Now meet the dogs, the main stars of the Blitzan family........

Gentle Zephyr of Home Von Blitzan - Tarka

Tarka, the Grand old lady of the family, now 14 years old she has recently had a few health scares but wont let it stop her coming everywhere I go in the car. She isn't bothered in going for walks although does love a mooch around the farm. Her nick names include, Bella as she is a genuinely beautiful girl. Tarka is such a special lady, she has never been told off as she has never done anything wrong, she is Great Great Granny to our youngest, Tetra and Darcy and long may she continue her reign at the top, one in a million. A fantastic ambassador for the breed, who views showing as a social occasion not to run around the ring, (that's boring to her) but she does love to go to shows to meet and greet all the other Munsterlanders and owners, Julie and dear old Herman were her bestest pals!

Blitzan Tamar - Zeta

Zeta is Logi's litter sister and she is a real treasure, a Veteran now and retired at 8 years old. She started her show career on style by winning Best puppy Bitch at her first show and then Best bitch puppy at Crufts she has always held her own. Shown by James she has been the perfect dog to teach James how to show a dog, a patient, gentle and very loving girl, she dotes on James and just loves to do anything you ask her to. Unable to have puppies she makes a great Aunt, but she loves most of all out in the fields digging! digging for what? - I have never been sure but she does enjoy it, swimming is her other passion, she has been known to swim far, far out to sea and has given me many a heart attack watching her disappear off into the sunset!  She would happily spend all day out in the garden just don't forget her at tea time. A great character she loves to tell you things but only when she needs to. To sum her up she is a sweetheart who loves everyone and dotes on her young master, James, they make a great team.

Show Champion Blitzan Rhine JW ShCm - Logi

My boy Logi, he is such a star, he just excels at everything we do with him, (see the show page for his show results) but to live with him he is just perfect, loving, loyal and very well behaved, he is like a male version of Tarka. Completely a Mummy's boy and a big baby, he is passing all his special traits and characteristics on to his many children. Welcoming to any dogs that visit or travel in our car with him, he is just the perfect gentleman. Not sure what to say about him as he is just so perfect, a great cuddler in bed or on the sofa, great company where ever I take him and a firm favorite of many judges. As a working boy he is very biddable and very keen and never misses a bird. A dream of a dog who I hope will be with us for many more years to come. We missed Crufts this year as Logi was taken ill, not a problem as I had to stay home with him, he needed his Mum, I would happily give up any prize won just to have him healthy and happy, that goes for all our dogs. He has won many Top Awards but nothing means more than the way he has welcomed Darcy into the family, a real father figure, a male who does not mind sharing his life with all the boys and girls. All in all my star!

Raycris Falcons Gift to Blitzan AI - Maddison

Maddison, or Maddie 'B' as we call her most of the time, is an absolute sweetheart, litter sister to Fancy her mother was one of the first Munsterlanders to be artificially inseminated. Unable to be bred from she doesn't miss the whole motherhood lark, she is a happy girl, fun loving and very chatty. If she has something to tell you don't try to stop her as she wont give up until she has said what she wants to say! Very much a Mummy's girl, she has been known to return home from walks if I am not with her. Great to show or in fact do anything with she just loves being with me and doing things for me. A great retriever she loves to greet you with something in her mouth, this doesn't stop her talking though! As a youngster she had a horrific accident when she got caught on a poachers trap, she escaped death, just, and made a full recovery and as a patient she was perfect. Now at 6 years old she is a great member of the family and so easy to live with.

