What a Wedding!

Congrats to Kaila and Joe on their marriage... and what a great picture. Complete with Magic who was in the Wedding party. He did a great job, wanting to make it special for his special girl Kaila.

Great Picture of Fundy

Photo courtesy of Jan. "Happy girl in the bathtub after a swim in the bog". What a great photo!

Fundy's New Trick

Jan shared this video of Fundy's new trick. What a good girl!

Lilly earns two selects at 2011 NESGA

After a long hiatus in the showing world, Seastar's Northern Lilly handled by Melissa Smith, earned her first two select awards towards her grand championship title on both days of the 2011 New England Sporting Group Show. Even after two litters of puppies (one which was delivered just over two months prior to the NESGA show) Lilly still proves shes got what it takes to win.

Jaxson ...

An update on Jaxson (formerly Dino from the Gracie x Colin litter)... from his family:

"Time flies when you're having fun and Jaxson has made our lives a lot of fun. He is absolutely a wonderful animal. He starting swimming last spring (in a lake) and has turned out to be a real fish. His character and temperament could not be better. He is an amazing retriever and is in love with tennis balls. He may play center field for the Red Sox soon, because he is now catching tennis balls thrown 50 feet into the air.

Oldest Daughter, Youngest Toller

Just a quick photo of our Katie and Seastar's Queen Charlotte (Colin x Gracie, Flintstones litter). Both girls are sweet-tempered, smart, athletic, beautiful and extremely stubborn. And obviously purebred!

Dasher - belated post for his new CHAMPIONSHIP

Dasher (CH Seastar's Dashing Prince) completed his AKC championship last year at the North Shore Kennel club. Dasher is from Spirit x Zoey. He's a great guy - very friendly, sweet and loves to work -- plus he's a handsome fellow. Congrats!

David Frei, Martha Stewart, Kelty and I

At Westminster this year, Martha Stewart, her assistant and David Frei came by to see Kelty (GCH CH Seastar's Dark 'N Stormy Kelty Fife) who was the #5 Toller this year. We made the final cut in the breed ring in the best lineup of Tollers I have ever seen.

Puppies!!

Lilly & Dasher's girls (above) @ 2 weeks old.

Jasmine & Cooper boys - now 3 weeks old.

Lilly x Dasher (1/2/11)

Only two days into the new year, and Lilly brought us a litter of three gorgeous little girls (The Powderpuff Girls - Buttercup, Bubbles & Blossom).

Jasmine x Cooper (12/24/10)

Christmas Eve brought some early presents for Jasmine when Santa delivered us 4 beautiful & healthy boys; first was "Jack", next brought us "Frost", then "Chris", and finally "Kringle".

Santa & The Girls

Happy Holidays .... Santa photos at MSPCA Nevins Farm this weekend. Gracie and Lola got their holiday cheer on early this year.

Fundy at Punkatasset

Spent a few hours at Punkatasset in Concord ... we had a blast!

In the first picture, I had thrown a small stick out near the lilly pads, and somehow she got all tangled up and came out with this huge 4ft long beaver-chewed log, swam into some tree branches on the way back and eventually gave up getting it to shore ... she has those big dilated scaredy eyes! ... thought I was going to have to go in after her!

Muddy Charlotte

Charlotte is still drop dead gorgeous even when she's covered in mud! Charlotte is from Gracie x Colin and is not quite a year old in this picture. Had to be mad at such a sweet & pretty girl even when she is a bad mud dog.

Happy 2nd Birthday!

Happy Birthday to the Royalty Litter pups. Hope to see some pics of Fundy's siblings!!

Here are 2 of Fundy in NB ... she is a handful, but we love her!

Happy Birthday

Rusty says Happy Birthday to all his sisters from the "Royalty Litter"!!!!

Fundy playing soccer ... not quite ready for the World Cup!

Lola is a Genius

New dog "thinking" game that uses nose work. Lola is a genius.

Lola & Gracie Swimming

Burgee's 2nd Major - Topsfield Show

Jane, Madonna and Burgee

Burgee (formerly Betty from The Flintstones litter: Colin x Gracie) earned her second major by taking Winners Bitch on Sunday at the Topsfield Show. She got her first major at NESGA this past March when she just 7 months old & now has gotten her second at 10 months old. What a great start to her show career! She is a very sweet, happy girl with lots of leg and great rear angles. She moves very nicely in the ring and we are looking forward to watching her mature.

Fundy

one more of silly girl ..........

Few action photos of Fundy

Here are a few more pics of the crazy girl in action!

Few pics of Fundy

Here are a few recent pics of the Fundy dog having fun this summer.

