* News 2014 *

Lots of new videos from last year again!

Säde's searches for birds

Säde's wild partridges

Säde's 1st and 2nd time on pheasants

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Säde and Otti hunting wild boar

Otti on wild grey partridges

Säde and Margus play tug

Säde's obedience

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Gamepoint Life Aquatic "Boy" - hips A/A, elbows 0/0!

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Gamepoint Life Aquatic "Boy", second time ever on pheasants (at the first time, I heard, he had about 8 contacts during the day, inc his first real point), from the beginning of the day, starting off with search, followed by a situation, where neither me or the owner really believe there would be a bird, he resolves to tracking the bird and flushes, and goes after, followed by a second bird in the air, and after he goes. And after that he blew us away with three very firm, calm birdsituations like an old dog, with a calm point, fast, spot-on flush on command and a perfect stop. Still had some good goin' left at the end of the day ... A month before this dog was not really pointing yet (owner has not been that active with pointing work, Boy has had some odd contacts with partridges before that) nor has he been that well trained on stop-whistle. The intention is to use him mainly on wood- birds - grouse, capercaillie etc.

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At beaver hunts it can be handy, if you have a dog that happily fetches anything, even in February, from freezing water and ice! Our dogs seem to really love beavers and of course, Säde is known for cooling herself off between ice chunks even in cold Nordic mid- winter.

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A video from the wild grey partridge hunts last fall - Säde's first birds shot down from her points and birdwork.

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Tiki pointing, 10,5 years old

At the annual meeting of The Swedish Weimaraner Club our Tiki was awarded a Breeding Prize in Gold (she previously has Bronze and Silver)! This is a prize for breeding dogs, who's offspring have shown excellent working qualities. Every offspring gets only it's highest working trial/test results counted once, plus 1-2 points if the dog has also gotten "Excellent" grade (or even CQ) from exterior evaluation, highest points for any single offspring is 10 points and only results from Nordic countries count. With her 9 Nordic field/test merited puppies from her two litters with two field trial/hunting champions (15 puppies total)- including 2 field trial/hunting champions, 4 with field trial first prizes from Open Class (although only one prize per dog counted), 2 with a 3-rd prize from Youth Class in Finland and one with first prizes from bloodtracking (there is other puppies that are bloodtracking champions, but their field trial results were counted instead) - she right now collected 69 points (her second litter is only 3 years old). Only few of even the best swedish breeding bitches have as high offspring proof. Very proud and thankful over our little special girl!

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Säde at the international show Tallinn Winner'14 - Excellent, Open 2/2, Best Bitch 3/5. Judge Christen Lang (Norway) - "well balanced bitch, nice head, good neck & strong topline, enough body, good bones with typical paws, excellent coat, good movements & nice temperament".

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Otti with his fresh catch and kill - "Please, can I have it to myself a little longer, don't take it away!"

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Earlier this pring - Otti, Tiki and Säde after a pigeon and crow hunt.

Säde with a freshly shot pigeon

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Gamepoint Operation Snatch "Bruno" has been to a show again, with nice results - Excellent, Finnish CAC (his 2nd) and Best of Breed . Judge's words of him: "Masculine, well sized & typical of breed. Nice head, good eyes & ears. Good top line. Stray (straight??) croup & well placed tail. Good chest. Strong bones, nice angulations in front and behind. Good feet. Nice movements seen from all sides. Nice coat & temper. Well handled." Judge Erik Petersen, Denmark. Well done, Mirva!

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Another show result for Säde - CAC, BOB and a nice description from judge Andrzej Kazmierski (Poland): "Big but proportional, good head, fluent in outline, but a little long in loins, deeply angulated on behind, moves freely with temperament, but the tail is going up in movement, excellently presented".

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Säde with her CAC and CACIB rosettes from Estonian Winner 2014 show, with her last fall's field trial first prizes she can now become a show champion . Judge Jelena Kruus commented: "beautiful young female".

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Tiki-Eazac kid Bruno (Gamepoint Operation Snatch) got his last Finnish CAC with BOS and CACIB , judge was Delerue Pedro Sanches from Portugal, who was happy to "see proper sized weimaraners in Finland", he liked the hunting type of weimaraners and said about Bruno: "Good size. Strong head. Compact body. Good neck. Deep chest. Topline could be more firm. Good angulations & movement. A bit close behind. Correct coat." Well done once again, showing your hunting boy, Mirva!

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Boy (Gamepoint Life Aquatic) doing some water training!

Boy training first time with a raccoon - no problem with the retrieve!

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Grey partridge embryo at about 4 days into incubation - that pulsating little heart is not bigger than a tip of a needle ... You can see it even a day or a little earlier, in some eggs that show through better, without even the blood vessels, leaving the impression that the heart muscle is the first thing that develops .... and then the chick grows around it ... a true miracle.

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Tiki after a pigeon/duck hunt.

Säde after a pigeon hunt.

