GLACIER
CREEK KUVASZ
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Bear
Tested, Mother Approved
Welcome
to Glacier Creek Kuvasz, founded in Eagle River, Alaska!
Temperament and
working ability are our top priorities, and our puppies combine the
finest imported
bloodlines to become trustworthy family pets, Best in Show and Top 10
winners, obedience
stars and proven guardians. Our puppies are raised
in our home as
versatile working members of our family, very appreciated for their
instincts
as they patrol our forest to drive off wayward bears and
wolves.
We are now located in Helena, Montana
Congratulations to KISKA, Ch. Icefog's Cascade at Glacier Creek, the ONLY living KCA Hall of Fame Dam and the only dam qualified since the 1980's! Thank you Kris Finbow, Icefog Kuvasz for this girl who has made such a historic contribution to the breed! Kiska celebrated her accomplishments by driving a grizzly bear and cubs off the property, at 10 years of age!
PUPPY NEWS!
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Our next litter will be due early
this fall. The
dam is OFA Excellent and Optigen pra normal and has offspring that are
rated OFA Excellent. Reservations
are now being accepted. Email
for more information.
Introducing
our new Dutch Import
Dardai Gabor van de Viersenhoeve. (Pedigree)
Gabor is a gorgeous boy with great temperament, fantastic front, and
phenomenal sidegait. He comes from
a
long line of excellent hips and is prelimmed EXCELLENT and prcd-pra
Normal.
Both
his parents are Dutch Club Winners (their
specialty). He is
major pointed with wins over group placers. Pictured at 6 months.
Three puppies from his first litter are Best of Breed winners
over multiple group placers and one is a new champion at 10 months.
Gabor is now at stud in
Texas.
SHOW NEWS
#1 All Breed 2010 (through March)
She's #1! Tezla,
Ch. Mattiaci High Voltage At Glacier Creek (Pluto X Finja)
Best in
Show Puppy at the London Ontario shows and Best of Winners at the
Kuvasz Club of Canada show at 10 months.
Multiple AKC Group WINNER, prcd-Pra
clear by
parentage, #1 Female All
Breed 2009.
Introducing Bambi, Ch.
Glacier
Creek’s Catch the Light (Katrina X Mokany)
Best in Sweeps, Best Puppy 2008
Nationals, Both Majors, Best of Breed Winner, prcd-Pra clear by
parentage
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Littermates
Brenda and
Magda are both GROUP WINNERS for 2006! Brenda won multiple
Award of
Merits 2006 Specialty Weekend, one Breeder/Owner/Handled! She ended up
#2 Breed
for 2006 and is currently:
Brenda, AKC's 2007 #1 All Breed, #1 Breed 2007 Eukanuba 2007 BOB Winner
2008
Westminster Best of Breed Winner! #1 Breed through April 2008
Check
out Brenda on the Animal
Planet Web Site and The Westminster
Kennel Club Site!
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Fang
achieves his
Rally Novice title 2 days before his 9th birthday with qualifying
scores in 3
straight trials, even scoring a 96 along the way, and achieves his
Rally
Advanced title 2 months before his 10th birthday in only 2
weekends! He
went on to win his first leg in Excellent. The ONLY kuvasz
singlehandedly
breeder/owner/handled to a championship, group placement, CD, RN and
RA! At
nearly 12, he is the first and ONLY kuvasz to qualify in Rally in
Canada!!
Congratulations to Melissa Paul and Magda on their new Rally
Novice title
May 2007, qualifying the first 3 days in the ring and placing in their
class
twice!
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Pluto
wins more awards than any male in history at the 2005 Kuvasz Club of
America
Specialty Show in Wichita, Kansas to become Ch. Glacier Creek's White
Lightning! Best in Sweeps, Winner's
Dog, Best of Winners,
Best Bred-by and Best
Brace with
Brenda! They have gone on to win mutiple Best in Show Brace
awards in Alaska, and Pluto won BOB his first time out as a special,
junior-handled! He's gone on to
win the group at the
International shows and win his
UCI-International Championship in 3 shows and BOS at both
Eukanuba 2005
and Westminster 2006.
Phil wins Best
of Breed over 20 specials during the 2006 Specialty Weekend to become
#1 male
in breed through the summer by a landslide! All from the
12-18 month
class!
