Sun Devil Blog | sundevil | Jim Kofron

AWS National Specialty 8/12/10

Sat, 14 Aug 2010 11:58:36 -0500

What an honor it was for Grace to be asked to come to the American Water Spaniel Club National Specialty held in New London Wisconsin to handle several dogs. Long time breeder of AWS and handler and good friend, Linda Hattrem, invited Grace to join her and give a hand. Grace handled Kylends Bon Vivant, bed and owned by A Prior, to Winners Bitch! Then handled Ch. Carolina's Wild Marc Hare RE NA NAJ, bred and owned by Lois McCracken, to Select Bitch in the BOB competition! Judge was Mr. Dana Cline. All in all a GREAT experience for her and so much fun to boot!

Bebe earns her 3rd AKC Senior hunter Leg! July 2010

Sun, 08 Aug 2010 21:34:43 -0500

Congratulations to Bebe , SHR Ch. Sun Devil Nil Volentigus Arduum JH WC UWC, owned by Dawn Fleming and Ellen Manes, and trained and handled by Dawn, on her 3rd Senior Hunter leg! One more to go girls!

QWIK EARNS HER AKC JUNIOR HUNTER TITLE july 2010!!

Sun, 08 Aug 2010 21:30:08 -0500

Congratulations to Qwik and Aubrey, as Qwik earned her AKC Junior Hunter Title this past weekend in Wisconsin, with their 4th leg and 5th bonus leg! Yeah for Team Aubrey and Qwik, these two are just amazing!

Stewart earns his AKC Championship! May 31, 2010

Sun, 08 Aug 2010 20:53:23 -0500

At the tender age of just under 8 months old, Stewart finished his AKC Championship at the Kalamazoo Kennel Club show weekend going BOW three days out of 4 for 3, three point majors! Stewart finished with a 5 point major, three 3 point majors and a single point all from the Bred-By class! Stewie will now sit at home and grow up for a while and get ready to head out to Australia to join Tony Eales and the Cudyncae Gundogs! On a side note, Grace showed Stewie in juniors on one day and earned a nice 3rd place in a big class of open seniors!

Grace earns an aom at the wisconsin best junior handler competition 2010 with her field spaniel "Ritz"

Sun, 08 Aug 2010 20:44:57 -0500

Grace once again defends her title as one of the top junior handlers in the state of Wisconsin earning her way into the final 4 and then going on to earn a Judges Award of Merit and a $250.00 college scholarship! She did this showing Ritz, Ch. Calico Putting on the Ritz, co-owned with Becki Hirschy and Kylie Jo Hirschy Seivert. Grace and Ritz also did this at the 2009 competition! Way to go team Grace and Ritz!

Pictured here Grace and Ritz in the finals!

CCRCA National Specialty 2010

Wed, 28 Apr 2010 09:01:36 -0500

HOLY COW! That is all I can say. I travelled with my good friend Ellen Manes, my 6 month old puppy Stewart and 10 month old puppy Olive(owned by Dawn Fleming) to Claremont California to compete at our national specialty as well as a regional specialty of the Northern California Curly Coated Retriever Club, and an all breed show at the Angeles Canyon Kennel Club show. WE HAD AMAZING SUCCESS!!

Stewart, Sun Devil I've Gotta Feeling for Cudyncae

CCRCA Best in Puppy Sweeps!

CCRCA Best of Winners for a 5 point major! (from the bred-by class)

CCRCA Best Bred By Exhibitor

NCCCRC Best of Opposite Puppy Sweeps

NCCCRC Reserve Winners dog

Angeles Canyon Kennel Club Reserve Winners dog

Stewart's sire, Ch. Down DaTrail Hunting Thrills CD was CCRCA BISS!!

Stewart's litter brother Ozzy, (Sun Devil Black Sabbath at Tika) owned by Diann Tongco, was first in his CCRCA 6-9 month puppy class, and second behind Stewart in their CCRCA puppy sweeps class! Both boys were together in the winners dog class at the CCRCA specialty! What an honor.

