NCK Pointing Labs

Plans are starting for Winnie's next litter.  We plan on actually breeding to Grizzly again as the pups from the first litter are turning out very nice.  We have had good reports back from owners.  The litter will again be all black and tri-factored.  We several female...

Rock had a successful spring campaign.  He ran just abot every weekend from Mid April until the end of June.  He was nearly perfect in the APLA and AKC .  He only failed one APLA Master test and one AKC Master test.  The AKC test he failed while trying to perform with...

Winnie delivered her puppies today.  We ended up having six males and two females.  Of course we had a full set of female deposits.  We have three males unspoken for at this time.  This is a great pairing and the pups will be fantastic.  Everyone is doing terrific, mom...

Rock is doing great at K&L.  The weather has been nice and the ponds are thawed.  He started his swim by work last weekend.  He will be starting his hunt test career next month at Higginsville, MO with the APLA.  We anticipate him running CPR and Masters at that test....

Our future stud dog, Rock, took off in his training.  I did all of his yard work and started his field work as a puppy.  He has totally exceeded our expectations.  Talk about trainable.  By 10 1/2 months, he was running 150-200 yard marks and running cold blinds withou...

Winnie was bred to Iowa Pointing Labs Grizzly in early January.  We are really excited about this pairing.  So excitied, that we are likely keeping female for ourselves.  They will have drive, point, and desire in spades.  They should have great demeanors and be very t...

Continue to get nothing but positive reivews on the first litter of pups.  Have had the pleasure to work with several and actually hunted behind one.  Little girl did a terrific job at eight months of age.  They are all hard hunters and have been very trainable.  All o...

Have gotten nothing but positive feedback on the pups out of Winnie and Phog.  Several are already pointing.  The smallest of the bunch, put on quite the display in his puppy evaluation at K&L Kennels.  They put out three birds for him and he pointed all three.  This w...

Has been a while since we updated the blog.  It was a hectic summer with all the baseball and softball games we had.  Things went great with the first litter of puppies out of Winnie and Phog.  Our own new pup, Rock, is doing some pretty amazing things for a six mos ol...

So much going on lately.  I head to Higginsville, MO this weekend to judge the first American Pointing Lab Association hunt test.  Will be great to catch up with everyone and see Mike the trainer.  Is always a blast to see good dogs doing what they love to do.  Also, i...