HAPPY 6th Birthday

to all, Yeats, Murphy, Freddie,

Murphy2, Ben, Woody, Nessie, Boomer, Skye, Megan and Esta



Boomer

This is Boomer and her friend out on a walk late last year,
she is Sonic's aunt and Yeat's sister
lovely to get updates from owners

Nessie doing agility

Above and below shows Nessie practicing her agility, she is also lightly shown and is part of her owners local demonstration team and now goes to events where she can be seen doing her bit, last time she was required to take washing of a clothes line, she chose a bright red pair of undies, to put in the wash basket.
She is auntie to Sonic and Mars

HOMES NEEDED

Two of Yeats and Pagans sons require homes
they are now 9 weeks and have had first injections
contact either myself on
ichbinlm@hotmail.com
or 01778 560223
or their breeder Tina on
christina.williamson@gmx.com
or phone and leave message
01674 840932

Yeats is a daddy to 9

Yeats and Pagan
are proud to announce
the arrival of
9 gordon setter pups
born 26 02 2011

Anybody interested should contact Tina on
01674 840932
email christina.williamson@gmx.com
or myself
01778 560223
ichbinlm@hotmail.com

If no answer leave message and number and we will call you back
Photos to follow as soon as I have them

Nessie wins

Nessie who belongs to Ali, is proving she has brains as well as beauty, she got her Kennel Club Good Citizen's awards at an early age,
Bronze, Silver and Gold.
Now older she is proving good at Agility, and won her Club event
Well done Ali and Nessie

CRUFTS 2010

WELL DONE TO THE SHOW TEAM
TODAY AT CRUFTS

Hannah & Fudge got 3rd in a Handling Class

Sherril & Bosch - Ichbin Bushmills - 4th - Veteran Dog
Sharon & Marli - Ichbin Pagus of Rockfest - 4th - Veteran Bitch
Jo & Annie - Ichbin Ocean Magic - 2sd - Post Graduate Bitch
Simon and Noodle - Celtaur Atlantic Seal JW - 4th Limit Bitch

Ali and Yeats - Fluich Celtic Sword was unplaced in his large class but behaved and is enjoying his day out.

CONGRATULATIONS CHEVY

CONGRATULATIONS, CONGRATULATIONS,
to
ALAN & CHEVY
CELTAUR BEALTUINN OF PALANGOR
BIS
(BEST IN SHOW)
GORDON SETTER ASS. OPEN SHOW
judge Leslie Bain

well done to Ali for handling my Yeats, FLUICH CELTIC SWORD
T0
1st in 3 classes

Woody and Ben

This is Woody on the left and Ben on the right of Neil, Woody's owner, they are brothers. Woody live with Loiuse, Neil and baby Finlay, Ben lives with Louse's mum Joan, and often out together, and see each other most days, they are Tarots sons, who features on the previous post. Thanks for the lovely photo's

leeds champ show 2009

WELL DONE to Paulyne and Merlin for winning limit dog
WELL DONE to Angie and Satchmo for second in post graduate dog

well done to the new partnership of Ali and Yeats who stood 3rd in Junior dog, he is aspiring to take after his relative Chevy, below is a photo of them getting it together at Leeds on Saturday, Ali is also new to showing and on a learning curve.

Thanks to Ali for showing him and Simon for taking the photos

playing catch up........................................................

WELL DONE TO THE ICHBIN'S AND FLUICH WHO WENT TO BLACKPOOL last weekend and WINDSOR yesterday, not forgetting the CELTAUR relatives..

My Yeats with Hannah winning FIRST, then with Ali getting 2 4th's
Angie and Satchmo qualifying for Crufts 2010 at Blackpool
Alan and Paulynes Chevy who stood 2sd at both shows, and at Windsor got called back in to challenge for the Rcc..........
Alan and Paulynes Merlin who stood 3rd and 2sd.
Tina's 3 munsters at Blackpool:- Obi winning puppy and junior dog
Freckles 2sd in puppy bitch and 4th in Junior at Blackpool
Onyx 3rd in post grad bitch

Busy week

Yeats looking fed up, he was hoping to be able to go with me when I fetched the dog papers.



The new dog pen now mostly slabbed, been a labour of love this week as father started this and then fell over watering his garden and hurt his knee so I had to finish it..................... next bright idea can I have somebody else do the donkey work, nearly done but some will need leveling, wanted to finish last night before the rain came and gap wasn't big enough for the slab hence the brick


Later the same day when I had done some more and Tweed was investigating why Yeats was sat on the soil in the wheel barrow, think she thought he was mad, but he kept jumping in it while I was putting the soil in earlier in the week...........

Yeats sat up looking handsome and proud sat on his wheel barrow full of soil when I was coming through the gate after watering the garden

The soil I moved from the dog area had to go somewhere!!!!! So decided to make a border, but it ended up much bigger than I had thought and had to buy plants to fill it up, not impressed at that. Just the area in front now to sort out when I feel up to it.

This has been done between going to the vets, shopping, taking father to hospital, looking after the pups and other dogs. Must say was delighted yesterday when Yeats name sake won the Ascot Gold Cup for the record breaking 4th year in a row.

THAT WAS THE WEEK THAT WAS............................

