Fionavar News

(Brags from Australia and around the world from Fionavar bred dogs, and/or pups sired by our our lovely boys)

Hi everyone well lots been happening hear lately. Been holding off updating happenings as we were waiting for Satellite Installation which has now happened. PLEASE NOTE OUR NEW EMAIL ADDRESS OF fionavar@optusnet.com.au

Also had a 30Tonne excavator increasing our smaller dam - it is empty so now we pray for rain but when it fills again one day the dogs will have their own little lake.

In Perth Alex has been flying!! knocking up quite a few qualifiers and placings in Masters and Open Agility and Jumpers. Cath said she has never seen him run so fast, but having that little brother Snazzie in the scene now has truly inspired him to great things -LOL

Jaffa in Perth has taken her first Excellent Jumpers qualifier and 1st place no less. She too cracked the set course time. Jaffa also cleaned up in her Club end of year presentations coming home with many trophies!

Lukas and Moet's daughter Jinty here in Brisbane took a qualifier in Agility and 3rd place a couple of weekends ago. That was her break up trial and what a lovely way to finish the year. Good luck next year Jinty (aka The Princess) and Mick.

We have had little Jet in Sydney quite sick. Jet fell or twisted wrong and prolapsed T12-T13 Discs in her back. This is a major injury and off to the specialists where an emergency operation lasting many hours to repair the damage to the spine. We can happily say she is now back home and recuperating- the signs look good and she is walking tho it is a long road yet to recover. Ellie her young mistress went to the Australian State Athletic finals and with Jet as her inspiration won the 100m and 200M sprints in PB times and also took silver and gold in the relays. Thanks to Graf family for providing Jet with the best care possible. We look forward to Jet being back to 100% feral in 2007.

Duke here has finished for the year but not before he racked up another couple of Australian Bred in Group Wins, a Group win in an Open show and in a CH show Best Australian Bred in Show. (his first In Show win) Unfortunately while galavanting in the paddock and dam he pulled a shoulder muscle and tendon. He too is back on recovery and doing well.

Duke's daughter Jenna, in Perth took her first Bitch Challenge the other day- Duke thought that was pretty cool. Same day Chevy Lukas's son took another BOB!

Scoota, Lukas's lovely son in Perth also has been firing towards the end of the year with many placings and qualifiers in Agility and Jumpers. What a year that young man has had!!

We also had the sad news that a Lukas Moet son- Mack who lived with Ken Dagley not far from us tragically lost his battle to a tick a few weeks ago. We are all devastated. Mack was the most laid back and good natured of boys, a constant companion of Ken's. We shall all miss him dearly. God Bless Mack, but know you are playing at the Bridge with Jordi and your half sister Mazda.

Yes I have some great pictures to put up sent to us as well but I shall leave that to over the weekend and test out this new broadband!!

Wow big weekend for Red Dogs everywhere. Gonna put our brag first this time.

Duke under Nova Scotian Judges Mike and Pat Lanctot won Group then next day under Pat, Reserve in Group- we were thrilled to pieces as you can imagine. You can see the picture of Duke with Mike Lanctot on his Page - CLICK HERE

Garnet in Newcastle has her first 18 pts towards her Champ. Her best buddy Nugget took Reserve in Group.

Over in Perth Alex now has his JDM2 title, but big news from Alex is that he and Cath have made the Advance Agility team of Western Australia, to go and compete in Adelaide next year. WOWEEEEEE Alex and Cath qualified in 2nd place in the entire state. We are so proud of them. Over last two weekends Alex and Cath have had 2 MJ passes, 2 OJ passes, 2nd in Masters Agility a 4th in Open Agility. What a team.

Still in Perth and Scoota with Sandi has his 4th MJ pass and a very nice 185 UD pass. Also another new Title finishing his Open Agility.

Jaffa with Zoe has been doing awesome as well with AD TITLE and first place no less! Also a lovely pass in Nov Obed with 193!

Joker the other handsome Lukas son had another nice pass in UD, making 3 tollers all placing UD the same night !

New pics of Archer taken at the Show this weekend are up on the Web Page - Click Here

Finally am sitting here also uploading pictures see pics of Hobo (from our first litter) and his girlfriend Cara. Hobo is spitting image of his Dad Kazan. Click Here

See Pictures of some of the litter 7 pups growing up. River, Lexi, Garnet & Archer. Click here

Some more brags in from Perth. Jaffa and Zoe gained two titles in one weekend. CH Fionavar Dance yer Lane CD JD and also first qualifier in Novice Agility. Awesome effort guys.

Lukas is chuffed to pieces with more of his kids taking bragging rights. On Friday Jaffa got her CD (see above) Scoota won the West Coast Obedience Challenge in Open with 194. His other gorgeous son Joker won the UD with 198 !!!!

Head on to Saturday with Jaffa getting her JD then Scoota qualifiy 6th Masters Agility, 7th Open Jumping, 11th master Jumping, 2nd with Alex in Excellent Strategic Pairs and his final Qualifier in Novice Gamblers for his TITLE !

Alex and Cath came 2nd and first leg of Excellent Strategic pairs. Then TITLES in Gamblers and Snooker. Alex is now Fionavar Nor Wester CDX ADM2 JDM ADO2 JDO2 SPD SD GD

Well lots of lovely brags over last few weekends. Alex been doing great over in Perth one weekend 6 qualifiers including another Masters and 3rd place. That weekend Alex gained his SPD Title and ADM2. This weekend another Masters Agility 3rd placing he is in the running for Top Agility Dog WA 2007 but a long way to go yet. Go Alex - hoot hoot hoot.

Scoota has also been doing brilliant in Perth his SPD title with Alex and yesterday his ADM. His Daddy Lukas is so very proud of him. Scoota only just turned 3 years. Wow hey!

Ghillie and Deb in Vic also going great guns having gained their AD and JDX over just one weekend. !! They also won their club title for FASTEST DOG. Hmm yes there were some first places in there as well with 6 qualifying runs. Way to go guys!

Duke at shows in Hervey Bay won Aus Bred in Group and the next day a really nice Reserve in Group under Judge S. Rickard from Victoria.

Maverick just hit another show in his home town in San Fran 3200 dogs can you believe with the Top USA Dogs in the Country and the Top Sporting dog to contend with who also is number 2 dog in entire USA. Mav took a awesome Group 4 today in huge competition. The Top Sporting dog went on to take BIS - Wow Maverick your up their with the very best - well we knew you could :-) There was pretty much a full group represented as well with the final Cut being 8 dogs total entry in the Sporting Dogs (Gun Dogs was 677)

Scoota and Sandi WIN EXCELLENT JUMPERS PERTH ROYAL, 4th place Open Agility and Pass Masters Agility. Again stunning Photo's of all the Perth Gang on www.yourdogphotos.com click on any trial event to see the them. The UD obedience photo's are really stunning, check all the Tollers heeling and other exercises with their big exuburance.

Alex and Cath 3rd place MASTERS AGILITY 6th place Open Jumpers. How good is that considering the class of competition at Perth Royal for both Scoota and Alex. Tollers Rule!

Next weekend it continues with Alex in Team Agility and Jumpers Finals and Zoe and Jaffa in Novice Obedience and Jumpers. Fingers crossed but already what wonderful results from our beloved Perth Toller Gang.

Zoe and Jaffa in Perth WIN THE PERTH ROYAL NOVICE OBEDIENCE !!! 193/200 wonderful score and her 2nd leg towards her title. Well done guys we know how hard you have worked for this.

