In the year 1995 we had our kennel registered with the name "vom Haus Barrett". It was named at that time after our three year old beautiful male dog "Barrett".

In our first litter we had five pups. The dam of these pups was our "Ondie vom Jägerstand" and the sire was "Ufo vom Lärchenwald". He had a dark-red pigment, which he had inherited to the puppies. Also the pups were very strong built with beautiful masculine and feminine heads. These pups showed us, that we were breeding with the best intentions and the rewards were good looking, healthy pups. They turned out to be confident and healthy family dogs, which also could be used in "schutzhund" or as rescue dogs.

When having a litter every family member takes a part in it, children included. Especially our 15 year old daughter helps us with taking care of all the dogs. For the first three weeks our dam and her pups are staying with us in the house. That way the pups learn all different sounds, movement and most important of all they have close contact with members of the family. With four weeks of age we will take them outside into a kennel, which is connected to a big sand area. The gate to this area stays always open. The pups can go in and out whenever they want to. Every day we let them out into the grass area and let them get to know different objects. That way we also give the pups a chance to eliminate outside and not in the kennel. This procedure will help the new owner to get their pup housebroke in a short time.
Between the fourth and eighth week we have also many people come by on the week-ends to play with the puppies. Pups have to get used to different people during this time period, so they will not be scared or aggressive, if someone strange approaches them.

We usually give the pups to their new owner when they turn eight weeks. At this age the pups were dewormed three times, given their first immunization and had been tattooed. A few days before we turn them over to their new owner, the Vet has to check them again and fill out a health-report for each puppy. This health-report has to be sent to our Club, before the papers are issued for each pup. We do have very strict regulations here in Germany.
When the new owner picks up his pup we will hand over a feeding-table, a magazine of our Club, and a few tips about upbringing the puppy.
If questions then still arise, the new owner should not hesitate and ask. We will try to answer them by E-Mail, letter or phone.

At the moment we have three studs at the house. One of them is our "Gustl von der Köhlertanne", a eight year old male.
We have also five dams and two young females. For more information about all of our dogs please returnto "our dogs".
Before the young dogs can be used as breeding dogs they have to pass different tests, they have to be taken to a show to receive titles and they have to have x-rays of their hips (HD) and starting in the year 2004 also of their elbows (ED). The result of this x-ray will be put into their papers.

Our next litter we do expect in winter 2008.
For more information about these litters go to "upcoming litters"

Copyright by Jessica and Dagmar Anderson 2001