We are happy to share some great news about the Duckmoors family! Yesterday, five of our pack members underwent their annual eye exams and we are happy to report that everyone's eyes are unaffected including gonio (PLA) - even our senior stars!

FTAW Kaliture Finn "Finn" -  11,5 years old
I’m super happy for my old boy, Finn. Passing his eye test is quite important for him, so he can still fully work on shoots and mark all the game. I don’t take this for granted, as my previous seniors suffered from cataracts in old age, which affected their ability to work even though their legs were still fit.

Kaliture Toffee Crisp "Toffee" – 8,5 years old
After retiring from breeding, Toffee can now fully enjoy her retirement and continue working as much as possible. She’s still going strong!

Duckmoors All That Jazz "Jazzie" – 5,5 years old
Jazzie has been fully tested recently - full blood check, thyroid check, and eye exam - with excellent results. We’ve decided to breed her now and have chosen a UK stud. We’ll be traveling as soon as she’s in season (October-November)

Duckmoors Call Me Neema "Neema" – 1,5 years old
This was Neema's first eye test, and we’re hopeful she’ll continue with good results in the coming years!

Duckmoors Dreamcatcher "Toby" – 1 year old
This was also Toby’s first eye test, and we are happy with the results, even more that he had his X-rays done too, and the results are super:
    * Hips: B
    * Elbows: 0/0
    * OCD shoulders: unaffected
    * Spine: all clear (No vertebral anomalies, Lumbosacral Transitional Vertebra, or Spondylosis)

Toby is now ready to fully start his training, and we’re hopeful he’ll join us on some picking-up days soon. He’s already showing excellent skills in his work and looks to be a very promising boy with lovely character!

We couldn’t be prouder of our gang, and we look forward to keeping them happy, healthy, and doing what they love!

DREAM.
BELIEVE.
DO.
REPEAT.
We dreamed, we believed, we did .. and we repeated too unfortunately (now I’m laughing after it finished in a best possible way, I was not before!)
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Let’s welcome our second singleton puppy
Jazzie gave birth to a big singleton boy naturally, what a rockstar she was to manage it within an hour as a first-time mom! She is absolutely in love with her son from the first second and keeps an eye on him nonstop. Thanks God for such a good mothers!

Well, we are a good example of the other side of the breeding now, when you invest two times thousands of euros, travel 4000km and the fate is still not on our side. This time an arrogant officer on FR-UK borders ruined our dream as she banned Jazz from entering UK, cancelled our boarding at the worst time when she was in higher progesterone already and ready for mating. 1 hour of fight with stupid officers, during which an old pair with 5 terriers entered the pet reception and they did not managed them, they got off the leash and immediately attacked Jazz, even fight between each other. Jazz was absolutely in shock, hanging in the air while I was kicking f…. terriers. Thanks to a foreigner who helped us to get them away from us because the old pair did just nothing. That was the moment we gave up and went away with limping and totally shocked Jazz. We spent a day in France on the beach and after calming down all the emotions we decided to give it another shot, at that point there was nothing to lose besides extra money for another hotel and train.

Next day we just tried to enter UK again and hoped for another officer and they let us go with no troubles, same passport, same vaccination, no explanation. I’ve travelled to UK many times, but this was the first time we experienced such a non-sense situation in which nothing helped. I can’t even write lesson learned, because we did nothing wrong, Jazz travelled with all valid documents and vaccinations .
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So, that was our unforgettable journey with a lot of emotions and we started a new one with a little boy now.
Not what we were hoping for, but only important they are both fit and healthy and no surgery was needed.

All EYES CLEAR incl. gonio
Kaliture Finn - 9 years old
Kaliture Toffee Crisp - 6 years old
and 4 of Toffee’s kids:
Duckmoors All That Jazz
Duckmoors Amazing Rosie
3 years old, Toffee x FTCh Polihale Vodka Surprise
Duckmoors Better Tomorrow
Duckmoors Blue Moon
10 months old, Toffee x Tawnyhill Iwan

This week we were able to manage a small litter meeting in Czechia where we met with the puppies from our A litter - Mango (living in Slovenia) and Rosie (living in Slovakia). Mummy Toffee, sister Jazz and uncle Finn joined them too :)

Jazz & Rosie - 15 weeks old 🙂
even they had not a dummy in the mouth yet, they had a chance to retrieve a fresh duck today and I think they could not be better 🥰

girls are 3,5 months old and are growing fast :)

baby majú 3,5 mesiaca a rastú rýchlo :)