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About Sendero |
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My name is Kevin Sherrodd. I have been a trainer and handler of Deutsch Drahthaars for more than ten years. I am a JGV Approved VR (Performance) Judge and breed show judge apprentice. I have served as the Director of Testing for the Big Rivers Chapter of the VDD-GNA, and now serve as the South East Texas Training Coordinator. At Sendero, our transaction with you doesn't end when your puppy arrives, it carries on until you have the trained hunting dog that you envisioned when you first called us. We pride ourselves on being a training and testing resource for our handlers. We think this is what sets us apart from other DD breeders. We hope that this is something you value as well. Our goal is to help you in any way we can to train your dog. We have trained and tested many drahthaars. We have hosted numerous dog training workshops in the areas of force fetch, HZP preparation and test handling, clicker training, pointing, and tracking. We have produced several training videos on many of these subjects for the benefit of our puppy buyers, and have new videos currently in production. My wife and I live on the east bank San Bernard River near Brazoria, Texas, approximately 45 minutes south of Houston. We are hunters and we train dogs, mostly for our own use. We breed only a limited number of dogs. We cannot produce several litters and still give our handlers the help and assistance that they need. Our kennel is registered with the VDD. We only sell dogs to hunters. The Deutsch Drahthaar (DD) was developed for the purpose of hunting, and the breed exists today for only that reason. The Drahthaar is too special of a breed to be wasted on those that are not serious hunters. Here in Texas we use our dogs to hunt quail, ducks, geese, doves, rabbits, and other occasional furred game. In our previous home in Wyoming we used our dogs to hunt pheasants, grouse, rabbits and waterfowl. We are also big game hunters, regularly hunting deer, boar, elk, moose, and antelope. Blood tracking is the practice of using dogs to trail and recover lost or wounded game (game that has been shot). The ability to blood track is a skill we train, breed for, and practice at Sendero Kennels. We have hunted with our Drahthaars in Idaho, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, Colorado, Texas, Arizona, Mexico, and Germany. Our dogs have hunted in swamps, deserts, row crops, woods, on prairies, in rivers, and even in high elevation mountain forests. We breed dogs for use in all of these environments, and for use on all game animals. The Deutsch Drahthaar was developed in Germany to be a tool for the hunter; a useful assistant for the pursuit or recovery of any game the hunter may decide to take...we feel the same way about our dogs. We develop train and breed dogs for use in hunting most any game in most any location. We hope you will choose do so as well.
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