Kleinen Wiese German Shepherds

Posted By Sandy Wilson on June 3, 2009

Well it seems as though we have produced far more girls than boys in our litters, but that is just the way the ball bounces.  One cannot control mother nature.

OUR GALS

Arla vd. Kleinen Wiese

Arla is a pup I kept out of Hera and Diesel’s litter.  She showed attraction to me from a very young age and when she was tested on lambs for her working ability and grip, she was perfect.  I knew I had a winner.  From a very young age of about 5-6 weeks she showed interest in our lambs and alot of confidence.  Today she has proven to be super worker and loves to herd the sheep.  She is my working dog at present and going to have puppies soon!   I can hardly wait.

Amber is from our first litter also.  She  is a very high energy dog that loves agility – she is so agile and boy can she move.   She lives with a family that has four children and so she has plenty of activity at home besides being a competitve dog in the ring.  This dog has speed, focus and drive that is fantastic!

Callie vd. Kleinen Wiese

Cora vd. Kleinen Wiese

Cora is also a companion dog who lives with two young children who just adore her.   Cora is great with kids and also lives with another GSD.  The family is planning on training her in agility.  Go Cora!

Contessa vd. Kleinen Wiese "Tessa"

Contessa, who we always called Tessa, was an energetic puppy with lots of personality – what a fun dog.  My boys loved playing with her when she would chase them around and around – she was a live wire.  She lives on a goat farm in NY – not sure if she is herding the goats yet, but I am sure she would be happy to help out!

Chloe vd. Kleinen Wiese

Chloe as a young pup.   Her ears are up now and she is quite mature.  She is another family companion.   Chloe is learning agility and she also enjoys playing with the owners six grandchildren.  Chloe loves to spend time in the pool watching the grandkids play in the water.

That’s all we have time for now, but more on past pups later as we have news of their accomplishments.

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Posted By Sandy Wilson on June 2, 2009

We have had three litters so far and each one has been so memorable.  Such lovely dogs and all with such a williness to please.  Here are just some photo’s of some of the pups that we have produced in the past.

OUR BOYS

Two Sable Boys - Aiko and Argus - they were a handful!

Cody vd. Kleinen Wiese - Now Called Mikkodi with his companion Kassi.

Cody is very masculine sable male on the left.  He resides with his owner in Maryland, but travel’s all over New England hiking on trails.  He also does a bit of agility.

Caden vd. Kleinen Wiese - Caden is presently training in Schutzhund and loves the tug!

Caden is located in Red Deer, Alberta.  He is has been tracking since he was nine weeks old and just loves the work.  He is nose down and on the trail.  Caden just recently started his schutzhund training at the Calgary Schutzhund Club.  We are expecting great things from this boy.

Aiko vd. Kleinen Wiese - Aiko lives here at Little Meadow Sheep Farm

Aiko lives here at Little Meadow Sheep Farm and is busy tending to the sheep.  He absolutely loves to work.  He is showing us great promise in herding and also loves to track and do obedience work.  We hope to use Aiko in our breeding program in the future.

Claus vd Kleinen Wiese - Claus as a young pup.

Argus vd. Kleinen Wiese

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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 (Ussa v. Kuchenthal X Alf v. Fafnerhaus)

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.

Alf v. Fafnerhaus "Nicky"

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 v. Schulmeister, SchHI, AD

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.

Hera v. Fafnerhaus X Diesel v. Schulmeister "A" Litter

"A" Litter - These pups were an active bunch full of confidence and curiosity.

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.

Male Sable Puppy - "B" Litter

Female Black/Tan Puppy - "B" 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!

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