Farley in the News

Farley was recently featured The Star (http://www.thestar.com/Travel/article/280718)... an article about ski boom at Fernie (where Jen & Farley work)

Little excerpt from article:

"...Avalanche dogs undergo intensive training for this moment – much of it through almost comical, but deadly serious, fetch and tug-of-war games, like Farley, a Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever, is playing right now on a snowy peak with his owner Jennifer Coulter..."

Lilly's A New Champion!

On Sunday September 16, 2007 Seastar's Northern Lilly owned by myself (Melissa Smith) and Jane Folkman became a new champion in Falmouth, Ma at the Cape Cod Kennel Club Dog show. Lilly took her last point by getting Best of Winners and Best of Opposite Sex over a Special Bitch. It was a great achievement.

Mr. Turner

Christi's Turner (Edlyn Seastar Turn of Events) is maturing into quite a boy ... and boy does he have personality!

Fun at the US Specialty

Melissa and Kaila take Open Senior 1 and 2 spots respectively.... aren't Magic and Lilly looking GOOD?!!

Sadie Wins Best Veteran at Specialty Sweeps

Jane & Sadie take the 2007 US NSDTRC Specialty by storm and walk out with BEST Veteran in Sweeps! Way to go girls.

Runner & Meadow : July 2007

Here is picture of litter mates Runner (left) and Meadow (right) - from the Reid x Lola breeding. They are close to 2 1/2 years old in this picture which was taken at Lighthouse Park in BC. Runner lives out in BC with Carol Simmerling & Alison Strang. Meadow is owned by Christine Comfort and is part of the Roaneden clan.

They are both just beautiful tollers - so typey - and have great personalities. Not only do this brother / sister team look good, they can do the work too! Both have earned their retrieving working certificates.

Magic Earns Multiple Group Placements

Magic has earned 3 group placements so far. The picture to the left is at Topsfield, MA with a Group 4 and the photo above is in Warwick, RI with his second Group 3 placement. Kaila Smith, Magic's junior co-owner is a great handler. They are a beautiful team to watch - poetry in motion!

Magic Earns 12 BOB Awards

Magic has earned 12 Best of Breed, 3 Group placements and
4 Opposite Sex Awards in 20 shows with tough NE competition.
I am thankful for the expert handling junior co-owner Kaila
Smith brings to the shows. Magic now is #7 in the breed
and all breed systems for AKC.
Here is his most recent photo at the Lakes Regions KC show in NH.

Derrie wins a BBE Sporting Group 1

Seastar's Derrie O'Balleyfore won a Bred-By Exhibitor Sporting Group First
placement at the Lakes Region Kennel Club Shows in New Hampshire. It
was my first time in the Best in Show competition in AKC for the Bred-by
Groups. It was a lovely day and nice show. Christine Pollender-Calcinari
was our judge.

Lilly's on a Roll!

Lilly took Best of Winners along with a 4 point major at the Lakes Region Kennel Club Show in Hopkinton, NH on July 12, 2007. She was competing from the 12-18 month puppy class under Judge Eugene Blake.

On the same day, Lilly was able to assist me in winning my Open Senior Class in Juniors, and then go on to win the Overall Best Junior Award under Judge Amanda M. Pough.

Lilly Takes Sporting Group Puppy 4th Place!

Melissa & Lilly take Sporting Puppy Group 4th placement at the the Wampanoag Kennel Club Show in Wrentham Ma on Sunday, July 1 under Judge P. Levi Marsman.

Don't they look GREAT! Lilly turned 1 year old on 7/9/07 and is turning into a really special girl.

Happy Birthday to Lola's July 9th pups!!

I just had to say Happy Birthday to all of Lola's July 9th pups;
George
Martha
Ohsay (now my little girl Nya)
Canyou
Liberty
Belle
DUI

Here's a pix of my Nya taken today on her birthday!

If at all possible, I would love to see pix of her sisters/brothers as well!

Eileen, Joey and Nya

Summer Dog Days

Summer is in full swing here in Mass. Yesterday was a beautiful day, 2 swims, 1 walk and multiple throws of both Lola & Gracie's favorite squeaky balls. Took a few photos - Lola is now just over 5 years old and Gracie 2 1/2 years old. They are both doing great - happy & healthy.

Farley Update

Just thought I would give a little Farley update. This spring Farley and I certified as a Ground Search team. That means we are now available for missing persons searches as well as avalanche searches.

We are keeping busy doing some summer searches and working some fun obedience. Farley's favorite (next to searching) is getting to go hiking with me at work. He thinks it is a REAL SAME he is not allowed to chase ground squirrels though!

Cool to hear all about all the young Seastar pups growing up and doing so great in their chosen venues. I am really going to try to go to the Am. Specialty so I can see all these fine dogs I always hear about!

Cheers,

Jennifer

2 New HRC Titles

Sadie and Magic earned their started field titles from Granite State and Yankeewaterfowlers hunting retriever clubs in 4 straight passes.

Judges Wayne Sumner on the left and Jim Pearson on the right were the judges who awarded the ribbons and titles. It was fun despite gastly weather conditions.

Nelia and Callan

Ok, Jane is always bugging me about photos of Callan, so I finally got one of Nelia and him. Nee is SO good with him. :) If you want to see more cute pictures of Callan his blog is at http://callanpages.blogspot.com/ Now Callan just needs to figure out if he stays out of the dog bed he might not have as much dog hair in his mouth! Callan is 21 months and Nelia is 11 months in this photo.

