Grayhart Southern Adventure - Morning Dip

Savi starting her day with a morning swim in the wonderful pond at Silversmith Farm.  This is our last morning here as we will begin the next leg of our trip and head up to Sanford, NC, with Savi and Trixie, to compete in the Tarheel Weimaraner Club Agility Trial.  We are also looking forward to a little family reunion, meeting up with Debbie and Sky, good friend KellyAnn and on Sunday, Michele is bring Mia!

 Savi retrieving her bumper

 Trixie exploring the dock diving floating deck.

Jam & Savi

Big tease

Jam, waiting for her boy, Summit, to come out of his run for a romantic interlude.  If all goes well, we will confirm pregnancy in a month and pups would be due mid-September.

Rollin, rollin, rollin...

Post swim, Trixie's switch went off and after she ran around like a loon, went for the roll!  Getting ready...

 Set...

 Roll!

 Happiness!

Grayhart Gray-t Southern Adventure 2012

Our journey down south began with a 13-hour drive on Monday to Johns Island, South Carolina.  Trixie, Jam and Savi, all seasoned travelers, took the long drive in stride and with only two brief stops, we arrived late Monday night at Silversmith Farm, home of Summit, CH Pike's Peak Silversmith Summit, SH, SDX, NRD, V, Jam's new hubby.  After we settled Trixie and Savi in their kennel quarters, we introduced Jam and Summit, a little get acquainted romp, before we put them to bed for the night.  Jam will be bred to Summit this week.

 Tuesday morning, we headed out for some fun on this gorgeous farm.  We took the girls to the 3-acre fenced area that contains the pond.  With views of the horse pasture and beautiful trees surrounding us, we had a great time letting the girls stretch their legs for a run and Savi and Trixie had a blast swimming. Of course, I had packed Savi's favorite retrieving toy, and she had a ball doing many water retrieves.

Then Elena, owner of the farm and gracious host, introduced my girls to a special delicacy - fresh figs from the tree that grows next to her house! Savi in particular, loved this new exotic food, and jumped up to try and pick them herself.

We then put the Grayhart girls away and let some of Elena's dogs out for a run and swim.  Here's a shot of handsome Summit:

Sweet, happy go lucky boy Summit!

New CDX title for Mia-belle!!!!

 Huge congratulations to Jessica and Mia-belle on their new CDX (Companion Dog Excellent) title!!!  Mia-belle is now, CH Grayhart's Special Request, CDX, RA, NSD, NRD, V (Zeke x Trixie)!  Mia-belle earned her 2nd CDX or Open leg yesterday with a terrific score of 194.5 earning a 2nd place.  She earned the 3rd and final leg today, finishing her title with a 192, earning a 3rd place!

The Open class exercises are all performed off leash and include a heeling pattern, drop on recall, retrieve on the flat and over a jump and the broad jump. Once the individual exercises are completed, all of the dogs are brought into the ring for out of sight group sits and stays, lasting 3 and 5 minutes respectively. This class is sometimes referred to as the heartbreak class due to the high level of difficulty of some of the exercises for some dogs, especially the out of sight stays.

 We are very proud of this awesome team who will be training for the Utility level of competition obedience.  If that wasn't challenging enough, Jess and Mia-belle are also in training for agility and pointing and retrieving hunt tests!

Jam's New Beau - Meet Summit

Introducing Best in Futurity, Best in Specialty Show, Multiple Group Winning...

CH Pike's Peak Silversmith Summit, SH, SDX, NRD, V

"Summit"

Whelped: 5/12/07 PennHip 0.28;0.34 (no DJD), OFA good, DNA #V527142, HUU-negative, Elbows - OFA Normal ; CERF - normal, DNA Coat - neg for Longhair, Thyroid - normal

Summit on point

Jam, CH Grayhart's Purple Haze,CD,JH,OA,OAJ,SD,VX, Delta Therapy Dog, will be bred to Summit in the near future and we couldn't be more excited!  This breeding combines two outstanding pedigrees and dogs with wonderful health, temperaments and natural ability in the field.

Summit finished his championship in 10 shows from puppy class at 9 months of age. He earned 14 pts, his Junior Hunter and NSD titles at 8 months and at 12 months won Best Dog in the 2008 Eastern Futurity at the WCA National Specialty. A talented field dog, Summit has three legs towards his Master Hunter title.

Summit has wonderful ground covering movement, true coming and going, level topline, excellent shoulders, nice substance with beautiful neck, topline and return of upper arm. He has a laid back, very sweet, loving personality, loves to hunt, play, swim and retrieve.

Puppies are expected mid-September. This breeding should produce exceptional show and performance prospects and will be futurity/maturity nominated.

Puppies on the brain!

With Jam in season, we will soon have exciting news on her husband of choice and litter plans!