Sisu Catahoulas

Sisu Catahoulas NALC and UKC registered Louisiana Catahoula Leopard Dogs located on Michigan's west coast.

Home to structurally sound, high drive, performance bred Louisiana Catahoulas. NALC certified breeder
United Blood Trackers member
United LCLD Club member

Dogs health screened via OFA, BAER, CAER, UC Davis VGL, and Embark. Home of:

6x MWPP RACEN UWPO AP5 VPE UGWPCH GRCH Sisu’s Trekker, SPOT-ON 8x UKC Total Dog

MWPP BIS 2x RBIS RBIMBS UWPO AP3 VPA UWPCHX EGCH Sisu’s Drama Queen 15x UKC Total Do

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2x MWPP AP VPN RACEM UWPCH GRCH Warrior River’s Baldr, SPOT-ON 8x UKC Total Dog

Home and resting place of

5x MWPP 21x MWPPV 4x BVIS CH of TD-CH AP2 VPA UWPO CAX UWPCHX GRCH J Cross’ Currahee, WPSGRCH 4x UKC Total Dog

BVIS RBVIS 4x MWPP 4x MWPPV UWPO VPA AP5 RO1 UWPCHX GRCH J Cross’ Halo, RATO, SPOT-ON 7x UKC Total Dog

**Sisu Catahoulas is a proud member of Team J Cross**

We've been working on our leash manners and standing still.GRCH Sisu's North Star"Asta"Bullhead's Oslo x Sisu's Drama Qu...
06/06/2025

We've been working on our leash manners and standing still.

GRCH Sisu's North Star
"Asta"

Bullhead's Oslo x Sisu's Drama Queen

So, another member of the Sisu Crew hit a big milestone yesterday.The Taco Truck rolled over 100k on the way home from t...
05/06/2025

So, another member of the Sisu Crew hit a big milestone yesterday.

The Taco Truck rolled over 100k on the way home from the show, so I had to celebrate by taking it somewhere appropriate.

The North Country National Scenic Trail is part of how Asta got her name. It's the one trail all of my dogs from Beau to now have had their paws on at one point or another over the last twenty-five years.

In eight and a half years the Taco Truck has hauled three generations of the crew to or through twenty-one US states and two Canadian provinces and is just getting broken in.

Asta upgraded some letters today at the Michigan American Pit Bull Terrier Club show. On Saturday she picked up two Gra...
05/04/2025

Asta upgraded some letters today at the Michigan American Pit Bull Terrier Club show. On Saturday she picked up two Grand legs under judges Diana Brumbaugh and Nikki Swap, with a Group 3 in Ms. Brumbaugh's ring. On Sunday she finished her Conformation Grand Champion under judge Beth Robinson and also placed 4th in the Herding Group. Not too bad considering she turned a year just one week ago.

As many of us have been trying to remember lately: take the picture. Even if your dog isn't standing perfectly, you're exhausted, your hair is a mess, and you end up with bloopers—ALWAYS take the picture.

And since it's me we got that covered, especially the Asta bloopers. Tossing a toy to get her to look forward was a mistake.

GRCH Sisu's North Star (Bullhead's Oslo x Sisu's Drama Queen)

Catching up some more:The Trails to Hope Turkey Trot back in November was Drama's and my fifth 5K trail race, which earn...
04/18/2025

Catching up some more:

The Trails to Hope Turkey Trot back in November was Drama's and my fifth 5K trail race, which earned her her North American Canicross Novice Canicross Dog title (five 3.1-6 miles/5-9.6 km trail races in canicross gear). It also worked out to be her 50 Lifetime Achieved Miles (50 Miles in canicross gear since she was registered with NACC in July 2024).

The next goal is more 5K trail races, working toward the next mileage challenge coin, and training to do another obstacle course or two this year, and possibly even a few 10k trail races.

MWPP MWPPV BIS RBIS RBIMBS ABIS ARBIS BVIS RBVIS DASH RACES UWPS AP5 VPE UWPCHX ASGCH RGCH Sisu's Drama Queen, NCD, LAM50, SPOT-ON

04/17/2025

We finish middle of the pack on a good day, but usually we're racing for the red lantern. Drama doesn't know that.

Getting caught up on stuff we've accomplished.Back in November Drama and I completed the Trails to Hope Turkey Trot bene...
04/17/2025

Getting caught up on stuff we've accomplished.

Back in November Drama and I completed the Trails to Hope Turkey Trot benefiting local food banks.

We're still not setting any records, but every race we get faster. And we're still faster than anyone sitting on the couch.

It took me a while to post this because it's a struggle to get Asta to hold still long enough to get a picture.A year ag...
04/17/2025

It took me a while to post this because it's a struggle to get Asta to hold still long enough to get a picture.

A year ago this little fireball was still a hope and a dream waiting to make her debut. She's turning out to be a great little dog.

Despite being shown only three Sundays at the end of the year, Asta squeaked into the UKC Conformation Top Ten. Not only was she not eligible to show the entire year, she didn't even exist for part of it.

Ranger (J Cross' Currahee) and Halo (J Cross' Halo) were both ranked in Top Ten (2009 and 2017, respectively). Their daughter Drama (Sisu's Drama Queen, Asta's dam) was ranked twice (2017 and 2021). Being able to take the third generation in for the Breed finals in June is pretty cool.

CH Sisu's North Star
(Bullhead's Oslo x DASH RACES UWPS AP5 VPE UWPCHX RGCH Sisu's Drama Queen, NCD, LAM50, SPOT-ON)

I'd originally retired Drama from conformation when she earned her Ruby Grand Champion at the end of 2023. After her spa...
04/16/2025

I'd originally retired Drama from conformation when she earned her Ruby Grand Champion at the end of 2023. After her spay I started showing her in UKC Altered conformation in late 2024—she hated being left out.

