Fallowfen’s Ultimate Boy.

Friday, October 15th, 2010

Hi Guys,

As Alfie our nova scotia duck tolling retriever puppy has reached 3 months, I thought I would send you some shots of him since he has had his last shots and is out exploring the world.

Regards

Andrew and Gemma.

: Looking into the future.

: What a view.

: Thats magical.

: Thats my boy!

: Baby boy.

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New toller video!

Friday, October 15th, 2010

We have been sent a link to a toller puppy video from a puppy sired by Bomber our Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever stud dog.

Its not very often we get sent video or see videos of pet tollers on YouTube, so it was a breath of fresh air! Long may it continue and if your brave enough send us yours!!

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Black Labrador Retriever Mr Woods aka Woody.

Sunday, September 12th, 2010

Dear Amanda & Philip

As promised an update on Mr. Woods.

As you can see from the above photos he has become a real “Wild Fowler” he finds water wherever we are. Not always the cleanest I might add! He loves coming down to our little summerhaus near the beach in Suffolk and has taken it all in his stride.

He has really settled now and has his favorite advantage points in the house, in case he should miss something.

He is a joy to take on walks. He returns to us when called, whistled or signaled to and walks to heel when asked. Should we be curtailing the length of walks as he is still relatively young? He thoroughly enjoyed a 7 miler last weekend when he had a Golden Retriever to play with but we wonder if we should not have gone so far.

He is a lovely dog, more confident with us now, a joy to have as part of the family. He is great with other dogs and is smart enough to give the little snappy ones a wide birth. Nelson and he are great friends. He loves going to pubs and sits quietly under the table. We have started to leave him for longer periods now during the day. He goes through the night without chewing and we have left him a couple of times for 4 hours without disaster. We don’t use the cage at all now so will plan to return it to you ASAP. The only things he ate was our TV remote control and he pinched a ham hock from the side in the kitchen when I wasn’t paying attention! But it reminds us that he is after all still young.

He is about to have another adventure this weekend when he comes away with us in our caravan. Watch this space……

Thank you both once again for teaching him all he knows.

Regards

David,Sue & Woody Seaton

: Woody at the Summer house

: Woody relaxing

: Woody in the water

: Lets go again

: Wheres he gone!

: Woody on a country walk

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Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever updates from the summer of 2010.

Sunday, September 12th, 2010

We would like to say a big thank you for everyone that keeps in touch and sends us updates on the progress of puppies past and present.

We feel this is so important so we as responsible breeders can monitor progress on certain matings and whether or not we have produced a well balanced puppy.

We have added some of the photos for you all to enjoy!

: Lexis first day in her new home

: Toller puppy checking out local pond

: Nova scotia duck tolling retriever, willow.

: A fantastic little red duck dog

: Bracken the toller puppy

: Goodnight sweetheart

: Rusty Rose the duck dog

: Taking it all in her stride

: Donald the duck toller

: And the winner is …..

: Congratulations to all

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Thank you the boys are doing great.

Wednesday, March 31st, 2010

We thought this would be a nice email to share with you all.

Good afternoon Philip

I thought I would leave it a few weeks before I gave you an update on Ross so that I would have lots to tell you.

You’ll be pleased to know that he settled in quickly and Basil and he get on very well – lots of play fighting followed by them snuggling up together in their outside area.Basil has only had to really assert himself once and that was when Ross decided to try and take Basil’s chew bone away from him and boy did Basil tear into him – Ross has not tried since !!

The boys sleep together downstairs (Ross in a large Lintran crate which I open when I come downstairs in the morning) and neither moves until I’m all kitted out for our 6.30 am walk – I then call them each by name with a good gap between names (Basil first) – Ross understands this and is very steady – at all our garden gates, field gates,the car crate and at feeding time I continue this practice and again Ross is very steady. He was a little sick when we left you but he’s been in the car every day since and is now fine.

During the first week I did very little retrieving work with Ross concerntrating more on sit / stay / heel / come. Sit, stay and heel were as expected good and have got even better (as Ross has bonded with me) – coming to name was a problem at first again because Ross did not know me, HOWEVER, I have spent alot of time on this and he now comes to me both by name and on the whistle even if he appears interested in something else !!

