Enjoy a video and photo montage of 2021 Highlights from the About Time team

In just 2 short months of testing, Noodle completed her Master Hunter title with consistently high scores. She proved herself in many challenging conditions - both weather and circumstances. Her drive and trainability, along with her spectacular talent made this advanced title a reality! This Master Hunter title also gives her the title of VX2 (Versatile Excellent 2) from the Weimaraner Club of America.

Rowan - "Image's N About Time's Making Dreams Come True" - takes Winners Bitch and Best of Winners at the Weimaraner Club of America 2021 Winter Specialty in Ardmore, OK for a major! Rowan is from the Pretzel x Country litter, and is a littermate to Dolphin.

November was a great month for About Time Weims in the field!

NOODLE: Earned THREE passes in Master Hunter, with some very high scores! Noodle has only been doing MH since last month, and she has shown beautiful intensity and drive along with great focus. She is truly a joy to take in the field! Noodle only needs two more passes to earn her Master Hunter title.

PIZZA: Pizza was on a major roll this month, earning THREE Senior Hunter passes and finishing her Senior Hunter title! Her last SH run was beautiful, with master-level handling and several scores of perfect "10". We love her speed and pure joy in the field, and are excited for her future as she is just a little over 2 years old.

DOLPHIN: Dolphin showed off the beautiful fierce point he inherited from his daddy to earn THREE passes in Junior Hunter, finishing his JH title. He is a wonderful example of training "up", as he consistently held his point through the flush and blank shot as a junior. The sky is the limit for this young man, at only 18 months of age!

All three, like all of our dogs in every event, are 100% owner-handled and owner-trained. We are so thankful to all of the field trainers who have helped us out along the way, as it takes a village (and a LOTTA birds!) to create a broke gun dog!

Team About Time headed to Gettysburg Pennsylvania for the WCA National Specialty! All three dogs came away with some great success!

NOODLE: 2 qualifying runs in Masters Standard Agility with a 2nd and 4th place, 1st place in the Regional Specialty Field Trial Bitch class, 3rd place in Rally Intermediate at the NS, earning her Tri-Athlete Award

PIZZA: 2 qualifying runs in Open Agility (finishing her Open Jumpers title!), qualifying in Novice Shooting Dog, and competed in her futurity and best of breed to earn her Tri-Athlete Award

DOLPHIN: 4 qualifying runs in Novice Agility (including several first place awards), qualifying in Novice Shooting Dog, and competing in Best of Breed to not only earn his Tri-Athlete award, but was also awarded the 2021 Most Versatile Weimaraner Junior for dogs under 2 years of age!

At the awards banquet, both Pizza and Dolphin were awarded the 2021 Dual Futurity Award for placing in both the field and show futurities. Pretzel also won his second pewter dog statue for being the sire of the Best Dog in Maturity. It was an amazing week for the entire About Time team!

Pizza and Dolphin attended the WVA Ratings Test hosted by the Greater Cincinnati Weimaraner Club. Pizza was steady as a rock through the flush and shot and had a beautiful direct retrieve to earn her Shooting Dog (SD) rating. Dolphin was equally as steady to the flush and blank shot on multiple birds and showed beautiful hunting style (and a very dramatic point!) to earn his Novice Shooting Dog (NSD) rating. Pizza also earned another Senior Hunter leg in the hunt test earlier that day, and Dolphin earned a Junior Hunter leg (again holding steady through everything).

This NSD title also quaified Dolphin for his "Versatile" rating. All 4 dogs on the About Time competition team are not only Grand Champions, but also Versatile rated.

Dolphin traveled to Columbia, South Carolina for the 4 Weimaraner specialties, in which he was entered in three of them. He managed to earn a select dog and two best of opposites out of tough specials competition to earn three 5-point grand champion majors, finishing his Grand Championship at age 17 months! Dolphin had a great time in the ring, showing off his tricks and his always-wagging tail, along with his beautiful ground-covering side gait. Dolphin also won Best in Sweepstakes on Friday at the specialties.

It was a great day at the Greater Charleston Weimaraner Club specialties in Columbia, South Carolina as two Pretzel sons came out on top of a lovely group of specials - Marshall (Preztel x Mouse, DOB 11/1/17) took Best of Opposite and Dolphin (Pretzel x Country, DOB 4/4/20) took Select Dog.

