Brittany

So eligible breeds.

Same as last week are all the, like the Brac de Verne, the Brac Francais, the Gascon, and the Pyrenees varieties, the wide-haired pointing Griffon, the blue Picardy Spaniel, the Brittany Spaniel, English-Irish Gordon, Irish red and white setters, French Spaniel pointers, German long-haired, short-haired, and wire-haired pointers, the poodle pointer, and Spadoni Italiano, Vizsla's both smooth and wire-haired, and last but not least, La Weimaraina.

Wire-haired for all you people who are catching on to Yvonne's accents.

I can't help it, La Weimaraina.

I was able to get around, get a lot of experience with her then.

Moved on to a French Brittany because I've always got to have something a little different than everybody else.

I wanted to try a pointing dog.

Had a French Brit, which, again, you know, she saw about six different states or so.

And I forgot how many species of birds.

But, you know, it was at a time when my kids were growing up and work was getting demanding, just like everybody's story.

you know, it's an AKC dog and stuff, but...

Yeah, and then we moved along from there.

So we both, uh, grown up with dogs.

Um, my boyfriend, he's grown up with terriers, and I've grown up with Brittany Spaniels.

Okay.

Uh, my family has been doing quite a bit of hunting.

The Blue Picardy Spaniel.

The Brittany Spaniel.

English Setter.

French Spaniel.

Used to have a Brittany way back when.

I did.

Tell, tell some really great stories about Brittanys that I've, I've really enjoyed.

And, um, anyway, just to kinda give you a little background, um, Brett mentioned probably about 10 plus years ago that he was taking on a project of writing a book, and I thought, "Oh, great.

It's gonna be, you know, a bunch of his upland experiences." So I sent him a message and I'm like, "Brett," said, "what are you writing?" He's like, "Oh, I'm, I'm actually gonna write a fictional book." And I'm, and I thought, "Fiction?" [laughs]

Well, I don't think it was a French Brittany.

It was, actually I guess it probably-

Well, they were all French Brittanys back then I guess because-

Is, and, um, yeah.

So the way that we found Twin Cedars, so for listeners, um, you know, w- w- the, what kind of drew me to Nathan was that I discovered that he, um, has several Brittanys from the same kennel where I got my dog, Creek, from, and I just think that's, like, super cool.

So I, uh, you know, naturally, right? And so I reached out to him and, um, and so that's part of the reason why we're sitting here talking today.

But, um, uh, um, our situation was we, we kind of had a plan in place of who we were gonna get a Brittany from, and that just did not really pan out, work out the way that we wanted to.

I knew a Brittany was the breed that we wanted.

Um, and we just...

I think my wife just did kind of, like, a quick search of, like, Brittanys within a however mile or, you know, however many hour radius of me, um, and found Twin Cedars.

Um, and so we started reaching out to people, um, on Facebook that had gotten dogs from there, and they just had nothing but the greatest things to say about these dogs, and their bitability, and their temperament, and, um, trainability, and just the, you know, the affection.

I, I remember my dog Casey, and she had a reason to be.

She's a Brittany Spaniel.

Mm.

She's terrified of thunderstorms, and whenever they came, I started doing this.

Yeah.

I mean, I get people say, "Oh, go to Al Burkhart, he's got good dogs," but they like Brittanys.

I said, "Then find a good Brittany trainer, or, uh, breeder."

Breeder.