2020

"Dozer"  Finishes his Chapmionship with 3 out of the 4 majors on 2/29/20 n 3/1/20!

Sopies was winners bitch in PA 3 of the 5 days in York PA.  Just before all the dogs shows came to a screeching halt due to Covid-19 virus.  Hopefully we can get back on track soon!

June SCONE Rally trial results:

 Pi and Redd earned there Rally Novice titles at very young age of 6 months.  Followed By Rush , Sophie , Dealer and Ziggy also getting thier Rally novice titles.

SCONE draft trial results:

Sophie and Dealer both pass the Novice draft tests for a total of 8 new titles in one weekend for the Matterhorn crew!

September

Phoenix ( Flare x Tugger daughter) gets her Championship making her the 48th Matterhorn bred Champion! COngrats to the Willims family!

2019

2019 GSMDCA National Specialty, while we were not able to attend this year, we did bring home the following awards: 

Lifetime Achievement Award

Ambassador of the Breed "Yuri"

Was very busy one with a major relocation form Long Island to Western Massacheusetts, we didnt have a lot of time to show in conformation or finish many new titles.  We lost  several of our dear old friends this year. 

Gone but never forgotten:

Windy

Buddy

Zoey

Yuri

Dallas

2018

Year in Review

Flare passes the Novice draft and open test on the same day in October

Sadie finishes her Championship in July

Belle finished her Champion ship in September

2017

December

Pyro passed 3 out of 3 obediece trials to earn his CD, giving him his Versatility title, the 14th Versatility completed for our GSMD's!

Flare finishes her Championship

August-November

Brothers Henri, and Ragnar finish thier Championships and then their Grand Chapionships in a flash!

July

Hank finishes his championship!

Henri at his first show goes best of winners for his pfirst major, at show #2 takes the breed over specials for a 5 point majoar and a working group 3! 

Sister flare takes another major win.

May 2017 GSMDCA National Specialty

Vienna, Flare and Roma all pass their Herding test for their PT Title

Dune passed the open Draft test, making her the 10th Swissy in history to achieve the VGSX distinction!

Roma passes her last leg in beginner novice

"Hank" goes best puppy in sweepstakes! 

June

Marlo finishes her Championship and finishes her VGS!

May 2017

Dune passes her 3rd led in open obedience earing her CDX! 

Marlo finishes her Championship and CD earning her VGS!

January

 Marlo earns her Herding Pre-Trial Tested (PT) on Geese and ducks on January 14th.

In obedience Marlo 1st leg in Novice and Roma 2nd leg in Begunner Novice. 

In conformation Tank first time out in 14 months since finishing his Championship in Dec 2015, goes Best Of Breed for a 5 point GCH major win! Puppy Roma gets her first 2 point in NJ

2016

The "loot" from the GSMDCA National Specialty in Illinois

2016 Year in review:  2016 was a busy year for working events.  We had three  of our Swissies achieve their Versatile Greater Swiss Titles (VGS) Yuri, the oldest Swissy in history to achieve a "VGS", followed by "Dune", and "Dee" are now added to the ever growing list of Versatility Acheivers!
     National Specialty winners, Pyro with and Award of Merit, 8 month old Flare Best of winners and best puppy!

Dune earned 2 legs toards her advanced obedience title know as Open obedience(CDX) and passed her Novice Draft test (NDD)

2015

2015 has been a very busy year we hosted 2 pack hikes on Long Island, finished 5 Champions.  Pyro had a Group 3 win in July and also achieved the Bronze level Grand Championship.

3 Beginner Novice titles(BN), 2 Companion Dog titles(CD) and several New Pack Dog titles!

The biggest achievement for the year was earnig the Vesatility Award for 3 of our Girls, Comet, Boots and Windy!

March 2014

Long Island Spring Pack Hike 3/15 & 3/16

Beautiful weather for the first sceduled hike if the season! 

First timers were Pyro and Dee hiking the first 2 legs of the Novice title, in addition we had Willow and Dallas hiking for the next level Hiking title, Working Pack dog (WPD).

