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itty
is now officially qualified to run the 2008 Master Nationals!!
The 2008 Event will be in Hibbing, MN September 19-28. The host
club is the Minnesota Iron Range Retriever Club www.mirrc.org.
Kitty ended her 2007 hunt test season with two Master passes
which applied toward the five needed to qualify her to run the
'08 event. Under the heavy thumb of her trainer, Pat McHale
of Ridgewood
Kennels, she ran 4 more Master tests this spring and passed
three, thus qualifying her for the '08 MN's. Cindi and I are
very proud of Kitty and very grateful to Pat for getting her
this far. If you want to see an example of a well paired team
watch Pat and Kitty as they run a Master test together.
Due to our interest in getting Kitty qualified for the '08
MN's we chose not to breed her this year. If we decide to breed
her next season it would likely be in February '09. That would
have us whelping her next litter in April 2009.
HRCH UH Rebels Dazlin Texas Gunsmoke MH "Miss Kitty" |
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ason
earned his first Master Hunter pass in the spring of '06 under
Pat, his trainer. I ran him in Master tests in the fall of '06
mainly for the experience. Due to my inexperience and his unbridled
nature we didn't get any more passes, but I sure learned a lot
and have a lot more confidence in handling him.
Our
2007 Hunt Test season started out well with a Master pass at
Port Arthur, TX., bringing Mason to a total of 3 Master passes.
He currently needs only needs 2 more passes for a Master Hunter
Title.
Mason
also went to South Dakota with me in November '07 to hunt pheasants.
He is an awesome pheasant hunter and has been nick-named the
"Tasmanian Devil" by one of my good friends due to
his ability to find and flush pheasants at an unrelentless and
rapid pace while skillfully quartering within gun range. Mason
covers more ground and flushes more pheasants than any other
Lab I've seen. And through the years he's learned the important
task of sitting (or staying put) after the flush until he is
released, something you don't see much on the outdoor networks
on TV.
HRCH
UH Lone Star's Cream-O'-da-Crop SH "Mason" |
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ater
is doing well and having fun.He also made the long trip to South
Dakota in early November of '07 and did a really great job hunting
wild pheasants. On our 2nd day of hunting Tony and I were walking
a fence line and Tater suddenly began shuffling in the dense
cover and came out with a live pheasant in his mouth! We think
it may have been a bird that was wounded from a previous encounter
with us, but maybe not. Just another good reason to hunt pheasants
with a well trained retriever!
After
we returned home just for the heck of it I ran Tater in two
HRC Upland Hunt tests and he passed both. On Thanksgiving morning
Tater joined me on a duck hunt near Eagle Lake, TX., where he
was the sole working dog and retrieved every bird that was shot.
The following week Tater was on the road again to Kansas with
his trainer Pat McHale to hunt pheasants for the 2nd time this
fall.
The
fall '07 and spring ''08 hunt test seasons were tough but good
for me and Tater. We ran several Master level tests and struggled,
but we finally closed the '07 season with his 2nd Master pass.
We started back up in the spring of '08 running a couple Master
level tests and one Finished level. We came so close to another
Master pass but our wheels fell off on the last bird of the
3rd series. A few weeks later we ran a very tough HRC Finished
level test and Tater SMACKED it with no handles on the marks
and some pretty clean blind retrieves, earning his HRCH title!!
I am soo proud of that boy right now!
HRCH
UH Ma's Lil High Carb Tater Bob SH "Tater"
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e currently
have no puppies for sale. We have decided we will not breed Kitty
this season, mostly for her sake, but ours as well. We also wanted
to get a few more Master passes on her so she could qualify to run
the 2008 Master Nationals. Things worked out well so Kitty will be
entered in the 2008 Event held in Hibbing, MN September 19-28. Since
Kitty's heat cycle only comes around once a year it will likely be
Jan/Feb of '09 before we breed her again, and if it is possible we
might do a repeat breeding with Norman since their last litter turned
out so well. That would have her next litter whelping around the middle
of April '09. We will very likely take first pick and keep one of
her yellow or black female pups.
Please
Contact us if you would like help finding a well bred Labrador pup.
Though we have none at this time we know of several other reputable
breeders who have or will have litters info@lonestarlabradors.com.
Please follow this
link
to learn more about Kitty and Norman's '07 breeding and to see photos
of the puppies.
More
photos and information about Miss Kitty can be found here. Please keep
in mind we are currently breeding only once a year and our waiting
list usually fills up fast.
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ne thing we know you
would agree with is an unhealthy pup is not good. When you bring your
new pup home, you don't want to spend a lot of time and money at the
Doc's office trying to figure out what's wrong with your pup. We also
care about the health of your pup as it matures. That's why we do
our homework prior to breeding, making sure both Dam and Sire are
capable of producing good, healthy litters. Though we cannot guarantee
any given pup will not have any health problems, we can assure you
we will guarantee certain health aspects of all our pups. Click here to see our Health Guarantee.
You will find a printable version of it as well.
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ecause we usually
breed only once a year, we feel obligated to helping those looking
for quality Labs for hunting and hunt tests while we are in our off-season.
Therefore, we like to refer business to other breeders/kennels that
we feel you would be happy with. If it happens that you decide one
of their pups is better suited for your needs than one of ours, that
is fine with us too. We sometimes owe them favors anyway. Most offer
professional obedience and gun dog training as well.
Below
you will find links to some breeders, kennels, and trainers we are
happy to recommend to you. Please let them know we sent you.
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