Maverick in USA continued his winning ways on Sunday with yet another Best of Breed and yet another Group 3 placement. Maverick is way out in front Number 1 Toller in USA All Breed Points.

This is not a Fionavar Brag but still this was a brag for all the Tollers. Crystal Walker in Sydney rang to say that Gr CH Lidlriva Almond Nougat "Nugget" won Best in Group at Cessnock yesterday with glowing praise from the NZ judge Mr Clarke. Mrs Clarke gave his little mate Garnet , Baby Puppy in Group yesterday. Thanks to both judges who put them up and recognised them as top Knotch for their breed.

Keep watching this space as Agility and Jumpers Individuals are on today as well from Perth Royal.

Garnet wins her 5th Best Baby Puppy in Group yesterday at Cessnock under a NZ judge! She also made the cut in the Baby Puppy Sweepstakes. Wow that really is a Baby Puppy Record by now for wins in Baby Group.

Over in Perth it is ROYAL TIME. Saturday was the Agility and Jumpers teams event where Cath and Alex of the "Duckinweavers" Team made the Finals of both Agility and Jumpers. That is a great achievement- Finals for teams are run next Saturday 7th. You can see the photo's from the Teams event at the royal by going to www.yourdogphotos.com wonderful action shots.

Maverick takes another Best of Breed and a Group 3 in California. HIs son Brady took some more points and is now only 1 point off his Championship, following in Daddy's footsteps.

Brag from Werner Roth with Max !! Fionavar Hawker Hunter CDX !! Wow he is still so young.

Then the gorgeous Ghillie Dhu and Deb get their CCD with a lovely round in awful conditions, rain and gale force winds. You won't forget that one guys !!!! Ghillie is getting more titles than I can almost keep up with!

The other lovely Lukas son over in Perth "Joker" owned by Sue Hogben came out for his first competition in Obedience for quite some time and won UD with 195/200. He was a treat to watch apparently. Joker already has his UD title so is now heading for his OC.

Garnet followed up her wonderful day on Friday (see below) and took another Baby Puppy in Group on Saturday!! This is Garnet's 4th Baby Puppy in Group win and she is only 4.5 months old. I think that might almost be a record!

From last weekend Fury - Fionavar Sea Fury at Javahill gets her WCI in Canada !! Handled and trained by Donna Lahaise of course. I believe it was a very tough test too, so well done Fury.

From a Friday show at Morrisett - Garnet wins 1st place in the All Breeds Baby Puppy Sweepstakes and also takes her 3rd Best Baby Puppy in Group Win. Wow hey. There were 24 pups in the sweepstakes this time.

Aussie in Sweden takes a 3rd Prize in a hunting test he competed in Yesterday. He is nominated as reserve for two more tests so we are not sure if he will get to compete again or not this season but what a season he had!

Alex and Cath get 4 more qualifiers yesterday in Masters Jumping and Agility and Open Jumpers and Agility. The Jumpers pass gives him his title for JDO2. Well done Alex.

Sandi and Scoota get his 4th Masters Agility Pass and his first Masters Jumpers pass. He really is doing so very well for such a young boy.

Deb Owen and the pretty Ghillie Dhu 2nd and 3rd placing and 2 qualifiers for Excellent jumping. Ghillie is sitting on two titles now her JDX and AD. She has obedience next weekend.

Emma Simon and Declan get their CCD Title - Declan is now Fionavar Shooting Star CCD. Declan also took 3rd place on the night. They will now finish training for Novice.

Maverick in the USA continues his big wins with another Group 4 placing in top company in California.

Well it has been a big weekend yet again for the Fionavar crew around Aust and across the pond.

Maverick gains another Group 2 and Group 4 in his 2 days of showing in California.

Rio really does have her USA CH this time taking Best of Winners and a Major just to make sure.

In Australia Duke after 7 months off takes his first Aust Bred in Group and 4 BoB's in 4 shows.

Garnet and the Walkers in Sydney take Best Baby Puppy in Group and probably even bigger brag than that for Sydney 3rd place in All Breed Baby Puppy Sweepstakes with a 33 Baby Puppy entry!

Jaffa in Perth takes first place with Zoe in first Novice Jumpers competition, what a debut!

Alex in Perth had a big day of agility with 5 qualifiers no less- geesh Alex!! 1 x Nov Gamblers qual, 1 x Snooker Qual, 6th Place Open Jumpers, 1st place Open Agility and with that last one gets his ADO2 Title! also 2nd Stratigic Pairs Qual.

Still going in Perth and Scoota the lovely Lukas Blaize son gets his 4th Masters Agility Pass and 3rd in Open Agility. Then he teamed up with Alex (see above) and they both got their 2nd Stratigic Pairs qual.

It was a lovely surprise on Sunday for us to meet up with Pat and Janet Jordan of Adelaide at a show who are up in Queensland on holidays. They own Hobo, a Kazan and Jordi son from our very first litter! Hobo does the most important job of visiting Dementia patients in their Nursing Homes and also visiting Schools with the local vet who uses Hobo for his talk on dogs and education. Hobo is so darn sweet and unflappable, I could have hugged him forever. It brought a tear to my eye all the wonderful good he does with the elderly and the young, comfort for one group and very important animal education for the other. Your a true star Hobo.

What can we say after this weekend but how proud we are of our Fionavar family of pups and sons and daughters of our boys.

Alex takes another win in Masters Agility and a 2nd and 4th in Open Agility.

Scoota and Alex team up for the very first time for Strategic Pairs in Agility and come 2nd place for their first qualifer.

Jan Voss and Pippa in Canberra get their CD TITLE - way to go guys and very nicely too with 2 legs of 195 and 191.

Archer son of Rush and Gambler wins Baby Puppy in Group at Redcliffe at his very first show!

New pics of River and Garnet on the Where are they Now page for Litter 7 - CLICK HERE

Werner and Max "Fionavar Hawker Hunter CD" gains another qualifier in Open Obed. Way to go Max and Werner.

Aussie in Sweden gains 2nd Best Male overall in an International show and his First CACIB Certification towards his International Championship.

Ghillie Dhu and Deb Owen get another Excellent Jumpers Leg down in Victoria and with a 4th placing!

Ghillie's sister Jinty and Mick also had a good weekend in Agility with another Elementary qualifier in an AADA Competition. Way to go Ghillie and Jinty.

Well we were delighted to hear from The Walkers yesterday who were at a Show in Forster Tuncurry and debuted their little 14w girl "Garnet" Fionavar Rush n Roulette and WON BABY PUPPY IN GROUP under judge Bruce Marquette. Jessie and Garnet where the littlest and youngest out there with a good line up of babies so what a great start.

Then we get an email from Cath who had Alex back out in the UD ring for the first time in ages and blow us down- FIRST PLACE with 193 points. Now Alex would like to tell everyone he also has a new baby Brother, a gorgeous BC called Snazzy and that he had to show baby brother how clever he was LOL

Still in Perth and Sandi Gee emails to let us know that Scoota, the Lukas Blaize son came 2nd behind Alex in UD !! So both boys taking 1 and 2 and leaves only 1 UD leg to go each.

From the Brisbane Royal showing on Thursday Declan owned by Emma Simon, Fionavar Shooting Star took Runner up Best of Breed then Angela Masson with Duke's very pretty daughter "Jazz" won Best Puppy of Breed and Best Opposite Sex! Well done guys.

