Welcome to Worthy Kennels.
Our stud dogs at Worthy Kennels:
SG Athos vom haus Sevens SchH3, GHP3, KKL1 for
life, Belgium Regional Schutzhund Champion x 2, ETC.>>
V Brun vom Damburgerschloss, SchH3, GHP3, KKL1, below:
Brun is co-owned in a breeding partnership with Klatolklin K9.
We have world renowned bloodlines through imported
European working-line breeding stock, most of whom
are work titled. We try to live up to our "Worthy" name
by producing the best working GSD puppies available,
pups which come with our 3 year hip and elbow
guarantees, and a two year general health guarantee.
In 2007 we went to Europe in person to select some of the best working line
German Shepherds available for our breeding program. Several of our dogs are
daughters, a son, or a litter brother or litter sister to of world famous working
dog sires and/or competitors noted for their ability to work and produce excellent
offspring.
Below are some of the sires of our breeding dogs:
SG Bandit vom Oberhausener Kreuz SchH3 [SG BSP] IPO3 FH1, hips A1
V Lasco Westfallenspross SchH3,IPO3, FH2, KKL1, SG-BSPx 2
Sirk vom Haus Sevens SCHH3 IPO3 VH3 KKL1, WUSV x 2
Dago vom Schwarzen Pegasus, SchH3, IP3, LGA,SG-BSPx 2,
FCI, KKL2, ZW 81
Zidane v.h. Sevens SchH3, IPO3, KKL2, WUSV x 2
Ufo van Guys Hof, SchH3 (world renowned sire of champions)
Urzo van't Quentawald, SchH3, IPO3, KKL2, WUSV x 3
Worthy Kennels pups that have titled from our breeding
program:
Click here to see Titled WK Pups and Cash
Award Winners page.
Whether you are looking for a puppy to be a prospective: protective family
companion, Police candidate, top Schutzhund sports competitor, obedience,
agility, or a Search and Rescue dog, please contact us. We are also reasonably
priced on our puppies, often more so than kennels whose dogs are of lesser
quality and whose pups do not come with guarantees that are as comprehensive
as our health guarantees are.
The dogs, the kennels, and all of my litters are my full time job. The puppies are
very well socialized by myself, my family, my daughter and her friends. The
puppies are tested many times from the age of about three weeks until the leave
for their new homes. Puppies are born in the house and kept there until the age
of three weeks when they are often moved out to a heated dog barn that have
doggie doors that lead out to large outdoor runs. While living in the house, they
become accustomed to the sounds of the washer and dryer, vaccum cleaner,
television, music, family life in general, and our constant visits to play with them.
I-Litter pup above owned by Donna C.,
a member of an SAR group in Wasilla, AK. Above: Max and his kids, owned by the Reese
Pic by Josh. (V Kanto vom Firecatcher family, Anchorage, AK.
SchH3, IPO3, KKL1x Zulma van't Leefdaalhof) (SG Athos v.h. Sevens SchH3, GHP3, KKL1
x Worthy's Fenja)
We screen potential buyers carefully to make sure that a working-bred German
Shepherd is the right dog for you, and so that our dogs will be happy dogs
contributing to our society.
We are members of Schutzhund USA, and we have a registered kennel name
through them.
Our family trains with the Alaska Schutzhund Club.
In 2007 was acquired a handsome and very masculine looking stud dog, an
internationally name-recognized Schutzhund competitor--- SG Athos vom haus
Sevens SchH3, GHP3, KKL1----
Above, Athos in Belgium in 2004 Above, Athos in Alaska, 2008.
Belgium Regional Champion 2004 and 2005.
Placed third in theBelgium National Championship trials (VVDH Kampioenschap).
Athos has also placed very high in several WUSV qualifying trials, and other
International Schutzhund trials.
Thank you Johan Vangerven andJohan Clauwert of Vom Haus Jadevin, Belgium
for allowing us to purchase Athos.
We searched for almost a year to find a dog like Athos
who has all the characteristics of what we (and most
people) think of as the ideal German Shepherd--
good with children, intelligent, easy to train, social towards other dogs,
protective of home and family while having good common sense, and yet also a
high level International Schutzhund competitor and champion.
