Julson Kleine / Small Munsterlander Breeder

08/30/2024

Just for fun here is a short video of grayling fishing in Alaska last year.

08/30/2024

Working on staying on place when distractions are introduced.

08/30/2024

YouTube Link to my 14 week old KlM learning to track on lead. The beginning of blood tracking wounded big game.
Blood Trackiing Clinic sponsored by Lona Kluck and Larry Reeves.
Anna-Lena Pilgram was the trainer. She currently lives in Lapland Sweden but born and raised in Germany. Well worth attending!! I would highly recommend this to anyone interested in training their versatile hunting dog to track wounded game and especially wounded big game.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhrBdTo1yOc

Same KlM at eighteen weeks old got into a young, late, brood of pheasant on our property.

08/30/2024

My KlM pup on pigeon launchers for the first time at 4 months of age. Normally I would have them on a check cord so they do not get so close the launcher hits them in the face. She had been on put down pigeons, i.e. put to sleep and laid in the grass several times. Based on that and seeing how good her nose is I was confident I could see her catch the scent and it she did not stop or pause I could launch the pigeon well before she got close to the launcher. You see the results.
I put out 4 launchers with pigeons so, even though I cut out a lot of footage, it is still long. Thanks for taking the time to watch. She is for sure the most intense, steadiest pointing pup I have ever had at this age.

08/16/2024

On the weekend of August 10 & 11 Andres Scrivo, Seward, AK ran his 18 week, to the day, old KlM pup (Julson von Julson) in the Natural Ability NAVHDA field evaluation in Palmer, AK. Andrew is a first time handler and has really only had one hunting dog before. I was an America GSP that he got as an older dog and did no training all.
That team scored a 107 prize 2. CONGRATULATIONS!!
They received perfect scores in all categories except field search where he got a 3. The judges wanted to see him expand his search more. For an 18 week old pup that does not surprise me at all. The only dog that scored higher than Andrew and Ely was a 16 month old Puddle Pointer that scored a perfect 112. A SHOUT OUT to Dori Hollingsworth, NAVHDA member from Seward, who helped them a lot to prepare.
Andrew talked to on the phone in late July and told me everything he and the pup were doing and that he had just joined NA and they had a test coming up in August. I said, RUN HIM! The man with the beard in the picture is not Andrew. That is Perry Corsetti who watched Ely while Andrew was in the lower 48 for a couple of weeks. I delivered a SM from Bobbie Carney to Perry in about 2012 and we have stayed in contact every since.

08/03/2024

GERMANY AUGUST 2024
Early July 30th I left home for the Minneapolis Airport with 2 KlM 16 week old pups. We landed in Frankfurt, Germany on the 31st, loaded up, what the car rental agency calls, an SUV and headed north to Schapen, Germany.
The purpose of this trip is to deliver these female two pup, one each, to my two KlM Breeder/ Training colleagues who will be training and testing these two pups for me. I also have a female pup, from this same litter, at home with which I will be doing the same. The overall purpose is to determine over the next 1.5 to 2 years if any of these is acceptable and desirable to become a part of my personal breeding plan and goals.
As I discussed and planned by trip with the German couple who will be training and testing one of these pups for me, they suggested the possibility of staying and hunting with them in Germany. They did some research and, I’ll be darn, a few days before I left home, I received a WhatsApp message with pictures of my German Hunting license. My trip coincided with the Roe Deer rut. A borrowed rifle, a few early mornings in the deer stands on their hunting property lease, a few screw ups and misses, on my part, and I was able to successfully harvested my first Roe Buck (4 years old). The day before my middle brother WhatsApp me a picture of a warthog and impala he has shot and tell me he was waiting in a blind for a Cape Buffalo. WHAT, I new he was going with his neighbor and his job was to back his neighbor up when he shot. He told me I may an antelope of something and that is it. I am going for the experience. Then I get his message and asked what the heck was going on. His reply was they gave us a good deal. LOL, AMAZING.
Also, while staying and hunting with them we were able to finalize plans and organize a, 10 day, hunt, in the Sweden Lapland. We will be hunting, with KlM, capercaillie, black grouse, willow ptarmigan and possibly even a moose.
I would be impossible for me to even make these things up!!! For me these KlM have provided hunting and fishing opportunities and to meet amazing people, I could not even dream of!!
Thanks for taking the time to read all this. There are a few pictures below.

