Alora and Bella at Lake Ontario

by | Jun 5, 2012 | blog

Congratulations to Alora and Bella Bridge – together, they passed the first two legs of their Started Hunting Retriever title at Lake Ontario’s test this past weekend.  Bella is a Rowan and Leia daughter from our December 2010 litter....

by | May 19, 2012 | blog

Congratulations to Ryan and Asher (Tidewaters Fire Quacker WC JH RN) on their first HRC Started pass at the High Flyers test in Pennsylvania today.  Ryan’s mom Danielle had this to say about it: “One of the most precious things about a Tidewater dog...

by | May 6, 2012 | blog

Food tubes – this is how we begin to teach scent articlesCrispin-Little gets a belly rub after a successful training session.  Learning is SOOO stressful.Spent the morning helping out at an obedience training match at Companion Dog Training.  I got to...

by | May 5, 2012 | blog

Mark with Sage, doing some de-cheating. Mary and Rowan practicing HRC set ups.Crispin learning to wait patiently. The leash helps.We had a lot of fun in Kentucky this year.  The dogs got lots of water work under their belts and Mark and I both relaxed and...

by | Apr 20, 2012 | blog

Congratulations to Rowan for his second Finished pass at the Tennessee River HRC.  Mark said he performed extremely well – stepped on his marks and two-whistled both blinds.  Not bad for the only fluffy in the whole test!

by | Apr 20, 2012 | blog

We’re visiting our friends Helen and Cliff in Kentucky and doing a bit of training.  Mark’s been here for a couple of weeks and I came down to join him on the weekend.  We were also joined this week by our friends Wendy, Marian, Nick and Trudy....