True North Kennels

05/20/2024

AJ is making waves again!! This boy is truly on an Amazing Journey!!! Thank you Sue McKinney for all your hard work in training and loving on this sweet boy!!

04/01/2024

Happy 5th birthday to our “A” litter and to our son Hunter (35) and his girl True North’s Aurora in the Evening, call name Eve!!!

02/09/2024

Truth!

02/04/2024

Truth!!

02/04/2024

Super proud of Sue and AJ!!

01/08/2024

We are sooo proud of the work Sue has put into AJ and his scent training. AJ is from our first litter!

01/01/2024

We hope you have a fabulous 2024!!

11/23/2023

Happy Thanksgiving!!

11/21/2023

Mom Fia with daughter Eve from our first litter! Eve is our son’s dog!

11/18/2023

Let us in already!

11/17/2023

It’s a dog’s world around here this week!

11/17/2023

You know it’s a good day hunting when your truck looks like this!

10/21/2023

Yup! (Actually they are up North hunting!!)

10/15/2023

Super proud of Sue McKinney and True North’s Amazing Journey on their Prize 2 Utility Test! Way to go Sue and AJ!!

10/03/2023

08/17/2023

WHEN I AM OLD
When I am old...
I will wear soft gray sweatshirts...
and a bandana over my silver hair...
and I will spend my social security checks on my dogs.
I will sit in my house on my well-worn chair
and listen to my dogs breathing.
I will sneak out in the middle of a warm summer night
and take my dogs for a run, if my old bones will allow...
When people come to call, I will smile and nod
as I show them my dogs...
and talk of them and about them.....the ones so beloved of the past
and the ones so beloved of today...
I will still work hard cleaning after them,
mopping and feeding them and whispering their names
in a soft loving way.
I will wear the gleaming sweat on my throat,
like a jewel, and I will be an embarrassment to all...
especially my family...
who have not yet found the peace in being free
to have dogs as your best friends...
These friends who always wait, at any hour, for your footfall...
and eagerly jump to their feet out of a sound sleep,
to greet you as if you are a God,
with warm eyes full of adoring love and hope
that you will always stay,
I'll hug their big strong necks...
I'll kiss their dear sweet heads...
and whisper in their very special company....
I look in the mirror... and see I am getting old....
this is the kind of person I am...
and have always been.
Loving dogs is easy, they are part of me.
Please accept me for who I am.
My dogs appreciate my presence in their lives...
they love my presence in their lives...
When I am old this will be important to me...
you will understand when you are old,
if you have dogs to love too.
-Author Unknown (DM)

07/16/2023

Anyone else walk down the middle
of the road just so you don’t have to stop and sniff every blade of grass?!

07/01/2023

Hahaha

06/23/2023

Headed up north for the weekend. Fia is recovering well from her spay surgery. It will be hard to keep her out of the water!!

06/18/2023

Happy Father’s Day!!

06/18/2023