07/07/2024

Because it was nesting season, I have not been running my dogs in the CRP for over 2 months. I figured the ducks and pheasants should be done sitting on nests. So, I ran them through it today.
Well, I found out I was wrong! We pushed a teal off her nest, and I called the dogs away before they disturbed the nest. Now, before you get upset. Using pointing dogs in the spring is one of the ways the Fish & Wildlife Dept at SDSU has located nest when doing nesting surveys and predator control research studies. This is not far from my back door and I have witnessed the return of the duck and pheasant hens to their nests after just such an occurrence as this.
Cass, the bitch that broke first is a very dominant dog and it shows when it comes to bird work. 😉 As I got closer, she could not stand me getting close to her bird and took it out. 😉

07/07/2024

Pups I am keeping from my Spring Litter
The first video is the first time they were exposed to a cottontail. They were 11 weeks old.
The second video is when they had just turned 13 weeks old, and it was the first time I worked with them as a group to lay together quietly(?) for a short time. I was babysitting the roam one, from the same litter, while the owners, who live just 8 miles away, were gone on vacation.

06/21/2024

4th of JULY IS JUST AROUND THE CORNER!
Remember, especially with younger dogs, fireworks can create problems, noise or gun sensitivity, that are very hard to fix.
The video is of my USA dog training mentor and takes care of my dogs when I an traveling and they are not able to come with me. We had just finished temperament and aptitude evaluating a litter of vizsla's.
This is how they cut up a watermelon south of the border! The men get the outside slices, and the women get the center, the heart!

06/21/2024

I cut this from a recent magazine article. The writer was talking about his Africa hunt. This was at the very end of the article!
I have seen this expressed in other ways or other wordings. But this expresses the essence the best way I have personally seen.

04/20/2024

Today these pups are 14 days old! All have quadrupled (4X) their birth weight! Their eyes are beginning to open. As you can tell from the video, they can sort of make out the location of the food spouts.
I took the liberty of bringing in a special model, all the way from Minnesota, to help show off Emmy's litter.
it never ceases to amaze me how fast they grow and develop!

04/19/2024

On May 12 we performed a prescribed, required, maintenance fire for the purpose of improving the CRP wildlife habitat on some of our property. The area was 50 acres and consisted of nature prairie grass, willow brush and cattail covered wetland. The fire smoke could be seen from over 20 miles way, a mile south of Brookings, SD. We have approximately 130 acres, in 3 locations, to burn this weekend if the weather cooperates.

04/19/2024

8 days old and getting a little steadier.

04/19/2024

Emmy whelping 10 pups on April 6th. Six female and 4 males Some of the photos of the pups were taken exactly 72 hours after they were born. The rest were taken at 8 days old. The photo of Emmy in the field pointing was taken right after Emmy completed feeding the pups at 72 hours after they were born. Emmy needed a brake and she followed me right out the door when I called her. We went into the field and she is pointing a pheasant, 74 hours after the pups were born. This did not surprise Emmy’s breeder. He knows her personality. 😉
She is taking very good care of them. In 10 days all the pups have tripled their birth weight or more. Emmy is calm and secure. She regularly takes brakes from the pups and lounges outside my home office door.
I will email a few more pics are the pups grow and explore.

03/19/2024

BLOOD TRACKING TRAINING OPPORTUNITY! Only 5 spots left!

From Lona Kluck, Watertown, South Dakota

Larry and I have been working with Anna-Lena Pilgram on coming to our home on July 13/14 to put on a blood tracking clinic. She will teach you how to get your dog serious about tracking and will go over using a collar and a harness. She will use scent shoes (using deer hooves) and stick.
We are asking for people that are serious about entering this clinic. We need to have 10 people per day to get Anna-Lena to come. She charges $400.00 per handler/dog. Those that just want to come and participate without a dog is $250.00.
This will be hands on training, not just sitting and listening.
Please email me at [email protected] to get on our clinic list.
Also email me: Jim Julson at [email protected] and I can email you a PDF with the trainer's resume.

03/14/2024

It was mid March of 2018 and I was in Germany for Kleine Munsterland National Member Association meeting. Once that was complete I spent some time with KlM friends in NW Germany, Croatia to visit a former PhD Graduate student of mine who is on the faculty of the University of Zagreb, Croatia. On the way back to Frankfurt to fly home I stopped in Kreuzlingen, Switzerland to see Pete and Susie Eising and their KlM April. These pictures are from the day they showed me around the area, including Lake Constance.

03/09/2024

Gundogdoc.com
LIVE Q&A WEBINAR, ASK YOUR HUNTING DOG HEALTH QUESTIONS

Live Q&A webinar to allow you to ask your pressing hunting dog health questions. These questions won't be limited to field emergencies and this webinar will be your chance to ask any of those question you've been struggling to get a clear-cut answer.

