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three trials, three ribbons for oslo

11/2/2014

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file photo of Stan and Oslo
Oslo had a terrific weekend at the Louisville and St Louis Dachshund club field trials in eastern Missouri this weekend!

Friday - named NBQ (5th) of 26 Field Champions
Saturday - called back 1st, finished 3rd of 24 Field Champions
Sunday - called back 2nd and finished 2nd of 18 Field Champions

Congratulations to Stan Knoll and Outstanding Oslo!!!
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second track for marz

10/26/2014

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Congratulations! His father was super-hunter. Foxes, racoon dogs, badger, deers... Also super blood tracking dog. Never had better working dachshund as he was! Have good time with your new dachshund! ~ Pauliina Sjoholm, Finland, breeder/owner of Marz' father
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tasha finds sarah's first deer

10/25/2014

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Tasha made some more friends tonight.

She has had a busy week. She tracked on Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday. We recovered three deer out of four. ~ Cliff Shrader, Louisiana
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first deer for mars

10/24/2014

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Imported from Denmark on October 7 by Diane Webb and John Willmore of California, Mars will live and track with Jim White of Louisiana. Mars is the father of Taya, Tasha, and Thor, all littermates bred in Denmark by Lise-Lotte Schulz and living in the U.S.
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It didn't take Mars and Jimbo long to track this deer. The deer was still alive in tall, tall grass. Mars has landed! ~ Cliff Shrader, Louisiana
Jim and his family are doing a great job with Mars. Thank you, Jimbo!
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amazing tasha

10/24/2014

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Tasha with John Kerr
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A very big thank you to an amazing little dog!! Tasha lived up to the hype, she is awesome!!Thanks Cliff and Tasha. ~ John Kerr, Louisiana
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reflecting on kasi

10/23/2014

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This was SUvCh NUvCh SVCh FC Hound's Kashmir who died at age 14.5, quite apparently in his sleep, three years ago while I was at work. Kasi fathered just two litters before leaving Sweden at the age of five but he is in many, many pedigrees of dachshunds around the world. And he was the father of just one litter after he came to the States, but that litter of seven, my O litter, consisted of seven very talented and highly accomplished dogs.

Thank you, Marie Gadolin - kennel Hound's, for sending me Kasi and his old Scandinavian bloodlines when I needed him most!

ps  Kasi is in Teo's pedigree as he is a great-grandfather.

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another deer recovery for tasha 

10/23/2014

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Good job, Tasha!
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Tasha with hunter
Tasha has been busy. I will post details later because she has worn me out! ~ Cliff Shrader, Louisiana
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teo and taya

10/22/2014

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Newest photo of Teo (foreground) who turned 7 months on Oct 12. It is hard to believe that I have had him six weeks already. Teo is a cool pupster with many layers to his character. He is high energy and thinks quite a lot of himself, strutting often like a little prince! He is spurlaut, has good ground clearance, moves very efficiently, is highly attentive, weighs 19 lbs, and has the most coarsely-textured top coat I have ever had on a longhair. I love all these things about him and more. The biggest surprise to me is that OWL is spending the most time playing with him! They are looking something like kindred spirits. 

It is Taya in the photo with Teo pup.
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multi-national mars now cajun marz

10/22/2014

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Marz with Jim White
So this six year old dog was bred by someone in Finland (Ilse Kokkonen - kennel Maxi-Tax)

lived six years with someone in Denmark (Lise-Lotte Schulz - kennel Tranevang)

was purchased and transported to Copenhagen airport on October 7 by someone from California (John Willmore and Diane Webb)

was picked up at O'Hare by someone from Ohio (me)

transferred in Illinois to someone from Louisiana (Cliff Shrader who was on a hunting trip)

stayed three days in the hunting camp with Cliff and his buddies

then eight days in Louisiana with Cliff and Cheryl

and went on Sunday to live with the alligator hunter guy in the picture (Jimbo White).

This is Mars - Cajun Jim says it's Marz! - on his way to a deer track this evening. I don't know whether it is a training track or a real one but I look forward to hearing how it goes!

Marz is Multi-CH Maxi-Tax Maroon Marstax, father of my Taya, Cliff's Tasha, and Derek Smith's Thor (Seymour).

All the Best to Cajun Marz!