Pretzel came out of retirement to try a new sport - Scentwork! At his first trial, he earned his Novice Interior title, along with 8 qualifying runs and a couple of first place finishes. He is a true joy to work with as his work ethic is unequaled!

Pizza had a successful weekend of agility, finishing her Open Standard title, Novice FAST title, and also earning her VX (Versatile Excellent) rating, all before her 2nd birthday!

We had a successful 2021 Central Futurity! The competition was deep with some of the top young dogs from all over the country. Pizza took a competitive 3rd place in Senior Bitches, and Dolphin not only won his Junior Dogs class, but was awarded BEST DOG IN FUTURITY! It was a very proud moment for all of us.

In a torrential downpour, Pizza and Dolphin successfully completed their land and water retrieves to earn their Novice Retrieving Dog titles. Many thanks to the Tarheel Weimaraner Club for hosting the ratings test in North Carolina.

After not trialing in over 2 months, Noodle laid down two clean runs in Masters Standard (earning her first MACH points) and two clean runs in Excellent Jumpers, finishing her AXJ title.

Dolphin won 4th place in the Open Puppy stakes at the Eastern Field Classic, and earned a 2nd place finish in the 2021 WCA Eastern Field Futurity, held in Dillwyn, Virginia.

Pizza won 4th place in a very competitive Open Derby stakes at the WCA Eastern Field Classic, and on the same day also earned a 3rd place in the 2021 WCA Eastern Field Futurity, held in Dillwyn, Virginia.

Noodle finished up her Senior Hunter title with a bang, earning scores of almost all 9's at the Shiloh, Ohio hunt test.

At her very first field trial, Pizza showed drive, speed, and class to earn 1st place in the Amateur Derby stakes in Paris, Kentucky

At 8 months of age (and the youngest Weim puppy in competition), Dolphin wins Best of Breed at the 2020 AKC National Championships Puppy Stakes.

At only 16 months of age (and the youngest Weim in competition), Pizza earned her invite to the NOHS Finals at the AKC National Championship show by finishing the year in 7th place. She showed wonderful in the finals and won Best of Breed, also making the cut in a very tough 32 dog sporting group in Orlando, Florida!

Noodle earned two legs of her senior hunter title, showing great intensity and drive. We hope to hit some hunt tests this winter and finish her last two legs of her title.

Pizza earned her Junior Hunter title quickly - 4 tests and 4 passes! She did a wonderful job of showing off her training by holding through the flush at each test. We are continuing to train up for Senior Hunter.

Dolphin finished his championship after only one month of showing, at 7 months of age. He finished with FOUR majors, including two specialty majors! It was a very short, but very sweet ride to his championship, and we are supremely proud of him. He will take some time off from conformation so he can mature, and we will work on our agility foundations and field training for the next year.

Pizza started her agility career the day she turned 15 months old (October 31, 2020). Within three weekends, she managed to complete her Novice Agility standard title and her Novice Jumpers title.

After a very short puppy show career of only a month and a half, Pizza finished her championship the day before her first birthday by winning three majors. Her show career started with only a month of showing at 6 months of age in February, 2020 winning 7 points in 7 shows. Shows shut down starting in March, and she came back at the end of July to pick up three majors to finish it out. Not one to rest on her laurels, she went out two days later and picked up a Best of Opposite at a specialty with over 13 bitch specials entered, and then picked up another Best of Opposite the next day.

Dolphin went to his very first AKC show at age 4 1/2 months to do the 4-6 month puppy class, and went home with a Puppy Best In Show! He decided to make it a clean sweep, winning Best In Show all three days of the Smithfield, Ohio show cluster. He went into the show ring with his tail up and a happy grin as he gaited around the ring. This boy was born to show off! He finished out his beginner puppy career with 3 best in show, 6 group ones, a group two, and a group three in 4-6 month puppy.

After a nearly year-long hiatus from the agility ring (thank you COVID!), Noodle came out this summer to finish out her Open Jumpers title, putting her at the Excellent Level in all 3 AKC agility classes (Standard, Jumpers, and FAST). She also earned titles through UKI's at-home agility trial program this spring.