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KISKA IS
TOP PRODUCING DAM
2004 and 2005!! She now has 10 titled offspring (with THREE
TOP 10 group
placers, TWO Group Winners, a Westminster and Eukanuba Invitational
Best of
Breed Winner and a #1 Breed and ALL BREED)!! Here she is
escorting a bull
moose off the property. The next day she worked a bear off the property
Happy
6th Bithday G'kar! G'kar
is OFA Excellent, prcd-PRA clear. Frozen Semen Available
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Tanya started 2004 off with
a bang,
Working Group 3 out of the Veteran's Class, breeder/owner handled and
more Best
of Breeds in San Antonio and Alaska in March. She won Back to
Back Best
of Breeds from the Veterans Class in Wyoming in May, then an Award of
Merit at
the Nationals. She also won Best of Breed and a Group 3 from
the Veterans
Class at the AKA sponsored entry the day after the Nationals to rank as
#1
Breed, #3 All Breed through June!!
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Sonia
#1 2003 and Best in Show
Sonia started off 2003 with
back to back Best of Breeds in
St. Paul, MN,
back to back Group 3's in Hamburg, NY and a Group 2 and 3 in Novi,
Michigan.
She ended the weekend with a BEST IN SHOW. She was in the TOP 5 Working Dogs
, as one of
only four of the Top 5
in the nation who won a BIS in January! This put her as #1 All Breed (Dog News
System)
and the only group
winning bitch for 2003! The judge, Mrs. Susanne Dillon, said "it was
amazing. There was a light that shown down on her and she was
so
lovely"
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Ch.
Peachtree's Furrondie's Rainey.
Rainey won her championship at the 2003 KCA National Specialty at 16
months
with Best of Winners over the Award of Merit winning WD!!! In
2003 she
won multiple Best of Breeds over champions from the classes, UCI
International
Best in Show (owner/handled), First Award of Excellence at the 2003
Eukanuba
Invitational, Best of Breed at the American Kuvasz Association
sponsored show
in Columbus, Ohio and Top 10 Breed rank. In 2004,
her wins include
multiple owner/handled Canadian group placements to rank #1 Bitch in
Canada,
AKC Top 3 breed status and multiple group placements! In 2005 she added
Best of
Breed at Westminster and another group placement. Rainey
passed all her
health clearances and lives with coowner Julie Volkheimer as an
invaluable
guardian of top winning pomeranians!
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Rainey's
breeder's
page can be found at Peachtree
Kuvasz
Announcements
Kiska and G'kar's puppies are HERE! 6 girls and 4 boys born 12/22/04. Pictures of Kiska and some of her previous puppies are here This is a repeat breeding of Brenda, 2005/2007 #1 Kuvasz in Breed, Award of Excellence Winner at the 2005/2006 Eukanuba Invitational Shows/Best of Breed Winner 2007, Award of Merit Winner Westminster 2005/2007 Best of Breed Winner 2008 and Eukanuba BOB winner 2007!Kiska is one of the all time top producing dams in the breed!
Congratulations to Kiska's children, Ch. Glacier Creek's Matanuska Magda TT and Melissa Paul on her Best of Breed for a major, Best Puppy and UCI Championship with 3 Very Excellent ratings! Madga is now a champion with back to back 5 point majors AND passed her ATTS Temperament Test!! Julie Dalbey's Ch. Glacier Creek's Jolly Roger was BOW for a 5 point major specialty weekend and multiple Best of Breed for his championship! Kiska had 4 pups from two different sires win majors in two weekends and Bridget and Brenda (RWB at the Nationals) were BIS/BISS Brace winners ! Bridget finished her championship in Texas with four majors and Brenda finished hers with five from the Bred-by class to qualify for the 2005 Eukanuba Invitational along with Rainey, Tanya and Lisa, and went on to win an Award of Excellence at just 16 months! Bred-by Homer becomes the first new kuvasz champion of 2005!
Sonia and Kiska's Spring Break March 2001 in Texas
Sonia
wins Judges First Award of Merit,
Specialty Weekend 2001!!
The very
next day, she won the Breed AND the Working Group to
become the only female
to win the breed at the all-breed shows, and the only kuvasz to place
in group
that weekend!!
Scenes from the Kuvasz Club of America National Specialty, June 2000
Kiska wins Best of Winners, AKA Supported Entry, Specialty Weekend 2000!!
So
you think you want a kuvasz?
