Romence Brittanys
Raising Dual Quality Brittanys since 1997
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2011 ABC National Gun Dog Championships
Announcing Abbey / Peter Gunn Puppies!!!
December 29, 2011
All pups have forever homes!!
National Gun Dog Champion
National Amateur Gun Dog Champion
FC/AFC Peter Gunn
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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!
Duffee
Meet our newest girl. My husband always wanted a freckle face and this was a face we couldn’t refuse!! She is proving to be a great puppy and will be going to school this spring to learn more about those birds she is alway nose down on!
A note on Abbey and Duffee
Fall 2011
Duffee is proving to be an outstanding hunter who is now working on her Senior Hunting Title. She is steady to wing and shot and retrieves beautifully to hand. Her trainer said that I could teach both Duffee and Abbey to Mambo if I wanted to! Both dogs are extremely nice, biddable with great noses and a pleasure to work with!
He loves Abbey’s spirit in the field, it is very evident that she is having fun! She also is steady to wing and shot, but needs a little work on her retrieving. Her early field trial training taught her to never pick up a bird, so we are working on that! She did have one nice retrieve the other day, so she is getting it!
He expects Duffee to be a Master Hunter if I want to pursue it.
Great Talent!
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. Our Abbey is one of his pups. 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 pups from Wrigley’s Daughter, Abbey, who will pass along these wonderful hunting traits!
Emails from puppy owners:
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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.
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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
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I am very excited to announce the arrival of 9 new puppies! Abbey and babies are doing great and all pups have their forever homes!
Life as a Romence Puppy!
First four weeks in the Whelping Box(or until we have escapees)
We move to the puppy pen next
Playtime is in the laundry room with lots of toys and things to climb on.
We get lots of attention from everyone and love to see visitors
After our first shots we get to go outside before we come in to play.
If its not to hot, we might play outside for a while too.
When there are enough eyes to keep track of us, we all get to go out and play in the yard
(depending of how mom's flowers are, we like to eat them)
Mom(Belle) and Aunt Breckon keep us together
and put us in our place!
Rounding them up
We usually get one swimming lesson before we go to our new homes.
Runner Up MUCC Gun Dog
of the Year 2005
Breckon and puppies Sept 2007
Our Abbey is from this litter.
West Michigan Brittany Field Trial Walking Derby 2nd place!
Congratulations to Abbey!!
Abbey is our pup from
Breckon and Wrigley
To view how we raise our pups, please click on one of these links:
You will see the raising of litters, from start to finish!
Congratulations to Breckon and Wrigley’s Abbey!!
Michigan Brittany Club Field Trial
Open Derby 3rd place!
We Raise Happy Brittanys!
Dam:
Wrigley’s Renegade Abbey
Congratulations to Abbey!!
1st place
“Bred by Exhibitor”
Western Michigan Specialty Show
October 2009
Some things just come naturally!
Mason at 8 weeks
Abbey is a beautiful loving girl!! She listens well in the field and I very rarely have to call to her. She checks back often and is a joy to hunt with. Her favorite place at home is in someones lap. She has two derby placements and last fall took 1st in the Western Michigan Brittany Specialty Show in the class, " Bred by exhibitor". If I had done a better job, she may have taken the show. :) She was being looked at very closely!!! Abbey's sire is 5x American Field Champion, Renegade's Regal Wrigley, with Hall of Fame Renegade's Kansas Kid on both sides of her pedigree.
We now have 4 girls! Breckon, Duffee,
Abbey and Belle.
Mike Poelher’s Gus in Dakota
Please consider a wonderful Brittany from the American Brittany Rescue. There are many wonderful brittanys that need a home and yours might just be one of them! You will also find a great section about Brittanys and why a Senior Brittany might be a good choice.
Read about Peters running in the 2006 Brittany National Gun Dog Championship.
Click here to follow our new litter!!!
Available:
Not ready for a puppy? Still want great Romence Hunting Lines?
Looking for a well trained awesome hunting dog?
Meet Hunter!
Hunter is one of my pups that has spent his first five years as a guide dog at a hunting preserve. Due to a change of hands in ownership, he has become available. They have their own dogs and he is not being hunted and loved as he should be. He has a great Brittany personality, loves people , stays around when off lead. The new owners feel he is too great a dog not to be put into a loving hunting family home! If you think this might be you, and would like to know more about this awesome hunting dog please contact me!
For Duffee puppy availability, please contact me at 616-942-2934
email: JulieRomence@mac.com
Duffee
