Hunting

We handle and teach all our dogs in hunting skills. Since we start with Flatcoated Retriever back on 1996. Mostly it is Ralf`s part, but Conny has lead altohoug tests and go as beater and dog handler on hunts.
 Ralf is Dog Judge for Hunting dogs in the German Hunting Dog Society and take part of tests since 2003.
We have an own hunting area about 340ha in the north east border region 50 km east of our hometown, where we hunt and train our dogs.

We were sucessful with the most of our dogs, it started with Merlin & Lea, over CH Camwood Randy the Copper Rebell (the first with a studbook number from the JGHV), CIB CH Calebris Coco Beautyfield Mousse Btr, CH Calebris for your eyes only ("Smilla"). She was the first which i started in 2008 with at the Flatcoated Master Cup in sweden. Her sister CIE CIB CH Beautyfield's Amy Winehouse, which won Open Class at Flatcoated Mästre Kuppet 2013, and 2 times winner of the FCR Veteran Trophy in Germany. CH Black Mica's for honor & glory, CH Beautyfield's Balmain, CIE CIB CH Beautyfield's Coco Chanel, Beautyfield's Hey Mae and High Noon, and at least Telurn Coming Home.
And not to forget 2 German Wired Hair Pointers which Ralf, leads to their Studbook number.

Over the years Ralf leads many hunting dog training courses for the local hunting dog club.

In present time we are meeting only with dogs breed from our Kennel and near friends to train dogs.

We have and still organize hunting tests for the German Retriever Club, Local Hunting Clubs and the JGHV. In 2016 we have organized the Flatcoated Retriever Trophy a dualporpose competion only for FCR's with Working Tests and Show. The biggest competion for our breed yet, with more than 160 dogs each day.

We have hold Puppy, Junior and Adult hunting training and so long as we and the handlers of the dogs will have fun by that part of our hobby, we´ll do that furthermore.

Agility

Agility is a special interest from my wife Conny and Leá. It ´s a hobby and a nice working for the dogs, but not a main part of our dog work.

But after time goes by and Lea is dead, the main view of our activities are showing, huntingtraining and hunt and dummywork.

Obdience

We started obdience training, with all of our dogs, as soon as we get them from our breeders. We think it´s important for the dogs and for their life with us and all the other parts of the life.

We don´t start on competions, because there are no competions in our country. Here you have some tests and nomore, but it´s the groundstock for other workingparts, like hunting, dummywork and agility.

Another interested part is training hunting tasks with dummys. Conny and Coco train for and start at workingtests. I normally use it to train the dogs during the week, because I´ll not take game by every training. It is easy to try and you don´t need much area. On the other way in my opinion, it is only one part to train the dogs. There real abilities, will be shown only with real game under real hunting conditions. So a it´s not sure that a dummy trained dog will take cold or/and warm game during a hunting session.

Ralf participated with Smilla, Randy, ScoobyDoo, Pelle, Pippa, Svea and most sucessful with Stina on Workingtest. Biggest Sucess was the 1st place with CIE CIB CH Beautyfield's Amy Winehouse at the Flatcoated Mästre Kuppet in Västeros/SWE 2013.