2008 American Brittany Club National Gun Dog Championships

Click here to see great Brittany’s in action:

Announcing Puppies!

Congratulations Breckon and Chip!!

April 3rd, 2009

Please check the links at the top of this page

to view the raising of

Breckon and Chips Puppies!

Chip and Breckon’s litter has been placed.

If interested in future litters please go to this link:

Future Litters

and email me at

JulieRomence@mac.com

Check back often to watch Breckon and Chip’s puppies grow!

Dam:

Renegade’s Breckon  Ridge

MUCC RU Gun Dog of the Year 2005

Sire:

FC/AFC WRIGLEY’S CHIP MAKIN’ HIS MARC

Chip is an outstanding dog that placed fourth at the National Amateur Gun Dog Championship in 2007.  He has great style and hunting abilities and has produced pups with the same!

Some things just come naturally!

Mason at 8 weeks

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Welcome to Romence Brittanys.

  We pride ourselves in placing well socialized, beautiful Brittanys with exceptional hunting abilities.  Our pups are raised in our laundry room where they are part of our everyday life, so they get plenty of attention!  Great care is taken to make sure the pup you receive will be a wonderful family and hunting companion. 

History:  We have had wonderful brittanys for over thirty five years and love the breed.  They are a great size family dog with tremendous desire to please.  Our first brittany was Lady, who we got from Wayne Warners, President of the Western Michigan Brittany Club.  She was with us for over 14 years.  Our next Brittany was Brandy, who unfortunately found Cascade Road at the age of 4.  At that time we installed Invisible Fence and everyone has been safe every since.  It is a very wise investment for your precious puppy!   After the loss of Brandy, we were very fortunate to find two wonderful lines of Brittanys that has been the foundation of our litters. Our first Brit we got was Greta, who passed away in 2006 at 14, and the next year we got Copper, who passed away in 2005 at 13.  Greta was from  Mo’s Autumn Quest and was a daughter of a great dog named Keystone Cop, owned by Ron Auten.  Copper was another of  Wayne’s puppies.  He had bred his female to a National Amateur Gun Dog Champion, Hall of Fame Dog, Renegade’s Kansas Kid, owned by Diana Kubitz.  These two girls proved to be a couple of the greatest hunting dogs you could ever want!  Aunt Greta was spayed early in life, but Copper went on to have four litters.  Trainer John Johnson of Hopkins, Mich took her to South Dakota for a month of Guiding and said she was one of finest hunting dogs that he would ever hunt with.   He stated that she had an uncanny natural ability to stop a running pheasant.  All of the people he guided always wanted to go behind that little brittany!

         From Copper’s four litters we now have Belle(9) whose father was Greta’s brother, an outstanding guide dog (Mo’s Autumn Quest) in the Northern Michigan Woods,  and Breckon (6), Runner Up MUCC Gun Dog of the Year 2005, whose sire was Dual Champion Classic’s Can Do Andrew,  Our youngest is  Abbey(1 & 1/2) from Breckon and Wrigley.   We have been very fortunate to still have outstanding hunters!  Our Girls hunt pheasant in the Dakotas every year and spend many hours on our properties in Northern Michigan pointing woodcock and partridge.  They have great desire, excellent noses and are very eager to please.  When they are not hunting, they are spoiled rotten house dogs, chasing squirrels and sleeping under the foot stool!  Life is good!

                      Belle, Greta and Copper

In the pedigree:

Grand Sire:

  We have been very fortunate to have had five litters with Renegades Regal Wrigley, owned by Jane and Gil Hopper.  He was an outstanding dog who has passed his desire and abilities down to his pups.   He is a son of Hall of Fame, National Amateur Gun Dog Champion, Renegades Kansas Kid (Breckon’s Grandfather) and is a 5X American Field Champion and 3X Runner up, as well as the Tri-Tronics Dog of the Year in 2003.

               He is a bird finding machine!!!

                               Wrigley

***It is with great sadness that I tell you of Wrigley’s passing.  He was an outstanding dog, loved by everyone who knew him. A fine companion and hunting partner as well as a fierce competitor.  Gil always said he knew the difference between a field trial with horses and dad hunting grouse or pheasant with a shotgun.  He was outstanding in both venues.

I am honored to offer his last natural bred litter.  These are truly special puppies.  Jane and Gil, Wrigley’s spirit lives on in all of his pups.  He has made the Brittany breed better for his existence.

Thank you for letting me be part of his legacy.

I will miss him. 