Conformation news, Minty picked up another point towards her Championship and Pyro first time out as as Special has racked up 6 points towards his Grand Championship.

February 2014

Obedience news! 

"Boots" passed her first CD (AKC companion dog) leg the Suffolk Obedience Training Club trial held on 2/9/2014  In addition "Dee" and Pyro" earned 2 legs each towards thier Rally Novice obedience Title, Dee with a first placement and Ptro with 2 third placements!

September 2013 National Specialty , Purina Farms, MO 2013

"Pyro"  Matterhorns Burning Down The House goes Best Puppy in Sweepstakes AND Grand Futurity Winner!  He also earns a Rally Novice leg!

"Dune"  Earns her first rally leg at 6 mos of age with a score of 97!  also placing in her very large 6-9 mo class in all classes. Her brother "Clint" places 1st in most of his 6-9mo clsses, including Best of Opposite in the Jr Class Futurity.  As a team  Dune and Clint place 1st in the brace class!

"Yuri" is  awarded Top producing Sire for 2012 with 9 Champions!

I am awarded, once again the Breeder's Cup award for the 5th straight year in a row!!!!

"Dee" earns a rally leg and a JHD leg

North East Stock Dog Assoc Labor Day trial results:

Dee earns a PT leg and Dallas earns his 2 nd leg to finsh his Pre-Trial tested Title!

August 2013

Mack earns 3 majors in a row at the Bainbridge cluster in NY

Minty a 3 point major

Nova a 3 point major and Stormy a 3 point major!

July 2013

Pyro finishes his Championship at the tender age of 13mos!

June 2013

Pyro earns 3 majors in a row going BOW !

Minty 3 point major

Nova 3 point major

Stormy 3 pt major all at the Bainbridge cluster in NY

April 2013

Boots finishes up her Rally Novice title with a perfect score of 100 and a 96!

Pyro gets his first point at 10 months old on 4/6 with a 4 point major win!

 We finished up the filming of the Discovery Channels show "Too-Cute" on April 19th with the pupies going to thier new homes, can't wait to see the show.   Should air sometime later this year, will post an announcement!

March 2013

Baril and Peter do it again!  another 5 point major win at the CT River Working Group Show taking Best of Winners and an Award of Merit!  so proud of them!

3/9 & 3/10/13 Long Isaln back to back hike

Comet earns her Working Pack Dog (WPD) and Dallas earns his Novice Working Pack Dog(NWPD)

February 2013

Boots earns a Rally Novice leg 2/10/13!

FIlming begins for the 3 rd season of the Discovery Channel's "Too-Cute"

January 2013

Matterhorn's Big Hunk O Love at 13 mos earns his first point with a 5  point major, owner handler by his Dad Peter Zeigler!

Dallas and Comet earn a pack dog leg at the Snow hike in MA! 

September 2012

Regional Specialty Weekend in VA 9/28-9/30/12 Results:

Dallas is WInners Dog for back to back 5 pt majors!  On Sunday he was best puppy in sweepstakes! He also earned his Junior Herding Dog on Friday!! 

Comet earned her JHD and recieved an Award of Merit on Sunday!

Comet passes the 2nd Pre-trial AKC Test on sheep giving her her PT title!

National Specialty week News and Brags!

Once again I received the Breeder's Cup award for 2011!

Molly recieved an award for producing the most progeny with working titles!

"Recon" Painted Mountain's Reconassiance went Best puppy in Sweeps at the Independent Regional and Best Puppy in Sweeps at the National Specialty.  He was also Winners Dog at the National Specialty!  Recon was bred By Lisa at Painted Mountain GSMD he is out of our boy Yuri!

Ch Matterhorn's Blumen, owned By Troy and Irene passed the open Draft Test adding yet another title to her name, she also pulled for a 10x leg.!  We couldn't be more proud of their accomplishments!

August 2012

Windy completes her Grand Championship in Harrisgurg!

Hailey's puppies have arrived! August 13th!

