Working dogs
Report – Arfon Working Gundog Club Open Spaniel Trial
Arfon Working Gundog Club Anglesey
The Arfon Working Gundog Club held their Open AV Spaniel ( excluding Cocker) Open Stake at the Vaenol Estate, Nr Bangor, Gwynedd by kind permission of Mr M & Mr K Jones.
The judges were Mr Jack Iliffe and Mrs John Sexton. The guns were Eifion Roberts, Howard Latham, Rhys Roberts and Steve Preston.Beat Steward was Mr Keith Jones with keeper Mr Clive Jones.
The weather was dry overcast and the trial was run in woodland with an undercover of rhododendrons, and brambles which was quite testing.
I would like to thank our hosts, the judges, guns, and helpers and the competitors for making this a successful day. I would also wish to thank our sponsors CSJ Specialist Canine Feeds and Gary McCarthy of Gundog Gear for their continued support. I would also like to thank Derick Williams of BASC for providing a gamebag for winner.
Result
First and Guns’ Choice – Lee Cooper ( Owner Paul Noyce) – Breckmarsh Dora ESSB
Second – Steve Bolton – Dashbrook Midsummer – ESSB
Third – Sarah Higgins – Kansas Kate – ESSB
Forth – Lee Marson – Sharmesvale Velvet Scoter ESSB
Photo – L-R . Jack Iliffe (Judge), John Sexton (Judge), Wendy Rowland (Host), Lee Cooper, Sarah Higgins, Lee Marson, Steve Bolton.
Our little blog of love for working dogs
❤️❤️❤️ We were feeling the love for working dogs on Valentine’s Day and we asked you to send us a photo showing the love for the dog in your life. We were overwhelmed with your response. So many heartfelt photos summing up how we feel about the dogs in our lives.
It hasn’t been easy choosing a winner, so we’ve chosen three. 💐💐💐 A pack of our tasty little bone shaped training treats – Poppets will go to all you each of you. ❤️❤️❤️
Winners
Niomi Durrant – My world sharing the love
Niomi Durrant – My world sharing the love
Cheryl Quinn – Showing our love after a days flyball 😍
Cheryl Quinn – Showing our love after a days flyball 😍
Matt Lewis I wish she was still with us
Thank you for sharing your photos with us. We hope you enjoy all the photos here. Just hover over each photo and you’ll see the names and messages.
Entries
Niomi Durrant – My world sharing the love
Cheryl Quinn – Showing our love after a days flyball 😍
Matt Lewis I wish she was still with us 😢
Caroline Gray – My valentine
Nina Kole – Not a Working dog but a lovely character, our Bob
Sharon Grocock
Amy Collins Zac, a rescue now working sheep
Ben van Esch
Colin Spalding – Suzanne Spalding
Raymond Harrow – My boy’s starting their life out with a few dogs. 😍
Kaz Jones
Åse Risberg – My daughter and her best friend Moel Stiili
Derek Fisher
Mišena Dubeňová – Always by my side😍
Helen Blundy My beautiful, sweet boy Diesel. Raised on CSJ products (especially loved the cereal recovery bars after a run). Always complimented on his beautiful, shiny coat. Sadly had to let him go last Friday.
Lucy Machell – Love my special pup Vision
Barbara Wyse – Wullie my valentine
Susan Pearson Hettie ❤️ Su
Rona Grasham – I loved my Grandpa, he loved his collies, now I love collies.
Gemma Birley – My youngest Presa-) 7 presas & 2 Frenchies all brought up on Csj. Eldest been 8. Also 10 litters 🙂
Lene Holm-Band Gypsy. Guardian of all babies
Anna McNaught Our protector Millie -) Gets excited with every CSJ delivery we get 😁
Marie Prebble – My best friends and work buddies 💗
Annemie Schweingruber Larsen – My sheltie Watson was absolutely nutso with sheep. I’ve never met a sheltie before or since with that much drive. He drove me up the wall, but he was a magnificent beast ❤️
Theresa Taylor – Bed time stories
Nicki J. Fagan Riley (on the left) who is 11 today and Max (on the right) who is 1 next week. We loved CSJ food, especially when its hidden in a milk carton for them to figure out how to tip it out -)
Carol Aleknavicius – Gracie, my sweet lovely girl enjoying the beach in Pembrokeshire 💞
Chelsea Anne Lee T- he trouble maker of our bunch, naughty Kai the Kelpie! 🥰
Top fan Caroline Beresford ‘Beaux’ likes to ride in my game bag rather than walk🐾
Ann Hughes – My boy Indie, 7yrs today
May Sofie Krogstad – Showing love every day in our profile pic 😘
Sarah Hawkins
Chris Brown – I can’t live if living is without you xxxx
Sarah Hawkins – And our newer addition
Lucy Creek My loves, Jingle and Maple 😍
Dennies Carlsson
Lauren Morlidge My beautiful Kallie❤
Trudie Anne Molloy – My beast whispering sweet nothings in my ear….. ok he was nibbling my ear hence my screwed up laughing face 🤣
Robin Pearson – My nephew and his CSJ fed dog.