Monday May 26th This was taken am today as I went in to clean out box as you can see mum and babies now fine and relaxed. Think the pups will think they are related to Yeats, as Tweed allows him in to sniff the pups when she is in there. Excuse the marks on vet bed etc thought it was worth taking the photo anyway...........
Monday 25th May Finished staining the fence, most of it done sitting on a chair as knee and ankle too painful otherwise, father managed to lay 2 slabs as I am not a lot of help.
Sunday 24th May A NIGHTS SLEEP.................. peaceful Tweed and household, after mentioning all this to Tweeds breeder she reminded me Tweeds gran did not like the door to the whelping room closed, so against all odds, left door open and now she comes and goes as she pleases, milk now in big time and everybody happy.
Ali kindly brought Yeats back lunch time after his weekend away and did wonder what Tweed would do with him going in the puppy room, she set the ground rules, you come in when I am in there but not when I am not, all it took was her chasing him out once now no bother and everybody relaxed.
Saturday 23rd May Congratulations to Ali and Nessie at Bath as placed in 2 big classes and well done Hannah and Yeats as they were also placed. (Photos will be up when Ali sends me them)

Pups now 5 days, beginning to go back to a bit of normal life........... This is Saturday late on and finally cracked the situation with Tweed, after no sleep and out staining the fence at 5am to get some peace, with Balian asleep on the garden too, gave in and went back to vets who couldn't find anything wrong with Tweed, another lot of medication and me in a foul mood cause of no sleep, came home and did everything on auto pilot .
Friday 22sd May. Still very tired but Tweed had a good night. Think medication helped. Ali came to pick up Yeats to go and be groomed ready for BATH champ show on Saturday as she was taking him and Hannah to the show, he was staying out as groomed in Nottingham and Ali lives in Essex......... Alan and Ed came and put up my new fencing and the paving slabs were delivered. Thanks to those 2 garden is beginning to take shape.
Thursday 21st May In vets by 8.30am not feeling good and bothered what was wrong, they found nothing but gave her medication to help her milk come in after a very comprehensive check up. When finally went on here late evening found the photo below send to me from Jenny...........................................
with email saying thanks for letting them have Tarot earlier in the year as he had helped Cash and them through May 15th a year since they lost their beloved Visa and hoped the photo of Cash and Tarot singing to Pete helped me through today as it was 2 years ago I had to let Freya go, and she knew I was dreading the day and may needed cheering up, what she did not know was what was happening this end............ yes it worked and pleased he has helped you 3.

Wednesday 20th May As you can see mum and babies relaxed, that same day Tweed decided she wasn't staying in whelping room with pups as her milk had not come in and was distressed and couldn't feed the babies, so I hand fed overnight to see if milk would come in, by 7am it hadn't so off to the vets we drove.
Tuesday 19th May Pretty uneventful, tried to catch up on sleep and jobs as you do.........

A wet Friday morning!!!!!!!

I made it up here!! Balian asleep, first time he managed to get up on the settee

Tweed feeling a little full after breakfast, more to do with pregnancy I think

Satchmo (dad to be) and Tweed (mum to be ) resting on a very wet morning

Balian chewing a toy, the photo below says it all!!!!

Yeats warming through by the fire looking back over at Balian chewing his toy.

When I got up this morning was well pleased had decided not to go to Edinburgh to SKC champ show, as it was raining really hard and thought of keeping Yeats clean............ no way. Good luck to all those souls who did brave it today.

Skye Sona's daughter

This is Skye, she lovely, and she looks so pretty and cute, a real lady but looks can be very deceptive, thanks keep in touch

Chelmsford open show today

The Fluich gang and Uncle Chevy

Took Yeats out so Hannah could practice and they performed well so thanks Hannah.
Nessie and Ali also in same class and both did well by being 3rd in Junior
Alan and Chevy (Celtaur Bealtuinn of Palangor) won post grad

The Munsters

Paulyne and Merlin (Celtaur African Swallow of Palangor) won post grad, he is Flikka and Tweeds brother.
Best of Breed went to Indi (Sh Ch Yeladoaks Hot Favourite of Palangor) well done Alan and Indi
Indi is a son of an Ichbin bitch but Indi is bred by Janet Smith

Murphy 1 a Sona and Tarot pup

This is Murphy 1 sat on the beach, makes me feel that summer maybe coming, after previous posts, looks very happy, thanks to his owner for sending the photos and the updates

Boomer in the snow from earlier on in 2009

Boomer and her pal Dan having a whale of a time in the snow we had back earlier in 2009, she seems to be enjoying herself more than Dan by the look on his face, Thanks for the lovely photos, kept one back for later as think it is really really good

WELKS 2009 Photos

A few photos below showing WELKS at it's best


Alan and Chevy on the move in Post Graduate dog, what a lovely sunny day


Another one showing off Chevy and Alan on the move, again in perfect harmony



Chevy and Alan stood so judge can look



Lorraine and Demi on the move, again both striding out


Lorraine and Demi stood waiting for the judge to make her mind up


Lorraine and Nessie on the move, showing her for Ali



Nessie and Lorraine stood waiting for the judge to see if they are placed


Hannah and Yeats with the judge going over him, partnerhip first time out, they need practice but it will come in time

Nessie's first birthday bash

Nessie flying round showing off to Sonar on her birthday


Ruby telling her mum what Nessie is doing with Sonar

Nessie after she had opened her pressies with Ruby in the background, above and below




Ruby saying she couldn't wait to be told she can start the cake!! Sonar and Nessie just lay down waiting

The birthday cake before it was demolished. Made from doggy goodies.

Thanks to Ali for the party photos, the other dogs featured are Ali's other dogs