The 9th of December 2025 Jacquelien Trijssenaar and her Penny achieved an amazing list on their elementary obedience exam.
This is the first of our Beast litter with a certificate – as a breeder I am very proud of them to achieve this at this early age. They worked hard.
Penny is very much like her mother Lotte – a cute little bitch with great speed and eagerness. She is very clever and makes her handler stay “on the ball”. I enjoy seeing this couple work together and look forward to many more in the future.
Penny ready to “rock & roll”
The rest of the Beast litter are also doing very well – within a couple of weeks we will see most of them for the 2nd litter reunion. Looking forward to that.
Flatastic Black Peace “Kaspar” 1st place excellent & reserve CACIB (2nd place all males)
Youth class bitches:
Flatastic Bowtruckle “Daisy” 1ste excellent & reserve CACIB (2nd place all females)
All bitches judgement
Sunday 30th of Nov 2025 Winner show
Judge Sandra Hooyer NL
Open class males:
Flatastic Silver Will “Bruce” 1st place Very Good
Working class males:
Flatastic Black Peace “Kaspar” 2nd place very good
Youth class bitches:
Flatastic Bowtruckle “Daisy” 2nd place very good
No we will not put Daisy on a diet – she only has excess skin to grow into. The ribs and hips are easy to feel, so no miss fatty pants here 😂
It has been a tiring weekend for all of us and an enormous investment money and time wise to join the 3 day show. I am not sure if we are up for a repetition of that long showing.
Today (Sunday) gave disappointing results and was a rather big contrast to Saturday and Friday.
We really appreciate the fact that the very experienced Mrs Patsy Hollings valued our dogs and recognized their quality from the old English working lines.
We have enjoyed the fact that Kaspar was in the main ring working class dogs and Daisy has earned two youth points 🥳.
Gurbe and Bruce have now also obtained their 2nd show qualification and are now also complying with the WFRG breeding rules.
Congratulations Lieuwe and Klaas.
A special thanks to Bernadette from Hondentrimsalon Spetters – we train together each week and as I was out of time to visit Barbara she helped me out trimming Kaspar and Daisy beautifully in the back of the van.
someone or something can be referred to as going platinum to imply that they or it will be a big hit, success, or accomplishment.
Well, it is hard to say when a dog is accomplished..I think when it is healthy and lives a good life it is accomplished. Everything that comes beyond that is luxury..
At the FRC trophy 25 📷 Robin Polman At the FRC trophy 25 📷 Robin Polman
Flatastic Platinum Alignment “Gurbe”
Int. Show Fryslan Cup 2nd place excellent open class
Gurbe is now 5 1/2 years old – a full brother of Kaspar and he has several WT A diplomas, 2 SJP A and he has recently participated in the FRC Trophy with 11 out 12 retrieved to the hand. Bravo.
He complies with all health requirements for FCI breeding ( FRC & WFRG) & yesterday he was given an excellent at a big int show.
He is used frequently for goose hunting and he will move mountains to find any game. Lovely Flatastic boy.
Gurbe has mated Ylva together with his brother Bruce
Gurbe will hopefully father his first litter in 2026 at kennel Tricksywood’s
Gurbe 4 years old at work Gurbe at AT 2025 📷 Robin Polman
Gurbe is out of Brösel vom Timeloberg & Flow of Spirits Silver Skipper born 22.05.2020
Gurbe has never had any ring training and is left uncut due to hunting season. Quite an accomplishment to receive Excellent at an international show in between hunting days.
It is funny how life has it’s own mysterious way of unfolding. Born in to a household with German Wirehaired and German hunting terriers it was not in the line of expectations that I would choose Flatcoated retrievers as my breed. Nevertheless I have lost my heart completely to them and this love has made me do not only silly things in life but they have formed my life in ways I would never had imagined.
One example is the fact that I started hunting myself and now I will add to the list the fact that I am joining the Orweja group of judges for the Dutch SJP hunting exams and MAP cold game competitions.
The training for this has taken 2 1/2 years and passing 2 theoretical exams and 4 practical exams has brought me up to this point where I am looking forward to judge all gundog breeds in these above mentioned format.
It has been a very enriching journey – learning from the best and I feel I am still at the very start of it all. Leaving plenty of room for the future to learn more – I would not want it to be any different.
An impression of the trainee time from the past 2 years
My thankfulness extends to all my teachers along the way and especially my coach Klaas Beukema, who was the one to ignite the passion of observing and appreciating good gun dog work via judging. Also my thanks to the breed club FRC who played a part in the proces of being accepted for the traineeship.
The two Flatastic males who where planned to sire a litter at kennel Tricksywood’s have both had succesful matings with Ylva. We are looking forward to the prospect of their offspring in early 2026.
Ylva with her weekend lovers Good natural mating
For more information and/or waiting list options for this litter please contact yvonne via email: yvonne@kayaa.nu
Today our two liver “brown sugars” from the Beast nest Jan 25 out of Flatastic Red Strength & Arved von der Wichmannsburg were shown at the Bleiswijk Dogshow under judge Wies Boermans.