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Fang
is
the #1 Kuvasz in Canada for 2002 and the
#1
Kuvasz in Obedience (Hoflin System II) for 2001!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Fang has become our obedience star by receiving his C.D. with First and Fourth Places in Novice A at AKC shows, and a First Place for his first leg towards his ASCA (Australian Shepherd Club of America) C.D.! He recently received his first leg towards his Canadian C.D. (and placed in the Working Group four times for the #1 status!) The first breeder/owner/handled kuvasz qualifying in obedience in nearly 10 years! Fang ranks #1 Obedience kuvasz for 2001 in Hoflin System II and qualified for the Kuvasz Club of America Versatility Outstanding Achievement Award. Fang also qualified for the 2002 AKC//Eukanuba Invitational.
The
Gang
at Glacier Creek Kuvasz
"Where
the Spirit Shines Through"
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Deborah
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- AKC/Can. Ch. Brantwood's Artic Adventure "Shiner"
- AKC/Can./UCI-Int'l Ch. Brantwood's Unbridled Spirit, CGC "Kizzy"
- Ch. Santa's Forest Yukon's Maci, "Maci"
- AKC/Canadian/States/States-Int'l/UCI-Int'l/UCI-Nat'l BIS Ch. Glacier Creek's Artic Spirit, COAA "Sonia , the Amazon" Show Stats
- AKC/Canadian/States-Int'l Ch. Glacier Creek's Artic Willow, "Tanya"
- AKC/States/States-INT'L Ch. Glacier Creek's White Fang, CD, RN, RA, VC, VOAA, CGC "Fang"
- Ch. Chena's Arctic Venture, "Chena"
- Glacier Creek's Yukon Quest, "Christopher"
- Glacier Creek's Artic Wirlwind, "Tara"
- Ch. Glacier Creek's Yukon Jack "Curly Joe"
- Ch. Glacier Creek's Alaskan Icefog, "Alaska" Our Niagara Falls Girl!
- AKC/CKC Ch. Glacier Creek's Artic Thunder, CGC, CPA, VC "Michael"
- Ch. Icefog's Cascade at Glacier Creek, Outstanding Dam "Kiska"
- Glacier Creek's Lone Star Spirit, "Nicole"
- UCI-BIS AKC/CKC/UCI Int' Ch. Peachtree's FurRondie's Rainey, CPA "Rainey"
- Ch. Glacier Creek's Sea Wolf "Matrix"
- Glacier Creek's Texas Tornado(Jonah X Sonia) "Gkar"
- Ch.
Glacier
Creek's Born to be
Wild (Lisa)
- Ch. Glacier Creek's Kachemak Quest (Homer)
- Ch. Glacier Creek's Whispering Wind, CPA (Brenda)
- Ch.
Glacier
Creek's Wild, Wild
Wind (Bridget)
- AKC Ch./UCI-Natl Ch. Glacier Creek's Matanuska Magda, R.N. (owned by Melissa Paul, CA) (Magda)
- AKC Ch./UCI-Int'l Glacier Creek's White Lightning (Pluto)
- Ch. Glacier Creek's Wilderness Spirit (Sarah)
- UCI-Int Ch. Glacier Creek's Spirit of Adventure (Tutti)
- Ch. Glacier Creek's King of the Wind (Phil)
- Ch. Glacier Creek's Catch the Spirit (Katrina)
A
Few Of Our Kids!
- Glacier Creek's Yukon Noel
7 time
Best Brace in Show Girl
- Ch. Glacier Creek's Yukon Wind
7 time Best Brace in Show Girl
- Kobuk Chance High
The biggest of
them all (170 pounds and OFA Good!)
- Glacier Creek's Artic Sonshine
OFA Good, Specialty Class Winner
- Ch. Peachtree's Secret Adventure,
"Rajah"
HDO, (Shiner X Ava)
- Glacier Creek's Inde
with Corrie
- Icefog's
Dances With Wolves,
"Yeti" Canada's #1 Kuvasz Male
2000 (Alaska's son)
Some
of our Brantwood Relatives!
- Ch.
Trevnaden's Nadja, OVC, "Nadja"
That Swedish Girl! Shiner and Kizzy's Granddam
- Ch.
Brantwood's Harmony in Motion, OVC, "Misha"
Shiner's brother
- Ch.
Brantwood's Alexis Anita 2nd, OVC, "Anita"
Great-great Grandmother
Some
Great Kuvasz Stories!
Idita-Shiner!
The
Book
of Kuvasz by Lissa and Ice
Kuvasz
Temperament
Kuvasz
Hungarian
Folklore
Some
Thoughts
on Raising a Kuvasz
The
Hungarian
House, by Natalie Sharp
Chloe
Saves the
Day: A story about a Kuvasz
Hero, by Natalie Sharp