Some Pics of Vedder

Here are some pics of Vedder as well from this past weekend. The one above with Vedder in action is my favorite.

Well, Laura told me eventually Vedder would get his sea legs and this past Memorial Day weekend was the culmination of me patiently waiting for Vedder to get there.

I was fishing on Lake Pocono with my friend Todd on his boat. Vedder was hanging out and taking it all in when suddenly he caught sight of a lure I had on my rod and just jumped off of the boat after it into the lake. It was amazing to see him just dive in and figure it out as soon as he hit the water.

We went ashore later that morning and I proceeded to throw sticks; which are Vedder's favorite thing to retrieve, into the lake. It was a complete transformation of his development from my stand point. He lost any inhibitions he had with the water with one quick leap of faith into Lake Pocono.

Here is a video of he and I playing together on the shore of Lake Pocono this past weekend:

Vermont Getaway Over Memorial Day

It's dog heaven up in Alburgh VT on Lake Champlain. Lola and Gracie enjoyed the freedom of lots of fields, rock beach and the lake. Plus they had the added excitement of hunting the resident red Fox and her 3 kits as well as they woodchuck that also appeared near their den. They would go screaming, literally, out the screen door, around the house and to the den over and over, all day long - hoping to catch the foxes. Thankfully, they remained unsuccessful in their hunt. They also followed me around in the kayak - I would go out on the lake and they would both swim next to me -- that tired them out GOOD! Hope everyone had a wonderful Memorial Day weekend, we all certainly did up in Vermont.

Moses has reached the Promised Land

I adopted Moses on Thursday and he is the most adorable sweet dog. He loves his new family and is thrilled to have sophie ( a 4 year old Golden ) and snickers ( an 11 year old brown Lab). They are perfect together, although Sophie definitely tells Moses where her space is.

Moses loves running on the Golf course early in the am and went in swimming today. Sophie and he share a ball and Moses has no problem giving it to her and vice a versa.

we had our first training session yesterday, but Moses is so good already in coming, sitting and down. I am proud of him.

I am indebted to Jane for letting me have her dog- he is wonderful.

Deborah

ROSIE: 6/10/96 - 4/2/10

ROSIE

AKC/NSTDRC (USA)/Can/ ARBA Grand Ch Driftwood’s Rose CD JH WCI VC Cgc

June 10, 1996 to April 2, 2010

Rosie came into my life 14 years ago as a family pet. I contacted Carol and Paul Milbury on the recommendation of Sue Van Sloun – all of whom, have become lifelong friends. I never imagined Rosie would become the foundation bitch for Seastar Kennel, earn a Best of Breed at the 2000 National Specialty and bring countless hours of joy through her 9 kids, numerous grandkids and a multitude of next generations. Her legacy has earned countless titles, Evelyn Williams Awards, Rusty Jones Awards, Invitations to Westminster, Crufts, Eukanuba and much more.

Rosie was unique – like other Tollers. She was a founding member of the BLBRC (Blind Leading the Blind Retriever Club) and was one of the first to earn the JH and WCI. Known as “Squeaky”, she brought Paul Botehlo to his knees and entertained the galley in his efforts to get her to come back. She did not like his truck so found her way to humble him.

Rosie earned many Championships. Her first was from the American Rare Breed Association where she earned multiple group placements and the ARBA Grand Championship. She went on to earn the AKC, NSDTRC (USA) and CKC CH. I enjoyed showing her exclusively.

Rosie provided puppies to my family & friends. My sister Laurie Warden and her husband Lundy, have Lola & Gracie; my brother John Warden has Zeus; my dear friends the Johnsons have Lexie & Winston; Lauren Cramer and Jim Baptiste have Zoey & Dasher: Christine and Rob Jones have Meadow & Finn; Ed and Michele McGrath have Derrie & Kelty; Deb Smith and her kids have Lilly & Jasmine, and the list forever grows…….it is an extended family of true friends. Sue Van Sloun, Marile Waterstraat, John Hamilton, Gretchen Botner, Lee Ann Gleason, Jean Gilroy, Deb Gibbs, Peggy Park, Sue Kish, Alison Strang and many more have helped mentor me to success. Thank you all.

Rosie died peacefully in my arms on April 2nd and is buried under a beautiful flowering tree overlooking the ocean. She will be remembered by many whose lives she touched and changed forever, including mine.

Jane Folkman, Seastar Kennel

Fundy

Here are two pics of Fundy on the footstool (we call it the toadstool) watching the Westminster Dog show on TV ... really. We swear, she really watches TV sometimes.

Do anyone else's Tollers watch TV??

Just got motivated to post a few pics of Fundy from a trip to the Cape in February ... she loves the beach!