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Snipe. © Jenny Degerman

Tiki's son from her first litter Classic Dream´s Snipe "Snipe" - was BOB and BISS at the Swedish Weimaranerclub's Jubileum specialty show, under judge Tanja Breu- Knaup, Germay. His sister - J, WW-14, C.I.B, C.I.E, SE UCH, NORD UCH, FR UCH, EST CH, NORD JunV-08, NORD V-08,-09,-10, FIN JunV- 08, FIN V-08,-09, NO V-08,-09,-10, SE V-09,-10, WW-10,-11,-13, Tallin W-13, SE VCH Classic Dream´s Hazel Grouse - was BOS .

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Tiki-Eazac son Bruno (Gamepoint Operation Snatch) has had some show success during the summer, from Karjaa nat show Exc, CQ, BOS (judge Malgorzata Wieremiejczyk- Wierzchowska, Poland); 3x international shows at Kuopio: Exc Open 1/3, CQ, BOS & CACIB (judge Assenmacher-Feyel Hassi, Germany), Excellent (judge Dondina Paolo, Italy) & Excellent, CQ, ResCAC (judge Harri Lehkonen, Finland). Bruno was also entered at the Word Dog Show , bit un-inspired and only grade "good" this time, most likely the only dog there who had been working in the morning before the show - he'd been at pigeon hunt from 5 am on the same morning with his master! Tiki's lovely lh grand-daughter Winna (Classic Dream´s Virgo) became JWW-14 , and for the fourth time already, Tiki's lovely lh daughter Axa (J, SE VCH, SE UCH, NO UCH, FIN UCH, DK UCH, NORD UCH, FR UCH, C.I.E, C.I.B, NORD JunV-08, NORD V-08, FIN JunV-08, FIN V-08, NO V-08, SE V-09, NO V-09, FIN V-09, NORD V-09, SE V- 10, WW-10, NO V-10, NORD V-10, WW-11, Tallin W-13, EST CH, WW-13 Classic Dream´s Hazel Grouse) became WW-14 (and BOB). There were also some sweet sh grand-kids of Tiki's that did well - Metsätien Pisara & Metsätien Pallosalama also got Excellent from large Jun classes.

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Tiki 11 years old.

Our very special, amazing golden girl Tiki is 11 years old! We hope she will be with us for many more years!

Hunting, tracking, obedience (of two countries), show champion and winner (of multiple countries) - J, SJCH, SVCH, ESTOBCH, SWEOBCH, INTCH, EST & LV & LT CH, BALTCH, FINCH, EST VetCH, LV VetCH, LT VetCH, BALT VetCH, BALTJW-04, LVW-05, LVW-07, FINW-05, FINW-08, ESTW-07, ESTW-08, TVW'12, BALTVW'12, ESTVW'12, ESTVW'13, EST & LT & LV & BALT JunCH, FT Waterfowl I, FT Wildfowl I Classic Dream's Tic Tac Toe

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Bruno after a grouse hunt © Mirva Paavola

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Otti and Säde on grouse and capercaillie

Säde after successfully finishing a difficult bloodtrack on a wounded and lost moose, 1 am at night. We saw Säde naturally announcing dead big game (previously discovered this trait in Yaya and Otti), announcing two dead moose by barking at them. I had to let the lead loose towards the end of the track, we lost the dog and it was more than useful, to follow her barking to the moose.

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Tiki, Säde and Otti after a duck hunt by the sea.

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Esti (Gamepoint Bottle Rocket) has passed the Czech Weimaraner Club's bonitation (for stud dogs) with excellent results - in bonitation code he is a standard male with no mistakes. Bonitation takes place under four different judges - one for exterior, one for motion, one for temperament and one for teeth, angulation and bones.

Säde (Gamepoint Painkiller Jane), 3,5 years old, 2nd and 1st prize at elite class field trials , Gotland, on wild grey partridges and pheasants. (grade 6 on field - because we could not show a flush, the wild partridges were very "light", 10 for retrieve; and grade 7 on field and 10 for retrieve). Short of one more first prize for the field championship... Pretty satisfied, after the first day started to recognize my dog more again and she measured up nicely to some of the best. I can often notice her mother in her! Gotland with its springy fields and wild birds (some days not so many met) is said to be not the easiest place, some say it takes some time to get used to, for the dog. Definitely different, definitely a great place and an experience!

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Säde , me and Otti after an eftersök test in Sweden - Säde with first entry 10/10/10 points (water/track/search square, EKL - elite class), Otti 10/10 points (water/track, ÖKL - open class), both 3,5 years old right now.

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Säde with a moose after a moose hunt

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Some hunts from fall 2014

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Some more hunts from fall 2014

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Gamepoint Painkiller Jane "Säde" , almost 3,5 years old

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Säde with a moose she and Otti tracked and drove in front of the guns. They had another good work on a boar, but it was not shot, because of not big enough.

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Boy (Gamepoint Life Aquatic), who moved to Portugal for the winter, with his first red-legged partridges!

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Säde looking more and more like her mom!

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Some more pictures from our moose hunts!

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Säde and Otti with a calf they had
blood-tracked for a while; when we got to the river, the dogs went quickly over despite freezing temperatures and deep water, as usually, and we heard them suddenly bark with angry voices quite near. A hunter that was the first one of us over the river (I was still balancing on a fallen tree, trying not to fall into the freezing water) could see the calf attacking the dogs and Säde got hit again.
When we arrived, the calf was quickly put out of suffering.

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