Feuergarten German Shepherds

03/10/2024

Our own Jack and Fiji (Char x Jedi) are one of the teams helping search for victims during this disaster. Please consider using the link in the post to donate.

Shout out to our team mate Julie for bringing an enormous amount of needed supplies as we continue to search for victims. Julie and our entire team along with friends and family members chipped in together as one to get this done and we appreciate all of them. That is what teamwork is all about and we appreciate them. Many of you have asked how you can help and how you can donate. You can do that by going to www.nctak9.org/donations

22/07/2024

Fuego (left) & Hanzo (right) vom Feuergarten, both BH and BT!

Fuego is 3.5, and OFA good hips, normal elbows, DM carrier, Embark clear of all other diseases.

Hanzo is 1.5, and SV a normal hips, a normal elbows, LUW 0 and DM/Embark clear of all diseases.

13/07/2024

Beyond thrilled that Hanzo, Lu & Vito all received a-normal hips/a-normal elbows/LUW 0 for their SV ortho ratings. Especially happy because Vito’s x-rays were just taken recently at 5.5 years old, and anyone who knows him knows how hard he is on his own body. Rounding it all out with all 3 being DM clear, I think they’re officially perfect now 🤩

01/07/2024

Hanzo & Fuego earned their American Schutzhund BT!

One of the coolest parts of this American Schutzhund trial for me was the environmental testing portion. I can’t express enough how valuable this information can be for breeders to get a general evaluation to these elements. When treated like a true test (and not something to be practiced or trained for in advance) it will provide incredibly useful insight to our breeding stock. Secondary to this and the obedience test, there is also a dog aggression test that results in a ban for failure. I think of all of the sports that claim to really evaluate a dog’s temperament, this is the most thorough and extensive testing criteria that we have available to us.

The evaluation categories are: footing on slippery surface, movement in tight spaces, standing on unstable surface, climbing, hunt drive, and suspicion & recovery, and each category is rated individually with ratings of either excellent, adequate, or insufficient.
This is video of Fuego’s environmental tests, only missing the slick floor video (was done indoors - both boys received excellent evaluations). Fuego received excellent for everything, with the exception of adequate on the climbing. Hanzo received excellent on 3/6, with adequate evaluations for tight spaces, unstable surfaces, and climbing. I can share his videos in a separate post.

Thanks so much again to Empire Working Dog Club for hosting, and to Tim Vaillancourt and Katie Schwarzwaelder Wells for their excellent judging!

Neither of my boys were prepped for this at all, so we went into this experience totally blind. I wanted to share my videos so people can see what the testing is like, and definitely would encourage anyone interested in the sport, but especially breeders to participate as well!

27/06/2024

K9 Fiji!!

As Fourth of July celebrations fast approach, K9 Fiji, the Nash County Sheriff's Office and ourselves want to remind you to wear your life jacket if you're on the water! Fiji is ready. Are you?!

11/03/2024

15 months already. Time is flying 🤩

https://www.working-dog.com/dogs-details/7550502/Hanzo-vom-Feuergarten

26/02/2024

4 weeks old!

I keep thinking they look so young still each week, but then I see last week's pics and I 😭

I love these babies

20/02/2024

Baby J's are 3 weeks old and thriving! Looks like we have all stock coats with lovely pigment so far 🤩 Can't wait to watch them continue to grow over the next few weeks!

13/02/2024

The baby J's are two weeks old!
Everyone's eyes and ears are open and they are all so much more active, and developing their own personalities more and more each day 🤩

29/01/2024

Bourbon babies, a full day old 🥃

So very grateful for a wonderful, healthy momma dog & content little pups. We had an uneventful night of sleep, for which we are very grateful. The pigment of these kiddos is really pretty. I can’t wait to see how they develop!

29/01/2024

I think we’re probably done, so we can officially introduce our sweetest new additions:

J litter vom Feuergarten
The Bourbon litter 🥃
Char x Devil
Dob 1/28/24
5m/3f
All sable

(Pictured in order)
Whistlepig (aka Piggy) - sedona collar female
Stagg - red collar male
Weller - black/green collar male
Booker - blue collar male
Old Fitzgerald (aka Fitz) - orange collar male
Pappy - yellow collar male
Basil - mint collar female
Widow Jane (aka Jane) - purple collar female

Char gave us a textbook, easy, daytime whelping that started at noon and ended around 6pm. Momma & babies are all doing well so far. We are so glad to finally meet them 🥹

https://www.working-dog.com/breed/vom-Feuergarten-279965?

22/01/2024

I truly will never be able to thank Jack for what he does. He selflessly pours an unimaginable amount of time and effort into the NC Troopers Association K9 Search & Recovery program, and the job is never easy, and the toll it takes is beyond what most of us could ever fathom. They have changed countless lives. To have been lucky enough to pair Fiji with Jack is something I will be forever grateful for, and a thank you could never be enough to repay them both for all that they do. I am so proud to be Fiji’s breeder, and so proud to call Jack a friend, and one of the truly greatest people that I know. This is a news segment showing just a glimpse into who they are.

NCTA K9 SAR is funded at their own expense. They provide qualified search teams 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to bring home the missing. Please consider donating through their page or website to help support them, at NC Trooper's Association K-9 Search and Recovery

https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nc/charlotte/news/2024/01/22/nctak9-?cid=app_share

19/01/2024

Apparently we need to start a Hanzo album!

28/12/2023

Confirmed breeding!

Char x Devil, expected end of January/beginning of February 2024!
So excited to confirm this litter and cannot wait to meet these new little chickens 🤩

https://www.working-dog.com/breed/vom-Feuergarten-279965