We have added a new hound to our kennel. Kacey is a 7 month old patch female out of Shildt's Smokeypatch and Shildt's Hollypatch. She is a nice looking dog and is a chocolate tri (looks quite a bit like her sire). For a young pup she does a nice job hunting and will start and run her own rabbit. So now we have 3 young dogs to work with! It will be a busy Spring/Summer!
Copper and Boo are also coming along nicely. Boo is just coming out of heat so she'll have some catching up to do but they are pleasing us so far. Every female in our kennel (except Kacey) is either in heat right now or has just come out within the week!! So needless to say, the males have gotten to run a lot! I believe that we will be breeding Dozer to Amber sometime next week, if everything goes as planned we should have a patch litter in mid-June.
Gunner did a really nice job in the 2 trials I took him to last month. If it wasn't for a newbie handler (that would be me-Stacy) he probably would have won both casts, but hey that's the way it goes. I was very proud of him, especially because he is almost 8 yrs old and running against much younger hounds. I was very nervous about going to the 1st (and 2nd) trial but everyone was very nice and I would feel much more comfortable now having gotten some experience. We are hoping to get to one or two ARHA trials to check them out also.
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