not just a pretty face

Our beautiful Bellabella has gained her Working permit this week. So proud of this lovely girl.

 and meanwhile Tetley is trying to  work out how Drizzle gets up there with such short legs!

Welcome to..........

TETLEY!  Tennants son Tetley has come to live with us. What a little cracker he is, although  not a bloodhound we thought he deserved a place on the Farlap Blog just because hes so gorgeous !

Eleven and counting

Happy birthday to our oldest hound Vivid, just turned 11 today. Shes had a great 11 years packed full of adventures and amongst other things has starred in an insurance advert, been top puppy in breed in UK in 2005, been the cover girl on an international calendar, been a wonderful mother and been a proper Auntie to all of our other pups over the years, always the one to look after them and nurture them. Thanks for a great 11 years Vivid, and heres to a few more we hope.

Worrying week

Its been a nightmare week here with Dear old Cinnamon being struck down with a pyometra infection and ending up as an emergency surgery to have it removed. As you can see it was a whopper! She was very lucky it was removed before it ruptured. She is now convalescing quietly on the sofa!

Then on top of that our wonderful little filly Mabel cut her face badly around her eye, resulting in surgery and now we are just hoping that the wound mends as its in a really tricky area around her eye. Shes sporting a fetching zebra print fly mask to keep the pesky flies from the wound

We are just hoping there isnt a third disaster looming!

Foragers award

We are immensely proud of our Farlap Forager who has just been presented with a PDSA commendation award for his work in tracking lost dogs with the charity www.k9searchdog.org

Baffle the proud Daddy

Baffle was thrilled that his daughters Nina Simone Truffe Medieval  and Nettle Truffe Medieval Farlap won the CC and res CC at the Bloodhound Club Championship show at the weekend, and even more so because breeder Marianne Faucq had come all the way from Belgium to watch. As you can see she was thrilled with her babies.

Congratulations

Farlap Bloodhounds and Houndseeker Bloodhounds are proud to announce that due to the wins of our two Czech puppies Cayman and Captiva (aka Jara and Rogue,) the top breeder of bloodhounds for 2014 has been announced as the Od hadiho Potoka kennel, in the Czech Republic. I believe this is the 1st time the award has been made outside of the UK, so Congratulations to Martina who bred these two smashing pups.

A little sunshine

Gioia Delle isole Lontane (from italy)  "BellaBella"

 After really horrid month, first losing Candle then having Vivid in for emergency torsion surgery, (from which shes making a super recovery and looking great for such an old lady), its been nice to have a little warm sun on our backs, and the hounds have been loving the garden all day every day.

Farlap jaunty

Farlap Cinnamon

Farlap Biscuit (Suti) Hungary

Farlap baffled

Candle in the wind

With heavy heart we announce the passing of our lovely "Candle" (Ch Farlap Candle). She was such a special girl to us, first and foremost she was the pack leader amongst the hounds, always calm and strong, never a cross word, her authority was accepted by all without discussion. Her normal calm disposition always went abit awry in the ring as she did find showing very exciting, and her lively behavior and very forward going movement was her trademark at the show, hence she was made up to a champion quite quickly as well as gaining group 3 at WELKS, and then retired from the ring to become a mother. She had one litter for us and spent the rest of her life happily on the sofa and running free in the fields, and enjoying her elevated position in the pack. She will be sadly missed by us all, and here's the last photo I took of her, just last week, enjoying  her favourite pastime of sunbathing!

Team Red

Nettle and Bella on their favourite lookout for cows and tractors!

Spring has sprung

I cant believe we are into March already.....we thought we should make the most of the sunshine and beat the grockels to the beaches, so Bella took her first trip to the seaside. She loved paddling in the rockpools but loved the dead seal a bit TOO much!! She was on a lead after that!

Happy new year!

OK Im a bit late, I know! Apologies to all our bloodhound friends for being a bit slow, but I spent the start of the New year in Hungary, bringing home Farlap Biscuit , to come back to live with us, having lived there for four years, her familys circumstances changed and we had to bring her home again. She settled in really well with everyone, and is a pleasure to have around, and she loves to "strut her stuff" when shes outside as you can see.

ready steady go!

Bella has taken to "Hunting the clean boot" (man trailing) like a duck to water!

Growing up fast

Little Bella Bella is a very confident forward young lady and has settled right in with us. She starts her mantrailing training soon, we cant wait!

Here she is with her best friend Nettle.

Meanwhile, Forager has had a busy time this month and had a successful search with the charity we work with www.k9searchdog.org  and found a missing springer spaniel for her very relieved owners, and hes now just chilling out with his sister Festive, at home

Where did that month go

Just realised October has disappeared and Ive been bad at updating the blog.....but in our defence we havebeen rather busy, so let me  firstly let me intoduce "Bella" who has come to live with us from Italy. She has settled right in and is enjoying the warm Autumnal weather.

Birthday Girls

We have had two birthdays recently.....Vivid who is now ten (and still acts like a puppy) and
Barvicka (below with Baffle) who turned 7. Wonderful to have two "veterans" and they can both give the youngsters a run for their money!

However the babies are also flourishing, with Jaunty making her debut in the main ring at Buckham Fair recently doing a search dog demonstration, and seen here in training on Dartmoor. 

Photo ©SE Newman

COngratulations to George (Multi int champion Farlap Guesswork) on winning reserve CC at the World Show in Helsinki last week. Always proud of "team George" and his wonderful owner and handler.

Best Friends

Nettle and Jaunty are having a great time growing up together as best friends, and regular updates from the other three are coming in thick and fast.

The heat however is most opressing and all the big hounds want to do is lay about in the shade all day......they arent even interested in their field walks. Weve been taking them in pairs down to dip in the river but its plagued by horseflies there, so not much fun either!! Wish we had a swimming pool for them!

Highland Fling

A jolly jaunt to our lovely freinds in The highlands last week, and with us went nettle, Jauntu and Jigsaw. Jigsaw is now known as "Puzzle" at home and she was off to her new home with Farlap faithful (AKA Winnie) in the beautiful Glen lyon where we are fortunate to be often invited for our holidays. Nettle and Jaunty went along for the ride and as a socialisation trip and they all had a fab time. In fact we all would like to have stayed there and made it our new home!

Puzzle making friends with her new owner and Winnie showing off her garden!

Nettles Debut

Nettle made her debut as a "mascot" for the K9Search Dogs stand at a fundraiser this week, and adored it. Everyone fussed and cuddled her and she behaved like a real pro. Here she is relaxing in a quieter moment.

Meanwhile Tennant has been practising "baby-sitting" skills with baby Jaunty, just in case hes called upon to go and pup sit any of his puppies! His babies are all growing well and we cant wait to go and have a visit soon.