Now we also have a correction from a Prev Brag - Rio in USA. Hmm it appears that Linda didn't count very well and Rio actually still has 1 lonely little point to go for the USA CH. Oh well that won't take long.

Well whose a clever girl? "Ghillie" and Deb who gained their Strategic Pairs Title in Agility this weekend. She also gained a qualifier in Excellent Jumpers and 3rd place and another qualifier in Novice Gamblers. What a day !! Well done Ghillie and Deb. Ghillie is now Fionavar Ghillie Dhu JD SPD ET AAD

Maverick on the Sunday in California in another huge show of 2200 dogs plus took a Group 2 which was an awesome achievement against some of the top Sporting/Gundogs in the country. What a weekend for the Javahill gang. As an aside his lovely son Brady took Best of Winners each day to gain 2 x 3 pt majors.

RIO IS A USA CHAMPION, finished with another 3 point major in California. This is after raising all those babies not that long ago. Same day Maverick takes another best of breed and a Big Group 4 placement in a show that contained over 2200 dogs!!

Final results for Aussie from Swedish Specialty saw him win and take first prize certificate in Lp2 Obedience, take 2nd Prize in his hunting test then take another first prize in the conformation in the Champions Class. What a great all round result for him.

Duke's little daughter "Jazz" has won Puppy in Group at Ladies Kennel Club, Durack last weekend. Jazz is from Kirchoff, mother Splash and is Kirchoff Tip Top- Owners Guy and Angela Masson.

Rush is now officially retired from Breeding. If I can get over the nerves we might see if I can do a CCD in the future and maybe do a tiny bit of showing in the odd Veteran Class (after she gets her coat back)

Pics of Jaffa below after winning her very first CD competition and gaining her first leg. Looks pretty proud doesn't she Zoe !

Wow what a weekend of Brags. But first mention has to go to Cath and Alex in Perth who over the last couple of weeks have really turned it on big time. Just in last two weeks they have gained an ADO, JDO, ADM AND JDM - making our very first Fionavar Masters Agility pairing. This is not our brag however but Alex and Cath's who never gave up, never gave in and now are showing just what they have got. Alex's page has been updated CLICK HERE.

Now Perth is swinging and here's a big Brag to Zoe and Jaffa who came FIRST PLACE with 192 and gained their very first CD Qualifier in Obedience. OH very well Done guys. This is only 2 weeks after finishing her CH in conformation!

Ok lets go to Deb Owen and our sweet Ghillie Dhu who also hit the Agility trail and gained another qualifier for Stratigic Pairs ! one to go and sadly horrible weather washed them out for their last leg of Novice. Oh but it will come ! Ghillie and Jaffa are full sisters.

As of writing this our other brag is from our lovely Aussie boy in Sweden who has been competing in the very large Swedish Specialty this weekend. We are still waiting for some results to come thru but so far he Won and gained first prize in LP2 Obedience and gained a 2nd prize the next day on his Hunting Test. Such a talented boy who just a couple of weeks ago attended a International Conformation show and gained a first prize and International Certificate. Certainly another all rounder.

Long time between updates but been ever so busy with babies going to new homes, a baby of our own who stayed and usual Fionavar Zoo. Where are they now our little Gambleroos? Well click here to find out.

Gosh brags and happenings where do we start. Well Jaffa "Fionavar Dance Yer Lane" in Perth can now add CH in front of her name - finishing off her final conformation points in Perth under a Canadian Judge no less ! Well done Zoe and Jaffa - who are now enjoying little River one of our Gambleroo's.

Still in Perth and Alex and Cath are still having a blinder !! Alex after last weekend can add ADM AND JDO after his name. Fionavar Nor Wester CDX ADM JDX JDO. He only has one leg to go for his UD and JDM titles. Go Cath and Alex !!!!

Deb Owen and the pretty Ghillie Dhu in Melbourne added a new title to her name as well. Ghillie can now be known as Fionavar Ghillie Dhu JD ET after easily breezing thru her Endurance Test with an amazing low heart rate which had the vets in awe!

Emma Simon with our handsome boy Declan - Fionavar Shooting Star has gained 2 legs to his CCD Title and only one to go!! Not just a handsome face this boy. Hmm must get photos!

Maverick in California continues to get Multiple Group placings in some of the toughest showing in the entire USA he can add another Group 1 to his name as well and is now having fun competing with all his handsome sons and daughters. Maverick is currently NO 1 All Breeds Toller in the Country and No 5 Breed Toller in the USA. Not bad hey !

Lukas son Scoota owned by Sandi Gee in Perth continues to wow. With his very first UD leg and 1st Place ! His first Master Agility qualifier and his JDX. Scoota is just the most wonderful boy and Lukas if very proud of his handsome son.

From Sweden our gorgeous Aussie has easily passed another Retrieving Test and is gearing up for the Autumn season. Tess and Louise are taking him to an International show this weekend and then there is the Swedish Specialty.

Alex and Cath win another Open Agility Competition slashing the course time. Cath says it didn't feel that fast. Yeah right - laugh.

Unofficial yet but news of Jan Voss and Pippa winning Novice Obedience in Canberra. !! Caught up by phone with Jan recently and Pippa also won the Canberra State Obedience Titles for Pre Novice and has now gained her CCD Leg - doing great. Pippa also has taken some Breed points in Showing including a Intermediate in Group win. Buzz doing well but had injury so has been taking it easy of late. Get well soon Buzz.

News from USA where Maverick takes Group 3 in very competitive Sporting Dog Group. Little Sister Fury is with Donna Lahaise in Canada doing some more training- hope to have more brags from Fury soon. Mav's other sister Rio has raised her lovely babies and is staying with Linda in California. Just needs to get in shape after the babies and get those last 4 pts towards her USA Championship.

Picture below sent to us by Werner Roth in Canberra. Max with their wining CD Ribbon. Don't they both look so proud ! Max is from our Litter 6 previously known as Axel.

4 Week pics of pups are up - they have just moved to their big room for a while then next step to big out doors. Had their first official visitors today and had a lovely time. CLICK HERE

Went and saw Ghillie and Deb, Jinty, Mick and Kym competing in an AADA competition on Saturday. Jinty did really well and did a really nice run but didn't quite qualify. Ghillie did gain her AAD TITLE YEAH !!!! Hmm I think she had divine intervention - as she said her Prayers before her run LOL Thanks Deb, Mick and Kym for inviting me down- I had a lovely time.

Huge Brag from Lukas wonderful son Scoota owned by Sandi Gee in Perth who gained his ADX Title this weekend gone. This boy is just the most wonderful of dogs a credit to all Tollers in many ways other than his titles at such a young age. Congrats SANDI AND SCOOTA!!

Pictures of Rush's babies are finally up. Unfortunately we have to let you all know we lost Fagan and Olba yesterday on the 10th. RIP babies we loved you. Click here to view our Gambler Roo's, you have to click on the thumbnails to view full size.

Rush has had her babies on the 8th. 8 pups 5 girls and 3 boys. Pictures to come soon but one picture of the New Borns on Litter 7 Page. Click Here

Maverick had a cracker of a showing weekend in California taking another Group 4 and Group 2! He competes all the time in his Group with Best in Show winning dogs from all over the USA this is just a wonderful feat to keep taking these Group Placings.

Werner Roth and his Boy "Max" Fionavar Hawker Hunter gained there CD in NSW. Way to go and such a young boy as well!! AWESOME

Alex and Cath are still going awesome in Perth with another Master Jumpers qualifier and same day 1st in Open jumpers. So happy for you guys!

