Leidenschaft Kennels

Life is still very busy at Leidenschaft Kennels, and as we’ve always done, we’re keeping our heads up and looking at the positives!

We’re excited to get back on the training field with our club members at The Sirius Working Dog Association. This last week of mild weather should have the field bare in days! We’ll have lots of extra hands on deck to begin leash work, prey bite work, and tracking with “the K-girls”. It’s been an absolute pleasure to have the extra time with these babies. We’re privileged to see their personalities develop as they mature.

Ron will be announcing very soon, his training locations and start dates for Level One obedience classes. We’re just waiting for Momma N and Old Man Winter to settle their annual battle before we set a firm date.

We’re looking forward to clearing health tests for another member of our pack to announce future breeding plans. As we’ve always done in the past, any matings we make now, and in the future, will be done in consultation with our veterinary team, and of course meet the recommendations by the Orthopedic Foundation For Animals.

Stay tuned for more updates this month! 🙂

Happy to announce that our one remaining boy has found his forever home! <3
As of Thursday, March 28th, these puppies will be ready for shipping to the United States, as per their import laws.

Still Available are:

Kwest – female – dominant in the pack, independent natured. This pup is being reserved for a working home.

Kaper – female – busy, sassy, confident. This puppy will need an active and experienced home to keep her out of trouble! Kaper has enough attitude to be a great IPO/Schutzhund or other type of working environment.

Kacey – female – also busy, fun loving, and confident. This puppy will also need an active home. Kacey would make an awesome flyball or agility dog.

Kricket – female – a bit calmer than the three listed above. This puppy would make a great companion, but definitely has the confidence and energy to need some structured activity.

Kree – female – outgoing and friendly, Kree will make a great companion and competition dog. Kree has superior ball drive!

Kora – female – the love bug of the litter! Kora will be a great family companion, and still has plenty of confidence and energy to do structured activities.

To see photos, videos, and frequent updates on the litter, follow us on Instagram @leidenschaftkennels or join our K-litter Facebook group. 

Just around the corner, coming to a lot on the north side of Fredericton AND a lot in Oromocto, Ron will begin offering 6-week obedience courses for dogs 5 months and older. Hoping to get started early April 2018 as the weather cooperates. More details are being ironed out this week, so please stay tuned!

You can reach Ron directly, by email at ronmurrayATleidenschaftkennels.ca or at (506) 260-2015. You can also keep up to date by following Ron’s Facebook page Ron Murray at Leidenschaft Kennels.

If your dog is making you crazy, it’s time to take advantage of Ron’s FORTY YEARS experience! (yes he’s THAT old!) 😉

While Momma N and Old Man Winter wage great battles this month, Ron and I are still very busy with our pack! The K-litter Kids are 14 weeks old now and are growing and learning every day. They are all sleeping in crates through the night and sharing time in the house with Bermuda Blue! They are learning to go up and down stairs, watching hockey on TV, chewing and sharing bones and toys, and snippets of dumbbell training and of course, prey bite work.

Health wise, everyone is doing great! They’ve had their second course of vaccinations plus rabies and bordatella. They are ready to ship now other than to the US, we won’t be able to ship until March 28 as per their import regulations.

We are excited to announce that Khira von der Leidenschaft is in her forever home now, and will be staying local, and training with our IPO club, The Sirius Working Dog Association!  

As of March 11, 2018 we still have 6 females and 1 male available. Waiting for their forever homes are:

Khaos – male – busy, confident, loves to bite, would suit experienced companion home but would love to see this boy in IPO/Schutzhund or something of the like.

Kwest – female – dominant in the pack, independent natured. This pup is being reserved for a working home.

Kaper – female – busy, sassy, confident. This puppy will need an active and experienced home to keep her out of trouble! Kaper has enough attitude to be a great IPO/Schutzhund or other type of working environment.

Kacey – female – also busy, fun loving, and confident. This puppy will also need an active home. Kacey would make an awesome flyball or agility dog.

Kricket – female – a bit calmer than the three listed above. This puppy would make a great companion, but definitely has the confidence and energy to need some structured activity.

Kree – female – outgoing and friendly, Kree will make a great companion and competition dog.

Kora – female – the love bug of the litter! Kora will be a great family companion, and still has plenty of confidence and energy to do structured activities.

To see photos, videos, and frequent updates on the litter, follow us on Instagram @leidenschaftkennels or join our K-litter Facebook group. 