Video of Athos in the 2007 WUSV
qualification trials: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhU-IkYfZgk
Shipping: Anchorage, Alaska is an International destination, with direct flights to
many places in the USA and Canada, and even the world. It may cost much less
than what you may imagine to send a super puppy to you. Shipping costs to
anywhere in the USA and much of Canada. Shipping of an 8 week old puppy to
the East Coast is about $125, and shipping to the West Coast about $225.
Anything in between falls somewhere between those two prices. Shipping to
almost anywhere in Alaska is about $125.
Above: Veronica training Arwin
Our daughter Autumn, holding our family with the Alaska SchH Club.
cat and "dog manners instructor"--Fluffy.
Eric training a puppy with the Alaska Worthy's Farouk Bergkamm, Mexico.
SchH Club. Owned by J. Francisco Velázquez González
All of our breeding dogs have had their hips evaluated either by OFA, PennHip, or by the
country of their origion, to have hip ratings that are either OFA Excellent or OFA Good, or
equivalent to that in evaluative rating in their country of origin.
We offer a three-year guarantee against hip and elbow dysplasia, and a two year guarantee
against genetically caused diseases.
Compare our guarantees to other guarantees out there. We could not offer these guarantees
and awards if our dogs were not of the highest quality.
You are welcome to come to our home to visit. We will gladly supply you with references if
you request them.
< < Samuel S. took this picture of his wife and children
playing with the E Litter puppies when they were
four weeks old. Samuel and his family had put a
deposit on a sable female and came once or
twice a week to play with the pups until they took
their puppy Worthy's Enchanting Denali home to be
a part of their wonderful family.
Above: Worthy's Enchanting Denali,
at 4 weeks of age. Samuel S. family.
Although we live well within Anchorage city limits,
we also live very close to the Chugach State Park,
which has 495,000 acres of forests, lakes, mountains
and valleys are at Anchorage's doorstep.
There are bears, wolves, moose, mountain goats,
foxes, lynx, etc that live in the natural beauty of
the park. The Hillside area, where we live,
sometimes has bears that make a regular
habit of perusing the neighborhood, checking
for goodies to eat.
On June 2, 2007, I took Worthy's Arwin out the front door to do her business. She gave a little
bark, a serious growl, puffed out her chest and trotted down the front steps towards the front
yard area with an attitude--- to apparently kick an intruder's butt out of our yard. I looked over
to where she was headed, and I saw a 600 pound brown bear, about the size of a large welsh
pony. Thank God Arwin has a super recall! I got my camera, with just the regular lens on it,
darn it, and I came with 40 feet of the bear to take pictures. After he'd had enough of his
picture being taken, he looked at me, snorted, and ran off.
My husband says that if I am going to do a Tim Treadwell on him, then he's going to double
my life insurance policy!
(Tim Treadwell was a bold grizzly bear researcher who was killed and eaten, along with his
girlfriend, Amie Huguenard, by grizzly bears in Katmai National Park, Alaska. Mr. Treadwell is
a controversial subject in Alaska. Though somewhat revered elsewhere, many Alaskans feel
Mr. Treadwell did not follow accepted scientific nor reasonably cautious methods.)
Chugach State Park: http://www.dnr.state.ak.us/parks/units/chugach/hillside.htm
We welcome any questions concerning vacationing in Alaska, about Alaska,--the "Final
Frontier" or even questions about moving here.
"He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will
be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such
devotion." Author unknown.
Are your dogs health tested? Yes, go to their individual pages to see their health tests. What is Schutzhund? Do you offer a Health Guarantee on your puppies? Yes, we offer some of the best health guarantees out there. Click here to see our health guarantees webpage. To contact us, click here. Have any puppies from your breeding program been work titled or work certified? Even though our breeding program is only a few years old, owners of Worthy Kennels puppies have work titled and certified their dogs. To see a list of some of those Worthy Kennels bred dogs click here. There are also many others who are in the process of obtaining their titles and certifications with their dogs from Worthy Kennels. |