Rush's babies are minus 1 weeks and counting!!! She keeps very quiet during most of the day, just resting up and taking care of herself. Every afternoon tho she fires up and goes swimming and retrieving in the big paddock. She is eating well and bright and happy. We have started taking her temperature and it was a normal 37.8 this morning. To see her lollling around looking after those babies CLICK HERE. Latest pics are bottom of the webpage.

Last weekend we had a lovely visit with Arthur and Anne Wells. They own Lidlriva Absolut Arabica "Anika" and they now outright own Renarders Bienvenida La Infanta "Fanta". Terry and I imported Fanta and her brother Tardes last year. Arthur and Anne have started their own kennels and will likely have their first litter next year. They did the most incredible job with Fanta after she went to live with them, we felt Fanta was best off with them all the time and that she should be all theirs. Fanta celebrated in the finest way the very next day by Winning Junior in Group at the Gold Coast. I think that was her way of showing them how happy she was to be all theirs. We adore Fanta and could easily have kept her here with us at Fionavar - we will always be her god parents and hence she will always have her little place here with us at Fionavar. Thanks Arthur and Anne for the wonderful home. See pics of Fanta below taken on the Anzac Day Long Weekend.

Maverick and Meredith take GROUP 1 !!! in California. Big show lots of big winning dogs but Judge just fell in love with Mav and took the big prize. Well done Linda, Meredith and the Man Maverick!

Rush's litter Page 7 updated with some 7 week pregnant photo's at bottom of page. CLICK HERE

Alex and Cath finished 3rd in Masters Agility and yet another qualifier only a couple more legs to go now. Also went Clear Masters Jumpers just a couple of seconds over time.

Well some big news from Darwin where Emma Simon is up working for a month. Declan, Fionavar Shooting Star won Best In Group and Junior in Show! Way to go Emma and Declan what a nice win.

Alex and Cath had another blinder of a weekend in Perth. On Saturday Alex took 4th in Masters Jumpers and a qualification in Open Jumpers. Sunday they headed for Bunbury and Alex cleaned up. 1st Place Masters Agility, 1st Place Open Agility, 1st Place Open Jumping and 3rd place in Masters Jumpers! Phew when that team is hot they sure are hot. Congrats Cath and Alex. Cath was telling us that put her and Alex in 3rd place in the State for Team National Selections- wow hey!

Deb Owen and Ghillie in Victoria got a 3rd and their 2nd qualifier in Novice Agility. Just one more qualifier in Novice Agility for them then on to open.

News from California where our little girl Rio owned by Linda Fitzmaurice had her first litter. 5 boys and 1 girl. Daddy is Gambler the same sire of our own girl and Rio's mother Rush.

Ghillie with Deb in Melbourne now has her JD title !! First place and a smashing course time. Way to go girls. This will not be the last brag from this talented pair. Ghillie now has her own page CLICK HERE

Alex and Cath in Perth got a 4th place and a qualifier in Masters Jumpers yesterday, they also got a qualifier in Open Jumpers- 2 in one night pretty good hey Alex :-)

Lukas's son Joker in Perth and Sue Hogen finished their UD in fine style with First place. Joker is now called Kirchoff Cool Hand Luke UD ADX JDX RRD. Talented boy Eh!.

Our USA Kids are going great guns. Maverick is picking up some good best of breeds and added a few more Group Placings to his already impressive list. Little sister Fury has finally started showing again and in quick sucession won 2 x best of Winners and nearly beat big brother Maverick for a Best of Breed- phew watch out Mav. Fury now has 1 Major + 4 extra points, not long to go. Maverick's full sister the pretty little Rio is pregnant with her first litter to Donna Lahaise's Canadian boy Gambler. Hmm interesting that one- see below LOL

Our own Rush is also pregnant to the mighty Gambler! We obtained frozen semen from Gambler over a year ago now after waiting 7 years. We jumped the hoops and the gods smiled and Rush is having Gambler kids due 6th of May. Thanks Donna and Linda for making this all come true for us. Now for healthy babies and a easy whelping for Rush. Anyone wanting to see what all the fuss is about with Gambler then go and visit his web page at www.goldntoller.com

Redman has also been having fun here- with luck he will have some very cute babies with the very very pretty Canadian Princess- CH Kare's Candy Cane at Foxgrove owned by Emma Simon. Candy is due around 7-10 days after Rush.

"Ghillie" Fionavar Ghillie Dhu with owner Deb Owen has gained her first qualifiers in ANKC Novice Jumper and Novice Agility. This was Ghillie's debut in Melbourne and in ANKC competition. Better get a page done for Ghillie soon !!

Duke took Group Win at Durack couple of weeks ago in the Open Show and Intermediate in Group. Well at least we are winning Open Show Groups now !

Maverick took a lovely Group 4 in San Fran, the other week to make a nice start to his year.

Some pics of Geordie and Mel at his first show in Melbourne are now on his web page. Click HERE

Aussie's page now updated with two new Photo's sent to us by Louise and taken by Heidi Andersin who owns Norwart Odette. Click Here

AUSSIE GAINS HIS SWEDISH CHAMPIONSHIP. In a big showing, his first in 2006. Aussie wins his Open Class, then Best Male, Then Best of Breed then places 4th in Best in Show competition!!! He earnt his 3rd and final Certificate for his Swedish Title. Congratulations.

Duke his brother came away for the weekend with me and won 3 Best of Breeds and one x Intermediate in Group.

We await Maverick now, Aussie's and Duke's Brother, to compete in one of the largest shows in the world, Westminster in New York City on 14th of Feb. GO MAVERICK !!

We have some debut's coming up this month so stay posted for more Fionavar Brags!

Oh and our Redman broke out his cigars again and celebrated the birth of 8 lovely pups to CH Dragonluck's Irrisistable Rusti AD JD. Born 1st of Feb.

Our Redman broke open the cigars on 1st Feb, with the birth of 8 lovely babies to Rusti at Kirchoff Kennels. 3 Boys and 8 girls. Hope to have pics to share at some point.

Duke started his show season off again with a nice BOB and a pull in Group at the Caboolture Kennel Club.

Maverick and family are getting very excited, off to Westminster in New York to compete on 14th of Feb. Of course we are all hoping that Mav can give Linda and Meredith a very nice Valentine's day present.

AUSTRALIA DAY and birthday of Kazan - 8 years old. To see what we did first thing in the morning go to the Australia Day 2006 PAGE.

Pics of Ghillie and her best mate Austin in Latest Pics Owner Deb Owen has just moved to Sale in Victoria and Ghil and Oz had to make a big plane trip. She did up special flying documents for them that were just too hilarious not to put up on the web page.

Picture of Errol from Litter 6 is also up in latest pics. And a lovely photo of Beau who is Duke's son from Splash (Kirchoff Kennels) owner of Beau is Yvette Howarth in NSW. Click HERE to see them both.

Had a lovely phone call from Jan Voss with an update on Buzz and Pippa. You can see Pippa with her young mistress Brianna in Latest pics. See links below. Buzz has started UD and no qualifiers yet but doing really good work according to Jan. Fingers crossed for some qualifers for this year. Also Pippa has gotten some points towards her Aust CH and is also about to debut in Pre Novice obedience competition very shortly. We are really looking forward to watching both Buzz, Pippa and family and their adventures this year.

Latest photo's has been updated with pictures of Hershey, Pippa and Buddy. click HERE

Still working on more new pages and putting up more photo's we have received.

