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Rock Creek Pudelpointers

Set in the St. Croix River Valley in east central Minnesota, Rock Creek Kennel is owned and operated by Scott and Denise Kossan. IG: rockcreekkennel

We have owned pudelpointers since 1995. Rock Creek Kennel is a registered kennel with The North American Versitile Hunting Dog Assoiciation (NAVHDA).

06/05/2025

After 25 years of breeding, 118 litters and sixty percent of all our eligible litters receiving a NAVHDA breeders award, I have to give much of the credit to Denise. This is the effort she has put into every litter that drops at Rock Creek Kennel. If you don’t think the below video is a grand slam of the effort she puts in with all of our pups, then I wish you good luck on your search for a pup. That pup, Rock Creek Mustang Sally is six and a half weeks old.

05/24/2025

Thank you Erin Kalpin of Upland Endeavors for watching our back. The last five months have been challenging here and the last five weeks have been insane. With pup pick ups this weekend there was no way I could test my little star Etta.

At 5am I loaded Etta in the truck, dropped her off with Erin and she took and handled Etta at her NA. The only work Erin did with Etta was three weeks ago for only ten minutes because she broke her finger removing a bird from Etta’s excited retrieve. I did tell Erin, this might be tough because Etta thinks I am God.

So basically having really never been aquatinted they worked out a 100 Prize 2 today. Good girls! Reminds me of Todd Rockhold stepping up about 6 yrs ago to handle one of my two dogs because my back was out and I could only handle one dog. Thanks to both of you!

DreamWorks Fear-naught (Etta) Prize 2.

04/19/2025

8 hrs after her last pup and she is ready to go….

Dogs are as different as people. 8 hrs after delivering her last pup, Kerr would have no problem with a hour hike looking for woodcock or a duck search. To her its just another day after a night of delivering pups. Wish all females deliveries were as easy as Kerr’s. She is tough as nails yet so soft with everything else. Strange….most gals take days to recover.

04/04/2025

She knows she done wrong

Every time I forget to “lock” a latch it’s Chaos with VC Rock Creek Delta Dawn (Noon) in the house. If I forget to lock a latch, she will be in another Dams whelping box, nursing a litter even though she has been dry for years.
If I forget to lock a latch, she will open seven kennels and seven dogs will have a party in the kennel while the boss is asleep. In the morning she will be in the office looking at me like, “They did it, they had a party in the kennel, wasn’t me”
Noon has mastered opening all of the pictured locks. She knows I know. Geez girl, you are trouble. Pictured are all of the latches she has mastered if they are not locked. Kinda hard to get mad at her anymore. I just call her Trouble. Putting up pictures of locks instead of tailgates and birds, guess its all part of the life that is so interesting to me.

02/13/2025

Is your dog Whoa broke?

Here is a test to determine if your dog is whoa broke.

Two weeks after the vet cuts your dog from the top of his back to his belly can you stand that dog on the exam table, say “Whoa” and the dog does not even move yet alone blink while the vet inserts a forceps into his body cavity through a broken stitch to remove a tennis ball size blood clot. Good "Whoa" Eddy, good boy! Seven months till opener, your tough as nails! That old prickly ash thorn that lodged in you won’t keep you down.

12/30/2024

Please read regarding our last post:

Last night I made a post that started, “I reluctantly post this:”

I said that because I did not want to start a firestorm regarding what happens around my house and kennel.

I just wanted to state the obvious as I saw things without making a long statement.

Four nights ago on our regular routine hike around the property Noon was gone with in several minutes.

A quick survey revealed two sets of fresh wolf tracks on my driveway 80 yards from my garage and I began searching that night. I assumed the obvious and for the next three days wandered in the rain and drizzle in the woods looking for what I was sure was the final outcome.

After nearly four days of rain and mud old Noon walked up our sidewalk, with her collar/ ID still on, perfectly clean and dry and even clean paws. Tire tracks in the mud showed a car had pulled in the end of the drive and backed out.

With utter embarrassment and a huge piece of humble pie and apologies I had to correct the post. But who knows? Maybe if I would have posted a reward on day one I would have gotten her back that night, as she was obviously not roaming the woods in the rain for nearly 4 days with her ID collar on.

