"SPRING COTTAGE"
WORKING ENGLISH SPRINGER SPANIELS
AND LABRADORS
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"SPRING COTTAGE"
WORKING ENGLISH SPRINGER SPANIELS
AND LABRADORS
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Foxdigging with Foxwarren Sport II.
Foxwarren Tommy |
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We are Hajo and Elly and we live in a beautiful part of the
Netherlands, called Drenthe. Here we started to breed English Springers in
1995. Before that Elly bred Jack Russell Terriers. We mainly had our dogs from
Eddie Chapman who lives in England. We often went to England to hunt with
him. We also have a couple of Border Terriers out of working lines where we bred, showed and ran agility with. They are now our pet dogs. Sadly
our last Jack Russell "Foxwarren Tommy" died at
the age of 16.5 years.
Our purpose is to breed working springers which can be used in the field. To be able to do this, a working springer should have "drive","style" and "will to please". And we think a working springer should retrieve naturally. With our dogs we participate in "working-tests", Field Trials and we shoot over our dogs. Before we breed with our dogs, they are examined for hip-dysplasia and hereditary eye diseases.
Many years ago we bought a working Labrador from a Welsh friend. Elly started to train her and had many successes with working tests, cold game tests and multiple retrieve tests. We used her a lot for picking-up game which was flushed by the Springers. Because we liked the training of the working labrador so much, we started to train more labradors and now we can't think of a life or a shoot without them. At many shoots we go beating and picking up with the springers and labradors. We like to train our dogs the English way. Where we live we have a very good possibility to train our dogs, we have some very rough spaces with thick cover for the spaniels and big fields where we can train our labradors.
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| Tel: +31 522 473091 | e-mail: ofthespring.cottage@worldonline.nl |
WINTER !