The upload program is sorta working again for the moment so have, over xmas, done a few updates to pages and will attempt to give a bit of a summary for the last half of the year. To all our friends and puppy owners hope you had a wonderful xmas and wishing you all the best in the new year. Many thanks also for all the updates and photo's - we won't push the program too hard at the moment with all the photo's but will endeavour to get some up bit by bit. Just watch out for updates.

Firstly you can view some pictures of our trip to San Fran and Oregon for the 2005 USA Specialty. Click Here.

Also visited Perth for a few days and caught up with all our friends and dogs. Had a great time as well as meeting Duke and Blaize's gorgeous 8 week olds. Click Here for pics.

Most of the other pages (Our Dogs) have been updated as well to include brags titles etc.

Maverick in the USA had a Boomer of a year becoming only the 2nd Toller in USA to gain an All Breeds Best in Show. He had multiple Group placings and wound out the year as No 2 Toller USA All Breeds and No 7 Toller Breed points in USA. He was judges First Award of Merit at the USA Specialty. Click Here for Mavs Page

Rio his sister has nearly gained her USA CH just a few points to go. She placed 3rd in a very tough Open Bitch Class at USA Speciality.

Little Sister Fury has her first points towards her USA CH, gained her Canadian WC Title and JH Title under our friend and Trainer Donna Lahaise. Fury also came 2nd in Puppy Sweeps at USA Specialty.

On the home front, Fionavar Hielan Laddie - Dougal and owner Audrey Boon in Perth became the first Toller team to gain a Tracking Title. Did it in 3 straight tracks. Well done. See Perth Pics above for Dougal.

Alex finished the year as Fionavar Nor Wester CDX ADX JDX, with a win and 1st qualifier for his UD title, they also have legs now towards their Masters Agility and Jumpers. When Cath and Alex fire up they sure blow everyone away. You can see Alex on Perth Pics and his Page

Lukas's kids in Perth have been going great guns. Joker owned by Sue Hogben finished the year with his RRD Retrieving Title, his CDX, ADX and JDX - he has only one more qualifier to go for his UD. Scoota owned by Sandi Gee also had a great year, getting his CDX, AD and JD. Dekka his brother gained his CD. See the Perth Gang

Zoe with Fionavar Dance Yer Lane came for a visit from Perth. We did some shows and young Jaffa took home with her 14 pts towards her CH. Such a pretty young girl. See Jaffa

Lukas and Moet's girls Jinty owned by Mick Warren, and Ghillie owned by Deb Owen debuted on their 18 month old birthday in AADA Agility Comp. Both girls passed Starters Agility which is equivalent to ANKC Novice Agility. Watch out for more of these little girls. They also have a wonderful hidden talent of being able to round up a herd of cows in 2 minutes flat LOL You had to be there to see that one!! Terry and I sure won't forget it.

Janet Jordan and Hobo in Adelaide have been visiting as qualified therapy dog the Dementia units. The joy this pair are bringing to the folks in this home are immeasurable. Really brings a tear to the eye when Janet describes them waiting at the door for Hobo to arrive.

On our own doorstep we welcomed home Redman. CH Fionavar Moondog Matinee. Redman came back to live with us in late August. Thanks for Frank and family for taking such good care of him. Redman recently became Daddy to 6 lovely pups at Lidlriva Kennels (Emma Simon) and might well have some more kids on the way after having visits with CH Dragonluck's Irrisistable Rusti AD JD. See Redman

Duke had a great year. 1 Group Win, 4 Reserves in Group, multiple Intermediate in Groups and finished the year as NO 1 Toller in Australia (Dogzonline Comp). He also became a Daddy for the very time. 10 kids to Splash at Sara's Kirchoff Kennels and 4 little look a likes to Sandi Gee's Blaize in Perth. Dukes Page

Ok so it has been ages since updates! Sorry folks but my Front Page upload simply hasn't been working- now rectified. Please be patient firstly just the verbal stuff then I will slowly work on getting all the pictures up that I have received from all over the country.

Perth have been doing real well over last couple of months. Lukas's two sons have been doing awesome! Joker owned by Sue Hogben from the Lukas Goldie Litter has gained his CD and CDX now! His CDX's with first place 195, first 197 and second 195. He has also gained his ADX!! and has two leg to Open Jumpers. To show how versatile he is he also won Restricted Retrieving trial giving his his first leg towards his RRD. Congratulations Sue and Joker.

Scoota, a Lukas Blaize son owned by Sandi Gee in Perth has also gained his CD and 2 legs towards CDX and first leg in Novice Jumpers with a first place! Very talented upbeat young man this and keep an eye on Sandi and Scoota in the future

Cath and Alex in PERTH are also BACK!! Doing great work and Alex gaining his CDX and JDX. When Alex is on he sure is on and never out of the placings!

Jan Voss with Buzz from our very first litter just gained Buzz's CDX as well!! Got it final leg a couple of weekends ago with a nice score of 183. Now he is training for that UD.

Down in Adelaide we have heard that Hobo, also from our first litter with owner Janet Jordan is taking Hobo thru his Caring Canine Companion course. Hobo will be doing very special visits to those who need him. Hats off to Janet and Hobo who will give some special care to some special people in the future.

Maverick over in California, well what can we say after taking a break he has hit the US showrings in big style. Group 1, Group 2, 3 and 4 with multiple BOB wins he is currently No 11 Breed Toller in the USA with almost no competition, and No 3 All Breeds in USA! He has had very limited showing so really goes to show what an outstanding young man he is.

Maverick's little sister Rio is back with Linda for the summer and today on her very show took a 3 pt Major in Conejo for Winners Bitch and BOS - against who. well Brother Maverick of course!! Go little Rio. She is the spitting image of her little mother by the way, just more coat and if anything even prettier.

Aussie in Sweden our other gorgeous boy from that Rush Blue breeding is getting ready yet again for the Swedish Specialty. However in his very own Regional Swedish Specialty and still only in the Youth Class became Best Youth Dog overall and 2nd Best Male in the entire Specialty!! Fingers crossed for the 2005 Specialty where Aussie will compete for Junior Toller Master and in the seperate Breed Competition. He is a stunning young man and has also just become a father to 5 lovely pups.

Fury the baby sister to all the above is currently with our great and dear friend Donna Lahaise in Ontario where she is spending loads of time with Val and Mike at Ambertrails Kennels. Donna is working with Fury's awesome retrieving and water ability and getting her ready for upcoming WC Tests. Fury might well be in the upcoming Halifax NSDTR Club Specialty in conformation and if ready, the working test.

Red, brother of Fury in his first show with owner Sara Coombes took a lovely Baby Puppy in Group Coffs Harbour!!! Following in his famous fathers footsteps for sure. We are looking forward to seeing Red and Blue up here for our own Brisbane Royal.

Fyre in Sydney has also been on the baby circuit and has been taking a few baby of breeds. She is now out of Baby and now will be chasing her very first points. Pics are coming soon.

Here with us and Duke had a bit of a dry spell but powered back yesterday with another Res in Group and Intermediate in Group at Samford. That makes 3 Res in Groups for the year and 4 overall, not counting his BOB wins and multiple age group placements. We too are looking forward to the Brisbane Royal and going under NSDTR Canada Speciality Judge Mr Kearney. Best of luck to everyone entered. Not sure yet but Duke might well become a Daddy in next few weeks ! Joining his brothers Maverick and Aussie in lighting some cigars. Duke has also passed his final health clearances, with Hips, Elbows and Eyes now all been Certified and fine.

