A page for the dogs, who although no longer have their own pages, are still very much appreciated and part of the family.
Joker “Abbotshall Red Devil of Fyrish”
One day I’ll have the honour of missing the dog that changed my life, that’s you Joker
19th Feb 2014 - 25th May 2015
I’ve still no words for losing you joker
Where To Bury A Dog
By Ben Hur Lampman
There are various places within which a dog may be buried. We are thinking now of a setter, whose coat was flame in the sunshine, and who, so far as we are aware, never entertained a mean or an unworthy thought. This setter is buried beneath a cherry tree, under four feet of garden loam, and at its proper season the cherry strews petals on the green lawn of his grave. Beneath a cherry tree, or an apple, or any flowering shrub of the garden, is an excellent place to bury a good dog. Beneath such trees, such shrubs, he slept in the drowsy summer, or gnawed at a flavorous bone, or lifted head to challenge some strange intruder. These are good places, in life or in death. Yet it is a small matter, and it touches sentiment more than anything else.
For if the dog be well remembered, if sometimes he leaps through your dreams actual as in life, eyes kindling, questing, asking, laughing, begging, it matters not at all where that dog sleeps at long and at last. On a hill where the wind is unrebuked and the trees are roaring, or beside a stream he knew in puppyhood, or somewhere in the flatness of a pasture land, where most exhilarating cattle graze. It is all one to the dog, and all one to you, and nothing is gained, and nothing lost—if memory lives. But there is one best place to bury a dog. One place that is best of all.
If you bury him in this spot, the secret of which you must already have, he will come to you when you call—come to you over the grim, dim frontiers of death, and down the well-remembered path, and to your side again. And though you call a dozen living dogs to heel they should not growl at him, nor resent his coming, for he is yours and he belongs there.
People may scoff at you, who see no lightest blade of grass bent by his footfall, who hear no whimper pitched too fine for mere audition, people who may never really have had a dog. Smile at them then, for you shall know something that is hidden from them, and which is well worth the knowing.
The one best place to bury a good dog is in the heart of his master.
I’ve still no words for losing you joker
Where To Bury A Dog
By Ben Hur Lampman
There are various places within which a dog may be buried. We are thinking now of a setter, whose coat was flame in the sunshine, and who, so far as we are aware, never entertained a mean or an unworthy thought. This setter is buried beneath a cherry tree, under four feet of garden loam, and at its proper season the cherry strews petals on the green lawn of his grave. Beneath a cherry tree, or an apple, or any flowering shrub of the garden, is an excellent place to bury a good dog. Beneath such trees, such shrubs, he slept in the drowsy summer, or gnawed at a flavorous bone, or lifted head to challenge some strange intruder. These are good places, in life or in death. Yet it is a small matter, and it touches sentiment more than anything else.
For if the dog be well remembered, if sometimes he leaps through your dreams actual as in life, eyes kindling, questing, asking, laughing, begging, it matters not at all where that dog sleeps at long and at last. On a hill where the wind is unrebuked and the trees are roaring, or beside a stream he knew in puppyhood, or somewhere in the flatness of a pasture land, where most exhilarating cattle graze. It is all one to the dog, and all one to you, and nothing is gained, and nothing lost—if memory lives. But there is one best place to bury a dog. One place that is best of all.
If you bury him in this spot, the secret of which you must already have, he will come to you when you call—come to you over the grim, dim frontiers of death, and down the well-remembered path, and to your side again. And though you call a dozen living dogs to heel they should not growl at him, nor resent his coming, for he is yours and he belongs there.
People may scoff at you, who see no lightest blade of grass bent by his footfall, who hear no whimper pitched too fine for mere audition, people who may never really have had a dog. Smile at them then, for you shall know something that is hidden from them, and which is well worth the knowing.
The one best place to bury a good dog is in the heart of his master.
Quando ‘OFTW Levenghyl Kudoo’
Go on in peace my friend, and always loyal companion
I lost Quando in November 2019.
Quando was a very special boy, my first labrador and my first trial winner. He was an honest boy, who was very easy to have around, a joy to train and compete with, he loved his picking up and would do a honest days work for whoever took him out.
Luckily for his peg dog days he excelled at taking runners :)
He loved to train and compete as much as he also liked to spend the majority of his time asleep on the sofa, and going for walks just by himself, he was a dog of a life time who taught me a great deal as well as providing some exciting times competing and a love for the countryside.