Dallas and Comet earn pass thier first leg of 2 towards the AKC Pre trial Herding test on Sheep

July 2012

Dallas picks up 2 more Championship points!

June 2012

Hailey was bred to Bogi mid-June! 

Lizzie x Yuri puppies have arrived 5 girls and 4 boys! Contact Amber and Mike Rusk at  www.crownswissies.com for more information.

May 2012

 Hailey, Dallas, Boots, Molson and Willow all pass their OFA evaluations for hips, elbows and shoulders!

Dallas Best of Winners for his first Championship point, Windy goes Best of Breed on May 18th and earns her Rally Novice title (RN)

SCONE weight pull results:  Hailey earns 2 10X legs!  Comets puppies are here 3 boys and 1 girl!

April 2012

Hailey earns 2 pack dog legs towards her her working pack dog(WPD)

Yuri was bred to Lizzie, see the upcoming litter page for more information!

C & P Draft Trial results:  Raven and Windy both qualify in the Novice Draft Dog Test at their first trial!  Raven went on to qualify the following day in the Open Draft Test!  Lester and Mary also qualified in the Novice Draft Dog Test, this was their very first trial ever for both of them, so proud of their accomplishments!

Raven earns her CD and her Versatility (VGS) tiitle!  Windy and WIllow each had 2 qualifying Rally Novice legs. Willow and Hailey picked up 2 more point towards their Championship!

March 2012

Comet has been bred to George!  See the upcoming litter page for more information on this exciting litter!

Comet and Dallas earned their Rally Novice titles on March 18th, Comet finished up with a perfect score of 100!

Windy and Yuri complete their Working Pack Dog titles (WPD) and our friend Bogi get his Novice Working Pack Dog title  at the LI Pine Barrens Pack HIke

Comet finishes her Championship in style with an Award of Merit from the Bred-by class at the CT River Working Group Show.  This completes Yuri's Register of Merit (ROM) for producing 10 Champions to date, there are still more Champions to come.

February 2012

February 12th Raven earns 2 CD legs and 9mo old Dallas earns 2 Rally Novice legs at am/pm Obedience and Rally trial!  Starting off the year right with some obedience and working events!

SCONE weight pull January 2012

Comet gets her first weight pull leg handled by Alex!

Bogi earns his Working Weight Dog Title(WWD), Helios earns two 15 x legs, Marty earns two 10 x legs,

and "Jackson" Matterhon's Bubbalicious earns his 3rd 10 x leg and also the most weight pulled on Sunday.

December 2011

Comet and Hailey both earn their Novice Working Pack Dog Titles (NWPD) Brother Oscar gets his Grand Championship. Helios earned his working pack dog title(WPD),   Yuri gets his Rally Novice ttile (RN),  "Molson" CH Matterhorn's Mr. Goodbar finishes out the year with his Championship and his NWPD title! 

November 2011 C & P Draft Trial

Halo Passes her Novice Draft Dog Test and passes the Open Test the following Day!

Halo's daughter Comet passed the Novice Draft dog test on Sunday.

                               GSMDCA National Specialty 2011 in Clemmons SC, October 2011



Matterhorn's Mr Goodbar "Molson" is the Grand Futurity Winner!

Halo earns her Rally Novice(RN) taking high score in her class

Yuri Earns a Rally Novice leg along with Ch Mattterhorn's Stealth Bomber "Lester", CH Matterhorns Cronus Heart o'Glenmaddy "Marty" and Matterhorn's Cotton Candy "Candy"

Molly gets 1st place in Veterans obedience!

Earning pack hike legs were Marty, Lester, Comet, Helios, Molson, and Yuri

Weight pull results: Helios earnns his Working Weight Dog (WWD) and also a 15X leg!

For the third year in a row I recieved the GSMDCA's Breeder's Cup Award for 2010!

Yuri gets his Grand Championship on October 1st 2011, and gets inviuted to Eukanuba along with 5 other Matterhorn Swissys from the Bred-by-Exibitor class!