Ok there are still loads of pics to come which will have to wait a tad longer while I work on all the pages. But stay Tuned for FANTA, FYRE, JAFFA, GABBY, JET, GEORDIE, MAVERICK, GHILLIE DHU, MAC, DOUGAL, ALEX, RIO, FURY AND SCOOTA! Joker too hopefully if I can get some new pictures off Sue!

Lots of brags to come and some more pics I have received lately, will put all those up in next few days, just waiting for an event to finish in Perth today!

Well been away in Grafton with Duke and Fury. Met up with Arthur and Anne Wells, and Sara Coombes with the Kirchoff Gang. Duke had a blinder in his 3 shows. 2 x Best of Breeds for 20 points, 1 x Runner up day 2 behind Daddy Blue. 1 x Intermediate in Group and 2 x Runner Up to Best in Group (Group 2). Last day we even got to compete for Runner Up Best in Show.

Last weekend had the great news that Redheads really do rule in Perth. Alex and Cath winning the Open Obedience with 195 and Sue Hogben and Joker (Lukas son) winning Novice with 199!!! So proud of our Perth friends!!

We have new pictures of our gorgeous pups coming from Sweden, 10 weeks old, arriving soon!! See pics below and click on them to view full size.

Fury leaves for Linda and Tante Meredith in San Francisco on 10th May, she will stay a couple of weeks and then head to Ontario Canada to spend the Summer training with Aunty Donna for the field. So Terry and I have been doing some ground work here in Oz before she leaves. She is her Daddy's girl without any doubt! Click here to view Fury at 11 weeks old.

Declan has gone now to live with Emma Simon of Lidlriva Kennels, got some photo's before he left but mainly now photo's of Fury. Click Here

Maverick's first pups are doing well, 3 weeks old now . Very cute picture below of Mav with his daughter Caitlin.

Also received some new pictures of Ghillie from Deb Owen. Ghillie is in training for her obedience sweepstakes - coming soon. But below are some very cute pics of Ghillie- what a sweetheart.

Alex and the Perth Gang over Easter have been attending an Agility Seminar, pics below of Alex wowing them. These lovely photo's taken by Gail Brindley - with thanks.

New pics of Gollum on the update page- in his new home and looking very handsome. Click HERE

First pics of Fyre in her new home have come thru, being spoilt by Kerry already who bought her a pile of stuff animals at the Sydney Royal. Click HERE

Axel is doing well down in Canberra, with Werner very proud of showing off his new little boy at his training club. Hope to have pics in the future.

Fury will be going to California to live with her big brother Maverick. Maverick convinced us he had to have his pretty little sister to come and keep the Boxing Kangaroo Flag flying proudly over there. Boy are Terry and I going to miss her tho.

But to keep us busy I am in the process of arranging importation of two new little Swedes!!! Tardes and Infanta will be arriving sometime early May we hope. Tardes will be going to live in NSW and Infanta will be staying here in Qld with us. Keep reading Fionavar news for upates.

Great news is that "Joker" - Lukas son from Goldie who lives in Perth with Sue Hogben gained his AD Title the other night and 1st place! also got another Jumpers leg and 3rd place. Only 1 Jumpers leg to go. Congrats on your first Agility title with him Sue!

Litter 6 - 8 week shots are up. Click Here. Two pups have left so only 5 pups pics are shown.

Also bring out the cigars for Maverick who just became a Daddy on the 3rd !! To pretty Kelsey "Dalry's Raise a little El from Berdia" 5 pups 2 Girls, 3 boys. Mav's feeling pretty proud of himself and keeping an eye on Kelsey and the kids.

Ok yes know a while between updates again but the babies have been keeping us VERY BUSY. Hold your horses for just another day and new pics will be up of all the babies at 6 weeks old.

Ok Brags from Perth where Alex on debut in Open Obedience WON with a fine score of 190. Lukas's son Scoota owned by Sandi Gee debuted in Novice Obedience and WON..... lovely score of 190. Both Alex and Scoota are competing this weekend in Perth's HUGE WESTERN CLASSIC. Joker another Lukas son owned by Sue Hogben is also debuting in his obedience.

Canberra Royal was on last weekend and Buzz owned by Jan Voss gained another Leg towards his Open Obedience title, and a 3rd place I believe. Well done Jan and Buzz. Buzz and Jan also gained an Open Leg a few weeks ago in Bermague with a 2nd placing. Only one to go. Brianna, Jan's lovely daughter has taken Pippa into a breed class and Junior Handlers, she gained Pippa's very first Championship points.

Still in Canberra for the Royal conformation and Blue father of Kazan, Duke and our litter of pups here at the moment took a huge BOB with 22 pts towards his Gr Championship, Runner up was our Moet's mother Goldie and Goldie son sired by our own Lukas took Runnerup Challenge Dog. Puppy went to a lovely boy called Ollie owned by Sandra Goldsmith and Jo Scrimageour sired by Rush's brother Fynn and mother Molly.

Maverick has hit the show rings again in Southern California with 2 x BOB's and a GROUP 3. The judge told Meredith he would have given him Group One but moved slightly in the final line-up. Gee how close was that and goes to show the quality of the Groups over there whereby a judge is looking for anything to seperate them. Maverick still left many BIS winners in his wake!

Duke headed out here last weekend as well and with 3 shows took 3 BOB's and also on his last day as Junior took ANOTHER JUNIOR IN GROUP. He also made the final cut of 4 dogs in the Group competition that day as well, judges comments were I could have given him the group but he is still immature and a long way to go against the Open dogs yet, but "I just Love Him". Mighty nice words and nice compliment for our lovely boy.

Below are pics of Callum - Moet Lukas son from Litter 5 sent to us by Grant and Kelli. He recently visited Grant's parents farm and had a great time meeting all the animals! Doesn't he so look like a boy version of Moet! Handsome young man.

And our roving Sydney Report Jet (above) would love to tell everyone her Mistress Ellie, won the Under 14 Beach Sprint at the Nipper Titles in Sydney last weekend, Ellie also came 4th in the Beach Flag event. Wow hey!

Some fun 3 week pics of the babies are up, they are nearly ready to leave the whelping box. Quite a few pics just below Rush's new born Picture. CLICK HERE

Aussie and Tess in Sweden have gained another Conformation Certificate, that makes two and only one to go now for his Swedish Conformation Title, however his last Certificate must be gained over 2 years old and from Open Class. However it is very rare for Judges to award these Certificates to young dogs in Sweden, so he has done VERY WELL. He also took overall runnerup from all the Tollers- not bad for a young fellow!

Lukas's son the handsome Joker owned by Sue Hogben in Perth has gained is first Novice Agility title too, another very talented boy with many more brags to go yet! Watch this space with Joker! Well done Sue H.

Other bit of news is Isla has now gone to live with Jan Voss, Buzz and family in Canberra. Isla is now called PIPPA to so store that all in your memory banks. We would like to thank Kerry Williams for all the time and effort she placed into this gorgeous little girl and we hope you get well soon Kerry! Thanks to Jan and family for welcoming her into her family and we look forward to her future exploits. Buzz is very happy to have a toller join the house!

Just put some more pics up of the babies, appear on the bottom of the page click the link to see HERE.

Well to lovely bits of news to start the year off. Firstly the safe arrival of Rush's new family. 7 babies born on 21.1.05. You can see the new borns by Clicking HERE.