Drama quickly picked up an Altered Best and Reserve Best in Show at the All-American Bulldog Club show in Goshen, IN in December, then two Altered RBIS at the United White Shepherd Club in LaPorte, IN in March.

This past weekend, at the All-American Bulldog Club show in Shipshewana, IN, Drama earned her Altered Sapphire Grand Champion with an Altered RBIS along with two MWPPV awards and her 24th Total Dog award.

Pending UKC verification:

MWPP MWPPV BIS RBIS RBIMBS ABIS ARBIS BVIS RBVIS DASH RACES UWPS AP5 VPE UWPCHX ASGCH RGCH Sisu’s Drama Queen, NCD, LAM50, SPOT-ON

What a year! Our competition haul and title count wasn't much, but our year was still packed full of big things.The pack...
01/01/2025

What a year! Our competition haul and title count wasn't much, but our year was still packed full of big things.

The pack grew with our long-awaited Oslo x Drama litter, which gave us our up-and-comers Asta, Strider, and Blaze. We saw Mack fly off to his new role as guardian of the Kelley family and Nova head to warmer climes to help Mr. Tingle recover game and put food on the table for many families.

A unfortunate string of injuries and illness kept Trek out of the chute save one pull at UKC Premier to give him a first place in his weight class. The summer also brought some Precision Coursing titles and qualifying runs for Baldr and Drama.

Drama started her "you're not really retired yet" career with North American Canicross titles and completed her 50 Lifetime Achieved Miles (LAM50) and Novice Canicross Dog (NCD) title just before my busy season at work and cruddy trails slowed us down for a bit. Drama is one of only two Catahoulas with the NCD title, which is earned by completing five 5k trail races (coincidentally the other is also an older red leopard female and has the same name as one of Drama's littermates). I never would have guessed that running races would be the thing she lights up for (even though I'm admittedly not a good runner, but I get better every race). Completing the Midwest Canine Obstacle Course without skipping any obstacles was the highlight of these five races.

Fall took us to NALC-MS to kick off the puppies' show careers and continue the big dogs' progress on their NALC achievements. Trek placed 4th in Senior males, Baldr placed 2nd in Hip Certified males, and Strider placed 1st in 6-9 month males. Asta and Blaze placed 1st and 2nd in 6-9 month females respectively, with Asta going on to win Reserve Best Female in Show. Trek and Drama did a great job and ended up in a tie for 2nd place in 2-dog B-Bay (only 1 point behind the tie for 1st place).

Drama, having been spayed during her emergency c-section, can no longer compete in NALC conformation, but can still show in UKC altered shows and in non-licensed veteran. In September she brought home a Best Veteran in Show. In December I pulled her out of retirement for Altered to ensure the minimum number of dogs would be in the ring for competition wins. She herself ended up with two legs toward her Altered Sapphire Grand Champion title via an Altered Best in Show and an Altered Reserve Best in Show. I guess she isn't as retired as I thought. She also wrapped up the year with another Total Dog award for conformation and weight pull.

Strider and (world's naughtiest puppy) Asta closed out the year by earning their UKC Conformation Champion titles on the same day at just shy of eight months old.

So, looking back at 2024 and looking forward to 2025 my show/performance goals for the upcoming year are.... None. I have a handful of UKC titles I'd like to finish up this year with the big dogs, but the priority for me is to let all the dogs enjoy just being dogs. The puppies are growing up both physically and mentally and it's good to let them mature without pressure, just learning how to be well-rounded dogs while building strong foundations for for the years ahead.

Warm wishes to our Catahoula and dog sports friends and family for the new year. When we inevitably have our downs, remember to use our hills and let our momentum carry us back up.

I've been absolutely terrible about posting about our wins and accomplishments these last few months. I hadn't planned o...
12/23/2024

I've been absolutely terrible about posting about our wins and accomplishments these last few months. I hadn't planned on doing much with the puppies for a while, other than letting them grow up and be puppies as I ease the big dogs into retirement.

At the beginning of December I brought the puppies out to help build classes, but somehow Asta and Strider wound up with some nice wins, including two Group 3 placements for Asta.

Yesterday I took them to a UKC show hosted by One Paw Forward (coincidentally the show where Drama earned her Ruby Grand Champion title a year ago) and both finished their UKC Conformation Champion titles.

It took a few tries, but we managed two wrangle two overclocked puppies (just shy of 8 months) for a picture.

Pending UKC verification:

CH Sisu's Strider "Strider" and CH Sisu’s North Star "Asta"

Bullhead's Oslo x Sisu's Drama Queen

Drama and I keep plugging along.Yesterday we completed the Wolf Lake 5k in Brighton, MI.The costume was "Bad Ideas" whic...
10/13/2024

Drama and I keep plugging along.

Yesterday we completed the Wolf Lake 5k in Brighton, MI.

The costume was "Bad Ideas" which included running with scissors and doing a 5k after walking 18,000 steps at work. Yet somehow we were still 30 seconds faster than last weekend when I hadn't walked 8 miles first. Hey, progress is progress.

The race was so much more popular this year that they ran out of finisher medals and I ended up with one with last year's date on it.

The best part of the whole thing was people complementing me on Drama being so well behaved and polite. I have no idea why racing clicked so well for her, but we'll keep doing it even if we're slow to make progress.

We completed the Midwest Canine Obstacle Run at The Woods Fitness Park on Sunday, didn't skip any obstacles, and still d...
10/09/2024

We completed the Midwest Canine Obstacle Run at The Woods Fitness Park on Sunday, didn't skip any obstacles, and still didn't finish dead last. I had a great time and Drama seemed to enjoy herself. These pics are after we got cleaned up. We were so wet and dirty.

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