06/02/2021
If I heard it once, I've heard it a thousand times. It always someone who attempts to downgrade me. "Mike just took over for his brother." There was no "taking over" I was there from the start.
I AM THE ONE WHO NAMED IT *IRONLINE KENNELS*.
Unlike my older brother, I didn't like my business known publicly.
I didn't like my photo taken around dog events.. I like to stay on the DL because action was much easier to get if the people thought you were green. lol
I started out young being the third generation. My brother is 4 years older than me and always into something, like the time I was 12 and he just turns 16 and we took my grandmother's 1964 Dodge Dart to S.C. to meet and see Bob Hemphill's yard (1966).
When there are dogs around, there wasn't one person involved but the family. in the middle 60's when the family started to encounter Red Devil/Corvino blood, mostly from Louis Baker.
By the time WE started breeding that bloodline I was "15" in 1969. I had my driving permit and back then you could drive with any license driver 16 or over. I was rolling. lol
Shortly there after we were making trips to Chicago land area. Meeting other older well known dogman of the area. My brother and I had been there before when we were kids with our father and met people like Joe Corvino, Mike Farris, etc. But it had been a long time before so things had changed.
Up until this time our family and friends were using mostly local stock down from Neblett, Walter Komosinsk, Colby, ect.
By 1983 my brother had to start getting out of dogs due to health problems he had at the time so everything then was left all on me.
I no longer could stay in the shadows with the public and not continue on as we were. There are over 10 in the family with the initials D.M. Norrod with dogs. And more than that, I can't count all with the last name Norrod with the dogs.
So who was who when reading about the dogs? The family and friends knew and that is all that ever mattered.
So if my brother like the publicity we let him have it.
But the Circuit Court in MI. knew what I and others have done and that is why I am recognized as an Expert Witness in the Sport.
But sooner or later you have to try clean up the family image.
So what is this post all about? I going to show some pictures around a couple noted foundation dogs of our bloodline for those who think people in this family never had access like the rest in the family.
The dogs are Bentley's Suzie Que and Frasure's John..