On the same day as Rush was having her babies in Sweden, Aussie and Therese were travelling through a big snow storm attempting to get to his 2nd obedience competition. After getting lost in the snow storm, then having a slide off the road, arriving late and with no time to prepare, Aussie and Tess then proceeded to gain their 2nd First Prize Certificate in Obedience. Tess said she was so proud of him as it was a very hard thing to run straight in the ring! Very proud of them ourselves!

Our two gorgeous Sydney girls, Miss Marlie Hoggard and Miss Jet Graf have been out and about again over the break. Marlie and Jet are half sisters, their mum being Rush. They would both like to report to everyone that in New South Wales the surf WAS UP. !!

HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM ALL HERE AT FIONAVAR. Well the very first brag of the year is up! Unofficial, new Australian Champion, Fionavar Danger Zone "Duke". New Years Eve show saw Duke take another BOB, 7 pts and finish his Champ off with 104 pts. What a great year for this young man.

So would you all like to see what we have been doing over the Xmas break here at Fionavar. HMM NOT MUCH - laugh. Click HERE. Pics of the Gang and the very Handsome Mac who visited just before xmas with owners Ken and Linda.

Maverick and Linda have been doing some more training, Agility! Here are his training Pics. Just click on the Thumbnail to see bigger view.

Our Roving Sydney Reporting Toller- Miss Jet Graf, would like to give the News Flash that her young Mistress, Miss Ellie Graf , competed in the National School Girls Athletic titles in Sydney last week! A gold medal in the relay and an INDIVIDUAL SILVER MEDAL IN THE 100 Meters. Wow Ellie! Jet says it is all due to her you know, and all the love she gives you, she says that Grandpa was helping too. See the great picture Jet sent us, both very proud girls :-)

Can u believe xmas is nearly here!! Taking this opportunity to wish everyone a Merry Xmas and a very wonderful 2005.

Firstly Rush would like to announce she is to be a mother again 3rd week of January. Maverick, Aussie, Duke and the rest of Litter 4 are expecting some full brothers and sisters.

Some final brags coming in- Aussie in Sweden gained a first prize certificate in his very first obedience competition!! He needs two more to gain a Obedience Title. Well done Therese and Aussie. What a versatile boy. See Aussie by clicking HERE.

Jaffa and Zoe in W.A took to the showring for their very first points towards her Championship- yes got her first BIG 6 POINTS. Well done- apparently she just ran around the ring grinning her head off and having a great time- ah and so did Jaffa- Laugh.! Other news is Zoe is heading back to Perth to live and again be a resident as of New Year. See pics of Zoe and Jaffa on the update page- Click here.

Isla from Litter 5 is back to stay with us- she has been having a great time learning to swim etc. See pics of her by Clicking HERE.

Other news is Michael and Lyn Warren are moving from Townsville to Brisbane at last. So our lovely Jinty girl will soon be very close to home.

Some pics of Duke just having fun at the dam. Even wringing wet he is still gorgeous young man and so like his Daddy. Click HERE.

Well we are still pinching ourselves, after two Group 4's, on the 3rd day Mav again took BOB and made the Group Cut, but on day 4 he topped the lot by Taking GROUP 1 and ending up in the BIS ring. Meredith and Mav gave an awesome performance but lost to a lovely Bloodhound who with that win became all time BIS winning BH. So very exciting and for a boy not yet 15months old and not in coat- well, what can we say. Thank you to Meredith Noreen, Linda Fitzmaurice and Mav's Working Handler Donna Lahaise, oh what a year.

Weeelllllllll......2nd day showing, Mav took breed again. The judge is from Canada (Merlin Van de Kinder) and said Meredith has purtier Tollers than Canada does and "we invented 'em".... then went on to take ANOTHER GROUP 4!!!!!

News just in from USA where Maverick is now back in the showring after a summer of training in Canada. On the first day of a 4 Day Show Cluster he gained BOB and a Group 4!!! Taking up right where he left off. And he still hasn't grown his coat back yet- awesome!

Received the best news Jan and Buzz have gotten their very first Australian Title, CD ! No less that 3 First places with scores of 185, 195, and 194 - scores to be very proud of. CONGRATS JAN AND BUZZ !! Buzz's page also been updated with his brags and Titles. CLICK HERE Hoping for some pics of Jan and Buzz with their Booty!

Still pinching ourselves as Duke gains yet another Junior in Group at a big Champ show on the Sunshine Coast. That makes 5 JIG in just 2.5 months.

New Pics of Callum, Dougal and Jinty in her new home are on their update page. Click HERE

Ok Latest pics, Hmm my Picture of the week goes to - well just see below- aren't they gorgeous. The 3 Sisters who live in Townsville. L-R Ghillie, Jinty and Georgia.

Duke takes Reserve in Group (Group 2) at Beaudesert Kennel Club 13.11.04. Thanks to judge Mr I Hinde of Victoria. He also automatically took Junior in Group. Nice win as there were many seasoned Champions and Grand Champions in the Group line-up. Duke is 14.5 months old.

Well as a final update from the USA NSDTR Club Specialty held in Alabama, Maverick with Donna handling obtained more awards again on the last day of field tests. Firstly he obtained his US WC Title in the process awarded the USA Rusty Jones Award, Verstatility Award and his USA NSDTR Club Championship. Wow hey!!! So phew lets see that makes him AKC CH, NSTDR Club USA CH Fionavar Javahill Top Gun US CD/WC Can CD/WC.

Ok have started uploading some pics. Updated shots of our Litter 5 Pups appear on their page. To see new pics of Jaffa (Ex Greer) in Perth, Georgia in Townsville, Keegan in Sydney, Callum in Brisbane, Isla in Blue Mountains. Click Here. Also same page is a beautiful picture of Mac graduation from puppy school photo. He just looks gorgeous.

Been having loads of trouble with PC overheating here with temps well over 30+ degrees, so have yet to upload pics we have received. Hopefully today if I can keep the PC running long enough. However have some great brags as well from here and overseas.

Alex and Cathy took another Open Jumpers Qualifier the other weekend which only leaves them one to go for their JDX.

Had a very big surprise from Canberra where Jan and Buzz (ex NZ) are now living. Buzz debuted in his first CD trial over here and got his first qualifier and first place with a score of 185/200 in very hot conditions. Wow hey what a start for his Aussie titles!!! Go Buzz and Jan.

Maverick has gone back home to the USA after spending the summer training with Aunty Donna. Well nearly back home, at the moment he is at the USA National Specialty in Alabama. We had some super news yesterday that Maverick qualified in both his Novice and at his very first attempt a qualifier for his Open and US CDX title. Rest of team Javahill are also at specialty so we are hoping they all do very well. Conformation is on today and tomorrow the Working Tests!

Duke competed last weekend in our Specialty Gun Dog Show under International Judge Dr Mendola of the Phillipines. Duke took BOB then under one of the biggest Gun Dog Groups of the year made the Final Cut!! 14 months old and in with the big winning Gun Dogs. We didn't make the group but sure was nice to be recognised and pulled for the final look at.

Duke has had another great day of showing. No BOB's though as his awesome half brother Teddy and Lorraine came out to play. Two Champ Shows and Teddy was really awesome- great to see him and Lorraine out again! However...... Duke did take yet another JUNIOR IN GROUP!! Thanks Judge Bev Clare who thought 13 Month old Duke was the Ants Pants and put him up over a very nice *long* line up of Junior Gun Dogs.

