Author Archives: B.S. Jorgensen

Saturday the 7th of March 2026 Jacquelien Trijsenaar and Flatastic Fwooper “Penny” came in on a 2nd place at the WFRG dummy exams CDD. Penny has grown to be a beautiful, smart bitch with loads of working will and technical skills. Her passion is contagious and she is just the funniest little girl who willContinue reading “More things to celebrate..”

Nowadays having a Flatcoated retriever reaching the age of 10 years is worth celebrating. Rumi had a day out in the sun – helping train her grandson and she was spoiled with a good juicy bone. We are very happy to have our Rumi – founder of our kennel still with us in good health.Continue reading “Celebrating granny Rumi 10 years of age 🥳”

Today the first steps continuing our breeding have been made. Daisy had her ECVO and GONIO eye examination. Kaspar joined her for moral support as he is the “cool cat” at the vet. Daisy was very calm during the examination and she had compliments from the vet. Results: ECVO (except distichiasis) free Gonio free WeContinue reading “Flatastic eyesight for Daisy”

The Netherlands are experiencing a growth in the goose population and some provinces have adjusted the numbers of regulation. It is to be honest hard to keep up with and whilst bird flue has closed hunting in the south – the north is in full damage controle season. I was kindly invited to join 2Continue reading “Cold to the bones..”

The genepool of the Flatcoated Retriever is not the best and recent studies (eg Wageningen University) have pointed to the fact that we as breeders need to stop using males frequently and allowing more individual males to breed (source: result of the study shared with breeders in breed meeting of the FRC). The reality isContinue reading “Flatastic Breeding Thoughts”

Well there it was – a big fat envelope from the Dutch kennel club. Opening the rich letter of fat shiny papers. Two certificates – one with a CAC and the other the proof that a Flatcoated bred to work in the field can still be pretty and well build. I know not one dogContinue reading “Beauty & gundog brains”

At kennel Tricksywood’s – in the middle of a northern snowstorm – lovely Ylva delivered 8 beautiful puppies last week. They are all doing very well gaining weight and Ylva is happy and thriving. Congratulations to Yvonne & Wiebe, the owners of the males and all puppy buyers who received the happy news. All puppiesContinue reading “Puppy news from Flatastic Sires”

Last week I decided last minute to enter the international CACIB show in Kassel Germany with Flatastic Bowtruckle. Because of the icy winter conditions I decided to do a sleepover the evening before. Having arrived at night time I was pleasantly surprised with a beautiful snowy landscape panorama this morning on my way to Kassel.Continue reading “Flatastic Jugend Sieger Kassel 🇩🇪 2026”

Our lovely offspring enjoying snow and winter:

Celestrial litter: On the 28th of December 2025 we held a double puppy reunion. In the morning we got to see some of the Celestrial puppies out of the combination Flatastic Black Peace X Tricksywood’s Flicka Liv The youngsters are now 6 months old and are well on their way in life. Tamara Ekelschot –Continue reading “Flatastic Beast and Celestrial litter reunion”