Well, cooler weather is coming to most of the world, although it remains hot here in phoenix J The Hurricane is wreaking havoc in Texas and yet people remain optimistic. We have a puppy going to a great family, ironically born from our female Texas Von Karpatia and our Champion Male Uragan Best of Island. Uragan is Croatian for Hurricane, and the pup will fittingly be named Ike. Funny how many things played together for that.

   The economy continues to slump further and the housing market still has not rebounded and we find so many people turning to companionship from great Doberman Pinschers  as a comfort and a way to protect their homes and families with rising crime and uncertainty.  I have to admit, for us it is the same, petty theft is on the rise in our own communities and yet no one comes down the back alley and climbs our back fence.

   As the days start to cool off, I have come out of hibernation much more and we have been training very hard with the dogs, both our own personal protection dogs and sport dogs as well as doing helper and decoy work for some other world renown trainers. I sure am learning much more and my dogs are responding very well. But cooler days here mean chilly nights in other parts of the world, where folks may even be lucky enough to cuddle up by a wood burning stove with their Dobermans and I have to confess I feel quite jealous. I have always loved Autumn, but soon Autumn will turn cold and frozen for many of you and we will be out training with a smile on our faces J

   We have a couple of upcoming events some of you may be able to attend so we wanted to share our schedule. September 26ht-28th we will be in Salem Oregon (Just outside Portland) for a Schutzhund helper seminar. Unfortunately we will not be able to bring any of the dogs that day, but if you can come we would love to see your Family Dobes all grown and have a family reunion of sorts. You can get more information on the seminar from dvgjudge@msn.com Then it’s off to Denver Colorado the following month October 11th and 12th hosted by Lisa and Habib for a Search and Rescue Seminar and reunion with our Denver area Family Dobes. For more information on the SAR Seminar contact Lisa at nasrullahs@msn.com We hope to see some of our FamilyDobes family members at those events whether you like SAR or Schutzhund or not. Anyone wanting to make their way down this way when it is cold elsewhere, we will have a Schutzhund trial with the Scottsdale Schutzhund club in November (Steve will be the trial helper) and with the Phoenix Schutzhund club in December (We will be trialing the dogs). Those are great times to visit Phoenix! Those two trials last year are the reason we moved down here J The weather was so great we just had to be part of it!

   We also want to Welcome to the Kennel Tara’s Best of Island “Ali” who is an unbelievable working male, he is a Junior Champion, IPO-1 and has just one win left for his international championship. He is great in the house with the kids and loves affection as well as running around with the girls. Watch for big things from him!

 

 

Steve Parsons

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