FC/AFC Renegade’s Regal Wrigley Accomplishments

5X American Field Champion

3X R-U Champion

Tri-Tronics ( formally Nutro Award Winner) Shooting dog of the year 2003

National Gun Dog Championship – 4th Place 2001

Magnum’s Masked Man Gun Dog of the Year – Top Male 2001

ABC Grouse and Woodcock Championship- 3rd Place 2003

ABC Grouse and Woodcock Championship– 4th Place 2002

Michigan Walking Shooting Dog Championship 

Champion 2004

Michigan Walking Shooting Dog Classic – Winner 2001

Michigan Walking Shooting Dog Classic - Winner 2000

Prairie States Shooting Dog Championship R-U Ch. 2004

Prairie States Shooting Dog Championship – Champion 2001

Prairie States Shooting Dog Championship - R-U Ch. 1999

New England Grouse Championship - R-U Ch. 2000

ABC Gun Dog Classic - Champion 2000

ABC Gun Dog Classic - third - 1998

Iowa Brittany Club Gun Dog of the Year 2003

Western Michigan Gun Dog of the Year - 1998, 1999, 2000

Western Michigan Juvenile Dog of the Year - 1997 

It is with great excitement that I look forward to having Wrigley’s son, Chip’s, pups.  I feel Chip will carry on the traits that made Wrigley’s pups so special! 

Emails from puppy owners:

1. From: Craig Schrotenboer
   

Date: December 27, 2005 4:09:27 PM EST

To: Julie Romence <julieromence@mac.com>

Subject: South Dakota

 

Julie, I hope that all is well in your neck of the woods.

I just got back from our trip to SD, and I wanted to drop you a line. (It changed from Iowa to South Dakota.)

 

As you know it is a little late in the year for a trip, but there are some advantages to that, and it paid off this time! The only down side was the temperature. We drove 14 hours and managed to end up in the coldest spot in the entire country. Temperatures of the first days hunt were 24 degrees below zero! That’s not a wind-chill, it was the temperature.

 

I could not believe the number of birds we saw out there. They had a big ice/snow storm just before we arrived, so power was out in much of the state, and most all the standard pheasant cover was flattened! This combined with al the crops being out already meant we saw an unbelievable number of birds on the snow in the fields scratching for food. The first day we spent most of the day driving around and orientating ourselves to possible hunting grounds. We kept an approximate count, and came up with about 800 birds in various fields throughout the days wanderings.

 

Anyway I believe that I told you that Saddie was spending some time with John Johnson before we headed West. When I picked her up he had nothing bad to say about Saddie. She performed well for John, and he stated that she would be a great hunting dog. Even though this was her first trip, it was evident that John was right. Saddie has a great desire for birds and bird hunting; she works hard, and has a great nose. We jumped several deer within 15 yards of us, and Saddie was never interested in anything but Roosters! She works close and listens well to the whistle.

 

We ended up hunting some of the thickest cover imaginable for birds. The 4-6’ tall cattails were the only thing not totally flattened by the previous ice storm. This made hunting hard work for us and Saddie, but produced some great results. We ended up only 2 birds short of our total limit for the 6 days that we hunted. (It was I and one other hunter) The cover was so thick and snow covered, that the birds that fell were almost impossible to find, and the ones that were hiding or running after the shot were even tougher! Saddie’s ability to find and point birds is great, but her ability to “hunt dead” was remarkable and invaluable on this trip. We would mark the birds as they came down, and let the dog do the rest. It was such a joy to watch her work, I think that I enjoyed it as much as Saddie did hunting the birds! Due to density of the cover, of the total birds we grounded, I would estimate that we would have only recovered about 1 of 4 if it were not for Saddie. As it turns out, we only lost 1 bird all week! (That birds legs were moving before he even hit the ground) She would work the scent and recover birds from areas that you would not believe a bird could hide in.  

 

Julie, I could not be happier with Saddie at this point. She is a joy to hunt with and a great companion around the home. I have attached some pictures from our hunt. You will notice from one of the pictures that she got to ride in the back seat of the truck for part of this trip; well……she certainly earned it!

 

Have a great evening Julie, I am hoping to keep in touch and get Saddie back to see Bell and the others soon.

1. From: Doug Houle
   

Date: November 10, 2005 9:44:55 AM EST

To: Julie Romence <julieromence@mac.com>

Subject: Gracie

 

We are back from our trip to Iowa.  We saw a lot of

birds but the roosters all managed to flush a hundred

yards or more before we got to where there were

setting.  I only got one shot at a rooster which I

got.  But more important, how did Gracie do?  She did

outstanding.  She works within a very reasonable

range, she stops at the extreme end of the range and

looks back to make sure I have not become lost, she

works back toward me and works the ground in front. 

She knows the command "too far" and will come back. 

She knows "other way" and will change directions.  She

will stop on the whistle and come back.   She made

several solid points and held until the bird flushed. 

She made no false points.  She cold run at top speed,

scent the bird and make a whirling stop to a solid

point.  She did as well as the GSP and the GWP, both

seven years old and veterans of Iowa.  The other

hunters could not believe that she was only one year

old.  They said she acted like she was five.  The only

time she ran was on the very last hunt when we jumped

two deer.  She was out of transmitter range before I

could do anything.  We were in the middle of a five

thousand acre hunting preserve.  About ten minutes

latter back she came, totally exhausted naturally. 

With this and other experience when she has run is

that she is not going to get lost, she will come back.