Rachel Cartmel Scrimgeour – The best dog I will ever have!
Cathryn Flynn Too gorgeous not to love
The Gourmet Sausage Box – #valentinesdogs ❤️❤️❤️ my loves ❤️❤️❤️
Sam Bawden – My one and only true love is Poppit
Sally Coldwell This is Tui, he’s the only valentine I need! As long as he gets his fit and fast every day, he loves me as well!
Niomi Durrant My world sharing the love 💙
Colin and Ang – Gregory Cuddles with our boss x
Luci Reynolds – High fiving the good life ❤️
Maxine Abbott – I love you mummy 💕
Graham Bushnel -l Dylan
Katy Cropper – Butch
Mel Duncan Cadbury…. 💖
Alfred Alger – Ours have been having CSJ food for many years now , including our 3 year old big girl who was started off on puppy champ too 💕 💙 xx
Dianne Ryding – The day I picked up my Meggy Moo…that look of love never went away…she adored her mum more than life itself 🐶😍
Sarah Hawkins
Diane Jones – Misty is my world. Now 6yrs old and our bond is so strong.
Jamie Dryburgh
Janice Frankham – This is my Pets as Therapy and Morris dancing dog Jess. She is CSJ fed with thanks to Robin Pearson
Kerstin Schwarze – My First Border Collie Kliff ❤️ grandad to Bobby.
Pat Geddes – Izzy ESS Gundog 😍. 52 days beating this past season. 😊
Priscilla Augustijn
Ruth Smith-Howell – Bella my rescue GSD cross Doberman and my two children Abi and Michael
Denise Smith-Howell – My Irish rescue boy Tyke.
Mary Minor
Jasmin Mau- Love him… to the end (Wyett 25.5.10-15.2.2019)
Kate McCartney Bestie Boo – Very special boy indeed Loves his CP24 x
Michelle Blackmore – So proud of my gentle giant Nanook who I rescued 8 months ago
Savannah Wawman My precious boy Blue – seen here comforting me during a panic attack in the show ring. He never fails me as an anxiety dog, show dog, when he competes in racing or Gundog scurries.
Fransje Samsom Tinkelenberg – She loves me 😍
Nina Kole – Happy together 😘
Beverly Jayne
Jo Walton
Karin Haker
Jane Mellor Me and Elsie
Top fan Alfred Alger And our boy who we sadly lost 3 years ago this coming May 🙁had CSJ for half of his life too 💙
Dino Luigi Dino and my snuggle bunny xxx we even match ha ha
Bernadette Mc Caughan
Vicky Fletcher My daughter and her dog doing some training together ❤️
Theresa Taylor – Bed time stories
Kerry Roberts – My beautiful best friend Seren, rising 13 Yr old Poin
Hannah Harvey – Just a boy and his collies 😍♥️
Hannah Whyman-Naveh Poppy and her border collie Ria 🥰
Maxine Abbott
Denise Taylor
Dianne Ryding She’s like my shadow 🐶😍
Pola Murphy
Jackie Kenny – Some of our beauties enjoying the beach
Top fan Kaz Jones Dylan kisses 😘
Edwin Holliday Tweeddale midge.
Shelley Wynne 2
Kathryn Higgins
Nikki Dominguez – My dog Cwtch xx
Dennis Kräh – My dog Pippa and me. Loving the job
Nicola Belfield – Happy Valentines 😍😍
Carol Dunnill – Me and my beautiful Bernese Mountain Dogs.
