SoftMaple Curlies
Mark and Cathy Lewandowski
8282 Soft Maple Road
Croghan NY 13327
softmaple@curlycoat.org
Many SoftMaple dogs go to personal hunting homes, and never receive any hunting titles. Titles do not put the heart and love of the hunt into the dog. Unfortunately for the sake of history, years down the road, many people will only look to titles to judge a lines field ability.
Many of the tales of a good hunting dog that are spun around the fireplace after the hunt will be lost. Those dogs put the meat on the table, not the ribbons on the wall.
Cheers to all our good hunting buddies of the present, past and future!

Puppy Information

CH Soft Maple's O' Dark Thirty JH, SH, MH, WC, WCX, WCQ, CD, CGC, TT, HOF CR-CA177/89M/C-PI-ECHO, CR-685, CR-536G27M-T
Jet is only the third MH CCR in history, and the first CCR with an AKC CH to become a Master Hunter! Also the first CCR with an obedience title to earn a MH.

CCRCA The Sarona Jacob of Marvadel & Sarona Sam of Marvadel Memorial Field Award winner 2003, Co-winner 2001

Jet passing the WCQ at the 2006 CCRCA National Specialty Working Test.

SR U-CH CH Soft Maple Kyrabean Queen, CD, U-CD, OAJ, OA, NA, NAJ, NAP, NJP, JH, WCX, WC (WCI, WC), TT, TDI, CGC, RN, HOF, ROM

CH Softmaple's Pheasant Dreams CGC, WC, RN, JH) CR-722G34F, CR-El134F34, CR-CA178/41F/P-NOPI, CERF 2005 CR-814N, GSDIIIa clear
Out of CH Soft Maple's O' Dark Thirty JH, SH, MH, WC, WCX, WCQ, CD, CGC, TT, HOF CR-CA177/89M/C-PI-ECHO, CR-685, CR-536G27M-T and CH Charwin Evensong WCX JH CGC CD HOF SN24115701 CR-CA22/41F/C CR-480F35F CERF CR-489 95,98,2000

CH SoftMaple's Comin' To America CD, CGC CR-787N, CR-CA159/21F/C-NOPI, CR-750G30F-PI, CR-EL149F30-PI
Aysa's father Tarras ( SJCH, SUCH Ringlets Constant Wind) just earned the title of Swedish Field Trial Champion.

CH Soft Maple Crossing Delancy WC JH CR-CA46/24F/C CR-529F24F

Soft Maple Fosters Lager WC

Soft Maple's Velvet Elvis WC JH OFA

CH Soft Maple Black Teddy WC JH

CH Soft Maple Water Works CGC CR-646F42M-PI, CR-EL79M25, CR-CA133/47M/C-PI CHIC #26223 GSDIIIa CCR 107

CH SoftMaple Gunflint's Beauty CGC CR-715G28F-NOPI, CR-EL131F28-NOPI, CR-CA157/28F/P-NOPI, CR-CA157/39F/C-PI, CR-835 #26258

Gunflint's Beautiful Adagio
Out of Boyerie Dese Maestro Music Please CR-CA148/24M/C-PI-ECHO CR-696G24M-PI CR-750 and CH SoftMaple Gunflint's Beauty CGC CR-715G28F-NOPI, CR-EL131F28-NOPI, CR-CA157/28F/P-NOPI, DNA#V329622

SHR, CH SoftMaple's MaBelle Bouclee CGC, WCX, JH, SH

Bouclee passes the WCX at the 2006 CCRCA National Specialty Working Test.
Then earns her first 2 UKC Started passes the next day

Softmaple Cimramin Journeyman
Denzel passed his Working Test in Finland in 2006

Gunflint's Highland Hunter CGC WC

CH SoftMaple's Dark Star WC, JH

Gabby passing the WC at the 2006 CCRCA National Specilaty Working Test
3/17/2007 Tallahassee Hunting Retriever Club hunt test at the Springhill plantation in Thomasville Georgia CH SoftMaple's Dark Star WC JH earns her Junior Hunter title

This stylish and athletic, multi - purpose retriever has strength, endurance and presence. The Curly is recognized by most canine historians as one of the oldest of the retrieving breeds. Developed in England, the Curly was long a favorite of English gamekeepers. Prized for innate field ability, courage and indomitable perseverance, a correctly built and tempered Curly will work as long as there is work to be done, retrieving both fur and feather in the heaviest of cover and the iciest of waters. To work all day a Curly must be balanced and sound, strong and robust, and quick and agile.
Exceptional swimmers, which revel in the water, these powerful and tireless hunters excel on all game. Exciting to shoot over, yet they are a delightful family companion. Self-confident, steadfast and proud, this active, intelligent dog is a charming and gentle family companion and a determined, durable hunter. The Curly is alert, biddable and responsive to family and friends, whether at home or in the field. Of independent nature and discerning intelligence.
The Curly is a hunting dog for the person who likes variety: ducks, pheasant, grouse and a dog who can also be a companion to children and a family friend. Though he is designated as a retriever, the Curly is also an outstanding upland game dog on pheasant, grouse, quail, etc. Curlies are currently being hunted throughout North America, and are used extensively for hunting in New Zealand (where they are the hunting dog of choice) and Australia. Many, if not most, of the people hunting Curlies are family-oriented who just want a dog that hunts and can be a companion so hunting Curlies is rather a silent revolution.
Each of the Retriever breeds, even though closely related, has distinct habits and temperaments, and the Curly is no exception. Curlies are very much loyal family dogs and are reserved with strangers. They make excellent watch dogs because of this characteristic. They are generally a dignified and somewhat independent dog, especially as compared to the Golden Retriever and the Labrador Retriever. Like the Flat Coated Retriever, Curlies come in both black and (recessive) liver colors. There have been occasional reports of yellow Curlies, but this has never been an accepted color in the breed and very few if any yellows occur today.
The Curly Coat does share the general Retriever characteristics such as intelligence, keen instinct for hunting and retrieving, an extended puppyhood, and an even and stable temperament.

Home of the First Curly AKC NA, OA and AX.
Home of the First curly USDAA AD.
Breeder of the first AKC Master Hunter with an AKC Championship