1.
Who is von Hena-C
And how long have we been German Shepherd Breeders & Owners?
The owner of von Hena-C is Pam
Lake, a professional dog trainer who has owned and bred german
shepherds since 1983. She started out raising puppies at Fidelco Guide
Dog Foundation during her senior year in high school and was lucky enough
to be able to keep one of her trainees that was not kept in the program.
Uta was the first german shepherd and she taught us about how wonderful
the breed is. She also went through dog training school
as Pam's pupil. She ended up being her demonstration dog for her
business and she quickly discovered just how intelligent and versatile
this breed can be. Because of Uta, we wanted to get into breeding and
quickly bought our first breeding female; the rest is history.
2.
What is our breeding program and what type of german shepherds do
we offer?
von Hena-C has
a brand new state of the art kennel facility that
has been completed as of May 2004. Our kennel sits
on 7 acres of private, wooded land surrounded by
a large area of wetlands that has a abundance of
wildlife and beautiful brooks. We have a 36' wide
by 50' long building that has 17 indoor/outdoor runs(completely
covered outside), grooming room, office ,bathroom/laundry
and a huge open room above the downstairs to conduct training and
playtime with our dogs and
puppies. All the floors in the building have radiant
heat including the outside runs. We
also have A/C for the summer. Our place has an added bonus
of being bug free for the comfort of our dogs thanks
to the mosquito magnet! We have divided our kennel in
half in the run section to have a separate side for our
whelping area.
This allows the moms and puppies to have a bigger
and more secluded place to be. The other side is
for the individual dogs.
Both myself and the dogs are in heaven and spoiled
with luxjury. I thank my husband Eric for this beautiful
kennel that he has built all by himself for the past
year weekends and nights!! It has been a long time
dream to get to this point.
Our dogs live
in immaculate conditions with no fleas or parasites
and are fed the best nutritional foods possible.
Our german
shepherds are all pure European/German bloodlines which
have been imported or are pups born and raised from
imports. We have spent a lot of time selecting and
matching the best bloodline to
produce the the best quality pups for temperament,
health, intelligence, and trainability. von Hena-C specializes
in East German/Czech lines which produce a stocky,
large boned, dark pigmented dog. We have found that
these lines make great family pets with super trainability,
laid back disposition, and are very social and beautiful
to look at. Most of our puppies go to family homes
as pets but
we also have many doing police, schutzhund, search
and rescue, show obedience, and therapy as well.
We spend a lot of time with the dogs from day one,
handling and socializing them and doing puppy tests
to get a feel
of how their personalities are. This way we can match
the puppy with the new owner and what that individual
wants out of the dog. All our breeding stock
has OFA or german certified
hips, including the entire pedigree on them. The dogs we breed also
have some sort of working or temperament title and
are out of a titled schutzhund background. Females range
from 60-75 lbs. and 22-24" tall. Males range
from 75-100 lbs. and 24-26" tall. All puppies are AKC
registered.
We occasionally have older pups and young adults dogs for
sale. The color of our puppies are very dark
because of their bloodline background. We have mostly
sables (black or red), dark black and red/tan and
solid black.
3.What
else do we offer with our puppies?
A complete
physical with a State Health Certificate from
the vet. The first shot and wormings. A 48 hour
return policy for any reason. A puppy information
package on raising your puppy and helpful tips.
A record of what shots and worming were given
and when the rest are due. A 1 year health guarantee
against any problem that is hereditary or common to the breed.
A guarantee against hip dysplasia. We replace
the puppy with another one but don't require that
you return the affected one. We welcome any calls for
help or problems throughout the life of the dog. We encourage owners to stay in touch with us, sending updates and pictures. They
are our babies too and we want to know that they and you
are happy.
4. von Hena-C
Kennels is located:
20 minutes
northwest of Concord NH. just off route 89 to route
127. We are 1 ½ hours northwest of Boston, 1 hour
from the NH seacoast, 1+hours from the NH lakes
region, and 50 minutes from Keene, NH.
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