Lowforge Gundogs

Our interest in Labradors began with one dog, Flynn, Contrail Champers of Lowforge. Flynn was a wonderful dog, with whom we have both spent countless enjoyable hours. Flynn was 18 months old when we bought him. We decided that following on from him, we would like to try our hand at training a pup ourselves, so we went back up to Scotland for Ash, Pittendreich Highlight of Lowforge, she proved to be a very willing pupil, and Jane formed a strong bond with her. Ash has grown into an excellent working bitch, and Jane was bitten by the training bug, and has continued to train our other Labradors, some of which can be seen here.

Our introduction to spaniels, and cockers in particular followed a very similar route to our interest in Labradors. Our first cocker, Jamie, Contrail Cosmos, was bought as an older dog. Jamie is the most adorable cocker, and such a character, even by cocker standards. Having seen what an experienced dog could do, again we decided to have a go from scratch with Rocket, Contrail Catch a Fire. We have now learnt, to our cost, that cockers are extremely addictive! However, Jane prefers the more leisurely pace of her Labradors, leaving me to the joys of training the spaniels.

As our interest in Labradors grew, we decided that we would like to have a litter from our own dogs. Since then, our interest in Labrador bloodlines has grown. It is our intention to try, over a number of years to establish our own line of working Labradors. Our progress to date can be seen on the following pages.

This is a new section, featuring pictures taken during the 2008-9 season, showing the dogs doing what they do best. It also reflects my growing interest in photography, so any comments or feedback, on any of the pictures would be very welcome.

This gallery is devoted to pictures taken whilst working my dogs on the moors, it is my favourite place to work them, whether picking up, or in the beating line.

This section contains various shots of  dogs, most of which are ours, out and about, on shoots,  on training days, and around the kennels.  We’ll be changing them round from time to time, and adding new pictures, so please keep looking in