Aspen Acres Kennel

07/08/2024

Darla and Lotti had a great training weekend with us. Both dogs worked on all aspects of the NAVHDA Utility Test this weekend. They really don’t need an off switch when they have so much fun swimming and running through the fields.
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06/20/2024

A collection of photos from the 2023 Hunting Season and halfway through the 2024 training season.

03/15/2023

Some training pics from 2022.
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03/12/2023

Some pics from Darla over the past year. More to come!
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10/27/2022

Been a while since I posted anything on here. We have been very happy with Darla’s progress from training season into hunting season. She scored a 102 Prize 3 in her NA test, a poor track keeping her from that Prize 1. Thats my fault, and she was only 6 months old at the time of the test. From there we went into hunting season and she has really shown how much she learns and improves with each outing. She has pointed both woodcock and pheasant so far this season, and had her first wild bird shot over her. I am hoping to get her on grouse before the end of the season as well. As she just turned 8 months old barely a week ago I have no complaints with what she is doing in the grouse woods. Here is a bunch of pictures from the past few months.

04/17/2022

Aspen Acres welcomed a new addition into the household for Easter. Willow Hill’s Darla.
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11/08/2021

08/21/2021

This girl got the all clear on regular activity from the vet. Now to slowly build her conditioning back up before season starts. I think a relaxing weekend up north with swimming and running around like an idiot is a good start. She has been hanging around the griffs too much. Not sure what she rolled in but wow that is a smell. 😂
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08/13/2021

When we made the decision to breed Lotti a good friend told us, “Breeding is not for the faint of heart.”
This week, the universe decided we needed to walk a bit of that line. On tuesday night Lotti had emergency surgery for pyometra. She came home last night and she is doing well. You should have seen the look on her face with that large plastic cone before we got her the inflatable collar 😁. This was a stressful couple of days for us but we are happy Lotti will be ok and continue to impress us in the field. Thank you to all of our friends that helped us through this. To all of the potential puppy owners that we had to call, “Thank you.” You were all immediately concerned for Lotti’s well being and showed us we had made the right decisions. Any large munsterlander that makes it into your home will be loved and worked to their fullest content. Good luck in your hunt.
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07/26/2021

A long video showing Lotti’s steadiness as she waits for us to get to her. She is steady to the release now and retrieves to hand.

07/19/2021

Duck search training at SEMI NAVHDA. Lotti had a great weekend but we only got these couple pictures. We can’t wait for hunting season to open.

06/24/2021

And Lotti decided she needs a couple weeks off from training 😂.
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06/14/2021

Lotti had a great weekend training for her UT duck search in the fall. She expanded farther than she ever has and searched from 9 1/2 minutes to 14 minutes. The expansion of range is really what we are working on and she is showing her growing confidence in the water.
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06/07/2021

Today Lotti was the pickup dog for our SEMI NAVHDA Natural Ability test. There were 6 dogs that all did well and prized. Lotti still got a lot of work to do as pickup dog and did a great job. As reward in this 90° heat I ran her in the chukar field once the test was over. She found this hen pheasant that had been used in a track and it couldn’t outrun her. This test weekend was a blast.
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05/24/2021

Lotti had a good day at our NAVHDA chapter this weekend. She had a great field run that gives me confidence to move on to her duck search AND she got to play with Julie Griswold ‘s 5 week old pups. She was really good with the puppies and I hope that is telling for the kind of mom she will be.
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05/17/2021

When you have a pointing dog who knows what will trigger that instinct. After a few minutes of solid pointing at what we perceived as nothing, Lotti did this when given the “go easy” command. No idea what this was all about but it sure was pretty!
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05/10/2021

A couple pics from Lotti’s training day. She is having so much fun out there.
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04/25/2021

Another video from this morning, just a bit longer!

04/25/2021

A video from Lotti’s Sunday. She is getting there!


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04/17/2021

A couple pictures from training days the last couple weeks. Lotti is showing a marked improvement from a few weeks ago.
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03/26/2021

Lotti's Pedigree to the 8th Generation.

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03/07/2021

Posted • Had a lot of fun at the first SEMI NAVHDA training day of the year. Lotti did great and I was able to evaluate her work to figure out what training she needs for the UT field test later this year.
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03/01/2021

Posted • Natalie a for today // ☕️.

02/24/2021

At 16 weeks old we took Lotti to the local lake to introduce her to water and swimming. At this point its the end of April but the water was still pretty cold. She showed no fear or hesitation and was swimming great pretty quickly.
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02/18/2021

Part of bird introduction with Lotti. She was 12 weeks old when this video was taken. We expected nothing here except for a puppy to have fun. We got a little glimpse of pointing instinct, use of nose and her retrieving desire. As is evident I was fairly excited with how she did haha.
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02/14/2021

decided Lotti needed to wash her face this morning. She is too good to our monster munster! Happy Valentines Day!!
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02/04/2021

Posted • this girl is a sun seeker ☀️
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02/01/2021

Mondays. Bleh.
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01/24/2021

Lotti decided this squirrel was invading her yard this morning. The life of a hunting dog owner. •
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01/02/2021

The season came to a close in Michigan yesterday. We ran with friends in the thumb and put up two hens and saw no roosters. The weather chased us out before the day was done and thats all we could do. I filled in Lotti’s hunting log and started going over the seasons numbers. 17 days in the uplands. 36 points produced birds. Per my watch I walked 98.27 total miles in that time. Lotti pointed ruffed grouse, a covey of sharp-tailed grouse, woodcock and pheasant. She learned to retrieve to hand and she turned 3 a couple days ago. This was only her second upland season as the first couple years were spent in the duck marshes and goose fields. I could not be happier with how her progression has gone. She gets a few month break before NAVHDA training starts up and she earned it! •
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