Kleinen Wiese German Shepherds

Posted By Sandy Wilson on May 26, 2009

Just wanted to touch a bit on pups that we have produced in the past.  We started our breeding program with our foundation bitch, Hera v. Fafnerhaus.  Hera is out of Alf v. Fafnerhaus “Nicky” who comes from Ellen Nickelsberg and Manfred Heyne’s line of  GSD  herding champions that go back to the great old herding dogs of the breed.  Hera showed all the natural talent her father had and we have seen now that Hera is very strong in passing her father’s  same genetic herding ability to her puppies. 

Hera v. Fafnerhaus was bred several times and she is consistently passing on the same strong genetics of her father.  She is a dog that wants to please and do anything you ask of her.  She has wonderful qualities for a fine working partner.  We are so happy to be able to keep these genetics alive and hopefully pass them on and produce good strong working dogs in the future.

Above, Nicky working a flock of several hundred sheep.  For him it was a real job that he did every day of his life, for many hours a day.  To me, Nicky is a superb example of a what a real life working dog is all about.  A dog doing a job and taking it seriously, but with little direction and absolutely no motivation but for the work itself.    He was a dream to watch working the sheep.  I feel so priviledged to have known Nicky in person and to have had the opportunity to watch this dog work.  What a treat!

Our first litter was with Hera and Diesel v. Schulmeister.  Diesel brought alot into the breeding also.  He is very intelligent, has great work ethic, balanced drives, excellent working structure, and came from a strong line of schutzhund dogs.  Diesel also had  excellent old herding lines in his pedigree that we felt would “nick” together well with our genetics.  These two dogs combined proved to produce very nice pups that all had an attraction to sheep and showed a strong  desire to please and work.    Out of the first litter “A”, we kept Arla and Aiko. 

Diesel is a large, powerful male.  His strong working qualities, along with his biddability and intelligence, made him a good match for our Hera.  Diesel’s pedigree has many strong working dogs in his background as well as some good herding lines.  His dam was Reba v. Marinik, HGH, CD, TD and his sire was Siggo v. Haus Antverpa, SchHIII, IP3, KKL1.

Hera and Diesel’s progeny, Arla and Aiko both have a strong desire to work and have proven to have natural ability herding sheep.  They both are working dogs at our farm at present.  Both show great promise as excellent herding dogs.   These two pups are very “up” dogs and jump at the chance to retrieve or do a little tracking too.

Here are just a few pictures of the pups from the “A” Litter.

Our 2nd Litter was purely for companion dogs, as we had alot of requests for pups after so many people seeing our first litter of pups.  They were all proving to have wonderful temperaments, being very intelligent, and having such amazing biddability. 

Here are just a few pics of pups from the second litter.

 Above I think was one of my most favorite puppies named Blanka.   She was a beautiful female puppy that was just a ball of energy.  So sweet and full of life.  I think the hardest thing about raising these beautiful dogs is having them go to new homes after  my boys have bonded with them and have spent so much time holding and loving them.

My two boys are in the whelping box from the minute these puppies are born and they are handled frequently during the day/night.  It’s truly hard to keep my kids out of the box, but the dogs don’t mind at all.  They seem to just accept family into their nesting ground and accept all the help the boys give. 

It actually broke my heart when this litter was gone because my older son wanted to keep a dog so badly.  He named our biggest sable male Baron and he was such a nice pup, but we couldnt’ keep one more – it wouldn’t be fair to the dogs we already had.  But soon, I told my son, he would have another Baron!  Perhaps a Baroness!

Category: Puppies
Tags: A Litter Puppies, B Litter - Puppies, German Shepherd