For the first time they were out in youth class and it was obvious that they are less accustomed to the loud surroundings and unfortunately we sat in a corner where some dogs started fighting and where a bitch in severe heat was located. Kaspar and Nhando were clearly distracted and on guard because of this.
The results of today are very promising for the future:
Flatastic Bowtruckle “Daisy” 2nd place excellent youth class bitches
Daisy in the ring
Flatastic Nundu “Nhando” 4th place Very Good youth class males
Nhando in the ring
Flatastic Black Peace “Kaspar” 1st place Excellemt working class males
In the midst of hunting and gundog testing season we opted for a weekend training in the hills surrounding the charismatic hotel Klaukenhof.
Two generations of Flatastic dogs attended:
Jason, Kaspar, Spyke, Shelby & Lotte from the Aura litter and Daisy from the Beast litter with guests Pipa & Ylva.
Trainer Wim van Loenen assisted by Leo van der Prijt – thank you for sharing your time and knowledge with us
The group with helper Leo The group with trainer Willem.
We enjoyed each other’s company’s the hospitality of the Klaukenhof – this time with a killer schnitzel on the Friday menu 😋.
Frans & Jason – semi blind cast of 130 meters downhill with a mark on the returnJason & Frans – returning from a far mark 8 months old Daisy was also challenged by a serious mark Lovely Ylva in action pose Hans & Spyke ready to goBirgitte & Kaspar working to detailFar far away mark – Shelby is high passioned and was spot-onTilly making first steps into directing PipaYlva & Yvonne “Get it”Double trouble Ylva uphillTrainer tactics
Today team Flatastic attended the breed clubshow of WFRG under German judge and breed specialist Gisele Werner. By coincidence I discovered that Mrs Werner also is the one who approved Brösel von Timeloberg for breeding (exterior) so she has now had a good influence on the dogs in our breeding line.
This season has been a bit disappointing on the gun dog competition side. My time was consumed by two litters following each other and one unexpected under our roof. Also my exams this season for a volunteer position has kept me engaged in other things than training my two grown up dogs. We took a throw at it anyway and failed to get the SJP A diplomas this year – only myself to blame for – reaching this diploma takes time to train especially when the dogs are used all year round for hunting too. We will come back for more next year..
Today the results were very good – luckily I have not failed to keep my dogs in good condition – they are fit and muscular. Even youngster Daisy is rather well developed for her age – look at those back leg muscles.
Results for team Flatastic:
Flatastic Billywig “Bryce” 3rd place promising puppy class males
BryceDaisy
Flatastic Bowtruckle “Daisy” 1st Very Promising puppy class bitches
Daisy Daisy
Flatastic Red Strength “Lotte” 1st Excellent working class bitches & winner couples class with Kaspar
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Flatastic Black Peace “Kaspar” 1st Excellent working class males & BOB Working & winner couples class with Lotte
Kaspar Kaspar Kaspar
We are very pleased with the results and the wonderful critiques from Judge Gisele Werner – thank you team WFRG for a well executed club show.
All above 📷 S. Smits – thank you
Couples class 🤳by W.Boermans Thank you WFRG for the beautiful rosettes 💎📷 Sophie Alma
Flatastic Nutiden Verdandi 12 1/2 weeks old after her first hair cutAt the table of Trimdy dog hairdresser by Barbara Ras in Kortenhoef. She is specialized in retrievers and has opened her bookings for new clients 🥳All 5 after their maintenance
Today we drove to see Barbara for a much needed haircut and nail clipping. Both litters kept me from keeping my own dogs up to their beauty standard and luckily Barbara invited all 5 at once. For Jette it was a first time but she already needed a haircut.
Flatastic Bowtruckle “Daisy” at almost 8 months old
Thank you Barbara for being so gentle with our dogs and thank you for proffessional haircuts. We are show ready again.
Alle puppies op teefje rood na zijn inmiddels uitgevlogen en Indy is met haar dochter Nora weer thuis bij Jan. We zijn dankbaar dat we weer mooie weerbare en sociale puppies hebben kunnen meegeven aan leuke gezinnen en mensen die heerlijk met hun nieuwe maatjes gaan werken en plezier beleven. Een aantal van deze pups worden opgeleid voor de praktijk jacht – anderen zullen recreative jacht training gaan genieten en we zullen er ook wat terugzien in het wedstrijd circuit. We wensen allen heel veel geluk en plezier met hun pup.
All puppies except, miss Red, have landed safely in their new homes. Indy has moved back home to Jan with her daughter Nora and we are grateful to have delivered beautiful, resilient and socialized puppies to wonderful families and people. They will all be living active lives, some will be trained for hunting, other just for gun dog fun and/or gundog competitions. We wish them and their owners the best of luck and pleasure in the future together.
Jette is staying with us until she is old enough to travel abroad – she will be trained and socialized further
Flatastic flatcoated retrievers 