My very first true love was a German Shorthaired Pointer (Tina) late fifties in Utah.  I had owned trained or hunted with many different breeds by the early 1970’s, Setters, Pointers, Labs, Spaniels and Brits.

 

When my wife objected to my purchase of a sail boat, we decided I should expend my energies raising a puppy.  So I started searching the internet for the best breeding possible and catching up with what was the new order of German Shorthaired Pointers.

I finally made a decision on a puppy after a year of research and drove from Seattle, WA to Sacramento, CA to pick up my second true puppy love, Nugget, bless his wonderful, dignified soul.

 

Nugget and I were inseparable from our first night together in Sacramento and always will be although he succumbed to Insulinoma at the young age of six. I purchased him to try and develop my hunting skills.  That was the only goal I had as far as dogs were concerned. 

 

Diane and I joined the GSP Club of Washington and with the encouragement of my new club friends found other areas of dog performance. Soon we were showing Nugget at the confirmation shows, entering him in hunt tests, hired a professional trainer to advance him in our desire to have a Field Trial Champion.   We were disappointed that Nugget never was a Champion in the ring, nor a winner at a Field Trial; however, he will forever be a champion in my heart.

 

My experience with Nugget and the show ring, hunt tests and field trials were completely joyful and I knew we needed another puppy immediately.  We bought Schatzi and had her flown to our home is Seattle, she came out of her crate and gave me some aggressive licks, I was in love (again)!

 

My wife, Diane, took over the duties of the confirmation shows.  I was responsible for the hunt test and field trials. Schatzi finished her AKC show championship, then her Canadian Show Championship, both before the age of two.

 

 Now it was my turn to do the field events - she took to the field with genetic exuberance. Incredibly, she finished her AKC Field Championship, my first year of Field Trialing. She will be working toward obtaining her two remaining legs of her Master Hunter Certificate in the summer of 2010. She is the first Dual Champion GSP in the state of Washington in many years. We are ever so proud of this wonderful member of our family.  In addition to all her accomplishments, she is the perfect house dog.

 

We bred DC Can Ch NMK’S Schatzi of Normandi SH (Schatzi) to BISS/NSS Am/Can. CH. Bulkley Nectemere Nectimide, SH, NRD (Duncan). Schatzi gave us seven boys on April 2, 2010, ‘The Magnificent Seven” litter.  Schatzi has now become our foundation bitch for the Normandi GSP’S and our lives are forever changed for the better.

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