Deuce's WORKING PAGE

Deuce has proven to be just what I want in a working American Bulldog. She showed great signs of potential very early on and thanks to Tracey and Che of Knights in White Satin American Bulldogs, she came to reside here as my (Tammie's) working companion. At 8 weeks she had an awesome retrieval and a natural bark. At 12 weeks, she won the driviest puppy contest at the NKC Nationals and already had a nice, calm, full mouth grip. At 4 months old, she took naturally to the puppy sleeve and showed no signs of noise or object sensitivity when introduced to a clatter stick, stick hits, and the sound of a shot gun. At 8 months she learned to do a beautiful bark and hold, although we decided to slow things down a bit and really focus on building a solid foundation, Thank heavens! At just 11 months of age, she was tested as all bulldogs should be, on beast. She obtained her WBI title at the home of the ICA and showed us that she is not only a good German Shepherd (lol), but ALL BULLDOG...(-:

Deuce works well for food, ball, or praise-- she has balanced drives, excellent work ethic and motivation. This girl has drive to spare, with the exception of self-preservation drive...lol She has an amazing desire to work and we are committed to not rushing this process, but doing it right every step of the way.

We started Deuce's foundation with our friend Yohanny Gamez and continued her foundation work with our friends at Chattahoochee Schutzhund Club (Dennis VanderLinde and Tracy Betenbaugh). We have gone on to train a little closer to home with our newly formed schutzhund club, Coal Mountain Schutzhund Association, and we have Dennis (our training director, affectionately called "Coach") to thank for giving us the tough love we need, as we work towards our goal of Schutzhund III and hopefully competing in the sport.

While training in the sport of Schutzhund, we have had the opportunity to work with many great people and have Deuce and I evaluated by some very respected people in the sport. We have received many compliments and encouragements in our journey, I was even told by one helper at a seminar that Deuce was the "best biting bulldog he had ever had on his arm". I could not have been more thrilled!

While, we are focusing on a good foundation and are not rushing the titling process... we passed the BH and obtained our BST in April 2006 and most recently obtained our Schutzhund I (March 2008) with scores we were very pleased with 96/82/97a! We obtained our Schutzhund II (March 2009) with scores 93/86/87a. We are excited for what lies ahead as we continue pursuing our goal of Schutzhund III.