Blackhawk Falconry Dachshunds

22/10/2024

Not a bad haul for Blackhawk this weekend.
Rooster took 1st place on Friday and is now a finished field champion.

We also had several placements in some very competitive Field Champion classes.

The grounds are absolutely beautiful in the fall! All in all it was a great trial! Thank you to everyone who attended Wolverine this year! You are all much appreciated!

14/10/2024

Harold’s Goshawk Piper has been flying great with our beagle trouble. Even when a pesky kestrel tries to interrupt.

28/09/2024

For the record!!! I have 9 dogs!!!

As I walked past the kennels to go into the garage, Jersey jumped against the fence to greet me. I knelt down and said, “Good boy Jersey”.

Then, Wenja who is kenneled with him came out to see me and I said, “Good girl Wenja”. But then I looked in the next kennel and Rooster was looking at me like he wanted to be pet. But I was trying to get into the garage so I gave him a quick “you’re a good boy too, Rooster”.

Then I just didn’t want anyone to feel left out, so I said “good girl mercy! …..good boy Gibson! , good girl trouble!, good boy judge!”

I was like the Santa Claus of dachshunds sounding off to my reindeer…….

20/09/2024

Working dog broke…..

848.4K likes, 10.9K comments. “Doggo was frozen 🤣 Can’t Even”

03/08/2024

05/07/2024

When I take my AMAZING hunting dog, who’s been chasing rabbits all season to its first field trial…..

27/06/2024

Blackhawk dachshunds catching “grave robbers”

21/06/2024

It was a real honor to be able to participate in the “Falconry Chronicles” podcast, hosted by Jonathan Munnnier. And an even bigger honor that he released it on national dachshund day! This podcast has been a great representation for falconry in general, and very informative for new and experienced falconers alike. Thanks Jonathan for producing this great falconry resource.

Continuing the mission of sharing falconry’s stories from all over the world…. Latest Episodes Episodes Jun 21, 2024 Episode 119: Paul Thomas Jun 21, 2024 Happy Dachshund Day everyone! Yes, you guessed it, you're getting a double dose of dachshund-inspired episodes this week due to the occasion!...

03/06/2024

08/04/2024

It was a fun weekend hanging out with Jonathan Munnier and Kevin Stahler. The elusive blue ribbon evaded us, but the falconers still had several placements. We’ll gett’um next time I’m sure!

29/03/2024

ABC News Detroit Picked up the story and did another story on us tonight. We are again honored for the opportunity to participate in the preparations for the NFL draft. And happy to serve the city and people of Detroit!

Based near Lansing, Paul Thomas and his wife Terese have been hired by Bedrock Detroit to keep away pesky pigeons and starlings and their p**p to keep downtown clean before fans arrive for the draft.

28/03/2024

What a fun day! Fox News Detroit Channel 2 is featuring our bird abatement company on the 11’oclock news tonight! I’ll post a link once it goes online.

15/03/2024

How I love getting these reports from Teddy on how Kip is doing. Rabbit season is drawing to a close, and she is already out catching woodchucks with young Blackhawk Kip Von Moritz. She has done so much for us over the years by putting great dogs in our hands. It’s an honor to put one back in hers!

12/03/2024

It was a real honor to be asked to participate in this tribute to Teddy Moritz. She has changed the landscape of rabbit hawking, by pioneering these dachshunds into falconry. I’m sure she’ll be embarrassed hearing all these falconers singing her praises, but no one is more deserving.

Continuing the mission of sharing falconry's stories from all over the world.....

22/02/2024

Another installment from Teddy on how useful a small dog like Kip is in the field. Love hearing stuff like this!

So I’m curious, what are your favorite hunting memories with a dachshund? Tell me about a time when your dachshund really impressed you in the field!

06/02/2024

Over the years we have had the honor of doing several breeding collaborations with Teddy Moritz. To the point that much of our dogs DNA is intertwined.

So there are occasions where we’ve asked her to put “Blackhawk” on the registered name of a dog she’s bred. And where she’s asked us to put “Von Moritz” on a dog that we’ve bred.

One of the biggest benefits of this arrangement is that we get frequent updates of how those dogs we send are doing.

If anyone is wondering, even at 70+ years old she embarrasses us with how hard she hunts. It’s not just rabbit season. She starts sending us woodchuck kills and recounting of the days hunts in July. And they come every few days….non stop clear into rabbit season, where they are quickly replaced with daily rabbit hunts.

She sent me this video today of a the stud dog named Blackhawk “Kip” Von Moritz. I asked her if she minded if I share this to our Blackhawk Falconry Dachshunds page.

From the sounds of it Kip is already siring litters at Teddys, and if you get a dog from teddy in the near future, odds are high that young Kip may be on half that pedigree.

It’s a real honor for us at Blackhawk that she entrusted us with some of those first longhairs 25 years ago, and that she considers the dogs we are breeding today, as worthy of her kennels.

It’s a friendship we value highly, as I know it is for many other falconers who have built a friendship and bond with her around these wonderful little wiener dogs.