KORTHALS GRIFFONS
Also Called
WIREHAIRED POINTING GRIFFONS
The Lou-Buddy and Lilli-Jacque
Litters are here!!!
For Views of These Pups and Parents,
See the "Puppy Views"
At the present time,
these are the upcoming Ear Mountain litters
planned for 2010
(in order of likely arrival)
Gert (Ear Mountains Gert)
&
Bullet (Griffe D'Automne Silver Bullet NA P-III)
GERT
BULLET
(Mating Completed) We are excited to announce the potential forthcoming litter from Gert and Bullet. Gert is a girl out of our own Lou and Gifford and we have been waiting three years to see what this lovely girl can provide by way of pups. Despite that we have very little by way of titles to demonstrate her combination of qualities, her readily apparent composition is breathtaking. She is just under 22" tall and 24.5" long and weighs about 58 lb.
Her outer coat is long and very harsh and her undercoat is medium and dense. Her furnishings are gorgeous but are NOT fully evidenced by this photo because they are annually trimmed to look like a shorthair in the Fall hunting season to prevent her owner from dealing with the inevitable burrs she might attract.
Anticipate that Gert will pass her lovely full facial furnishings on to a majority of the litter, especially given that we have matched her to Bullet, himself a lovely, moppy-haired boy, and that puppy composition and coat will reflect the heritage of this ideally matched set of parents. No less so, the likely temperaments of the pups will be elegant, gazelle-like and energetic in the field and eagerly responsive and relaxed at home.
Gert’s field presence is strong and open and she delights in water play. There is lots about Bullet elsewhere on this website.
This litter will likely whelp the end of March or early April and be ready for placement in late May.
The Official Announcement of
Flatbrook Sporting Dogs
&
Ear Mountain Griffons
Collaboration Extraordinaire
Welcome to our first and very special
co-operative breeding program with
Dick Byrne of Flatbrook Sporting Dogs.
These two were mated the end of February and expected to whelp about April 28th, and this may be one of the most Celebrated Wirehaired Pointing Griffons matches ever:
BIG, (AMCH Flatbrook Royal Point Attitude JH) (Picture follows)
* the first AKC Wirehaired Pointing Griffon to win a Best In Show in many years,
* the 2008 and 2009 Number One WPG AKC show dog,
* the AWPGA Show Dog of the Year,
* a dog in the Show Dog Hall of Fame,
* the handsome boy who holds the all time AKC records for most breed points, all-breed points and Group I's for a Wirehaired Pointing Griffon (all with less than two years being shown) &
* a dog from the lineage of many great champions of both field and show.
With Our Own
FIONA, (AMCH Ear Mountains Fiona Troisieme D'Owen JH, NAVHDA NA P-III)
* who had three titles, NAVHDA NA PRIZE, JUNIOR HUNTER and AKC Show Champion by the time she was15 months,
* a pup sired from one of Canada’s most celebrated Griffons ever:
AM CAN CH, BIS CDX, RNCL OWEN DES DUNES DU CAPTALAT FDJ
This is a breeding we hope will occur in the late Spring of 2010, with pups ready for homes sometime late-Summer.
Dick Byrne of Flatbrook Sporting Dogs and I welcome your inquiries for this very special litter. Feel free to contact either of us to discuss this wonderful pairing.
Anticipate special care and diligence in each Big-Fiona placement.
BIG
Image courtesy of Carol Beuchat who holds the Copyright to this photo.
There may also be other parties who have fantastic dogs and who are working with us, either with dogs bred from this kennel or with a sire we provided. You may consider these litters and we invite you to view information about them here:
Demi (Ear Mountains Demi NA P-II)
&
Bullet (Griffe D'Automne Silver Bullet
NA P III)
DEMI
BULLET
Blessed with three wonderful, bountiful litters in the past (12, 10, & 13 pups), Demi will likely have her last litter in late Spring 2010 and placement will occur around August or September. In the past, Demi has had pups with great family dispositions and solid field performance. Of her 2008 litter, (the last tested) five of five of her pups tested for NAVHDA NA and all of them prized. And they are fine looking, as well (see Fiona).