Since I have already signed up and viewed his mini course, Building the Field Emergency Kit, I received an email to sign up for the Webinar. So I would suggest you register for his newsletter or the Emergency Kit Mini course on his web site, Gundogdoc.com. You should receive an email giving you a link to sign up for the webinar.
This is the address I received in an email when I clicked on the link to get on the webinar waitlist.
https://my.gundogdoc.com/field-emergency-webinar-waitlist

03/08/2024

Removal of Foreign Object in Cass Nose

The last week of pheasant season Cass came out of the cattails and started sneezing and trying to get something out of her nose. The sneezing and blowing and scrunching up her left nostril were very violent. I could not see anything when inspecting from the outside, but she was also not very cooperative with me trying to shine a light up left nostril. I couldn’t blame her! It continued on and off that evening and the next morning. That afternoon, Friday, my regular vet tried putting a catheter up her nose and flushing her nostril with fluids. They got out a very small piece of yellow, leaf like, material and that was it. Cass was good over the weekend and then Sunday night the sneezing and trying to blow or rub something out of her left nostril started again. An appointment was made with a vet who had a rhinoscope and could perform the procedure. Cass was sedated for the procedure. What you see is what was removed. When I asked the vet how far she had to go into her sinus cavity to find it. Her comment was classic, “I was in so far if I had gone any further, I would have been into her brain!”

03/05/2024

Two summers ago while fishing with friends in Alaska I leaded of this tradition. If your a guest and you plan on returning, coming back to visit again, you leave your hat on the coat hook on the wall. SOOOO, with a little modification I have incorporated that next my kennel in the garage. These are hats from the KlM kennels who have hunted with me at my home and they have every intention of returning.

03/05/2024

running my dogs this afternoon. These are mostly dark geese. A few snow geese are mixed in but more of them are arriving every day.

03/05/2024

A video from yesterday morning run. A half dozen pheasants and flushed out of this area before the dogs arrived and got down wind. So, they were pointing scent.

03/05/2024

Just a few photos collected while running my dogs the last few days. For the most part February was exceptionally nice weather.

03/02/2024

Gun Dog Emergency Field Care

Recently I had the opportunity to attend a 4-hour intense educational course with hands on experience with a small group of hunters and vets. It was titled, Bird Dog Field Care (field emergency and first aid course) and covered a whole gambit from nutrition to emergency field care, stapling wounds and more. We got to flush dogs’ eyes, bandage them, hands on learned to take traps and snares off and a whole lot more. Joe Spoo, Gun Dog Doc was the presenter. He moved along fast and covered a tremendous amount of practical material.

One of the topics was Exertional Rhabdomyolysis (read the following, then google that name). This happens to dogs, especially if they are not properly conditioned, and go through extreme exertion.
Example, the dog spends the day playing with other dogs and kids and gets way more exercise than normal (probably this happens not during hunting season) or the dog is not properly conditioned and goes out and hunts hard in the field for 2 days straight! One of the SYMPTOMS, IS GENERAL MUSCLE PAIN. THE BACK AND REAR LEGS IS MOST AFFECTED, THE MOST PAIN SESITIVE. Joe, said especially in the area of the back over the rear legs and especially, position on you, where to top of you butt muscles meet your back, lower back area. HE SAID IT IS PAINFUL ENOUGH THE DOG MAY GROWL AT YOU IF YOU TOUCH THAT AREA! I had him repeat the back location again so I was sure I understood the location on the dog and could relate it to human body location so I could explain it. Obviously, Dogs that are hard drivers are especially susceptible to this.

Joe’s online information source is gundogdoc.com

One of Joe’s free online courses is preparing your first aid kit, divided into 3 sections: Tools, wound care, medications, the vest kit. Building The Complete Canine Field Emergency Kit | Gun Dog Doc

I have known Joe Spoo, for close to 15 years, since he had his first English Setter, the one he says taught him gun dog medicine and care. 😉 His practice is in Sioux Falls, SD.

Hope this helps!
Jim Julson

02/08/2024

Emmy made Heidi's Inn Brewster, NY page. They are very pet friendly and very hospitable! I would stay here again in a heart beat!

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/jMDFWcSuWf58Jacq/?mibextid=oFDknk

Check out this Heidi's Inn guest, Emmy. Magnificent! Yes we are a . We love our 4 legged friends.

01/29/2024

This last weekend I took advantage of the nice weather to take the dogs out for some late season SD pheasant hunting. I especially focused on Emmy to get her more practical field experience.

11 year old Tikka had a good time this weekend, also. She works slow and methodical and I still shot a lot of birds over her.

I realized one Sunday the year was 2024! If you count years this is the 64th year I have hunted pheasants in SD...if you count seasons, it is the 63rd season.

01/07/2024

No explanation needed. ;-)

01/07/2024

First point of 2024. Emmy nailed it and Cass came sliding in to back. ;-)

01/07/2024

South Dakota...looking down on the Missouri River