Sire- OFTW Wolsely Ruby at Kirkmoor
Dam- Ftch Levenghyl Gemstone
Awards
2nd and Guns choice East Midlands club Nov stake 15/9/12
2nd MOY open test 2nd Aug 2014
14/10/14 best yellow dog Moray firth 12 dog Open stake
1st and Guns choice GRCS novice trail 21/10/2014
3rd MOY open test 8th Aug 2015
1st and Guns choice Grampian open stake 7th Oct 2015
COM Tay valley 2day open 5/6 Nov 2015
2nd Tay valley open test 23/4/16
2nd Team event scone gamefair 3/7/16
1st Moy Game Fair open Test 6/8/16
COM Highland 2day stake 26/27th oct 2016
COM strathmore 2day 7/8 oct 2016
2nd Sutherland gundog club open 9/7/17
COM North of Scot walked up test 16/7/17
COM Scottish field trial association 2day 13/14 oct 2017
2nd Moray Firth open Test 18/03/2018
2nd moy game fair 2018
Photo at the top taken by Lindsay Robertson photography
Future Legend at Fyrish “Loki” Passed Feb 2024
Sire :- FTW Meadowsedge Ptarmigan
Dam :- Cardiff Princess
He was a brilliant worker throughout his picking up career, he picked up on grouse, partridge and pheasant days,
He was never your typical cocker, he had a excellent on and off switch, and easy biddable nature although he wouldn't have been a cocker if he wasn’t sometimes “naughty” :)
He sired many lovely litters over the years
Rest easy Loki
Sire :- FTW Meadowsedge Ptarmigan
Dam :- Cardiff Princess
He was a brilliant worker throughout his picking up career, he picked up on grouse, partridge and pheasant days,
He was never your typical cocker, he had a excellent on and off switch, and easy biddable nature although he wouldn't have been a cocker if he wasn’t sometimes “naughty” :)
He sired many lovely litters over the years
Rest easy Loki
Rumour “FTW Levenghyl Rumour Hasit at Fyrish”
FTW Levenghyl Rumour hasit at Fyrish
She is as quick on the way back with a retrieve as she is on the way out, she is a very honest girl, who will always give me 110% in anything I asked her to do. Rumour is now retired from competing due to an injury sustained whilst working in the field in Spring 2020, she doesn’t mind though she loves coming picking up and enjoying life at a slightly slower pace.
Rumour has had 2 litters, the first to FTCH Longcopse Bertie producing Wilson “Fyrish Mischief Maker” and her second and last to OFTW Shimnavale Excalibur producing Guinea “Fyrish Guinea”
Sire- Ftch Copperbirch Paddy of Leadburn
Dam- Ftch Levenghyl Gemstone
Rumour is now Spayed and known as Bad Granny Rumour :)
Awards
2nd Grampian novice working test march 2015
8/10/15 COM Tay valley novice trail
2nd and Guns choice KC All aged stake 18/8/16
COM and Guns choice L and B novice 21/9/16
1st Moray Firth novice trial 28th oct 2017
2nd Moray Firth interclub team May 2019
2nd Sutherland Gundog club open test 8th March 2020
She is as quick on the way back with a retrieve as she is on the way out, she is a very honest girl, who will always give me 110% in anything I asked her to do. Rumour is now retired from competing due to an injury sustained whilst working in the field in Spring 2020, she doesn’t mind though she loves coming picking up and enjoying life at a slightly slower pace.
Rumour has had 2 litters, the first to FTCH Longcopse Bertie producing Wilson “Fyrish Mischief Maker” and her second and last to OFTW Shimnavale Excalibur producing Guinea “Fyrish Guinea”
Sire- Ftch Copperbirch Paddy of Leadburn
Dam- Ftch Levenghyl Gemstone
Rumour is now Spayed and known as Bad Granny Rumour :)
Awards
2nd Grampian novice working test march 2015
8/10/15 COM Tay valley novice trail
2nd and Guns choice KC All aged stake 18/8/16
COM and Guns choice L and B novice 21/9/16
1st Moray Firth novice trial 28th oct 2017
2nd Moray Firth interclub team May 2019
2nd Sutherland Gundog club open test 8th March 2020
Binny (left) “Fenway on the wing of Fyrish”, on the right is her son Pringle “Fyrish Tee off”
Sadly we lost Binny March 2023, I say “we”, as Binny was always as much apart of my life as she was a part of her second family. I am so grateful for Emma, Simon, Sue and the rest of their family for giving her the best of homes, we where all with her when she went and she will always be missed, she was truly the most special girl to all of us, we where binny’s people rather than binny being our dog and all of us loved her.
Between Binny and Rumour is where it all started, Binny had 2 litters, one to FTCH Emmanygan Rocket of Chatsworth, where I kept Maurice and Dora, and then another to Quando Levenghyl Kudoo where I kept Pringle but because of one side of his hips scoring higher than I would like, he went to live with friends, friends who now actually have more of his family, Binny and Dora have gone to live with them now, and they also have Archie, Dora’s full brother and Flash Aha as he’s known, I don’t think anyone could have predicted when they came to get Archie from me as a pup that a few years down the line this would be the outcome :))
Between Binny and Rumour is where it all started, Binny had 2 litters, one to FTCH Emmanygan Rocket of Chatsworth, where I kept Maurice and Dora, and then another to Quando Levenghyl Kudoo where I kept Pringle but because of one side of his hips scoring higher than I would like, he went to live with friends, friends who now actually have more of his family, Binny and Dora have gone to live with them now, and they also have Archie, Dora’s full brother and Flash Aha as he’s known, I don’t think anyone could have predicted when they came to get Archie from me as a pup that a few years down the line this would be the outcome :))
Dora ‘Fyrish Explorer’
Dora is one where like her mum there will never be another, she’s quiet and easy and always works hard all day every day out picking up, she also like Binny gives the best of hugs. Dora going to live with Binny and crew wasn’t an easy choice, but she has made sue very happy (now Dora has got past her problem with exploding dog beds, Dora was luckily never harmed) and I still regularly see them all, more so now they have brought a house near by :)
Gamble “Crosstone Gambler at Fyrish”
Gamble is a lovely looking lab, he has a brilliant temperament with that on/off switch that is sometimes missing! Lovely style when working and he excels when it comes to picking up, he’s always reliable and level headed, he’s the go to dog for any long retrieve that requires tricky handling at a distance.
25/6/17 3 rd Puppy test central Scot club
9/7/17 2 nd Puppy test sutherland gundog club