Pictured here is the pedigree of our next planned litter of J & A's Brittanys. Clicking on it may make it clearer, and it is provided just FYI as a source of contact on the ATB blog. This will be the repeat breeding between "Treasure" and "Gibson". More information is available on the Maine Brittany Site including photographs and brags about the current year old youngsters and parents. The waiting list for this litter is nearly full. Due to the exceptional natural ability of Treasure and Gibson's pups from this (hypothetical) litter will be registered with the North American Versatile Hunting Dogs Association (NAVHDA) for future testing. We have serious inquiries from hunting families involved with or who have an interest in NAVHDA. If all goes well it is likely this (hypothetical) litter will be nominated for the American Brittany Club's Futurity for the appropriate year. Once again I just want to say THANK YOU to everyone who helps us evaluate our pups and understands our goals for without you it would not be possible to continue to move forward in our purpose driven breeding program. I appreciate everyone who responded via email to the recent update here at ATB.
On another note! We are looking forward to a busy November by the looks of things. The grounds work at the Maine Bird Dog Field Trial Grounds in Brownfield continues on behalf of the Central Maine Brittany Club and the Maine Bird Dog Club. With it being deer hunting season our 'schedule' for the dogs to run and exercise is shifted around a little bit. Although orange is the color of the month I just have never been one to take chances. For me, it's a fact of life. If you live in Maine near the woods, you don't take chances. Hunting families and non-hunters alike need to heed this caution. I realize there are those who feel their 'rights' are infringed upon during this time of year for a few weeks. It effects me too. There is nothing I love doing more than tromping around out back with the dogs. Even wearing orange. Although bird hunting season does continue (OH NO... this just reminded me I was supposed to help a friend with birds...) there are very few bird hunters that I know who would risk the chance to go out with the dogs. Wait for December. Anyhow. Even when our kids were younger, they ALWAYS wore orange when out playing this time of year. No one complained. It simply was a fact of life. I had a real nice clothes line strung out in our back yard. When I went to hang the clothes up or take them down, I put on a blaze orange hunting vest. It's funny, John can remember as a lot of you probably can - when wearing hunters plaid sufficed.
There will be more updates about our program once we've sent the information out to our serious inquiries first. Some exciting news and plans to share as time goes on. But one step at a time... and besides, some of the news is not actually ours to share... yet. Love hearing from you, thanks for the emails and Facebook messages. By the way, if you haven't joined FB yet it would be fun to have you join us there. And the ATB family grows... leaving me looking forward already to NEXT summers Brittany Fun Day already!!! Take care and God Bless you.... John, Ann and ATB
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