07.25.08
Sire of expected C-Litter:
Arras v. Moeller hof
More C-Litter information
First of all, I must start out by saying my C-litter is going to be a very special litter to me. Not that my others weren’t, but after loosing Jingo… and never using him for stud; I am looking forward to getting something from this breeding. My fingers are crossed that this takes.
I was VERY impressed with Arras after meeting him in the flesh. He is a big boy, standing 29 inches at the shoulder. Not only is he tall, but has a ton of bone and substance. I loved his structure too. I thought he had a great top line, nice cat like feet, deep chest, and a solid head. I asked Chris why he only received a SG rating for his ZTP and she said he was docked for his height being over the standard. Aside from his structure, he displayed wonderful temperament. His personality reminded me of Jingo in so many ways. He is a dog who is easy to live with, safe around people, and one of the strongest dogs on the protection field. IMO he is what a Doberman should be 
Please visit the Moeller Hof website and watch the videos of Arras in action!
My goal with the C-litter is to produce a beautiful Doberman who can work. Dog’s from this litter will excel in any protection sport and will also be well suited for SAR, obedience, tracking, personal protection, agility, AKC obedience, and any other sport. Puppies from this breeding will make excellent pets, but will require a home willing to dedicate time to training and exercise.
Dam info:
Baccara (Beuty v. Alten Adel) comes from top European show lines. Her pedigree is full of dogs that have successfully proven their excellence by titling in Schutzhund and earning their Championships in Europe . Great dogs of the past, such as Ali v. Langhorst, Baron Bryan vom Harro’s Berg, Graff Quirinus v. Neerlands Stam, and Hertog Alpha v. Le Dobry can be found multiple times in the first four generations of her pedigree. These dogs were not only great themselves, but proven producers of some of the most successful Dobermans in Europe . Baccara IMO is a notable example of beautiful structure along with excellent working ability. She has lots of natural drive for tracking making her a breeze to train. She has earned the highest level of tracking in Schutzhund, the FH 2 with a score of 90 out of 100. She also has earned her FPr 3 which is the Schutzhund three tracking title. She has also earned her StPr 2 which requires a dog to find and indicate articles based on scent. Baccara also is a very smart and motivated dog who likes to please me. She has a very loving personality, with a calm demeanor, and very easy to live with. Her obedience is happy and energetic. In protection she has a lot of prey drive and enjoys the sport. She earned her VPG I in Germany with scores of 99-81-90. Over all I have been very pleased with her and happy with what she produced in her A-Litter.
Titles: BH, RHT (Rettungshundtauglichkeitsprüfung, German Search and rescue type test), AD, VPG I (same as Schutzhund 1), StPr 2 (Stoberprufung level 2), and FH 2.
Health results: HD-1 (German hip grading, same OFA good or Excellent), Cardio Clear (by echo 2008 and holter 2006), MSU Thyroid normal, vWD affected (DNA tested by Vetgen) and has full dentation. For more information on her pedigree please click on the link below:
Sire info:
Arras vom Moeller hof is the sire of my planned litter. He is a strong dog who has competed at multiple national level trials with success and has excellent structure and a pedigree that blends well with Baccara’s. For more information you can visit his website here:
Working Results:
BH – 2001
SchH I (70-80-98a) – 2003
2003 AWDFs, high Schutzhund I – (90-81-89a)
SchH II (92-84-97a) – 2004
2004 AWDFs, high IPO 2 – (83-85-87)
SchH III (91-90-96a), HIT, High traking, High Obd, High Prot – 2005
RH-1 – 2005, First Doberman to attain this title in the world!
2007 UDC National Trial (87-86-91a) – HIT, High HOT, High SchH III, High Obd, High Protection
Temperament Tests:
WAC, FFB SG 1A (UDC Breed Survey), and CGCHealth Results:
OFA Good, vWD Clear, Cardio Normal (by Holter 2007 and Echo 2008), MSU Thyroid normal, and full and proper dentition.
All puppies will be sold cropped and docked unless requested otherwise. Blacks and possibly browns are expected to be produced.
If interested contact Tori Gaskill at admin@vonschlottke.com
07.24.08
C-Litter
Made it back from NC!! Baccara had three successful “meetings” with Arras v. Moeller Hof at his love shack 
Fingers crossed for our C-Litter. I will post more information later.
07.21.08
Food again
I think putting my kibble page together was good, because it made me look over what I was feeding my dogs.
