submitted these photos of their boys!

We thought that both of these photos were amazing; showing us how regal and sophisticated the Collie can be and how magnificent the Goldie can look. We also thought that these perfect boys were great representations of a well-loved Mastamariner trait; their ability to pose perfectly and create amazing photos!

Thank you for sending these in, we send our love to them both!

24/12/2020

Hi Mastamariners! The time has come for us to find out who the ‘winners’ of this years competition are! There were so many beautiful Mastamariners that you entered this year that it was a very tough competition, we wish we could have picked you all! And so please be reminded that this is just for fun, you are all winners in our eyes!🐾

23/12/2020

Here is your final reminder to post your Mastamariners for our 'Christmas Competition' categories before 9pm tonight! We want to see as many dogs involved as possible!

2020 Categories:
1. Most Dapper Dog
2. Loveliest Lady
3. Golden Oldies (9+)
4. Double trouble Duo (Best human/dog duo)
5. Cheekiest Puppy (Under 1 year)
6. Best Christmas Costume
7. Mastamariner family favourite (voted for by you).

22/12/2020

Hi everyone! Don't forget that tomorrow is the last day to submit photos of your Mastamariners to our 'Christmas competition'! Please post your photos on our pinned post; you can enter more than one category if you wish 🎉

Here is a reminder of our catergories:

1. Most Dapper Dog
2. Loveliest Lady
3. Golden Oldies (9+)
4. Double trouble Duo (Best human/dog duo)
5. Cheekiest Puppy (Under 1 year)
6. Best Christmas Costume
7. Mastamariner family favourite (voted for by you).

Time is running out, so get submitting now!😁

15/12/2020

MASTAMARINER 2020 ‘CHRISTMAS COMPETITION’

Mastamariner Family; it is your dog’s time to shine!

As you guys enjoyed it so much last year, we decided to bring you all some cheer and invite you to enter pictures of your Mastamariners to this year’s Christmas competition! After a tough year for everyone, this is a great way to spread joy to people all over the globe, and we certainly enjoy receiving photos and updates of our furry family!

The rules are simple. All you have to do is post photos of your Mastamariner dogs on this post ONLY (due to the nature of one of our categories) and state the category you are entering them for. Photos can be posted from now up until 9pm GMT on 23/12/20, and winners will be posted on 24/12/20.

This year’s categories are as follows:

1. Most Dapper Dog
2. Loveliest Lady
3. Golden Oldies (9+)
4. Double trouble Duo (Best human/dog duo)
5. Cheekiest Puppy (Under 1 year)
6. Best Christmas Costume

Our final category this year is;

7. MASTAMARINER FAMILY FAVOURITE

For this category we need YOUR help! The winner of this category will be chosen by you, our Mastamariner family, by going through the photos submitted to us on this post and liking your favourites! The dog who has received the most love will then be crowned the winner of this category! Therefore, all photos entered into the competition will be counted for this category. We think this is a nice way for our community to interact with each other and a fun way for everyone to be able to get involved.

Disclaimer (To keep Facebook happy)! This is in no way sponsored, endorsed or administered by, or associated with, Facebook. Please remember that this competition is purely for fun and so there are no prizes involved for those that ‘win’ a category . For all categories excluding ‘Mastamariner Family Favourite’, winners will be chosen by those running this page, and winners will be announced on 24/12/20 through Facebook posts.

As we have stated before, we run this as a fun way for owners to be able to interact with each other and express their love of their dogs, and those dogs owned by others. You are all winners in our eyes, and so we want this competition to remain fun and friendly throughout. If you have made it this far then congratulations! Please feel free to leave a comment on this post should you require some more info.

Merry Christmas everyone! -Zoe 🐾

14/12/2020

The moment you’ve been waiting for... we’d like to introduce what’s in the box our very own Princess nut nuts. As our extended family are receiving their annual Christmas cards we’d like to show everyone here Nut Nuts hard work checking her humans have labelled and stamped all the card correctly and making sure they made it safely to our golden post box and most importantly being a beautiful model - A

12/12/2020

What’s in the box?-A

11/12/2020

Happy Friday Mastamariners, we hope you have had a great week! We thought you may enjoy a throwback video of some playful pups to start your weekend right!

Also, would everyone be interested in the Mastamariner Christmas 'competition' again this year? We at Mastamariner very much enjoyed seeing all of your photos, so please comment down below if you would love for us to do it again! -Z

21/11/2020

Here are some lovely Golden Retrievers x Border Collies. Enjoy! -S

14/11/2020

Today is a very special day here at Mastamariner, it is Abi Atkinson 21st Birthday!
Looks like she had fun opening all of those presents. Even Ursa was around to give hugs and kisses.
Cake, Pizza, Beer and a movie.... pandemic Birthday.
So Happy Birthday Abi! -S

31/10/2020

Happy Spooky Halloween Mastamariner’s! We decided to celebrate in style this year with 2 handmade cakes, pizza, scary films and pumpkin carving to round off the evening.
With so much free pumpkin on offer, they where demanding their share. Pumpkin pulp is low in calories and is good for their digestive system.
Hope you had a fabulous day! -S

25/10/2020

With all of this heavy rain we have been having lately, the local frogs have started to appear. Gracie, Ptolemy, Mallory and Cairo are a crack team of frog hunters on a mission.
Unfortunately, as this a very new team, they are not very good at it. We saw the frog that jumped in come out of the puddle into the safely of the hedge moments later. 10 minutes go by and they are still looking in the puddle for this frog.
I think it is safe to say that the frog is the most intelligent one out of our hunters. -S

Frog 1 - Dogs 0

20/10/2020

Last week, Ursa and Vulcan ventured to Southampton and went home to Abi Atkinson’s house for a visit. Looks like they enjoyed themselves. -S

11/10/2020

Athena and Rosalind decided to visit town and pose for people outside Sainsbury’s. 2 perfectly behaved girls. Of course, they weren’t going to lie on the cold floor... Humans must bring a bed. -S