With the huge amount of wolf activity around our place I have included some photos of the tracks, with a 30 inch stride, in our drive from that night and the active den about 1/2 mile from our house in hopes you can understand why I assumed the worst and attempted to follow wolf tracks through the woods.

I do still believe that wolf management needs to be a priority in our state. Sorry if that offends anyone.

Again, my apologies, yet thank you for all your concern.

11/21/2024

Mike Krause and his son Thomas fully understand when I say “Hunt the hide off of them”. To Rock Creek Stellas Sunrise (Kimber), your thorn torn face makes my heart smile, I know you are in heaven. I get it Kimber, its the same feeling I had as a high school and collegiate wrestler after a tough weekend. No need for elbow pads or head gear, just bring it on !

10/27/2024

Dreamwork’s Fearnought (Etta)

Our newest edition, and our excitement over her first handled wild bird was contagious. That is always a big day here for a young pup. It’s that magic passage from a goofy pup to a bird dog.

I think the whole Rock Creek tribe was excited for the little twerp.

10/26/2024

Scouts….

All four of these dogs are UT Prize 1 dogs that have run in the Invitational of which two are VC’s. Most importantly all four of these dogs are “Made” dogs on wild birds. I use all of these dogs to find cover and numbers of birds just so I can pull them out and drop a knuckle head first year pup.

They don’t mind one bit, their parents and grandparents did it for them and now its their turn. They all get a chance to run and call “gotch-ya” on a bird and they really don’t care if they end up with a mouth full of feathers.

I used to complain that for the last 30 years I have had to chase pups through the woods when I could be shooting birds, but honestly, the best feeling in the world is to “Make” a bird dog. Thanks guys for putting us on birds so our current pups will be considered “Made” In six years it will be their turn as scouts.

10/20/2024

That right there is Rock Creek Stellas Sunrise (Kimber) owned by Mike Krause. I think Erin would agree that she is the best female pudelpointer we have ever seen. Through a NA, two UT’s, two IT’s living at our kennel and in the back of our truck bed traveling the entire country with us, she is now pounding grouse and ducks with Mike and chasing sunfish and minnows along the shore line back home. She will be truly missed at our kennel. One of my favorites! And one of, if not, the best of the best! Your a lucky fella Mike.

10/14/2024

I post many things regarding health and training issues. I do realize that most replies have no Ill intent but please do not include names of kennels, breeders or trainers when responding to these posts. That is very unfair to the mentioned breeder and not the intent of the posts. I had to “Hide” replies on the last post as kennels were named.

Breeders and trainers are dealing with mother nature and she is very fickle.

10/13/2024

Tight eyes are very important in our hunting dogs, but should very young NA pups be evaluated?

After breeding for twenty five years we have produced very few dogs that have been evaluated with ectropion eyes and we have had nearly 600 dogs evaluated. We did produce one pup with entropion eyes that was not tested and no record of her exists in the NAVHDA records. So trust me, this post is not in any form an excuse for our breeding as we have seen so few of these issues in our breedings to draw any concern.

Seldom do I disagree with any NAVHDA evaluations but I do believe that eyes in very young puppies should not be evaluated just as not much emphasis is placed on teeth evals when the pup still has milk teeth. I believe the same standard should apply to eyes as with teeth in puppies. Pups can exhibit base narrow canines with milk teeth and when the adult teeth come in, every thing is fine.

I do believe ectropion and entropion eyes are highly inheritable traits when you see them in adult dogs. But in pups, jaws and eye and socket formations grow in intervals and it is not uncommon for a very young pup to “grow into its eyes” just as with the teeth.

A very important factor in our breeding is tight eyes and I would never breed a dog with loose eyes. But I have seen young pups with what appeared to be loose eyes and as an adult they grew into very tight eyes.

As far as the mentioned young pup not tested with entropic eyes, although it looked painful, I wish I would have held off some time before we opted on a surgical correction before we sold her.

Just my thoughts on evaluating eyes in a very young NA pup. I did speak with a Optometry Vet 20 plus years ago who first “opened my eyes” to this. If you have a back ground in this please feel free to comment.

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Rush City, MN

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(320) 358-0183

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http://www.pudelpointers.net/

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