Awesome Kennel

Whitney, Patty, William, David and Wyatt

As much strides as I had made with Pepper it became apparent that Pepper would never be the hunting dog my husband needed.  I was fortunate enough to find a home for Pepper with a woman who hunted wild turkeys with dogs and a cross bow.  Pepper now resides in Texas and is very happy.

With Pepper in her new home we still needed a hunting dog.  This time I decided that I was going to buy a hunting dog from a family who had the same needs as we did.  

David still had some "Old Time Views" of getting and picking out a hunting dog.  He felt that it was imperative that we get a puppy at 7 weeks (exactly 49 days).  Being a new comer to the whole thing I studied the lines available to us near by and finally found the family with the breeding I liked.  The only problem was that they were clear up in North Eastern Washington and their puppies would be 10 weeks old before we could go up and visit them.  

I visited with Dave Avery of Springcreek Kennel for several hours.  Everything just seemed to line up.  I really trusted Dave, I really felt that these pups were what I thought we needed and I really really wanted to go visit his kennel and meet his dogs.  My problem was talking my husband into it.

David reluctantly agreed to go and visit the dogs (we could after all make a deposit on their next breeding).  We packed up the kids (our son Wyatt was 9 months old) and headed to Chattaroy, Washington.

We met Dave and his wife Julie.  They had a very comfortable home and their dogs were the center of their attention.  They had two adult dogs Jim and Jessie and they had 3 puppies left out of their litter.  We visited for a few hours and Dave picked our brain almost as much as we picked his!  Finally he took us out in the field where Julie had planted some quail.  He took Jim and Jessie out with the 3 puppies as well.  Two of the puppies played mostly with William and Whitney but one puppy, a little female was all business.

She followed her momma Jessie very closely and when Jessie went on point she ran ahead of her and pointed too.  Dave Avery fired a blank pistol and she reached down and picked up one of the quail Julie had planted and ran it over to my husband David.  The years of frustration he had with Pepper was instantly erased.

After getting Sadie - David slowly but surely began to listen to me.  He didn't change over night and he still isn't completely in sinc with me, but he has come around to a lot of my way of thinking and doing things.  He learned that training a GSP is different than training a Brittany and he learned that 10 weeks old was the perfect time to get a puppy!

Now Sadie is an awesome hunting dog and a loving family pet but she is a big running dog.  She can range as far as 300 - 500 yards out in front of us and we have had to work constantly to keep her within our range of 60/70 yards.  She was a typical shorthair and had her terrible twos ( a time when all shorthairs question who the boss is) and she is a reluctant retriever (she will retrieve to the hand but you had better be there to catch it as she's off again!)

After being involved with Sadie (and Pepper's training) I decided that I liked training dogs so I started buying a pup now and then, starting them and selling them as started dogs.  It was a lot of fun and I met a lot of very nice people (both in the GSP breeders world and family hunters).  Every time I bought a dog I learned more about the lines that were nearest to me and more about what I wanted in a dog.  I carefully looked at the good and bad of what I had and thought about how I could produce the perfect GSP.  

My first litter of pups were beautiful, healthy, loving pets.  They were out of Sadie and a dog that is owned by a friend, Wayne Yamashita.  When we bred Sadie we wanted to continue with what we liked very much about Sadie.  

• She is very smart
• She has an excellent nose
• She has very nice color (very easy to see in the field)
• She is bold but calm in the house
• She is a devoted family pet

The puppies we produced were all we expected and more.  The only thing I would have changed with this breeding was that Sadie and Vinny's puppies are big runners.  Their ability to range far exceeds the needs of your average foot hunter.  

My son Wyatt (2) with our first litter of pups whelped 1/11/01

With that known we brought another dog into our kennel.  Sonny.  Sonny was to be MY dog!  I got Sonny not long after I lost a baby.  I of course was very depressed about this and he couldn't have come at a better time.  His love and devotion for me grew everyday.  Sonny learned very quickly and his gentle, mellow temperament was so nice.  Everyone who met Sonny, loves Sonny.  

With great expectations we bred Sadie to Sonny the winter of 2002.  They had the perfect litter of 4 boys and 4 girls.  They were a dream come true.  

After Sonny we brought Porsche into our house.  Porsche was the product of careful planning on my part.  I wanted a dog with excellent confirmation and excellent hunting skills.  I brought together the lines of Sonny with the lines of Ch. Minado's Parade Drum Major (along with some other very impressive lines!)  

In the spring of 2002 we added another dog to our Kennel.  This time more by accident than anything but it turned out to be an awesome addition none the less.  We added Ch. Tabor's Foxglove Endeavor CGC "Trevor".  Trevor is a very complete dog.  He is big, powerful in the field, extremely competitive in the show ring yet a gentle pussycat at home.  We love our old man to pieces and are very thankful to have the opportunity to love him.  

AS I grow and learn it is my hope to create the Awesome line of German Shorthair Pointers.  With a mixture of  NFC/FC/AFC Lehmschlog Ruben Kyle, DC Hillhaven Hustler, KS DC Ybold Rothenuffeln, DC Erick Von Enzstrand and CH Kooskia's Chief Timothy along with some very classy outcrossings I will have my awesome line.

Our policy will always be to breed for the betterment of the breed and to create happy, healthy, beautiful, calm hunting dogs that excel in the home as well as the field.

Please enjoy our website.  If you take the time to look at all of it - I'm sure you'll learn much about the GSP breed, a lot about me and you'll get to watch my kids (2 legged and 4 legged) grow up!

Here we are in 2003!  By this time Wyatt is 4, William is 14 and Whitney is 12.

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The McNary's in 2002 William is 13, Whitney is 11 and Wyatt is 3!

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Here we are in 2001!  William is 12, Whitney is 10 and Wyatt is 2! (and now you know my real hair color!)

My family in 1999 - Dave, Patty, Wyatt (6 months old) Whitney (8) and William (10).

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The McNary's when we got started in 1997.

Me with my Awesome Kids :)

Patty and Wyatt with Blu, Whitney with Rita and William with Sonny at Multnomah Falls, Oregon.

Me with my kids in Montana June 2005

Whitney [14], William [16] & Wyatt [6]