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Newfoundland water rescue aptitude survey 2013 - If you own or have previously owned a Newfoundland, please complete the linked survey & share. The results will yield a lot of important information on the current situation of water rescue instinct and ability within the Newfoundland...

Anyone interested in a potential waterwork workshop on June 8-9th in Atlanta, GA, please send a message to Andrea Jung (andrearjung (at ) yahoo.com) as soon as possible :).

Grooming a Newfoundland - booklet published December 2012. It is b&w,51 pages full of information. It is suitable for all Newfoundland owners from beginners to long time newf owners. It is a great information booklet for breeders to hand out to their puppy buyers. More information about the...

Training a Newfoundland for water rescue - book will be published in December 2012. It is in FULL colour, with +/- 400 pages of information. "Training a Newfoundland for Water Rescue” covers subject areas directly related to training dogs on land and in water. It includes many helpful...

- Is anyone on NN from Louisiana? One of our pups (nearly 3yrs, now in Germany) is moving to central Louisiana with his family in December. The owner's eager to meet any newfs in the area & especially get recommendations on any alligator-safe water areas. (nope, not their chosen location, but...

Earlier this year ILS (International Life Saving Federation) took under itself K9 water rescue teams. Last week we organized the first International K9 water rescue team instructors course with participants from Belgium, Latvia, Ukraine, England, New Zealand and USA. The course included human &...

Finally I have time to post about the trip I made to New Zealand over Easter to instruct on water rescue. Here is what I wrote on our website as a story/recap of the waterwork side of the trip: A trip to the other side of the world for water rescue work, Easter 2012 Everything started when...

- We had our first waterwork test of the year with Merita & Baron last weekend and it went superbly well. Merita was the 1st dog in and completed her test in under 2.30 minutes (three exercises from 15m), with a perfect score :). She did the exercises really well, tidy, quick and confidently...

- We are very excited to be instructing the water rescue camp for South Central Newfoundland Club in Niles, MI. - South Central Newfoundland Club is proud to Host a rare opportunity to learn International Water Rescue with European K-9 lifeguards, Bettina and Annina Salmelin from Belgium Sat...

A few weeks ago the International Lifesaving Federation (ILS) recognized an International standard for certifying K9 lifeguard teams all around the world. Basically it means that now there is a minimum standard for anyone in any country becoming a certified K9 lifeguard team, meaning that every...

Our summer plans are now booked (i.e. I just booked my and my sister's flights a few minutes ago) and we're coming to the USA :). We'll be spending just under two weeks there (there being Oregon and then Michigan for the second part of the trip). We'll get to see two of our puppies again (Orka &...

I normally never ever ever post "please like my video" -threads, but this is not one of our dogs so I can make an exception. This is a friend's newf Teddy competing for a place in the Crufts 2012 "Crufts Factor" competition. Please "like" the actual video if you think it's worth liking :) ...

I received this photo today from a friend, of our girl Ruuti (with mum) from Sunday's show: Doesn't she look absolutely gorgeous?? :)

My friend went to vet with an abscess on her newf's paw and came home with a note on the signs of early kidney failure (blood tests showed this). He is around 7 years now (not exactly sure but around this). My friend feeds him (and her other newf) raw food. However with this news, she is very...

We had this happen to us a few years ago with Vera: She was very tired, wouldn't want to go out for walks, started getting wobbly etc.. ... she had piroplasmosis from ticks. It is a very deadly disease where blood cells are destroyed. Luckily the vet knew what it was and Vera was treated with...

Happy ninth birthday Capri :) ! She is an International, Finnish, Swedish Champion, European veteran winner 2011, Belgian official lifeguard. She is the Start of our Newfoundland hobby, waterwork and breeding. She is a mother to four daughters, five sons, grandmother to six granddaughters and...

- I've just confirmed that I'll be coming to Portland for three weeks with my sister this winter (provided that I get the Visa from the US Embassy - which shouldn't be a problem). Is anyone interested in having a get together sometime between 18th Dec - 7th Jan ? I've offered to give...

- I filmed the video for the chair trick today, and then continued onto training Merita for this week's balance trick. This was the FIRST time we tried anything with the container and therefore is a good example for anyone who doesn't know or understand what clicker training is. - at first...

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I just found this link about the Newf show in California in January. http://www.infodog.com/clubs/2012194309.HTM Show people: how many newfs do you think will enter that show? It's 17 hours from where I'll be staying, but if it's a BIG show it might be nice to go there to see the newfs..