von Moeller Hof Dobermans

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Arras was bred to Swift Run’s Vulcan Masaya (Cinders), CD, SchH I, this past week.  Contact Brandi Williams at masayadobermans@yahoo.com or check out her website at www.masayadobermans.com.  Cinders is an Agir daughter.  Agir and Arras were competing about the same time, so it’s sort of cool to end up having a litter with both Agir and Arras in the pedigree.  Brandi is new to the game of SchH, and it says a LOT that Cinders just turned 2 in July, and has acheived a SchH I twice already (with a newbie handler) — once at the DPCA nationals a few weeks ago, where she turned in a 96 in tracking, and was one of maybe only 2 dogs who NAILED the courage test.  Hopefully, in 30 days, we’ll have news about a confirmed pregnancy!

Meanwhile, here’s a pic of Arras’ 2 week old litter with Danni.

With the 3 new arrivals at the von Schlottke kennel and the 6 at the Swift Run Dobermans kennel, there are now 20 Arras pups tearing up the country .    The von Schlottke pups and the Swift Run pups are all spoken for, but Arras is being bred to an Agir daughter within the next 10 days or so… (check www.masayadobermans.com)  He also has another planned breeding in January, but that hasn’t exactly been announced yet, so I’m waiting to tell that one..

Our UDC member club is hosting a trial this weekend - all breed, but we will have at least a FEW dobermans there, thank goodness!  We are raffling off a ’schutzhund barbie - doberman edition’ for the club.   This Working Doberman of the Carolinas 2008 schutzhund barbie will come with her trusty doberman, tennis balls, ball on a rope, tracking line and flags,  and some great pics on the back of the box showing accessories that will knock your socks off!  If you’d like to purchase some raffle tickets, paypal $5 per ticket (or $25 for 6 tickets) to crasmussen@nc.rr.com by Friday!  This will be the best gift to give yourself or your favorite schH doberman girl!

My kids go to Catholic sunday school (called Catechism) every sunday it is in session.  They are in the same class, unlike in school, where they are ON PURPOSE split into two different classes.  This year, the catechism department tried to put them in separate catechism classes due to their behaivor last year.  One thing led to another, and they’re back in the same class, but I am supposed to go in about 20 mins before it’s over to help ‘monitor’ (i.e. babysit!) in case the catechists run into problems during group prayer.  This week, when I walked in, one of the teachers said, ‘They were so good!  Are they on medication?’   I got quite a good laugh over that — (no, no medication!).  Other kids are just good, my kids must be on medication or something to be good!

(funny things the kids say)

Cole read me a story the other day about a washing machine that was a bit of an over-achiever; cleaning cats, dogs, flowers, etc.  However, everytime he got to the ‘washing machine’ word, he substituted his word for washing machine: washingMcCleaner.    Do we live in a McDonalds world or what?

3 pups born to Beuty v Alten Adel.  Contact Tori and Mike at www.vonschlottke.com .

Danni is due Oct 18th or so — contact Tammy at www.swiftrundobermans.com

Tammy called today to inform me that Danni is indeed preggo as well — she is due the 18th of October. Two great litters coming up, and another one in the wings, to an Agir daughter!!

She should be due about the 24th… Tammy is ultrasounding Danni tomorrow!

Yesterday, I took Arras to NC State for a cardio checkup.  What with all these girlfriends coming his way, I wanted to make sure nothing had changed. The cardiologist (Dr Keene) said that his heart looked GREAT and that there were no changes in his heart and the size and shape and wall thicknesses were absolutely normal.  He said he’d have no problem taking an Arras pup!  (I asked him if we should sign him up for a puppy ).  A few weeks ago, I had his thryoid re-checked as well, and it’s still perfect. 

Today I am taking Arras to get hopefully his last collection for frozen semen.  My goal is to have 10 frozen breeding units.  I have close to 7 breeding units now, so this collection hopefully will top it off at 10. 

I saw Arras’ 2nd litter with Josie over the weekend.  They were 7 weeks old and just a WONDERFUL litter.  They were temperament tested by a team of puppy temperament testers who go around testing working pups (for SAR, Obed, agility, etc) of different breeds.  The litter was extremely uniform and lots of great working potential.  All were extremely stable pups, and had great play and prey drives and all were very social.  I have a little video of them playing here:

http://www.vimeo.com/1641627

Unfortunately for us, most of the pups are going to pet homes — the breeder is a vet and has pet homes coming out of her ears - but at least one little girl will be owned by someone near Nashville, TN who is hoping to do agility and SchH.  One of the little boys is going to be fairly local to me, so hopefully I’ll get to see him now and then.

I am still waiting to hear if Tori’s bitch is pregnant.  She thinks she is… ultrasound may have happened Tuesday; still waiting to hear.  Tammy’s bitch is only 2 weeks out now, so we’re still 2 weeks away from hearing that outcome.