I was a bit shocked at what Solid Gold’s Hund-n-Flockin was lacking. Although, Cosmo is doing really well on it. So the question is, do I switch her to something else?
I think I am going to try Merrick’s new line of Before Grain for her. It hasn’t been rated yet by dog food analysis, but looking at it’s break down; I have no doubt it will earn 6 stars. Dog Food Man also carries this, so he won’t have to special order Solid Gold for me.
I am going to get this tomorrow for Cosmo:
B.G. Buffalo
If she doesn’t do well, I will put her back on Solid Gold.
07.20.08
Bath day and retrieve
Today I took Cosmo out to work on the retrieve. It was 90+ degrees, but made sure everything was set up prior to bringing her out. I used Lyn’s super cool pop n’ go jump for something to jump over.
I brought Cosmo out and did a couple of rounds of having her hold the dumb bell, along with my new command to stop mouthing. She didn’t fight me on this and seemed to remember what this additional command was for. After this, I tossed the dumb bell a couple of times on the flat and she was very fast with her retrieve. I then fussed her to the jump and did two retrieves over the jump, which she did without issue. I was very pleased and ended the routine with a send out for the tug. We did a little bit of tug for reward and then took her over to the hose for a cool down.
Since it was so hot, I not only cooled her down but gave her a full bath along with a message. Cosmo enjoyed it so much that she oozed to the gown on her back. Yes, I am the only person who bathes their dog while they lay on the ground with all four feet in the air. After the bath, I rubbed her legs down with my favorite Shea Butter cream and brought her in.
I call today a success
Great day!
I thought I would write my training post, while I download photos. I will post some in the next entry and send the rest to you Lyn along with the others from last week! No worries
I was very happy with today’s training. We didn’t track, but that is on our list of things to do early tomorrow a.m.
For obedience, I focused on heeling, platz out of motion, send out, long down, and retrieve. It sounds like a lot of stuff, but it went well. After getting her out of the truck and giving her a little run time, I popped on her lead and did some healing. I was glad to see she was back to her old self doing her bouncy motivated healing. We did pivots, short legs, sit out of motion, and platz out of motion with recall. All of this was kept at minimal intervals. After a bit of drill work, I freed her up and took her to a shaded area, playing tug along the way. Once we arrived at the top of the hill, I platzed her and walked out of sight. She did a great job, looking very relaxed and calm while another dog was doing a retrieve on the field. Afterwards, I had Butch fire the gun a couple times and she remained relaxed. Remember I had a bit of a problem last week on the long down, but it appears that we have worked out this problem. From the long down, we went into the retrieve. First I had her take it from my hand and hold it calmly in her mouth. Than we walked in circles and quickly switched to here. We were working on getting her to hold the dumb bell further forward in her mouth, because she likes to hold it by her molars and I can loose few points for her letting it roll back in the front position. Once she understood what we were asking, I tossed the dumb bell on the flat twice and then over the jump and wall. Both times she jumped and retrieved without issue. I was thrilled since we hadn’t done the wall in about a month. Good girl Cosmo!
For protection, it was extremely hot. All the dogs were flat and blowing hard. We decided to keep the training short and fun for the dogs. So we did a short bark n’ hold with bite, and then we worked on the courage test on and off the bungee. Wow is all I can say. I was VERY impressed how well this taught Cosmo to hold on or there is no second chance! We purposely made her miss, than had the decoy back up a little bit each time. It forced Cosmo to drive harder and harder to get the bite. On the last send we took the bungee off and Miss Mo blazed down the field and NAILED that bite! I was thrilled and had to thank Matt (the decoy) for his wonderful catch
All in all, it was a great training day and I felt like I learned some good things today!! One thing I must say, I appreciate my friends and club members for all their support. It seems like when you hit rock bottom in training, is when you realize what you and your dog are made of. After maternity time, I had a lot of work to do with Cosmo and hit some serious moments of frustration. To the point that I was ready to throw in the rag on her, but I am glad that I didn’t. I am glad that I stuck it out and worked through some of our problems, and not to say we won’t encounter more…. but it allowed me to see some of our problems were training and handler problems, not so much her problem. I appreciate some of the outside advice and input I have received and hope we continue down this path. We have started to look over the fall trial schedule and have tentatively planned to finish her to the three this year!
