here Ed and Nancy Smith - owner of the STDCOA from 1993 - 2008.The story of the "White Star Kennel" owned by Nancy and Ed Smith/ Ma.
here Ed and Nancy Smith - owner of the STDCOA from 1993 - 2008.
also owner of www.reddoginn.com Ma.
After a successful career in sales management and office management, Ed and Nancy Smith decided to pursue what had been a hobby for them: The breeding and showing of "Slovensky Cuvac" dogs.
They purchased the " Red Dog Inn" in 1994. At that time the Red Dog Inn had been in business for 15 years as a small 20-run boarding kennel.
Their original intent was to continue breeding and showing their own dogs and use the remaining kennel space to rent out to boarding guests. That plan didn't last long as they were quickly overwhelmed with requests from boarding clients and they needed to expand the boarding capacity.
They had to stop their breeding program with their own dogs, and concentrated on their boarding facility, which required their attention 7 days a week.
Take a look at the web for "www.reddoginnandresort.com
1994 Nancy and Ed published a page about Slovensky Cuvac in "Dog World", one of the great dog magazines in USA.
Text from the Article:
"In 1982 the first Slovensky Cuvac entered the United States and the Slovensky Cuvac Dog Club of America was founded. In ten years there have been only a few dogs bred and none of these where ever been shown in the confirmation ring. This is truly a rare breed as there are approximatley 50 registered dogs in the United States today.
In 1992 we purchased a female puppy "Anuska from Goat Hill Farm" who was bred from famous Slovak bloodlines in Germany with many titles.
Just for fun we decided to show her at the American Rare Breed Association Show, which was held in Boston.MA.
Anuska
She was only 10 months old but very successful and encouraged us to continue. She is now ARBA champion and mother of a wonderful litter of 6.
The father "Pasternak vom Boehmerwald"is also a ARBA champion.
Ed Smith with Pasternak vom Boehmerwald.
We imported him from Germany at 16 months old, and he is also from famous parents with titles FCI Interchamp de Beautee/World champ.
Nancy with Pasternak and Vanessa vom Boehmerwald - 2008 she is now 14 years old!
This breed is courageous, extremly alert both day and night, a spirited dog of keen intelligtence. Very easy to train, sensitive to praise and blame. A devoted family dog, gentle, wonderful with his masters. Extremly strong instinct to protect children. Suspicious and very discriminating to strangers, Unsurpassed watchdog, possessing the ability to act on his own initative at the right moment without instruction. Fearless with very good scent and great resistance to all sorts of inclement weather. The Slovensky Cuvac is used in the Tatra mountains in Slovakia for defending herds and flocks as well as property.
They are fearful adversary of wolves and bears. The Cuvac's ability to adapt to different conditions, their great flexibility to accept different assignments and the ease withwhich these dogs are trained, makes it a very universal dog. Because of their unsurpassed physical beauty, gentleness, politeness and obedience they are being used in recent years as a companion dog."