Our life Changing Experience
written by Nancy Smith
Ed and Nancy Smith
1993 - 2008 owner of the STDCOA
owner of www.reddoginnandresort.com
My husband and I were looking for a dog to guard our property as we just built a new home in the country and had a large yard to facilitate a large dog.
In the better of us.
We contacted Paul Wilkes MA and made a visit to "Goat Hill Farms".
When we arrived at the farm we where greeted by a large white dog barking protectively at us from the barn.
Tracy Wilkes came out of the house and told Betka ( a daughter out of Germina z Farmy Zbiroh and Grant the Kmochova rodiste) stop barking as we were friends.
Betka then understood and went back to her puppies, which were five weeks old.
After meeting Tracy and telling her our interest in purchasing a pup, she put Betka away so we could view the puppies.
Betka was very protective around her puppies as she should be.
We walked into the barn and saw a mass of white wigglyteddy bear puppies.
How should we choose?
We finally settled on a beautiful female which we named Anuska.
We signed all the paper work and went home to wait the remaining three weeks so we could take our baby home.
As Anuska grew into a beautiful, calm and well mannered dog we realized, we had a diamond in the rough.
We wanted to do agility and conformation with her, so we started training and taking her to different dog show.
Ed and Nancy with SC friens in Washington at the Cherry Bloosm Dog Show
One day we received a call from Germany. A woman who changed our lives. Elisabeth Maus ( she said pronounce like "mouse") started us on the road to success with breeding and showing these dogs in American Rare Breed Dog Club.
She came to America to visit us and with her she brought a male named "Pasternak", nearly grown up. He was quite different from our Anuska. He wasconfident in himself and wanted to be top dog.
It took us working with him for a while before he realized, we were the top dogs and he needed to settle down.
Anuska and Pasternakhad two litters of puppies.Six in the first litter and two years later they had 10 puppies. One of these pups died at birth.
We purchased the "Slovensky Cuvac Club of America from Josef Schorn and started a new club registering Cuvac's five generations back.
Elisabeth proved to be encyclopedia of information on this breed.
We went to many shows and met Vicky and Phil Ford from Chicago area, who owned a Cuvac named Jake. (Goat Hill Farm).
They started in the breeding program and going to shows. They also purchased from Elisabeth a beautiful female, they named Ali Anta.
(Ali Elisabeth bought in Slowakia, because she never had had enough puppies out of her own kennel, but also a reason, America should get a wide range of bloodlines for breeding).
We all went on to win many first place ribbons.
Elisabeth came again to the States and brought with her three SC. We purchased a male nemed Uno vom Boehmerwald and a female named Vanessa vom Boehmerwald. The third dog was Vanessa's brother named Vitus.
Our friendspurchased this male whom they renamed Baron.
Anuska and Uno mated a year later and she produced 10 more beautiful pups.
This was Anuska's last litter as she was now 7 years old.
Elisabeth invited us all over to her home in Germany and she said: "bring the dogs".Ed and I and Pasternak and Vicky and Ali Anta flew into Frankfurt/Germany to meet Elisabeth.
We had a wonderful trip and learned a lot. We visited World Dog Show in Belgium and a Dog show in Bratislava.
So we meet world Champion dogs, ( a lot of Slovensky Cuvac), but secretly, we were thinkingour dogs were the best.
We came home to USA with a female named Izmir (nearly grown up), ( Elisabeth hold her out of litter Vita Mytska samota and Grant for breeding and Vicky took home a male named Lex z Kmochova rodiste. 5 years old)
We got buisy with our own new buisiness, a boarding and grooming kennel, and did not have timeto devote to touring around with the dogs to promote them,therefore the Slovensky Cuvac Dog Clubwas not maintained.
Elisabeth now moved to Texas and now wishes to obtain the club and start again with maintainingthe breeding program.
Nancy and Ed Smith 02/03.08
Pictures are to see at "Albums"-White Star!