Show Champion Blitzan Leahs Stunner JW - Diva

Diva by name Diva by nature, such a happy fun loving girl, and a real show off. One of the biggest characters in our family, making us laugh on a daily basis, she is a real performer and quite a clown as well. She thinks she is human and deserves all the luxuries that humans have, including traveling on the front seat of the car, if she can get away with it! She has had two litters of exceptionally gorgeous babies, we drove to Sweden to mate her for the second time and she was an angel, completely took the long journey, several Ferry trips all in her stride, we kept two of her babies, Tetra and Darcy. A loyal girl once she gets to know you she loves you to pieces and will tell you so over and over again, she has been known to knock glasses of Judges and friends. As a puppy she showed her socks off but the more she does it the more she enjoys it and we all know when she is loving it as she hardly keeps her feet on the ground! Yes she does jump up and kiss the judges from time to time, maybe that's why she is so memorable and has won so much. As a working girl in the field she is a fast precise worker, never misses a bird and always soft mouthed. Diva a girl who will always be admired. Now she has her two children she takes mother hood very seriously and reminds us a lot of her dear Mum, Leah. She loves watching us cuddle her babies and has this look of immense pride!!!

STOP PRESS: At the Large Munsterlander Club show Diva won her title as a Show Champion in style with a record entry of over 100 Munsterlanders and then went on to win Reserve Best In Show Thanks to Judge: Mr G Hargreaves.

Raycris Falcons Fancy AI - Fancy

Fancy dancy, is Maddies litter sister, and a girl who puts 100% enthusiasm in everything she does. A real home girl, she prefers to stay home rather then go off to shows, but her most favorite thing is having babies. Throughout her two pregnancies she just bloomed, she went around all the time with a big smile on her face, (no really she did!) and once the babies came that was it she was in ecstasy, spending 24 hours a day 7 days a week washing them and nursing them, in fact if any of the girls had a litter she just had to get involved with them, Diva wasn't too keen on the old bottom washing of puppies (well she is a Diva!) so she was more than happy to have Fancy come in and do the job, she used to move over in the box to make room for Fancy. Another girl who likes to hear her own voice and will definitely tell you if she wants something, she has great facial expressions and will always grin at you when having her chest tickled. Her biggest love is Logi she absolutely adores him and in her eyes (and mine) he can do no wrong. Fancy came to us later in life but she fitted in and is a big part of the family now. Thanks to Christine and Raymond for our lovely girl.

Summertime Temptress At Blitzan - summer

Summer is Logi's daughter. Back in May 2005, Logi was visited by Corrie, a young lady from Somerset, they produced 11 gorgeous babies. Unfortunately Corrie was rather ill, so we offered to have the babies come to us at 10 days old to help rear them and wean them. It was decided that it would be easier with all my 5 girls here to help with the mothering. The babies arrived looking very fit well and fat and guess who chose to take on the job as mother, guess who chose to wash them, clean them cuddle them and love them? LOGI, yes daddy stepped up to the line and adored being with them. He slept with them and would barely come out of the box. I have never heard of a stud dog taking over from Mum, but then Logi is a special boy! They went back to their owner at 4 weeks and when we visited them at 6 weeks old we ended up coming home with Summer. She takes after her Dad is as much as she loves cuddles and is very loyal and loving. Summer has had her first litter of babies and is Mum of our Stella. She broke her leg at 8 months old and we were very pleased when at nearly a year old she went to her first Championship show where she won Best Puppy in Breed. She has not really been shown much as yet but may step it up a gear this year.

Blitzan Absolutely Fab - prima

Prima Donna, or Prima Ballerina is a real sweetie, daughter of Fancy and Logi she is just a poppit. James has taken on the job of showing her, he managed to qualify her for Crufts the first time he showed her, she really listens to him and paces herself to his stride. At home she is James's shadow, where he goes, she goes. As a baby she had a mild water works problem so she had to sleep in a huge cage at night, now two years on she wont go to sleep if she can't get in her cage, she loves her special place, I have on more than one occasion found both Prima and James asleep in there with the door wide open! She loves training of any kind and is like a sponge always learning and copying, unfortunately that includes all of Summer's bad habits, the two together and the terrible two. Out on walks she is so fast, she covers the ground at great speed and with great elegance and style, very effortlessly. At three years old she is still very much the baby of the family and all the others treat her as such ,making allowances for her, so she gets away with everything. A quirk of Prima is her love of a chest rub and she will walk up to and lift her front leg up and out to the side so you can rub her chest, I am just waiting for her to do it to a judge one day! Prima is totally Jamie's little girl and the two are inseparable, a real treasure of the family. She will be the next Mum in the Blitzan home. Unlike Diva Prima is a definite tom boy at heart!!! Maybe because she spends every minute she can playing with James, I'm not sure, but a Tom boy she is!!