 

If her brothers and sisters are doing as well you must

have a lot of happy owners.  Let me know if any other

owners are doing well.

Doug Houle

   Libby (from Belle & Wrigley May 05) is such a joy to us!!  She is a spoiled rotten house dog as well as an amazing hunter.  Last fall, at two years old, she hunted every weekend, and gained skills each time.  By the end of the season she did a fabulous job pointing!  We couldn't have had a better hunting partner, and can't wait for next season!

Lynne and Steve

She has been a very nice dog.  Just a great little buddy.  She is an outstanding hunter, having been to Iowa and South Dakota twice.  If there is a bird in the field, she will find it and find it quick.  She is a very smart little girl.  I can't believe that she has been with me over three years now.  Her birthday was Nov. 3rd, 2004.

Doug

Briar Lauks …, has been a fantastic addition to our family…..he has a lot of personality and loves people. We love him as a child, and his Aunt and grandmother spoil him rotten when they visit.

Kimberly, Matthew, and Roberts

…my best friend and hunting partner, Bobbie.  She is a classic "Feisty Little Pointing dog". I read a book by this title and she fits this description to a T.  Since the grouse hunting was really down this past year, we did not get many birds up, but she points like a champion!   My classic story is when she was only 5 months.  It was late on a rainy evening in October up north.  A couple birds went up and I thought I hit one, but we could not find it before it got too dark.  Next morning we had snow and I went back to the same spot.  I lost track of Bobbie for a few moments.  As I went over a little rise, I could see her chasing a grouse.  She was pulling out tail feathers!!!!  When I got to her she had the bird in her mouth, but the bird had not tail.  This was pretty close to her first bird, so she was proud as any feisty little bird dog could be.  We need more work this winter at the game farm, but she has all the attributes I like to see.  We are working on the retrieve, but because her master is such a bad shot she does not get much practice!!

Roger

Jack is such a great dog: loyal, loving and very funny!! He has a great sense of humor. Jack is great with everyone. He loves people and especially children. He is so kind and gentle with our nieces and nephews. He loves to go with us on all of our adventures. He will happily go anywhere as long as he is with us. We had Jack go through hunting classes and he did quite well.

Christina and Dennis

Wrigley has been a phenomenal dog and we feel very fortunate to have one of his pups.  It was just a year ago that we lost our beloved Katie.

A week ago, we took the girls, Maggie and Molly, to the field.  After shooting a pheasant which wasn't dead, Maggie tackled it and Joe told me to release Molly.  Joe was quite pleased with Molly, who he thought looked like she'd done this drill before.  No doubt somewhere deep in her bloodline, she has.  And irregardless of her hunting skills, we couldn't be much happier with our littlest girl.  She is a great puppy that will be a great dog!

Joe and Loanna

 

Breckon and puppies Sept 2007

Our Abbey is from this litter.

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Julie Romence

5530 Ranger Hills

Grand Rapids, Michigan

                           49546

616-942-2934

Julieromence@mac.com

FC/AFC Wrigley’s Chip Makin’ His Marc

OFA rating is "Excellent".

 

He's a great dog and has produced great dogs.  He's got both of his Field Championships

(Amateur & Open), placed 4th in 2007 National Amateur Gun Dog Championship, was

posted in the Championship in 2006, and did a noteworthy job in both the Open and

Amateur Nationals this year (2008). Those who watched him both times said, it was the

best they'd ever seen him run.  With a little more luck, he’d have placed again in both,

seriously challenging the Winner of the Amateur Nationals.  He's got both "Majors" for

his show title, just needs the remaining points which will come, and he'll be a Dual

Champion.  He was the 2006 Dual Dog for the LaSalle Brittany Club.  He’s been in the

top 25 of the Magnum’s Masked Man List almost every year since he started running in

Adult Stakes.  This past year, I concentrated on the Nationals for Chip, running his son,

Chip’s Tailgate Rendezvous who won the Central Futurity Gun Dog Stake in 2008, and

then placed 3rd out of 42 starters in October 2008 at the Missouri Brittany Clubs Open

Gun Dog Stake, besting his father and other National Placing adult dogs, before the age

of two.  Gus’ sister (Chip’s daughter) from the same litter is a Show Champion and great

little hunting dog, earning her CH title before the age of two as well.

His temperament is phenomenal, very calm and biddable.  He’s great with children and

other dogs, only getting cranked-up when going hunting or to a Field Trial.  His offspring

are the same.

Chip

Julie Romence

5530 Ranger Hills

Grand Rapids, Michigan

                           49546

616-942-2934

Julieromence@mac.com

Abbey

West Michigan Brittany Field Trial Walking Derby 2nd place!

Congratulations to Abbey!!

Abbey is our pup from

Breckon and Wrigley

Congratulations to Breckon and Wrigley’s Abbey!!

Michigan Brittany Club Field Trial

Open Derby 3rd place!

We Raise Happy Brittanys!