Plans now are to again match her with Griffe D'Automne Silver Bullet, who can be seen elsewhere on this website. Bullet is a Prize III NA dog with elegant conformation, a solid silver coat, and is the full brother and littermate of Griffe D'Automne Mr Brown (Jacque), the only 2009 NAVHDA Versatile Champion Wirehaired Pointing Griffon in all of North America (see below).
Tate (Ear Mountains Tate Deuxieme d'Owen)
&
Jacque (VC Griffe D'Automne Mr Brown)
JACQUE
JACQUE
TATE
Jacque is 2009's only NAVHDA Versatile Champion Griffon. Of eight great Griffs tested this year at the NAVHDA Invitational, only Jacque met all the requirements of a Versatile Champion. At 21 months, Jacque was perhaps the youngest Griff ever to achieve a perfect NAVHDA Utility Prize I score of 204.
And Jacque's designation as a champion barely gives full credence to his true capabilities. Jacque can be sent out hundreds of yards across a pond to thrash through masses of cattails, for extended periods of time, and then return with a wounded duck, delivered to the hand of the hunter. NAVHDA is a great forum for testing ability, but even at the VC level, Jacque's ability was not fully tested. Jacque is a gentle, playful and lovely companion dog in the classic French style, with full furnishings, a harsh outer coat and stature tuned to the field.
Tate was matched to Jacque in November of 2009, to no avail. We will try this one again in May of 2010 in anticipation of combining the best of one of North America's celebrated hunting Griffs with our powerful and nicely composed girl.
Tate's coat is a gorgeous fully harsh, medium long and dense, the perfect combination this Griff breeder seeks. She about 21.5" tall, 24" long and about 55 lb. She has the classic French look, with moderately full furnishings, a silvery outer coat over a dark liver undercoat and head.
Her field search is intense and steady and she is very gentle and unassuming in the home. Her reluctance for water kept her from an NA prize, a quality more than offset with the water exuberance of Jacque. Expect these pups to have solid, muscular and balanced physique, relaxed home countenance and intense field presence.
If all goes well, these pups would whelp in July and be ready for homes in September. Like other litters, priorities for a pup are based entirely on priority of deposit and availablility of pups when placement is due.
For Pictures of Recent Litters, please look at the PUPPY VIEWS Section of the Website.
Litter Information & Pricing: Placements for most litters will be made on a first deposit, first placed basis and placements will be made to match the pups to the stated preferences of the buyers.
We strive to have pups which are handsome (as Griffons go) and easy to develop their natural abilities to search, point, retrieve and track to produce outstanding field performers. No less so, they should consistently be ideal family dogs and cherished companions. A $300 non-refundable deposit is required, and the deposit will be refunded only if no healthy pup is available for sale at the time pups are ready to be delivered. The balance of payment is due prior to shipment or pickup. Shipment, Transportation Certificates and Crating costs are the expenses of the Buyer. Call or email for information on pricing of one or more of the litters and let us know which litter and the gender you prefer (or must have).
Pups are typically sold with an AKC Limited Registration which prevents random future breeding and permits this Kennel to support and promote ongoing Wirehaired Pointing Griffon excellence. Pups may be released from Limited Registration upon showing conformation, lack of defects and satisfactory OFA or Pennhip designation, according to the Purchase Agreement.
Pups may also be purchased with future intent to breed or with an arrangement to have their dog participate in the future of this kennel, provided that conformation, hip structure and absense of any noticable defects are observed. If spaying or neutering is desired, it is our strong recommendation that the pup is at least one year old before the alteration is undertaken to allow the full potential of the dog to develop first.
With nearly 90 Ear Mountain puppy placements into loving and caring homes as evidence, quality of placement is our watchword. Recently, there has been some criticism of kennels deigning to treat puppy sales as “a placement” or “adoption.” Certainly, we appreciate that puppies are not human infants. But our expectations that the lives we nurture into existence become cared for and cherished family members is still an important and very achievable goal - without which we would not have a kennel.
FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT ANY LITTER
CONTACT:
Greg Curtis
PO Box 808
Choteau, MT 59422
406-466-2644
Email: earmtngriffons@gmail.com