Well we just squeaked in to November… our K-LITTER has arrived! Born November 30, 2017, to Glock von der Leidenschaft IPO3 and Rogue vom Klingsgarten BH, 9 females and 2 males. See more details at Our Giant Schnauzers! Mom and 11 babes are doing amazing! Please check out our Facebook group to see the latest photos, videos, and updates. You can join us here: K-litter Facebook Group

Well it’s been a busy month! We have new titles to announce!

Schnoopy vom Klingsgarten earned his BH – ‘Begleithund’ which is an obedience and temperament title – on October 8, 2017 at our fall club trial.

Jade von der Leidenschaft earned her BH on October 7, 2017 and her IPO1 on October 8, 2017 at the same trial. Her score for IPO1 was Tracking 93, Obedience 83, and Protection 89 with a TSB rating of ‘A’, which means “pronounced in courage” and quite suitable for breeding. 🙂

Glock von der Leidenschaft earned his IPO2 on October 7, 2017 with a score of 85, 85, 84, with TSB ‘A’, and he earned his IPO3 on October 8, 2017 with a score of 88, 83, 82, with TSB ‘A’ as well. Glock is 8 years old now and will retire from the sport to be a house hound…. AND (fingers crossed) a DADDY!!!

Yes, we’re quietly announcing the mating of Glock with Rogue vom Klingsgarten on Saturday, September 30, 2017. Thus, the reason you don’t see Rogue on the list of new titles.

Rogue has her BH, and is CAER “Normal” (eyes) and OFA Hips “Good” and OFA Elbows “Normal”.

Glock has his IPO3, and is CAER “Normal” (eyes) and OFA Hips “Good” and OFA Elbows “Normal”.

Both have excellent temperaments and working drives. Puppies from this combination will be suitable for active companion homes and preference will be given to performance homes. We are a working kennel; puppies are chosen by matching temperaments and drives to homes requiring the same. We do not choose our puppies based on “show” or “pet” qualities. For more details about this pair, visit our Giant Schnauzer page. 

The extended pedigree can be seen here:

 

We are extremely disappointed to announce the K-litter is not “a thing”. 🙁 Stay tuned for any further litter announcements.

We are very excited to announce that Jade von der Leidenschaft has been “mated” via Artificial Insemination to Niko vom Lindelbrunn (call name Ties) who lives in the Netherlands. His owner, Perry van Engelen, shares this detail: “Ties is a fully certified KNPV Police dog. He is the only Riesenschnauzer in the world who ever made this super heavy examination.”  You can see the details Here!

This has been a huge undertaking for us and we wish to thank Perry so very much for his prompt attention to the collection, shipment, and all the paperwork involved in such a process.

We would also like to thank the experts at Carnegy Animal Hospital for their care and support! Ron and Jade were well cared for this week!

Should we be blessed with puppies, the due date is May 23, 2017. We are expecting a smaller than average litter because of the one shot deal with AI. Preference will be given to performance homes.

If you are interested in a puppy from us, please head over to Our Giant Schnauzers and complete our Potential Puppy Owner Questionnaire.

Stay tuned for updates! 🙂

Well it’s been a busy year, so busy in fact, that I haven’t had time to update our website until now, when I’m procrastinating tax stuff!

A brief summary.

In March 2016, our new little boy Schnoopy vom Klingsgarten was born in Germany.

In April 2016, our club The Sirius Working Dog Association regrouped and started training, in what would be a fantastic season culminating in five new titles in Quebec in November.

In June 2016 we picked Schnoopy up from the Halifax airport, bringing our pack up to four again.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In July 2016 we took all four camping for a weekend in Quebec. Everyone traveled so well. 🙂

August, September, and October were a blur of constant training to be ready for trial in November!

In November 2016, our newly rebuilt club, traveled to Quebec with 7 dogs, and brought home 5 titles. Not too shabby after a three year absence from training for me and Ron, and other members being first timers!

The rest of the winter we have spent waiting for Jade to come into heat so we could produce our Winter litter. She teased us all for quite some time, but as of this writing, is not even close to a heat cycle. However, we have an excellent male firmly in place and as soon as she’s ready, we’ll be mating.

Looking forward to SPRING so we can get training again with our club. It’s going to be another busy year, but I’ll see if I can post a new update before a year’s time! 😉

 

We are disappointed to announce that the K-litter we had hoped for today, did not materialize. It was a combination of bad weather and other life events that caused us to miss Jade’s peak fertility this time, but we’re planning for a natural mating for next time.

Under normal circumstances, we would expect Jade to be back in heat in June or July, however, our youngster, 9 month old Rogue vom Klingsgarten is currently having her first heat. This could cause Jade’s cycle to be affected and it’s possible she will come in sooner.

As with anything related to nature and breeding, it is a crap shoot! We will obviously post an update when we are planning our next litter.