The purple triangle symbol is for our new pup, Asio von der Fienen Biye. He was born one day before the K2 pups in Sendenhorst, Germany. He came to Sunnynook on May 21.

The pups are now "little dogs" and preparing to go to their new homes. They're weaned but happily grab a quick snack when Mom comes to visit.

They all received their green ear tattoos on March 20. The numbers they now carry are their Lare Munsterlander Association of Canada registration numbers.

1M or Triangle is is now called Karma, and has gone to live with his father, Aiko, in Saskatoon. (photo 3 April 2024)

3spot (10M) is staying in Saskatoon and has gone to live with 2 Peregrine Falcons and a Small Munsterlander. His new name is Kasch. (photo 3 Apr 2024)

Archie or Archipelago (12M) is now Kermit, called "Tater". He's gone to live in Swift Current, with a family that had a Bear's Hill LM previously.

Karter was formerly WhiteBum, 5M. After flying to Montreal, and he was picked up by his new owners and driven to New Brunswick where he'll live with a Pointer named Neelah.

WhiteLines, or 11 F, moved to Idaho, to a family who has had 2 LMs previously. Her new name is Karolina, but she will be called "Feder". Shown here with her owner Steve. (photo 15 April 2024)

WhiteLines, or 11 F, moved to Idaho, to a family who has had 2 LMs previously. Her new name is Karolina, but she will be called "Feder". Shown here with the Big Lost Mountains in the background. (photo 16 April 2024)

Ball-Line, 2F, has gone to Spruce Grove, Alberta, to a home that had a Sunynook LM previously. Her new name is Kona. Here she's pointing a grouse wing-on-a-stick, seeing it here for the first time. (photo 5 April 2024).

A video about using this to help pups get started is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOeTa0JS29E

Fingers' new name is Kimchi. She flew to Ontario with her owner to live with Sunnynook's Gizmo.

Serpent is now named Klister and she's gone to live in BC with Sunnynook's Fjord. Her photo, right, was taken there (4 April 2024).

Diamond (4F) is now Koda. She's living the hard life, in Regina with Sunnynook's Artemis "Allie"!

Heron was born 30 December 2019, here at Sunnynook Kennel. Her mother Krokus von Kleinenkneten traces back to Germany. Her father, Sunnynook’s Cue, is derived from a mix of imports and our own Sunnynook dogs tracing back to our original pair imported in the 1970s.

Heron has a fine-boned physique and light body at 59 cm at withers (standard = 58-63) and 23.6 kg (53 lbs). She is a ticked dog with one large black mantle and a few black ticks on white background. Her head is all black. She was scored Very Good for Body and Good for Coat in the LMAC Conformation Evaluation in September 2023.

Heron is a soft-tempered dog, so much so that she would not have done well in a heavy-handed training regime. She does not easily forgive and forget. By the same token, she is also very cooperative and trainable. For example, Heron was apparently challenged by beavers on a long-distance open water retrieve 2 years ago and because of this she avoids big open water to this day. Unless a duck is in open water, in plain sight, Heron chooses to search near-shore water and marsh, but this she does with a good nose and will to find.

In the field, Heron is a joy to watch with a purposeful search, typically casting well out across the wind. In both water and upland she knows to use her good nose well. Heron is a natural retriever, meaning she knows no ear pinch. Heron will sit to deliver with a mere raising of a finger and sit patiently to have her picture taken. She has reached this stage by simply “encouraging” retrieving of frozen pigeons, not dummies, from puppyhood on. Her retrieving patience typically only reaches a limit working on hot days when we tend not to expect show but simply take her bird brought to hand.

Heron is a calm dog, loves people, is a joy to live and travel with, except for see-through hotel stairs. She gets on well with other dogs but may protect her kennel and birds with a cautioning growl to other dogs.

Heron is a healthy dog, with a beautiful and shiny coat, presumably from the prevailing raw-food-recipe diet. Her hips are rated excellent and her elbows are normal. Because neither of parents carries brown nor Grey (Black Hair Follicular Dysplasia), neither does she.

Heron scored 70 (Very Good) in Hunting Aptitude Evaluation (HAE) at 8.5 months. She ran the Advanced Hunting Aptitude Evaluation three times, passing in September 2023. Details are shown below. These tests are a breeder's tool for confirming the all-around versatile hunting qualities all LMs should have. See another webpage for more information about these tests.

Les joins his hunting friends who have English Pointers, Golden Retrievers and other breeds. Aiko hunts well with other dogs, male or female.

Aiko excels at handling birds well. In hunting, Aiko is allowed to choose his own hunting range. He applies his nose well and points birds cautiously and cooperatively.

Aiko has also been tested at all three VHDF levels. Aiko’s scores show variable performance, low one time and high another. It seems Aiko has little enthusiasm for training and testing situations, but takes his hunting very seriously. For example, as a young dog he watched other dogs track pheasants in testing and decided he would hunt out the pheasant with a high nose instead of using the track. Yet, in at least one memorable case, Aiko picked up the scent of a winged Hungarian partridge, tracked it for 300 m, and delivered it to Les. In Aiko's second VHDF Performance Evaluation, he tracked a winged duck 50 m across a milfoil choked pond and into dense cattails, where he captured the duck and delivered it to hand.

With the benefit of age-adjusted bird exposure for three levels of field testing and a few years of hunting, Aiko has become a special dog, one we are pleased to introduce into our Sunnynook line. Les describes Aiko as: "an exceptional bird finder holding birds well including on wide casts. He backs other dogs on point; retrieves reliably on land and from water – the bigger the goose the better. Aiko has not lost a bird during the last two seasons. Aiko respects another dog’s prior retrieve, is not aggressive to other dogs male or female, and insists on visiting with other dogs in the dog park. "