Olive, Brio's Olives At Bellagio (Chant x Bob) bred and owned by Dawn Fleming

CCRCA Best Opposite Puppy Sweeps

CCRCA Reserve Winners Bitch

NCCCRC Best Puppy in Sweeps

NCCCRC Reserve Winners Bitch

CCRCA Breeder of the Year 2009, CCRCA Top Junior Handler to Grace, Ann Brenner BOW Trophy Recipient

It was so much fun spending time with good friends that we so only so often! Lovely weather, a bit cold for a couple days but still nice. Beautiful area!

Grace Rocks Westminster!

Tue, 06 Apr 2010 10:53:15 -0500

WOW!! Three cheers for Grace and Darcy, CH Winfarthing Pride and Prejudice MH, taking Westminster Kennel Club by storm and in her first year qualifying to compete in junior showmanship at this show, earns a place in the top 8 juniors to go to the finals. To get to the finals, Grace competed in one of the 4 preliminary classes on Monday February 15. In each prelim class there were 30-35 juniors. Grace and Darcy won their class of 33 juniors under judge William Vandiver, to earn her spot in the finals. Finals took place on Tuesday February 16. Jennifer Pahl was the judge. Grace and Darcy looked amazing, and despite Darcy being somewhat under the weather earlier that day, he rose to the occasion for Grace and looked and showed for her just unbelievable. They did not get one of the top 4 placements in the finals, even though we all sure thought she showed well enough to do so. She did however, earn a 500.00 college scholarship for making the finals! We all had a great time in New York City and could not be more proud of Grace and what she accomplished!

Carmen has her pups October 5, 2009

Thu, 08 Oct 2009 11:34:31 -0500

Carmen decided to bring her pups into the world the HARD way. On early Sunday morning 7 healthy puppies were deliverd by C-section at Harris Pet Hospital by the capable hands of Dr. Rosie Hatcher and assitants, including Jim and I. In the wee hours of Sunday morning, the 7 babies came home to join their two siblings born naturally that evening. All together 9 pups. 5 males, 4 females, in that, 1 liver boy, 1 liver girl Mom and babies are doing great. Click HERE to see pics.

Bebe and Qwik rock the hunt tests! september 26, 27, 2009.

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 08:22:28 -0500

In Ohio both Bebe and Qwik had success at the hunt tests! Qwik and Aubrey earned their THIRD Junior Hunter leg! One more to go! Dawn and Bebe earned their FIRST Senior Hunter leg! Way to go to these very talented team of girls!!

Another Jh Leg for Qwik!

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 06:49:20 -0500

Miss Qwik the wonder Curly earned another leg to her Junior Hunter title at the Madison Retriever club's fall hunt test. Way to go Qwik!!!

Qwik shown here with her trainer/handler for the day Kyle Knoke of Chesapeake Waters Kennels.

Grace is going to Westminster! September 20, 2009

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 06:44:57 -0500

Grace has achieved her dream of going to compete at the Westminster Kennel Club dog show in February by earning her 10th first place win in open competition in AKC junior showmanship! Grace got her qualifying win at the Sheboygan Kennel Club show on Sunday September 20th! She showed her liver and tan Field Spaniel "Beep" that she co-owns with Wyn Overholt. We are all very excited for Grace and we will have a great time in New York City!

08/31/09 Carmen is expecting!

Mon, 31 Aug 2009 21:09:40 -0500

Yeah wooo hooo!! Carmen is expecting puppies! Today she went to see the vet and get an ultrasound to check for a pregnancy. SUCCESS!! We are so excited about the upcoming babies at Sun Devil!! Now it's time to get the whelping room ready and get Carmen ready to whelp puppies!

Here is a pic from Carmen's ultrasound! You can see one little baby in there, it's little feet and umbilical cord!

HRC Started title for Qwik 8-23-09

Mon, 24 Aug 2009 08:15:52 -0500

Another GREAT weekend for Qwik and Aubrey, this time, running an HRC test at Bong Recreational Area in Brighton, and earning their Started Hunting Retriever Title!!! I see nothing but GREAT things for these two!!

JH leg for qwik! August 15,09

Sun, 16 Aug 2009 13:44:54 -0500

This liver girl and her amazingly talented owner Aubrey keep up their string of successful weekends with Qwik earning her first AKC Junior Hunter leg on Saturday!! Way to go girls, you never cease to amaze me!! Here's to three more legs and your title!