Shaun McDermott – The day we picked River up
Kate Bollen Top dog 🥰😍
Kaśka ES Rollo
Kate McCartney – Bestie Boo – Very special boy indeed Loves his CP24 x
Helen Glass This is me and Hope. She has her challenges but I do my best to keep her with a job to do and a life full of options. She may not excel in anyone thing apart from teaching me our responsibility to our four legged friends 💕🐾
Shelley Wynne
Branden George
Kirsty Louise Collier Tanks and Dozer camping at an agility show. Tank loves giving everyone hugs 🥰 Powered by csj
Denise van Doeselaar – Penny en sky❤️❤️❤️
Sophie More – Little Landi ❤️
Shelley Wynne
Anna Burn
Gemma Birley – My youngest Presa-) 7 presas & 2 Frenchies all brought up on Csj. Eldest been 8. Also 10 litters 🙂
Lynsey McMinimee – Me and my baby Roxy 💕
Raymond Harrow – My boy’s starting their life out with a few dogs. 😍
Geoff Kelly The team.
Dean Cordwell – 3 of the 5 we kept from our last litter, now 5 years old! Patch Lexi and Azure!
Anna Melnikova Mcgowan
Laura D’Allen Love is- Carrying your dog all the way up a cold muddy stream because he doesn’t really like getting wet and realising halfway along he’s quite a lot heavier than you thought….
Barbara Wyse – Wullie my lovely valentine lad
Debs Ward – Dakotah and I on what we thought may be a last sea side trip last year. He’s still with us, bless him 💙💙💙
Heather Negus – Here’s my wee Turadh stopping for a little hug during a beautiful beach walk … Love her to bits 😍
Julie Raywood Maddy and Echo 😍
Eleanor Kay The pups giving kisses 😘
Trish Arnold Simply stunning ❤️ Katie n Lace 🐾
Trish Arnold Love is💕🐾
Elly Dekkers-de Zanger friends for life
Elly Dekkers-de Zanger In love.
Lisa Robertson Not me but my oldest has an amazing bond with mum younger collie Mars. At home he keeps a close eye on our 5 year old collie lad. Sadly, we recently lost our old boy at 15 yrs old but I adore the way that at no point was he ever ‘pulled around’ by our son. Instead our son has learnt to train and praise when needed, he’s learnt to pay attention to the animals around him through the dogs. He was 8 weeks old when our younger dog turned up at 16 weeks so they have apparently grown up together.
Our Gundog Pack
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Why Mark Laker looks forward to February…
Rhyme
By Mark Laker
I look forward to the month of February. Firstly, it’s my birthday and I like to take the day off and do whatever I fancy for the day. Often that day extends to a long weekend spending time with family, friends and of course our dogs. I’ve done all of that this year.
Our wedding anniversary is in February too
Celebrating this day often rolls on the end of the birthday weekend…making it an even longer weekend, possibly week. And then as it’s the end of my annual leave for the year, I use up any remaining time off too. So rather than being a dark, wet, often cold month, February ends up being really enjoyable.
I also look forward to the second agility team GB squad day
We’ve extended this to a weekend this year just so we can cover all the topics and activities we’ve planned. There’s lots to do this year with the European Open in the UK in July. As host nation we’ll be taking our biggest team yet – up to 40 dogs.
Countdown to Crufts
And the other thing I look forward to in February is the countdown to Crufts. Of course this is more exciting if I’m competing there, which I am this year, so my training with Rhyme is well underway.
Come rain or shine, birthday celebrations or not, Rhyme and I set out to do something together everyday towards our Crufts preparations. Thank fully we’ve had some beautiful weather so far this month so we’ve been able to stick to the plan.
I just need to go easy on the birthday cake…
That’ll Do! kept the weight and healthy balance throughout all of my dogs
From Stuart and Angela Atchison
Being a new customer this year (2019) using CSJ dog food I feel it’s only right to give you all some feedback about the product I used on my 5 working dogs this grouse season.
With previous dogs and over many years of going on the grouse moors up in Northumberland feeding working gundogs, keeping them up to performance with work was a worry that the dogs never came out the kennels match fit for the job especially when they had just done two days previous on hot, heavy going, tiring days out for the team.
Then I started using CSJ That’ll Do! I was given the name and address of Brian Syms from my good friend Steven Ferguson aka BLACKLEK Gundogs. Brian and Jane only live 15mins away from me on the coast at Seaton Sluice in Northumberland – Brian and Jane couldn’t be more helpful. That’ll Do! kept the weight and healthy balance throughout all of my dogs (3 Labradors and 2 Cocker Spaniels) and I am very impressed with the coats on the dogs, the mess from the dogs was regular and not wet- this is an all-round brilliant dog food for the price and results.
So it’s a big thanks to Brian and Jane and CSJ.
Stuart and Angela Atchison
KC ATCHILODGE.
‘PUSH YOUR MUSH!’ competition
The #pushyourmush competition was created in honour of CSJ, Leucillin and Photizo sponsoring the Siberian Husky Club of Great Britain (SHCGB) 37th Aviemore Sled Dog Rally on January 25th and 26th 2020.