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great recovery for hard-working tasha

10/12/2014

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Tasha with her proud owner!
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And with a very pleased hunter!
Tasha braved the high temperatures and humidity to recover a nice buck. The arrow deflected off the shoulder blade and exited the paunch. He backtracked and crossed his own trail twice. He swam across a barrow pit with at least one alligator in it....we went around! Although the buck was only a couple hundred yards from where he was shot, we covered 1.25 miles tracking one hour and twenty nine minutes. Lots of this time I was on my hands and knees crawling through the willows, kudzu and cockaburs! There were only two small spots of blood on the entire trail. Tasha continues to amaze me and she was awesome today! ~ Cliff Shrader, Louisiana
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bossa earns first leg in excellent jumpers

8/2/2014

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Someone watching me watch Bossa would've thought I'm nuts! I was clapping hard at the end. LOVE Bossa's awesome speed and intensity. LOVE seeing both views and hearing John and spectators applause. Can't get enough of viewing the weaves entry. WOW!!!!! John Willmore with 2 year old FC Chirribi's Bossa Nova Baby OA OAJ NF JE CA, breeder May-Gun Bandinge of Gotland, Sweden.

Diane Webb did a great job combining the two videos!
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olive achieves pach

8/2/2014

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Huge C@ngratulati@ns (and rosette!) to John Willmore, Diane Webb, and 10 year old Olive on Olive's Preferred Agility Champion (PACH) achievement today! Here are John, judge Ronda Bermke, and FC MACH PACH Autumn Olive von Dorndorf VCD1 TD CD RAE MXS MJB MXPB PAX NF JE Sfk Wa-T BHP-G.

I am delighted with all that Team Olive has accomplished!

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tasha's business card

7/27/2014

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Tasha has her own business card now. Come on deer season! ~ Cliff Shrader, Louisiana
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The Cliff & Tasha Team are chomping at the bit!
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face look

7/27/2014

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After running errands, I attempted to take a short nap this evening. Since I hadn't fed the dogs yet, it didn't work too well. I noticed the after-the-storm light through the window was interesting. So I got up from the couch and one at a time invited the dogs to take my place for an impromptu photo shoot. Didn't have to twist their paws, Owl and Taya had been trying to sleep on me on the couch anyway! First photo is Owl, next two are Taya, then Nexus, and Viljo. They are good dogs, good friends really, and I very much enjoy them all. 
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Owl, 10, smiling. It is a typical Owl expression these days.
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Taya, 2, looking very serious as she often does.
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Taya managed to get Owl's ball. Whatever Owl has, Taya wants!
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Nexus, 12, resigned and saying please just take the photo so I can eat.
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Viljo, 4, intently watching Taya. They love to romp and wrestle. I didn't know how much V needed a dog who would really play until we got Taya.
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spice girls rock the rats

7/27/2014

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This weekend at a barn hunt event near Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Nutmeg and Sage had a great time climbing hay bales and searching for rats.

12.5 year old Nutmeg earned two legs in the Senior class, 1st place of more than 20 dogs in the class including Jack Russell and Border Terriers, and she was Best in Trial!

4.5 year old Sage earned her first leg in the Open class and placed 2nd in the class of, by Maxine's estimate, 15-20 dogs.

Good job, girls!!

Maxine does not like to take photos so I am posting the Barn Hunt Association logo and a description of the event.
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From barnhunt.com: "The purpose of Barn Hunt is to demonstrate a dog’s vermin hunting ability in finding and marking rats in a “barn-like” setting, using straw/hay bales to introduce climbing and tunneling obstacles in the dog’s path. Barn Hunt is based on the skills historically used by itinerant “ratcatchers” in traveling the countryside, ridding farms of vermin, thus helping conserve and preserve food grains and cutting down on disease.

While ratcatchers often used breeds such as Jack/Parson Russell Terriers, they also used other non go-to-ground breeds such as Manchester Terriers, Rat Terriers, and a variety of breeds and mixes of small to medium size.

