Cello

Although I haven't been to many trials in the past year due to some life "hurdles" that just made trialing lose out, we get out in the woods together almost daily. I live on about a few thousand acres of hilly woods out the back door and if anything, he gets run too much in places where turkey, grouse and snowshoe hare have become a heck of a lot more fun than a wet pen-raised quail.

Welcome to my home. April 1, 2001

The large amount of snow has only made getting out and ruining his training even more fun- I snowshoe or cross-country ski or sled with the dogs while I enjoy the great outdoors. As of April 1st, there is still about three feet of standing snow still to melt here. So far, my dogs haven't seen the bare, snow-less ground for four months, short of one trip to Cape Cod. The snow this year is really something to behold.

My front deck walkway and Cello. April 1, 2001

Cello has a habit of bringing me his mechanical squeaky toys whenever he feels I could use one. Sometimes, he'll stuff his mouth with several and they'll all be going off at once- a tweetie parrot, a screaming elephant and maybe a sock from the laundry pile. When I've needed him this past year, he has been there in spades.

Cello's show championship marks four generations of Brittanys I have finished in the ring.

Cello was Winners Dog at the 1995 National Specialty from the Bred-By Exhibitor class. He has juvenile and adult field placements and three Amateur first place points in the field. He is always owner-trained and handled, for better or sometimes, for worse as far as the quest for points is concerned. As far as competition goes, once in a while, I feel what I felt with Justin. It is fleeting, but it is there- a feeling of really really wanting it. An energy and a feeling of adventure that only "tilting at windmills" can give. I hope to get back to it in earnest. We'll see.

Above is Cello with Art and a grouse Cello retrieved after some "wild weather" hunting of horizontal rain and snow.

Cello winning an Amateur Gun Dog stake at Central Maine Brittany Club

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Below is a video that is slow to load and a tad choppy. However, it illustrates his smooth, ground-covering way of going with stallion-y carriage, lots of reach and drive and you could put a teacup on his back without spilling a drop.

Thank you so much for coming to Cello's page.

-Jane

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