Blitzan Eternal mischief - Tetra

Little Miss Tetra, or is that Princess Tetra is such an intelligent girl. Diva's daughter and yes she is a chip of the old block!!! She loves tennis balls and always has one in her mouth  but even more than that she loves all the other dogs, working very hard, sometimes too hard to get their attention and affection!!! She is aptly named as Mischief is her game, always into something, however tell her off once and she will not do it again, she is just so eager to please. Very pretty and put together very nicely I look forward to bringing her out to the Championship shows. As the picture shows she is a Princess, loves her creature comforts and has her own pillow on Jamies double bed!!!!

blitzan Eternal Chaos - Darcy 

Another of Diva's babies and litter brother to Tetra. Darcy is a big soft dollop, gorgeous head and expression you look at him and smile. Like his sister he tries very hard to please us, but before he worked on us he worked very hard on our two top dogs, Logi and Tarka. He was determined they would love and accept him, refusing to cuddle up with us and opting to cuddle up with them. Well it worked, Logi adores him, they spend ages playing together, snuggling up to sleep and Logi now feels he needs to look after Darcy. Once he had won those two over he relaxed a bit and now loves to cuddle up on the sofa with me. So laid back he is horizontal, full of fun and yes he can be chaotic, he is a big boy with legs and feet to match, the trouble is his coordination is not the best yet, we have to watch out when he comes running as fast as he can towards us.  He is more than happy to let Tetra take the lead, often ending up in all sorts of predicaments, with Tetra getting away with it all. He got his head stuck in a Cornflake box recently and nearly demolished the house trying to blindly find his way to me for help!!! Hilarious would be a good word to describe Darcy and his antics. Not a nasty bone in his body and extremely submissive I am sure he will be not only a major member of our family but a very useful stud dog too. We are very proud of both the puppies and the long trek across Europe was worth it all.

Sadly Gone But not Forgotten

Blitzan Rhapsody - Leah

Sadly we lost our darling girl, she was diagnosed with a mammary tumor, which we had removed within days of finding it. Unfortunately it was a secondary one and the Cancer had spread to her blood stream, we lost her just three short weeks later. Leah leaves a massive hole in our family and is missed by all of us.

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Blitzan Rhapsody - Leah

Our Party Girl a Mother to all

She is the star that shines at night,

The flock of birds that take to flight,

A Mum in a million,

Who made families complete

Our Special girl who made each day a treat.

Leah, was our party girl, Loopy Leah as a youngster, but as an older lady she was Mother Earth, Leah had three litters of puppies. all of which she had without any veterinary intervention, a born to be natural mother, and believe it or not she had a total of 43 puppies in those three litters. Mum to our Logi, Zeta and Diva, she spent every evening going around and washing all of the dogs, including her Mum, Tarka. She was only 10 1/2 when we lost her a very sweet older lady, who liked her home comforts, and she was a real bed hog in bed at night! A bit accident prone when she was younger she was out working one day when she jumped a dry stone wall to point a bird in the undergrowth on the other side only to have a sharp slate like stone come down and chop her beautiful tail in half, not put off she held her point and only came to me after she had flushed and retrieved the bird, and her tail was literally hanging off, she was not impressed at the sudden trip to the vets and the surgery that followed and even less impressed by the enforced rest she had to have whilst the half still attached to her healed. A typical Munsterlander work first everything else second! By the way the injury didn't stop her winning her stud book number and qualifying for Crufts for life.

Blitzan Ringleader - Solo

Solo, is sadly no longer with us, he died suddenly in 2006 and still we having a gaping hole in our family, he was a beautiful big, hairy Teddy bear, loved to pieces his heart was out working, he just loved it so much, always a bit too self conscious in the show ring. A well used stud dog he has left his legacy in all the beautiful, well mannered children he produced. Sadly gone but not forgotten and still very much loved.