Mira Vizslas

06/01/2025

Restricted Recalls are an awesome way to teach your puppy/adult dog to come to you when called

05/14/2025

Happy 15th birthday today to Rocket (Strider's Forecaster JH x CH Mira's Peacemaker CGC TDI)

May your day be filled with popcorn, treat puzzles and snuggles!

05/11/2025

05/02/2025

NFC FC Mira's MR Playmaker "Driver"

May 8, 2012 - May 2, 2025

My boy, my heart.

03/18/2025

In Winnebago, IL, if anyone's interested! And you can join the VCOI, too.

SUNDAY, SUNDAY, SUNDAY!!

Come on out to have some fun in the field with your dog/s at Busch Farms in Winnebago! This Sunday, March 23 at 1pm.

We will have a meeting, we**ie roast and will run some dogs.

This is a GREAT opportunity for meeting other Vizsla owners, learning more about field events and really....who doesn't want to just talk about and play with Vizslas for an afternoon!?!

If you need the address, please send us a message in messenger and we will get that out to you.

We hope to see you there!!

Pictured is Baker from Carol Stream.

03/18/2025

It’s Tuesday and time for a tidbit!!

How strong is a dog’s nose? It is estimated that dogs can smell anywhere from 1,000 to 10,000 times better than people. They have more than 100 million sensory receptor sites in the nasal cavity compared to 6 million in people, and the area of the canine brain devoted to analyzing odors is about 40 times larger than the comparable part of the human brain!!

Why do dogs smell better? Dogs have an additional olfactory tool that increases their ability to smell. Jacobsen’s organ (or the vomeronasal organ) is a special part of the dog’s olfactory apparatus located inside the nasal cavity and opens into the roof of the mouth behind the upper incisors. This amazing organ serves as a secondary olfactory system designed specifically for chemical communication. The nerves from Jacobsen’s organ lead directly to the brain and are different from the other nerves in the nose in that they do not respond to ordinary smells. In fact, these nerve cells respond to a range of substances that often have no odor at all. In other words, they work to detect “undetectable” odors.

Jacobsen’s organ communicates with the part of the brain that deals with mating. By identifying pheromones, it provides male and female dogs with the information they need to determine if a member of the opposite s*x is available for breeding. It also enhances a newborn pup’s sense of smell so he can find his mother’s milk source, and allows a pup to distinguish his mother from other nursing dogs. With a quick sniff, a pup placed between two females will migrate to the mother that gave birth to him. Pups also have heat sensors in their noses that help them locate their mothers if they wander away.

The two separate parts of the dog’s odor detection system, the nose and Jacobsen’s organ, work together to provide delicate sensibilities that neither system could achieve alone. When the dog curls his lips and flares his nostrils, he opens up Jacobsen’s organ, increases the exposure of the nasal cavity to aromatic molecules and essentially becomes a remarkably efficient smelling machine.

Excerpt from How Dogs Use Smell to Perceive the World, By Ryan Llera, BSc, DVM; Lynn Buzhardt, DVM

02/25/2025

Congratulations Kathy & Vic Coulbourn on your amazing rankings and awards in the Obedience ring with Mira's Starr Struck UD OM1 GN RN!

#1 USA ranking in Open
#3 USA ranking in Utility
Two High Scoring Vizsla awards
One High in Trial award

AMAZING!

She is Starr x Nikko

02/11/2025

Just a reminder, your dogs from me are microchipped through AKC REUNITE. (old ones were through Avid/Microchip ID Systems, which are also still in business)

A podunk registration company, Save The Life, went under this week and took their records with them. AKC Reunite is still active and going strong.

02/03/2025

Trout (Comet & Spyder) and his owner Brad

https://www.facebook.com/share/r/12BzhdwQK3f/?mibextid=D5vuiz

01/19/2025

2024 akc fast cat final rankings are out! Congratulations to

#19 Mira's Medium Roast DCAT CGCA TKN Bitch 27.95 "Basil" Michel Berner & Kelly Endl (Brinx x Nikko)

#109 CH Mira's Light Up The Sky BCAT
"Nova" Amy Rivinius & Lynn Thomas (Starr x Spyder)

Out of 217 Vizslas that ranked nationwide.

American Kennel Club - Fast Cat Top 20 Dogs

01/16/2025

Starr and Nikko send HUGE CONGRATULATIONS to Kathy Colburn and Mira's Starr Struck for being one of only SIX Vizslas being invited to compete in the 2025 AKC National Obedience Championship!

01/04/2025

Day 2 at the St Paul show, Spyder (Reba x Brock) was Select again, Basil (Brinx x Nikko) was 1st in Open, then Reserve Winners, and we met up with Kimber the Vizsla (Starr x Nikko)! Kimber the Vizsla