Sara and Nelia

Nelia Update

We have been hanging low lately. Next time we show is Memorial Day weekend for the Region 2 supported entry. We have had a fair number of boarders lately and Nelia has been having a blast. This is Murphy a Puggle....he has some behavioral issues that Nelia thinks would be better if he had a playmate like her. The white and red dog is a Swedish-Danish Farm Dog (a name almost as good as ours...) She is Nelia's best friend, Lucy. Nelia is on the left of the ball with Dara tugging with her and Lucy trying to figure out how to help Nelia.

Magic's Hat Trick

Magic earned his CD on Easter with a Hat

Trick. He earned his CD with 3 first place

wins in 3 straight trials. Can you tell that

he was having fun with the Easter Bunny

and entertaining the photographer and onlookers.

As always we were having a LOT OF FUN!

Derrie is Best of Winners

Derrie won Winner's Bitch and Best of Winners at the Troy Kennel Club Show. It was her very first weekend showing. She is lovely and a very sweet Toller. She went on to earn more points toward

her championship at Warwick. Thanks to Ed and Michele McGrath for letting me have her a few weeks in April to start her show career.

Finn's Group 4

Christine called me to let me know that Finn earned
a Sporting Group 4 placement on 3/17/07 at the
young age of 9 months old. We are so proud of this
up and coming Toller team. North and south of the
border the Reid X Sadie Seastar kids are showing well.

Lilly and Melissa win big at NESGA

Seastar's Northern Lilly owned and handled by Melissa Smith earned a 4-pt major under judge Doug Johnson at the NESGA show on 3/18/07 competing from the 6-9 month puppy class. Melissa also won her Junior class with Lilly taking her second first place win. We are very proud of Lilly who is finally looking as if conformation can be fun. We are also proud of Melissa. Well done!

Late Winter Nor'easter

Hit with Mar 16 Nor'easter that left 12" snow on us (and me stranded in NYC trying to get home)... while a pain for us humans, Lola & Gracie LOVED it. A few pictures of them outside playing the back yard.

We cannot wait for spring to come and to start field training in earnest. Gracie is a machine in the field (never enough retrieving for her) and Lola, the one who wouldn't swim, well - now she will swim through ice chunks, mud, sticks - whatever! Crazy dogs.

Leprechauns

I wanted to share this cute photo sent by Michele and Ed McGrath who are now new grandparents of little leprechaun Devon and owners of Seastar's Derrie O' Balleyfore. Devon is just a wee lad and Derrie adores him all ready.

Magic's Group 3

Magic earned a Sporting Group 3

placement at the Elm City KC show

in Hartford on Feb 17th with new

junior co-owner Kaila Smith. This

was Kaila's first show - she took

the Breed, a Group placement and

a first place in her Junior's class.

She had to run between rings

and did so with ease. I would

have fainted!

Hope is a New Champion

Announcing Ch. Seastar's Hi Hope. Hope finished her Championship in 5 straight shows with 3 majors, all BW wins, several BOS

and even a Best of Breed over a group winning special - her brother Magic. Hope was only 8 months old when she completed her point requirements for AKC and is our youngest BBE Champion. She loves to show like her daddy Reid and her mom Sadie.

Farley Validates as Avalanche Rescue Dog

One day before his second birthday, Farley and I passed our CARDA valadation exam. We are now an operational avalanche rescue team. Thanks to Jane and Laurie for this hard working little boy!

Cheers,

Jennifer

New Nelia Photos

Nelia and I went to the BIG IKC benched shows this weekend. We only made it down for 2 of the days we were entered. (my son Callan go sick so we missed the last day) We did not get any points but she learned that showing can be FUN! And that judges touching your butt will not kill you ;-) She was bored on our "off" day so she found my son's new ball. Then I have a new board and train client named Jace. The two of them have been having a blast running around in the snow. Jace is a 12 week old "husky" puppy, very cute and very sassy, just the way we like them! Some day the snow will melt and I can post photos with green in them.

Until then we'll try and stay warm.

Sara and Nelia (NEE-Lah) Seastars Serandipity 4 Duckpin

Nya Starr (LolaXRanger)

Attaching photos once again...
Eileen

Nya Starr (LolaXRanger)

Pix of Nya while Hiking (February, 2007)! She looks so much like Lola!! Absolutely beautiful!
Eileen, Joey and Nya

Zoey the Wonder Dog

Zoey handled by Lauren had an outstanding weekend at a CPE agility competition. Zoey received a total of 8 qualifying legs (out of 8 – 4 on Saturday and 4 on Sunday) and came in 1st place on 3 of the legs, 2nd place on 3 of the legs and 4th place on 2 of the legs.We were most pleased that Zoey also scored High in Trial for the entire competition besting more than 125 dogs by getting the highest combined scores for all her runs. She SURE loves agility and those hurdles!!! Check her fly over this one!

Farley/work

An early morning chair lift evacuation practice, and Farley at work with a little blue sky! We are busy training lots these days, winter is flying by.

Seastar Has Hope

Here are the recent show photos of Hope. She went 3 for 3 shows earning all the points for Winner's Bitch and Best of Winners for 2 - 4 point majors and on the final day took Best of Breed for another 3 point major. Hope loves to show and will do anything for cheese. She is a real love bug too. Jane Folkman