Now Retired
This page is provided to give you some background
information on dogs that we own and that you may see appearing in our
pedigrees.
Call name: Savi
Born: May 27, 1995 -- 16 years old
CERF: AWS 240/2004-110
OFA Hip: AWS-302E25F-T
OFA Thyroid: AWS-TH1/92F-PI
OFA Cardiac: AWS-CA49/72F/C-PI
Savi is one of our favorite hunting companions, possessing remarkable
drive and poise in the field. She showed promise from her first day of field
training when she was just eight weeks of age and always stood in the wings
waiting to take the place of her grandmother Teal. Savi has spent many a day
in the marshes and meadows of Michigan and North Dakota hunting everything
from grouse and pheasant to ducks and geese. She was a great working dog and
one of our special companions. Although retired she still enjoys a brief
hunt every now and then.
Call name: Ceska
Born: March 19, 1997 -- 14 years old
CERF: AWS 310/2004--82
OFA Hip: AWS-353G24F-T
OFA Thyroid: AWS-TH3/70F-PI
OFA Cardiac:AWS-CA50/51F/C-PI
Ceska was a great little hunting dog, a tireless retriever, and a
fantastic mom. Like her mother Savi, and her grandmother Teal, she was
dynamite in the field but she really exceled as a water dog. Keeping Ceska
out of the water was nigh on to impossible and having another dog beat her to
a retrieve was pretty much unheard of. Ceska loves people and, at times,
seems to think she is one. She is as much at home sitting in your lap as she
was sitting in a duck blind. In short, she is just the kind of dog we enjoy
having around.
Call name: Pivo
Born: November 12, 2001
CERF: AWS-459/2008--81
OFA Hip: AWS-466G24M-PI
OFA Thyroid: AWS-TH7/53M-PI
OFA Cardiac: AWS-CA85/18M/C-PI
Pivo is the son of Ceska and shows as much love of the water as his mother
does. He is a tireless retriever and a great upland dog. He has put in a
number of years doing yeoman's work in the fields and potholes of
North Dakota and is regularly found out and about the fields and marshes
of Michigan. Having finished both his AKC and UKC championships Pivo is
now retired from the show ring. Over the two years of his "show
career" Pivo garnered a Group 3 at his first UKC show, when he was just
eight months old, and held a slot as one of the Top Ten AWS in the UKC for
2002. In June of 2003 Pivo was awarded the Best of Breed ribbon during the
Top Ten finalist competition. On the Fourth of July, 2004, Pivo earned his
AKC Championship ... we found that very fitting for an AMERICAN Water Spaniel.
In May of 2006 Pivo earned his first qualifying ribbon at an AKC hunt test
in Wisconsin and will continue to be run in occasional AKC hunt tests throughout
his career. Pivo also won the 2006 American Water Spaniel Club, Roustabout
competition from a field of about 29 other dogs. Pivo has performed
very well during all of his North American hunting expeditions and has reached
that age where his experience afield is easily recognized.
Call name: Millie
Born: June 10, 2002
CERF: AWS 494
OFA Hip: AWS 499G26F-PI
OFA Thyroid: AWS-TH13/46F-PI
OFA Cardiac: AWS-CA118/226F/C-PI
Millie is the daughter of Foxie and Vinnie (Little Brownies Vino Dolce).
She is a fine all-around field dog that has spent most of her time afield in
the uplands. Millie has played a back-up role on the plains of North Dakota
in the past where she has been responsible for putting a number of rooster
pheasants before the gun and for rooting out a couple of cripples that would
have been lost without her exceptional nose. While not a stylish retriever,
Millie makes certain that the job gets done and has recently passed the
reigns of lead female field dog over to Violet. Millie was retired in the
summer of 2011 and remains at our home as an ever present companion.
Call name: Cutter
Born: April 10, 2004
CERF: AWS 508
OFA Hip: AWS 537G25F-PI
OFA Thyroid: AWS-TH14/24F-PI
OFA Cardiac: AWS-CA130/14F/S-PI
Cutter came to us from an outside kennel and has proven to be a
wonderful companion dog. She has spent a season in the fields of North
Dakota but her principal role i s companion and ambassador as
she now lives with our friend Sister Marie Kopin. Despite serving as a
companion to Sister Marie, with whom we co-own Cutter, she is an integral
part of
our breeding program. She has been used on a limited basis in an effort to introduce some new
genes to the mix and thus maintain genetic diversity in not only our line
but the AWS community at large. Cutter's favorite pastime? Keeping all those
pesky squirrels out of Sister Marie's yard and fetching anything and
everything from the pond. She was retired in the spring of 2011 but
continues to be a fixture at our kennel.
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