This week I started on hand signals and he is getting the hang of this – yesterday I buried a couple of tennis balls in long grass and with hand movements near the tennis balls and verbal commands “THERE” and “FIND IT” in an excited voice he watched Basil find the balls – so I tried it with him and he soon started to pick it up.

Today (with Basil) he achieved his first “BACK” commands having watched Basil – this was very rewarding and he really cottoned on quickly. I am currently doing all retrieving training with the dogs side by side and Ross is very steady – I’m mixing it up so that neither knows whos retrieve it will be. As a final retrieve today I launched two large dummies a long way into some really rough grass – Ross did a great job of finding his dummy as I thought he hadn’t marked it

I can also report that having delivered a retrieve back to me Ross now walks (with some encouragement) behind me and sits on my left hand side AND when walking both dogs on the lead Basil knows his place and that’s on the outside of Ross !!!

Ross and I have also been out on two occasions with other dogs – once with my friend Mark and his 1 year old Black lab dog where we used starting pistols with retrieves well away from our dogs and Ross did very well ; and secondly we attended a puppy training class with my trainer Dave Probert – this was all about steadiness and Dave actually used Ross for part of the demo on lead work and how a dog reacts to lead tension.Ross also came back to the recall whistle along a line of 8 other dogs without taking his eyes off me !!

Believe it or not, Basil has sharpened up his retrieving because there’s another dog in close proximity – result !!

All in all we are delighted with him ( puppy wappiness and all !!) – he comes into my TV room every night with Basil and usually falls asleep at or on my feet – Mandy just can’t believe how we have bonded.

Much of what I have written here is down to you and the time you spent with Ross and for this I am very grateful – be assured he is already much loved and will have a full and happy life with us here in Leicestershire – I have taken some photographs and will send them to you shortly.

I hope that you and your family are all well and that you continue to be busy. Keep in touch.

Best regards

Simon

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: Ross

: Basil

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A long awaited update!

Monday, March 22nd, 2010

At last after a busy shooting season, and hectic 2010, we have at last had chance to sit down and update you on the events to the end of 2009 and the beginning of 2010. We have now set aside some time to try and keep you updated weekly on the events at Fallowfen Training Kennels.

We hope everyone had a fantastic end to 2009 and a great start to 2010, and hope you are all enjoying your 4 legged companions.

We are going to start by posting some photos of the offspring which have kindly been sent to us by the new owners from Flint our Golden Retriever stud dog.

: Cody – dog pup who takes after Brightfoot Kit

: Dexter – AKA Tank Boy in the litter!

: Elsa 7 months 2010

: Flint Junior with mum – Barry Little’s pup

: Ross

: Golden Retriever puppy

: Jack

: Louis – Jan 2010

: Louis Nov 09

: Louis

: Mum and pups

: A days training

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Happy Birthday to the O litter.

Sunday, July 26th, 2009

Happy Birthday to the Nova scotia duck tolling retriever litter born the 26/07/2008, the famous O litter.

Thank you for sharing their first year with fantastic photographs and updates.

: Rusty and Katrina.

: Rusty and Katrina

: Rusty

: Cuba

: Cuba

: Cuba

: Molly

: Molly

: Molly

: Molly

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Puppies sired by Canadian Champion Tollchester Seawild Cherrybomb “Bomber”.

Monday, June 15th, 2009

We have recently had a few pictures back from Bombers first litter born in the UK. I think most of the toller puppies he has sired tick all of the right boxes! Take a look.

: Toller puppies

: Toller puppies

: Toller puppies

: Toller puppies

: Toller puppies

: Toller puppies

: Toller puppies

: Toller puppies

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Fallowfen Lord Louis.

Sunday, June 14th, 2009

Hi Amanda & Phillip

I’ve been meaning to write you for a while, and send you a couple of pictures that we took of Louis while in Denmark. We brought him with us for our Easter holiday in April and we all had a fantastic time!!

He is such a wonderful dog and the kids really adores him. We just had baby boy number 3, and Louis is so protective of him.

Hope you are all good 🙂

Thanks Dorte, doesnt he look like his father.