07.18.08
Repro Consult
Baccara and I just made it back from U-PENN. She enjoyed her tour of Philly and walking threw crowds of people. She did a great job riding shot-gun with me in the beetle… until she tried to suck on my hair?!?! WTF?!?! I nearly crashed as I was navigating the car in thick traffic and swatting Baccara off my head. It was like flank sucking, but on my head!! and Baccara isn’t a flank sucker!?!? I am not sure what that was all about, but let’s not do it again….
I seriously sound like a commercial for PENN, but I am so happy with their services. She did a complete vaginal exam, we did brucellosis test, drew a progesterone level, and did a vaginal cytology. When the vet found out I was nurse over at PENN’s main hospital, she took the time to show me how to do my own dog’s vaginal exam and swab for the cytology and how to interpret it. It was a great consult and I learned a ton. Other great thing to know, is that PENN makes their own cryoprecipitate and have it on hand. Baccara is vWD affected, but not clinically. The vet was telling me that even though she isn’t clinically affected, it could still change if she lost enough blood. Vets rarely have cryo because it is expensive and has a short shelf life. At PENN, they make it so it is always on hand. I know where I will be driving if my nightmares come true By the way, the stud dog is clear so all puppies will be carriers NOT affected. This means they won’t be at risk for bleeding, but only carry one recessive gene for it. I have ton more information on vWD if anyone has questions, you can e-mail me.
The cytology came back at 70% cornified, so she may be moving faster than I realized. I will have the results of the progesterone this afternoon. If the numbers are still low, we will visit on Monday again. She is guessing we may be heading out of state by mid next week.
Yikes, it has been crazy busy here!
Aside from completing Baccara’s health testing, we have been crazy busy preparing for this litter. We are going for round two of progesterone testing at U-PENN tomorrow and will also be going in for a repro consult. Talked to the stud owner today about what I am expecting to produce with this litter, and all I can say is that I am very excited! For a little recap… Baccara started her estrus on Sunday, first progesterone test on Tuesday; which came back with a level of 1. I know her cycle is longer than normal, so not expecting any freak out moments. At least, I really hope not!
Aside from this breeding, I a have been logging in a lot of time with Cosmo in hopes to have her ready for her SchH 2 this fall. We have been working the retrieve, obedience, and obedience with tons of distractions for the past couple of weeks. Her focus has been ok, but she can do better. I guess I will forgive her since she is in heat. What we still need to work on is: platz at the end of send out, more tracking, and reinforce the stand out of motion. We are at passable stage, but I want more than that!
And in case breeding and Schutzhund 2 preparation isn’t enough, we have been spending a lot of time at Sandro’s learning about Mondio. With Cosmo’s foundation, she has been able to transition easily into majority of the exercises, but we still have some things to train. Tonight Sandro started teaching us the escort. Cosmo was having some difficulty figuring out the part about following but not biting… and if not biting why not barking?!?! Sandro said barking was ok, but he discourages it because the dog will exhaust themselves if they bark during the entire escort. We also worked on positions. Cosmo knows all the positions, but she hasn’t mastered staying in one place (away from the handler) while going threw each position. She likes to creep forward, so Sandro gave us some tips on how to train for this.
whoo… Frodo is firing up barking out the window looking into the woods!!!
After a little rest, we brought Cosmo back out and worked on the leg bites again. Cosmo was even better than the other night. She had no problems with turning her head either way to bite each leg, no issues with the bamboo clatter stick, had nice full calm grips, and had no problems with Sandro reaching over her, hitting her, grabbing her… I was very impressed! Cosmo was having a blast and her tail was wagging a 100 mph during the entire session! I think this is what she needs. Cosmo can be a very defensive driven dog, but Sandro doesn’t agree with me. I have told him about my previous training issues and he hasn’t seen them yet. He said, she is a very stable minded dog and feels many of the problems I have described are more than likely training evoked. He said for a dog to come to a new place, work with a new decoy, and be nothing but clear headed; shows she is fine. Sandro again reiterated to me how impressed he is by Cosmo Of course hearing that makes me feel great!
With a new club so close to us, Mike offered to start doing decoy work again. Sandro thought that would be great and said he will train Mike on some of his more experienced dogs. If nothing else, this will be great exercise for mike! Also Mike and I discussed renting a Bobcat and clearing a chunk of our 23 acres to have our own training field. We want to put it back in the woods a bit, so it isn’t viewable. So much to do… and so little time. And I wonder why I am always exhausted and sore!