Cath and Alex have finished competing the Teams Event Perth Royal Show for Agility. "The Aussie Duckers" made the Grand Final and finished just out a place with a couple of faults. Alex did really well for the team.

Getting the next lot of latest pictures together folks, will put them up during the week.

Maverick and Donna have added some awesome brags in last couple of weeks. Firstly Maverick passing his WC test and with it become what we believe is the youngest recipient for the Doberstein Award. The Doberstein is part of the NSDTR Club of Canada- and is awarded to Tollers who have obtained a Conformation Championship and at minimum a CD and WC title. Congrats to Linda and Meredith and of course to Mav's awesome trainer and handler Donna Lahaise!

1 week later and Mav and Donna shot over the border for 4 days of Obedience in the USA. Mav and Donna only needed 3 days to obtain 3 straight qualifiers and their USA CD Title. Congrats US CH Fionavar Javahill Topgun CD Can CD WC.

Brother Duke has hit Junior Classes in the local showrings and after 3 shows has 3 BOB's and one Junior in Group. The points are slowly creeping up there for the handsome young guy.

Well been sitting here all morning updating pages and photo's- will take an age to upload but some super pics from around the country. Firstly lots of new pics of the litter 5 pups are now on their update page. Some of the files are big, so be patient while they download for you. Click HERE.

Pics of Dexter from Litter 4 when he came to visit with MIllie the other day. Click HERE.

Alex has a new photo on his web page, with his lovely trophy and rosette from his Open Jumpers Win. Click Here

And lastly a belated brag from JET Litter 4 who proudly announces that her Hockey Team "The Jetz" named after her of course,! and her Soccer Team which she is also Mascot for , WON THEIR GRAND FINALS THIS YEAR. Way to go Jet, they couldn't have done it without you.

So I finished updating news late afternoon yesterdays date and was going to upload it today, when THEY WENT AND BLOODY DID IT AGAIN. !!!! Cath and Alex snuck out on us and did and absolute Blinder of an Open Jumpers, came first and blew the competition away. People are still emailing us saying it was one of the best runs they had ever seen. Your stars Cath and Alex.

So then THEY WENT AND DID IT AGAIN TOO. Donna and Maverick snuck out and got their 3rd and final leg for their Canadian CD Title, 192 points and 2nd place. And they still managed to get their Field Training in. Terry and I think Cath and Donna would get on famously with them both sneaking off on us LOL

Happy birthday to all the puppies spread all over the world from our 4th Litter. Rush and Blue, who turn big 1 year old tomorrow. You have all done us very proud, from being the most wonderful of pets, to being super team mascots and leading their teams to victories in their finals. To showing to working. Rush and Blue send their love and so do Terry and I. Happy Birthday to Maverick in Canada with Aunty Donna, to Rio in California with the Martins, Aussie in Sweden with Louise and Therese Blomqvist, to Charlie in Adelaide, Jet in Sydney our black eyed little monkey, our sweet boy in New Zealand Merlin, Cruise on the our stunning Gold Coast, Dexter right here in Brisbane and of course our own lovely boy Duke.

I do have some more photo's to put up of Ghillie, Georgia and Jaffa from Litter 5, keep an eye on this page and I will give the link in next few days.

THEIR BACK !!!! Two of our wonderful boys are back in action with some brilliant results. Last weekend Cath and Alex gave Terry and I an early birthday present. In a big weekend of Agility, Alex and Cath rolled off 2 x Open Agility qualifiers with a 2nd and 3rd placing and another qualifier and 3rd placing in Open Jumpers. They smashed course times and were only beaten by Masters Dogs!! Trying to do a count here, but I think that gives him 2 Open Jumpers and 2 Open Agility passes to date.

So today when we thought it couldn't get any better we had Maverick making his Obedience debut with Aunty Donna handling. Mav has been spending his summer training with Donna for his Working and Obedience. We we can say he is now a Two Legged Dog with 2 qualifiers in Novice Obedience today with 2 3rd placing Rosette's to go with it. His Working Test debut is coming up soon, hold on to your hats. Thanks for the birthday present Mav and Donna and congrats to owner Linda Fitzmaurice who is away at the big Gold Rush event in California with Mav's Uncle Gambler. Gambler took BOB in a very big field of Tollers.

Isla has left us, boy we are going to miss her but she has gone to live in the beautiful Blue Mountains with Chris and Kerry Williams. Isla can look forward to trialling in obedience and doing some shows. Isla remains in Co-Ownership with ourselves and the Williams.

Well Duke or Nugget didn't get anything in the Royal Finals, but held their heads very high for the breed. Kim, Crystal and I were very proud of our two wonderful boys.

New pics again in Litter 5, Callum and Ewan have gone to their wonderful new homes. Also pics of Jaffa in W.A click HERE.

Alex and Cath snuck off and did a Novice obedience trial, came 2nd place! They have been training very hard of late getting ready for some Open competition. They have some agility trials coming up so watch this space!!! Good luck guys!

Well been very busy with 5 of the pups heading off for their homes, visitors and the Brisbane Royal.

Aussie in Sweden competed in his very first Swedish Speciality last weekend, also debuting in hunting test. Out of 17 dogs and much older Dogs Aussie finished 4 in the Junior TollerMaster competition in the Speciality. To qualify dogs must compete and finish the Junior Hunting Test, then compete in their own Conformation Class. Only 5 dogs finished the hunting test with Aussie coming 5th. Then he won the conformation event, giving him at his very first try a 4th placing!!!! In the official conformation event for the speciality Aussie had 27 !! yes 27 dogs in his class he took 2nd placing!! We are so thrilled and proud of him doing so well in this the biggest Toller Speciality, in numbers, in the world! Congratualations to Louise, Therese and of course Aussie.

Duke and I went to a show last weekend to get him a bit of practice for our Brisbane Royal. Duke took BOB and then won Puppy in Group! This was his 4th Class in Group in his last 5 outings. New picture of Duke 11 months old on his page.

Then yesterday at the Brisbane Royal at 11 months old Duke won Best Puppy of Breed, then took Reserve Challenge dog against all the big dogs then to our surprise the Canadian Judge gave him RUBOB!!! It is very rare for a puppy against the adults to achieve this. The Canadian judge seemed to really like him. Anyway back to the Brisbane Royal Finals next Saturday and to compete against the Best Puppies in Group 3!!

5 of our babies left home last weekend to their brand new homes. You can see the updates by Clicking Here.

New picture of Alex on his page, showing us how he can stack like a show dog too. Looks wonderful :-) Alex and Cath still in training at the moment! Click HERE.

6 week shots of pups posing for the Camera and playing retrieving with their first birds are now up. Click Here for Posing Shots and Here for Bird Shots.

He's back!!! Alex started up Agility again last night folks and we got a great email off Cath to say he qualified and came 3rd in Open Jumpers. 31.5 secs on a 48 sec course!!! Now that's flying!!! Well done guys!

I have added some lovely pics of Alex from Litter 2 and Jet from Litter 4 to our latest pics album. Click Here.

Sue and Joker (Lukas/Goldie son) went off retrieving yesterday. Sue was proud to announce that Joker is now Kirchoff Cool Hand Luke NRD. He becomes only the 3rd Toller to gain an NRD, and I believe at just over 18 months old the youngest.!! He also competed in the next level up yesterday, Restricted, and he finished!!!! hard tough runs. He finished his Novice in 4 trials with his 3 first places. You have to win 3 trials to gain this title. Congratulations Sue and Joker.

Week two pics of the pups are up CLICK HERE, click to view full size on web page.