At all times, the safety of the dogs, handlers, and rats is to be of paramount importance. Rats will be humanely handled and safely confined in aerated PVC tubes. While it can be used as an instinct test, there is also a handler component in that the handler must signal when the dog has reached the desired target PVC rat tube; thus, the handler must know and have a partnership with their dog. Teamwork will win the game."
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patiently practicing patience

7/26/2014

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Tasha and I went to the deer lease this morning. We had planted food plots last weekend during one heck of a rainstorm and we went to check things out.
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It was 94 degrees and almost 80 percent humidity. If was a scorcher and the heat index was out of sight.
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I put Tasha on a long stay. She watched as I walked 150 yards to the other end. If you look closer, you can see Tasha at the end of the food plot patiently waiting for me. She has been a breeze to train. ~ Cliff Shrader, Louisiana
Cliff, you are doing a great job teaching Tasha impulse control!
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walmar's drucilla with young stocks

7/24/2014

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My first day off since Friday and what a week. I was so tired when I went to bed early this morning that I fell asleep and woke later still holding my book in both hands. (I am reading the wonderful "Grace" by the hugely talented author Max... Lucado.) I do not mind saying that I had breakfast at 4 this afternoon!
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Refreshed now, on this 'Throwback Thursday', I am posting a photo of Andrew (left) and Jamie Stock with Walmar's Drucilla. I acquired Druci in middle age from Wally and Mary Jones.  Her sister CH Walmar's Druid Princess, a favorite of Wally's, was a DCA National Sweepstakes winner. Their black/tan brother CAN/AM CH Walmar's Dark Prince was a group winner for Uffe and Carol Brae. 

Druci had one litter of one for me, CH Walmar's Luke v Dorndorf L. At his first show, Luke was WD/BW for 5 points at the Central Ohio specialty, with me handling. He finished with three majors. Luke was the father of my N litter, now 12 years old, which include DC Nadja ME, multi-Absolute, multi-titled DC Nexus, SUvCH NIck (in Sweden), and MACH5 FC Nutmeg CDX! Becky England also used Luke and he produced something like seven Champions for her.

The proud parents of James and Andrew are Christian and Julie Stock. The boys are in college now but I well remember rocking Andrew when they brought him home from the hospital.  : )
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big challenges, bigger triumphs

7/16/2014

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We dog people often focus on what we are teaching our dogs and lose perspective on what our dogs are teaching us. In some ways, I have a LOT of patience. But not like this. I guess I have always felt like I had to have something to work with. Yes, I would have been one of those people who thought "Why is she showing that dog?!" Stories like this one remind me that there can be a very rich pay off to just hanging in there and digging deeper. It is also cool to see a Berner who actually looks like a working dog. (Coulda/shoulda not put the music to the video but that's my opinion. I hit the mute button real fast!) Kudos to the team!

Watching them, I thought of Maxine Brinker and Nutmeg and their struggles early on. Nutmeg's problem, though, was that she was too willing. In her early years of competition, Nutmeg missed a lot of contacts and made up many of her own courses. But with Maxine's patience and persistence, Nutmeg learned the finer arts of agility - such as not flying off obstacles, or forging her own paths! And, like this woman, Maxine was nothing if not persistent.

It paid off. Together, Maxine and Nutmeg earned MACH5. That's 100 trials of qualifying in both Excellent classes in the trial ("qualifying" meaning zero faults and within standard course time), and 3, 750 Master Agility Champion points!!! I believe they were the just the third dachshund team to do it. And the first standard longhair. I admire their accomplishments.
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cool guy svante in a cool pix

6/22/2014

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Tia Eskelinen and Svante, father of Viiljo, have traveled from Finland to Denmark this weekend.

Tia snapped this photo and captioned it: Having fun in Denmark - or not xD
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It looks like Svante says he would rather be hunting! But I hope that you two ARE having fun in Denmark! Thanks for the photo!
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no more snake in the wall

6/16/2014

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I like black snakes. Or maybe I don't like them so much as I appreciate them. But I knew that a snake had decided to make its home between the inside and outside walls of my outbuilding. And if Blacky was home when my dogs were out, their verbal and non-verbal body language was speaking volumes. I figured it was a matter of time before the dogs got this snake as they have gotten others in the past. I was hoping I would get to it first and be able to cart it down the road. I have done it before.

But lately I have not been above wishing that the dogs would just get it, kill it, and get it over with...

This afternoon shortly before leaving for work, I went out to bring the dogs in. They had been out for about 15 minutes. Walking in, I saw Owl and Nexus pulling against each other on either end of the largest snake they have caught yet. And I saw that it was dead. I didn't know whether to think "Poor snake" or "YAY!"  So I alternated. 