QWIK EARNS HER WCX!! August 8, 2009

Thu, 13 Aug 2009 08:07:09 -0500

Qwik continues to soar, running a Golden Retriever WC and WCX at Bong Recreational Area. The WCX run by the Golden Club is a harder test than the curly coat WCX, as it contains a land triple and a water double with an honor! She nailed both tests! Our Curly WCX is a water and land double, and an honor. I continue to be in awe of Aubrey and Qwik as they add on yet another couple titles to Qwik's already lengthening name!! Way to go girls!

Update from Carmen 8/4/09

Tue, 04 Aug 2009 20:53:51 -0500

Mommy...it's me, Carmen! I sneaked away from that boy dog who keeps jumping on me and found the typing box thing that his person has. I can't use the talking thing, because I don't have thumbs, so I can only use this.

The boy dog's person is really nice to me sometimes. She takes me for walks and lets me sleep in her room...and she gives me cookies and water with ice cubes in it (those are really fun to play with), but then she brings the boy dog in, and he's so much fun to play with too, but then he DOES THINGS to me...and I just KNOW that he has a video camera hidden somewhere, and that he's going to show it to all his boy dog friends. I'm going to be SOOOO embarassed! The other times were NOT like this! He made me stand there stuck to him for, like, 12 MINUTES today!

The boy dog's person told me that I was being a good, brave girl, but I don't know. It just didn't seem right. I tried to tell her that it wasn't supposed to work like that, but she just kept scratching my ears and telling me I was good. I don't know if I believe her.

Oh no! They are coming in now...I have to go so they don't know I sneaked onto the typing box. Please tell the boy dog's person that I can come home NOW!!

More junior wins for GRace; 6, 7, 8 and 9! 7/25-8/4/09

Sun, 02 Aug 2009 20:39:19 -0500

In the last couple weeks Grace has been going strong in the juniors ring!! At the Waukesha Kennel Club July 25, Grace and her Field Spaniel Darcy she co-owns with Sonya Haskell and Jeff Zachow, earned a huge first place in open senior and went on to take BJH over 45 junior entries! Grace earned her 7 first place and another BJH at the Burlington Wisconsin Kennel Club show on July27, again showing Darcy!

This past weekend in Marshall Michigan, Grace took back to back Best Junior Handler Awards for a total of 45 points, showing CJ, her Pointer she owns with Trudy Golden! One more to go to qualify for Westminster Kennel Club show in February!

Grace showing Darcy, Ch. Winfarthing Pride and Prejudice SH for a BIG first place and BJH in Waukesha July 25!!!

Goose finishes his CH in style! July 26, 2009

Sun, 02 Aug 2009 20:36:18 -0500

Wow!!! What a great weekend in Waukesha this year for Goose. He is now CH Sun Devil Veni Vidi Viici of Hot Feet!! On Saturday July 25, Goose took WD then BOB over 3 dog specials and a bitch special for a 5 point major, then went on that afternoon to earn a sporting group 4 award. Not just any group 4, but one worth 527 points!!! HUGE. On Sunday, Goose again took the dog major to finish his AKC CH!! Congratulations to Laura Bauer and Dylan Brannon and Goose!!

go to Goose's page

Carmen is off to Thriller for breeding!

Sun, 19 Jul 2009 09:51:54 -0500

Carmen left for Ohio on July 18 to be bred to Thriller when the time is right! We are very happy that Suzanne Macre has obliged us on this next adventure! Click on this link for information on this litter CARMEN X THRILLER

FLASH!!! Carmen has been bred, and will be coming back to me on August 8!!! Now the waiting game begins!

Bebe is an AKC Champion!

Fri, 17 Jul 2009 10:36:36 -0500

The lovely Bebe, is now CH Sun Devil Nil Volentigus Arduum JH WC UWC! Bebe earned her CH title with style, finishing with 4 major wins! She finished at the Ann Arbor Kennel Club show in Monroe Michigan, July 4th! Thanks to Mary Meek for handling her to this title, and to Ellen Manes for transporting her there!