What's New at Vapresto?

November Vapresto Dogs on TV!  In advance of the screening of 'The Hogfather' movie on Sky One in December, we were surprised and delighted to see our Frost & Blitz, along with the Woods' Millie & Timber (also Vaprestos) in the PC World advert shown regularly on ITV amongst other channels!

Anyone wanting to see more of the dogs (or are Terry Pratchett fans) should watch Sky Three on 10th December at 7:00pm for 'The making of The Hogfather.  The film itself will be shown on Sky One (and Sky One HD) on 17th & 18th December from 8:00pm and then repeated on Christmas Day and Boxing Day (not sure of times).

There are also two pictures of some of the dogs in the new book of the Hogfather screenplay...

We are very excited about our dogs' film debut (we've even updated our telly especially!)

October Mr Darcy 3rd in Group, and 2nd Puppy in show! Bit late posting news that Mr Darcy did rather well at his first proper show in the Channel Islands...  Hopefully this is the start of a great show career!

Cloud learns to Skype: 

Ready to keep in touch with her agility friends over the long winter months, with no shows to go to!

 

23-24th September Vapresto dogs in the places at Five Rivers:

We were very pleased to hear ' Vapresto' read out during at least two prize presentations at Suffolk Five Rivers agility show this week, with Vapresto Crazey Cooper (Kouper), and Vapresto Aurora Kita (Nikki) getting placed in Novice classes during our last weekend show of the season.

16th September Vapresto off to Cornwall:

The pups had a lovely long weekend in Cornwall:  They had a great game with their brother 'Blue' (Vapresto Diablo Kingswold), saw some pictures of another brother in Jersey (Mr Darcy), played in the sand on 'Rock' beach, and watched their Great Auntie Cloud come 6th in her first ever agility class as a 'veteran'.  We also had a good time with a couple of visits to Rick Stein's fish & chip shop, and spending a weekend with some of our favourite agility folk.

See the pictures of Mr Darcy on his own page here

9th September More Vapresto re-unions:

Two other Vapresto dogs were at Chippenham show today - Blitz and Frost's fellow film stars Millie and Timber (you'll have to watch Sky One on Christmas Day to see them performing).  Timber managed two clear rounds, just out of the places in only his second ever show!

8th September Dash qualifies for Crufts!

Our Dash (Vapresto DaytonaDash) was awarded 3rd place in the Puppy Bitch class at Richmond Championship show today, thereby qualifying to enter Crufts in 2007.  This was a bit of a surprise for many people (who know how little time I have for 'obedience' type training), as they all expected the well-practised Delta to be 'the one':  Unfortunately he thoroughly embarrassed me in the ring, by bunny-hopping every time he was meant to 'trot-trot', squealing at the dogs in the next ring and in the line-up, jumping up the judge - prompting him to suggest that I "should practice more at home"!!!

3rd September

Myla (Vapresto Discovery) Best Puppy in Show and the 'Brothers' placed in Open Pairs at Letchworth!

A good day for Vapresto, with Frost & Blitz getting 18th in the pairs (and highest placed all BSD pairing) at Letchworth agility show.  At the same time Myla (Vapresto Discovery) won Best Puppy in Show at a breed show run by English Springer Spaniel Rescue - beating an ESS puppy in the final!  Well done Shirley and Myla!

Myla & Shirley at Dog Vegas

August 2006

Blitz 12th at the first Dog Vegas agility show:

We had a great weekend up near Scunthorpe - after judging on Saturday, my Blitz managed a 12th place in Novice Helter-Skelter, and we got to meet 'Myla' for the first time since she left her Mum!

27 July 2006:

Vapresto Classy Maserati (Maisie) gets Silver!  Maisie followed up her Bronze award with a Silver last weekend in the KC Good Citizens award scheme.

17-22nd July Vapresto at the Jutlandia Cup!

We ventured out on the long haul to Denmark to compete in the Jutlandia Cup.  More details and pictures are on the Vapresto BSD Agility League News pages, but we came home with a 1st place for Cloud, and two 4ths for Blitz, as well as having a thoroughly enjoyable time meeting lots of friendly people from all over Europe!

25 June 2006

 Vapresto Chimera Timber gets placed at his first ever show!  Louise and Timber won 15th place in Starters Agility at their very first show together at Lansdown today.  Timber had only been measured, and his Record Book issued, less than a couple of hours earlier, and yet has already achieved something that his Granny never managed - a clear round in agility!  She would have been very proud...

21 June 2006

Vapresto Discovery gets her first rosette at 4 months!!!   

Shirley Frankcom emailed us today to say that 'Myla' gained a rosette for the KCGC Foundation course recently, and apparently "enjoyed the round of applause" at their club!  Lets hope she gets used to it and wins many many more!

 

14 May  

What are the chances of this happening? 

 Blitz & Frost both got 15th place on the same Intermediate Jumping course with the same judge (Blitz in Part One, Frost in Part Two) at Gillingham Show in Dorset today!!!  It was Frost's first clear round in Intermediate, and was his first Intermediate placing.  It may also have been Blitz's first Intermediate place as well, but I can't remember!

2 April 2006

Vapresto Classy Maserati 3rd in Test A Obedience at BSDA Open Show:  

We are very proud of 'Maisie' (and of course Tracey Baxter - her handler), as she also got VHC in Novice at the same show, just a week after turning 2 years old.

11th Mar  

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHANCER!!!  

Our Cloud's Grandmother, Frost, Blitz and Sky's Great Grandmother, and our puppy's Great Great Grandmother, is 15 today!  Here she is pictured at Dogs In Need last year...

7 Mar 2006

Vapresto off to the movies:  

Blitz and Frost, together with sister Millie and nephew Timber, have been enjoying the snow 'on location' in Scotland for a few days on their acting debuts!  

 

21 Feb 2006 

Sky's puppies born:   

Very considerately, Sky waited until we had all had lunch before starting to deliver her pups today, and then finished and cleaned up just in time for tea!  The result is 8 somewhat large and very lively puppies - 5 dogs and 3 bitches... Photos of the puppies will be added to the D-Litter pics page at very regular intervals - sorry, but we're very proud of her and, of course, Torr!!!

13 Feb 2006 

Vapresto off to Denmark in July:  OK, not permanently, but we are two of just 270 people that have been successful in getting accepted to compete in the Jutlandia Cup agility week.  We are very excited at the prospect of competing in Denmark, and are looking forward to catching up with friends met at BSD WCs over the past 3 years, in a relaxing week of agility, socialising, and a bit of sightseeing!

To find out more about the Jutlandia Cup, click here...

24 Jan 2006

More Storm Grandchildren on the way:  

We had Sky scanned today and there appear to be at least 5 puppies on the way!  We are very excited, as the mating took no less than 6 days altogether - starting with Torr visiting Sky in Buckinghamshire and ending up back at his home in Devon!!!  Click here to see more pictures of the happy couple!