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CROFTGUN MIDNIGHT FIZZ AT TORWOOD
Fizz is the oldest stud dog on the premises. Out of the last of the Heronsflight line, his father, Teddy (The Great Pretender at Torwood), now 11, was exported to Canada in September 2005, and is now a Canadian champion. He is retrieving duck from the Pacific Ocean as though he has been doing it all his life. In obedience he finds three minutes sit/stay the greatest challenge.
Meanwhile Fizz is working well, being very easy to train, and hopes to continue running in working tests this summer. He is a willing and easy to handle stud dog, regularly producing large litters. He is always well placed when shown as his structure is very sound and his movement free flowing, with the superb topline this kennel is noted for. It is his length of coat that lets him down, though his fantastic personality changes many would be female puppy owners to males. He has that lovely melting expression that comes from a mindset that just wants to be with you and please you all the time.
Fizz is the one Flatcoat who lives permanently in the house and he loves all our visitors, as well as the Dachshunds who also live in the house. He puts up with all sorts of abuse from the pups who start their early lives in doors.
Hips 5:8
Eyes clear PRA & HC (2009, 2010, 2011) also gonioscopy.
Carries liver
PLACED 3rd in class at Crufts 2006
Also Placed 3rd at Crufts 2005
and has many BOB's at open shows.
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ARRISTOTTLE ATHOS AT TORWOOD
Athos, has matured into a substantial and elegant Flatcoat, being the tallest of our dogs. He sired his first litter when 18 months old and took to stud work as one would expect from a male of his line of descent, coming from some of the great Flatcoats of the past.
He qualified for Crufts at his first show, and has done very well being placed best gundog puppy, and progressing to Best Of Breeds at Open Shows, and now has his Kennel Club Stud Book number gained from Championship Shows.
A late maturing dog he is easy to live with and train for field work, he took to gundog training like a 'duck to water'. He gets on well with all the other animals on the premises as well as the other stud dogs. He is a joy to have around the place fitting in so easily with our busy home life, welcoming all our many visitors so enthusiastically when he is in the house, but settling back into the kennels when it is his turn to 'live out'. He has never yet produced a liver pup even when mated to a liver bitch, so we suspect he must be a pure black boy.
Hips 3:6
Eyes clear (PRA & HC (2009, 2010, 2011) also gonioscopy.
Gained his Kennel Club Stud Book number in 2010.
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HUGO MY BOY AT TORWOOD
Hugo, our youngest and smallest stud dog at 24 inches, mated his first bitch with all the aplomb of a veteran, and has continued to produce delightful progeny, fitting into family life with ease.
Qualifying for Crufts every year, with his sound construction and easy going temperament, he will hopefully follow in his illustrious father and grandfather's footsteps, siring puppies well into old age.
A dog who is well put together with an outgoing personality, and that beautiful expression, expected, but rarely seen in a Flatcoat.
He has the thickest, flattest and most waterproof coat of all our stud dogs, proving a great asset when swimming.
He carries liver from his mother and grandmothers.
Hips 3:4
Eyes clear for PRA & HC (tested 2009, 2010, 2011) and gonioscopy.
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