AK Kennels

03/23/2024

The gang got to hang at the Sac County Pheasants Forever Banquet tonight. Miss Tatum won her first gun and was pretty excited! Thank you to this Chapter for inviting us out and showing us some great hospitality.

07/22/2023

Puppies are out and about! Still have some males and females available. These are going to be great hunters, tests dogs, and a family dog. Please reach out to either Alex or Kayla if you have any questions. Thanks

06/28/2023

It was very difficult trying to get decent pictures of these little rug rats! Here is your next hunting buddy! The puppies are growing fast. Mom and dad are good hunters. We're now accepting deposits!

06/21/2023

The grind has started. First one out is a black male!

Sire:
https://www.huntinglabpedigree.com/pedigree.asp?id=167472

Dam:
https://www.huntinglabpedigree.com/pedigree.asp?id=124823

06/21/2022

Yoyo and Prada

06/19/2022

Happy Father's Day to all those amazing Dads out there!

06/06/2022

AK crew went to the Mount Rushmore HRC test in Custer, SD this weekend. Once again, thank you Dale and Mary for opening your grounds for us to be able to test at. Thank you to all the judges and workers for the hard work you put into this weekend. Huge and exciting weekend for the dogs!!!

Passes for the weekend:

(new) HRCH Nala
Owned by AK Kennels

(new) HR Mango
Owned by Kayla Esche

(new) HR Ranger
Owned by Terry Wootton

(new) SHR Bella
Owned by Candy Bjorum

(new) SHR River
Owned by Shane Bentz

(new) SHR Huck
Owned by Karen Esche

05/30/2022

05/22/2022

We're headed home from Custer, SD. Huge thank you to Dale and Mary for allowing us to use your grounds. They are amazing! Thank you to the judges and bird techs also. Thank you Mount Rushmore Retriever Club for doing a great job overall. We ended the weekend 10/10. It was a great opportunity to meet some new and great people that love this sport as much as we do. See ya in 2 weeks.

Junior passes
Ranger owned by Terry Wootton
Huck owned by Karen Esche
Mango owned by Kayla Esche

Senior passes
Tequila owned by AK Kennels
Traeger owned by AK Kennels

05/18/2022

Had a fun weekend down in Wood River, NE this weekend. It was fun to finally get back to the grind stone of running tests again. The young dogs seemed to be dialed in! Thanks again Great Plains HRC for putting on a great and smooth test. Thank you judges for taking the time out of your schedule to judge these dogs we called our best friends.

Picking up 2 started passes to kick off their careers were:

River owned by Shane Bentz
Bella owned by Candy Bjorum
Huck owned by Karen Esche

Picking up some seasoned passes were:

Ranger owned by Terry Wootton
Mango owned by Kayla Esche

Picking up a finished pass was:

Nala owned by Kayla Esche

05/09/2022

Happy Mother's Day to all the lucky mom's out there, and those fur mom's out there!

05/06/2022

Huck is owned by Karen Esche. He is getting ready to run Started next weekend in Wood River, NE. Huck will continue his pursuit of chasing ribbons!

04/27/2022

Buddy is owned by Tyler and Jade Kusel. He is a young fox fed lab ready to start his ribbon chasing career. Here is a picture of him thinking that sitting is over rated.

04/11/2022

This is Ranger! Ranger is owned by Terry Wootton. He has came back to run tests again this year. Ranger earned his started title late last summer and is looking to add more ribbons to the collection. Yesterday was Ranger's 2nd birthday also! 🎂

04/08/2022

Calling it a day. Dogs did awesome today.

04/08/2022

Bella came back this past weekend. She's here to chase ribbons this year!! Bella is picking up right where she left off. She is owned by Candy Bjorum

04/05/2022

Young dogs are really starting to show some potential!

04/05/2022

River working on marking.

03/21/2022

Everyone meet Yoyo and Prada. These pups will be available end of the summer as started dogs. HRCH RIVER MH and Reign (GRHRCH (4) HOF Hank MH X HRCH Nugget SH)

02/02/2022

02/01/2022

Belle, the oldest of the crew, thought she'd out smarted Alex by bringing two back.

02/01/2022

Nice training day working on some pattern blinds.

01/30/2022

Remi graduated from obedience school today! He was pretty happy to see mom and dad again!

01/30/2022

Saturday's are for the Stud's. Who likes a good Fox Red?

01/27/2022

If you got the ol Gram, go give us a like!

01/26/2022

Obedience training with Remi! He's getting ready to head home this weekend. Remi has done great these last few months!

01/13/2022

Tequila got to retrieve a banded Wood Duck, down in TN on our hunt!

01/11/2022

51 degrees today means, let's train in the field day!

01/10/2022

Sweatshirts are in the process of being screenprinted by Patriot Patch Co. Go give them a like on Facebook! If you ordered a sweatshirt we will reach out to you here soon! If you missed the order, we ordered extras so reach out to Alex or Kayla, if interested. Thanks again for the support everyone!