The winners are:
1st prize: Emma Maunder with Manny
Emma Maunder #pushyourmush Manny at his 1st bssf race at Pembrey! We weren’t fast but we had a great time 😊
2nd Prize: Gill McLeod (Team Schwartz)
Gilli McLeod #pushyourmush Team Schwartz, literally flying!
Runner Up Prize Winner: Jax Hopkinson – Milo
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Here are the entrants:
Emma Maunder #pushyourmush Manny at his 1st bssf race at Pembrey! We weren’t fast but we had a great time 😊
Gilli McLeod #pushyourmush Team Schwartz, literally flying!
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Lynn Smith #pushyourmush Keesha and Bear doing why they love 💕💙
Julie Nicholds #workingdogs all on That’ll do x
Shannon Hartree #pushyourmush
Shannon Hartree #Pushyourmush the gang waiting for the ball slinger to go😅
Fi Grigg #pushyourmush Mouse loving her bikejor
Gilli McLeod #pushyourmush Team Schwartz, coming in over the Finish Line in the Scottish Highlands.
Kimmy Stevenson #pushyourmush Bear having some free running time, climbing the hills in the snow 💛🧡🐾
Elizabeth McCormick Smeaton #pushyourmush ppbc Yo-Yo powered by That’ll Do, salmon oil, pemmikan, and fruit and mutt bars
Nic McGaw #pushyourmush backpacking on New Year’s Day
Susie Lee #Pushyourmush Powered by CSJ Fit n Fast.. Guy in full flight at Grizedale with his HuDad
Denise Taylor #pushyourmush fueled on csj hike on
Julie Tulleth #pushyourmush Oakley snowball catching
Emma Maunder – Manny at his 1st BSSF race at Pembrey
Rhia Tapper #pushyourmush my Irish setter boys having a fab run ❤️
Alan Cameron #PushYourMush Ethan Cameron running with Sam…. Freezing that day…
Valiant Pike #pushyourmush sorry couldn’t help myself so posting another running in from collecting a dropped dog
Michael Clapperton #pushyourmush Siberspeed huskies in the Scottish snow
Wendy Tilly-mint #pushyourmush My girls Abbie and Holly playing their own push pull game
Jennifer Broadfoot #PushYourMush Powered by CSJ Hike On
Morwenna McNally #pushyourmush Noah powered by CSJ Lamb & Rice
Joanne Fethon #pushyourmush fuelled by cp30 and turmertinc 🐾
Sindy Buist #pushtourmush fed on csj rocket fuel 🥰
Valiant Pike #pushypurmush dogs on stakeout ready for harnessing up
Janice Miller janice miller #PushYourMush
Nic McGaw #pushyourmush canicross fun in the snow
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Charlotte Wilkinson #PushYourMush #poweredbyCSJ
David Leacock #PushYourMush #Poweredbycsj #sleddog
Sharon Grocock #pushyourmush fuelled with #cp30
Nic McGaw #pushyourmush at Canifit training having fun
Kirsty Louise Collier #pushyourmush Tank almost 12yo powered exclusively by CSJ Action pic in comments
Ailsa Bogle #pushyourmush magni flying on scooter
Judy Wakker #pushyourmush
Kaśka ES #pushyourmush
Rhia Tapper #pushyourmush working irish setter Wilma, working on partridge over the South Downs national park on a fabulous frosty clear morning x
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Kerry Roberts #pushyourmush Issy the pointer enjoying the snow in Hampshire.
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Kathryn Higgins #pushyourmush agility training whatever the weather
Sindy Buist #pushyourmush rocket fuel girlie bean
Mark Jimmy Dunbar Zugspitze doing what he does best…….#PushYourMush
Judy Wakker #pushyourmush
Gilli McLeod #pushyourmush Team Schwartz, powered by CSJ.
Charlotte Wilkinson #PushYourMush
Fran Cusack #pushyourmush
Charlotte Wilkinson Gundogs work in winter too! 😁 #PushYourMush #poweredbyCSJ
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Nancy Muylle #PushYourMush
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Gilli McLeod #pushyourmush Team Schwartz, racing in Autumn colours.
Rhia Tapper #pushyourmush working irish setter Wilma, working on partridge over the South Downs national park on a fabulous frosty clear morning x
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Duncan Loraine #PushYourMush from #Aviemore 2020 when your teamate tells you what your doing wrong
Joe Swiffen #pushyourmush