Then I thought, as I often do, well let me go and get my camera. I came back and took some photos.
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Owl
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Owl again. And look who he is pulling against.
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Nexus is something like a sleeper dog. He is mostly calm, quiet, and laid back - Until such time as there is work to do! I have made the mistake of underestimating Nexus on more than one occasion. To me, he is the canine model for not judging a book by its cover.
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Nexus, shaking the snake hard.
 I got caught up in observing the dogs' behavior. Suddenly, I remembered - work!

I barely had time to wash my hair and get dressed. As I pulled out of the driveway, I saw a hen turkey with five or six little ones traipsing along on the road behind her. As I watched, she climbed the road bank and the little ones were flapping and fluttering and looking like sparrows in their endeavor to follow mama up the hill. It reminded me of a toddler having to work extra hard to keep up with a long-striding adult. Suddenly, I remembered again - work!

I had not had time to dry my hair, so off and on I hung my head out the window on the hour drive. I clocked in with four minutes to spare. As I walked into the conference room, they looked at me. "What are you doing here?" I said, "I'm working." They said, "No you're not."

I had forgotten that I'd moved myself from working today to working on Thursday when I only had three RNs scheduled!

Oh man. 

Well, I needed to go get some groceries anyway.

Back home when I was pulling into the drive, I saw a large doe come out of the woods and stand beside the road for a couple of minutes. I waited to see if other deer were coming behind her. This time, I  said to myself, you do have time to watch the animals! 
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This segment of behavior was fascinating. As if on unseen signal, both dogs stopped, let go and simply stared intently at the snake. It appeared that they were waiting to see if it moved. Maybe even hoping that it would! This was about the time it hit me that I had a job to get to. (Not!)
   

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cover shot

6/15/2014

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Der Dachshund October 2011
I was going through some files today and saw this DTK (German Dachshund Club) magazine. I had saved it because I like the cover photo. I also very much appreciate the fact that the DTK continues to retain focus on the dachshund as a hunting dog. Certainly, not all German breeders train, test, and hunt their dachshunds. Far from it. But the parent club has retained breed purpose in their sights.
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no puppies for us this summer

6/14/2014

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Unfortunately, I must report that the patter of little half-pints will not be heard here this summer. Neither Taya or Tasha became pregnant by Owl. It is very disappointing to all of us.

As Owl was becoming older, I had his semen evaluated in February 2013 and it was good. But with both of these girls failing to conceive, Owl's fertility is today a looming question. I have an appointment for Owl with Dr. Robert Hutchison in northeast Ohio coming up on June 19. Dr. Hutch is known to breeders nationwide for his expertise in canine reproduction. We will see the results of the evaluation and make decisions based on that. I AM planning to mate Taya again in her next heat. At this point, though, I do not know who the male will be. I will keep you posted.
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dogs aren't kids but sure can act like it

6/11/2014

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Sometimes you just have to laugh. After their digging and wall-wallowing snake expedition, I made some coffee and walked into another room. Taya, eyes closed, was lying with ball tucked in safe. I thought of Robin Mousseau's photos of her Trouble and got my camera. When Taya heard me click it on, she opened one eye. haha! She closed it again. Then Owl, coveting the ball and whining softly the whole time, came and said to me, would you PLEASE make her give me the ball? (Nine other balls and toys scattered around and he HAD to have the one Taya had.) Owl will tear down walls for snakes but he won't go for a ball that Taya has! That's just been the case the past couple of months. Taya is now a mature, well, you know, little bitch. Owl may be driven but he's not dumb. : )
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owl(s) hunt snake(s)

6/11/2014

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A dog's olfactory ability is pretty darn amazing. I can't smell a snake in a wall.
Owl's 10th BIRTH day may also be his LAST day. That snake in the wall of the outbuilding? It is still there. I am not brave enough to post a photo of what the dogs, led by Owl, have done to the wall on the inside. Now I am ready to get rid of that thing, the snake, not Owl (yet) whatever I have to do. Well, come to think of it, so is Owl.
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No harm done to the outside wall but then I didn't give Owl much opportunity.
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from our friend jennifer fry

6/10/2014

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Olive
Happy 10th birthday to the amazing "O" litter!!! 

Ochre, Odin, Olive, Oslo, Ossie (Asti), Otter and Mr Owl.

You guys have accomplished many great things.
Thank you, Jennifer!
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