"Be the kind of person your dog thinks
you are" - Anonymous
(Click all over the place)
The Diet We Feed:
Puppies
Adults
Article regarding needless vaccinations
Vaccinations
Article on the dangers of (all too common) obesity in dogs:
Nutrition
Puppy Training
The most comprehensive site on dog training articles
(The most referred to training link on our site!)
Dr. P's Dog
Training
Basics
The right steps
A good check list
Bringing your
Puppy Home
Dealing with common problems in puppy’s first year
Dog Owner's Guide: Common
1st year problems
How to socialize your puppy
Dog Owner's Guide: How to
socialize your puppy
A good puppy training source
Puppy
Training by Perfect Paws
From the Monks of New Skete
dogsbestfriend.com/puppies/
Ten common behavior problems
Communication Problems
Guide to crate training
Raising
your puppy
View a video of
housetraining
pbs.org/woof/
From Dog Owners guide
The
first six months
Interesting article
From a puppies perspective
"If you reach for your dog, and he
gets away from you...playng 'catch me'
- you have been lowered to littermate status." - Job Michael
Evans
The Older Dog
By request: Abbreviations used in our pedigrees
Also, for those who would like to learn the basics: A beginner's guide to dog shows
"German
Shepherds" - Dog Fancy magazine's
Popular Dogs series
includes an article about Alkarah with pictures
(Just published fall 2001)
Photo
of Karin and a puppy published in
"The New Owner's Guide
to German Shepherds,"
T.F.H.Publications.
Our daughter Heidi (the "H" in Alkarah)
and her Champion "Garth"
(Ch Kismet-Pinebuck's Cowboy Logic OFA)
Ch
Garth wins Best of Breed at the prestigious
Morris and Essex Kennel Club
Show !
Heidi's new puppy
"Oliver"
Alkarah's Oliver Twist
(GV CH Wayside's Honky Tonk Man OFA
ex CH Alkarah's MIdnight Miracle OFA)
Recommended Books
Common sense book that will save you money.
How To Afford Veterinary Care
Without Mortgaging the Kids
"The" basic
reference
Invaluable for health
The German Shepherd Today
The Nature of Animal Healing
Common sense
training
Interesting
Mother Knows Best
How to Speak Dog
Fascinating
- especially if you've ever experienced a dog's unexplained abilities
Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are
Coming Home...
The books are available
online at both amazon.com
and buy.com
as well as other sites.
The links are to Amazon because the description of each book is more complete.
Shop for your dog with your mouse, visit:
"Doggie" Shopping Mall
The AKC German Shepherd Dog Standard video
includes several Alkarah dogs, including Ch Alkarah's Michelob.
To view the sample, click below:
AKC video\gsd.mpeg
Photo
of Rolo from the "German Shepherds" 1998
desk calendar published by Andrews and McMeel. *
One of more than 45 pictures of Alkarah dogs or
puppies included in the calendar.
Photo of
Rolo on a refrigerator magnet and key chain.
"CONSIDER THIS..."
To hear an exciting new
message from the
dogs,
For a translation of the new message,
Click here
Click
here
Starsky
at 3 months.
Published in "The German Shepherd Today"
by Wynn Strickland and Jim Moses.
The untrimmed version shows Flo Boese handling and Herbie Merkel judging.
Starsky went on to Best Puppy at the show.
"PET
PEEVE"
"DOG
QUOTES"
One
of the few times Karin handled at a point show.
Shown here with Ch Belcani's
Fortunata,
one of a three champion litter sired by Starsky.
"You will not find my dog wasting his energy nursing a worry."
- Alan Cohen
Alkarah
puppies on a post card from "German Shepherds
- a Book of Postcards" published by Andrews & McMeel*.
Several Alkarah dogs and puppies were included.
Featured
photo from a 1988 local interest story
about Alkarah published in the Hunterdon County weekly
newspaper.
(Photo included Karin, Al, and
Starsky daughter Ch Belcani's Fortunata OFA, all smiling)
70's photo of Fritz, Zarra, and a puppy
(Click
to enlarge)
This is not here for any
particular
reason. I just thought it was cute
Self Confidence!
This photo was sent to us by at least a half
dozen people.
In case you haven't seen it, click the photo.
* I don't know a lot about Andrews and
McMeel Publishing, but they publish all
the great Calvin & Hobbes books, and
that's good enough for Heidi and me.
Click Calvin
eschew obfuscation!
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