Leidenschaft Kennels

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

Rogue vom Klingsgarten BH with our K-litter. 9 females, 2 males. Born November 30, 2017

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:

Glock and Rogue 2017

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.

Remembering our old boy at his last Christmas with us in 2014. Degen von der Leidenschaft RIP. The stuffed moose was his early Christmas present. <3

MERRY CHRISTMAS! 😀

From our dog house to yours, Ron and I would like to wish you all a safe and happy holiday season and a healthy and successful New Year!

We are happy to have our pack back together in time for the holidays. The past few weeks have been pretty stressful with Jade in heat and Glock losing his mind and going off his rations for a solid week!

However, we are pleased to announce that we have “mated” Jade von der Leidenschaft to Riesig Besserwisser (call name “Tenu”). Due to the unpredictable weather for travelling, and the seasonal embargoes for all the airlines, we had to settle for an artificial insemination using fresh chilled semen. We only got ONE shot at the deal as Jade passed her estrus cycle quickly. However, the vets are confident we should have a litter. We expect our K-litter on February 18, 2016. If you are interested in being considered for a puppy, please complete our Potential Puppy Owner Questionnaire on Our Giant Schnauzers page.