BACKGROUND
AND HISTORY OF OUR “FAMILY”
We
have had a lot of good things going on and have added
new members to our group, both two legged and four legged.
All our puppies are raised in the home and thoroughly
handled and socialized. We like our show puppies to
go to show homes where they will be actively trained,
taken to match shows as youngsters (owner handled at
match shows) and then given to a handler to be professionally
shown for points when they mature. Our Dobies
don’t usually mature until around two and a half
to three years old.
Many
of the “kids” use this time to start their
obedience work. With the modern obedience training methods
of “play training” your puppy, NO
CHOKE COLLARS; ATTENTION TRAINING AND BONDING WITH YOU
AND HAVING FUN WHILE BEING TRAINED. It is easy
to have the best of two worlds and train for breed and
obedience titles at the same time! The pups love agility
training too, which gives them added confidence.
Since
we are proud of our Dobies, we like to have them get
out and be seen. Therefore, we do give preference to
people on our waiting list that will show their pets
for obedience titles, conformation, tracking, therapy,
search and rescue, and agility.
Three
of our Dobes were with Pilot Dogs for the Blind,
many are Therapy Dogs, and two were
with the CT. police department and
lived at home with three children. We have Hearing
Dogs for the Deaf, Search and Rescue
dogs, and Myron (Wiz x Blazer) was a Delphi/Therapy
Dog featured in the spring 1995 Doberman Quarterly Magazine.
We feel our Dobes are very intelligent
and highly trainable!
Several people have questioned me about longevity and
health. We will be glad to give you details about all
our kids starting with Jason and including
our foundation girls: Krisa, Tzar Khan’s
Krisma de Scudamore CD; Mandy, Cara’s Mandy de
Scudamore CD, WAC; Galli, CH Alisaton Gallorette
CD, ROM. Abbey was our tightest bred Dobe, being
a double Jason grand daughter. She lived to be over
14 years old with a very good quality of life, running
up and down stairs and chasing our miniature horses
down the fence line! We have her in action on
her 14th birthday.
- Abbey’s
sire, Magic (Ch Scudamore the Magician CD, WAC) was
put down at 11 years with arthritis, as was his dam,
Krisa, who was 13 years and 3 months.
- We
“lost” Wiz (Can CH Scudamore The Magic
Wizard CD) at 6 years and Jaiwe (Am/Can CH Scudamore
Sacajawea) at 9 years, both with our first in house
cases of cancer…. and both had had Lyme Disease.
- We,
also, lost Towi’s sire, Scudamore The Shogun
CD, WAC from Lyme Disease, which caused cataleptic
epilepsy. (Lack of oxygen to the brain) Lyme
disease in these cases was through infected urine
NOT TICKS!
- We
lost Towi (Can CH Scudamore Towaki CDX) at 10 years
from a broken heart two months after her mother, Abbey,
died.
- We
had Towi’s two kids; Tsunami, (CGC) whelped
12/22/89-5/1/2001 and Gaijin (CD, CGC) whelped 6/21/90
and unfortunately left us 10/29/98.
- Our
red girl, Amber CD , is a Gaijin daughter whelped
7/15/94.
- Our
elder was Kalli (Can CH Scudamore Wija Kalliste) out
of Wiz x Jaiwe who arrived 12/1/1987 and had to leave
us 4/12/1999 with cancer.
- And
our “baby” is Phoenix, our black boy whelped
5/26/99 out of Amiga, a Gaijin x Ilsa daughter. He
is a UKC CH, CGC, and training for his CD. He
is OFA excellent and my Velcro boy!
All
of my personal Dobes are OFA, thyroid clear, and have
been clear of health problems. We have tried
very hard to avoid breeding to any lines that have known
problems physically or temperamentally. We feel
the average life span of 7 1⁄2 to 8 1⁄2
years much too short for our Dobermans. Hindsight
would dictate to use only older stud dogs (8 years or
older) or not breed out to young, unknown studs from
other lines! This is the best I can do except pray a
lot!
See
the DPCA longevity site for verification of some of
our Dobes longevity,
http://silverdobes.westhost.com/longevity/index.htm
See
OFA (Orthopedic Foundation for Animals) http://www.offa.org
OFA
Search Results - http://www.offa.org/results.html
- type in "Scudamore" - there are 34 entries.
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We
do co-own Dobes who enjoy having their own families
and homes.This way all litters benefit from a home environment,
lots of socialization, love and individual attention. We
feel we give our Dobes everything we can: excellent
breeding, care, training, love, and their own family.
All our puppies are home raised with TLC. They are ready
for their new homes at about eight weeks old.
They
will have been puppy tested, graded, have all their
shots to date, have show ear crops, and a clean bill
of health. You will receive a five-generation pedigree,
the A.K.C. registration paper as soon as we reeceive
it back from the A.K.C., and an instruction booklet
on care and training.
All
of our puppies are named SCUDAMORE.....because we are
proud of our pups and wish to keep track of of them
and their achievements whether show, obedience, or family
pet members. New owners become members of our "family"
and friends. We are in constant touch with each other.
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