About Us

We are new additions to the USA, after moving here from sunny Queensland in Australia.

We could give you our life stories, but how about we just let you in on recent events and how dogs have shaped us. I've done a bit of a full blown story below, which you can read if you feel like it, but also done a timeline summary of adult life.

Wayne & Monique

1993 - Finished University and started an I.T. company
1993 - Rescued Jack, my old dobe
1994 - Wayne and Monique met and became business associates.
2001 - Wayne and Monique, now good friends, opened joint company.
2002 - Monique diagnosed with cancer, finished work, and started chemo.
2003 - Studied accounting and animal communications externally while getting better.
2003 - Monique and Jack moved to rainforest to get better. Became involved in alternative therapies and applied to both human and animals. Started studying Psychology Degree.
2004 - Friendship deepened with Wayne, and became pregnant. Searched for the perfect doberman for my impending child.
2005 - Gave birth to my first son Connor, gave Connor a litter mate called Jazz. Opened up Mountain Mutts to help serve dog lovers with other therapies, good food, and a friendly environment to be with other dog lovers. Jazz and Connor permanent fixtures at the shop.
2007 - Wayne asked Monique to go to USA. Monique pregnant again. Closed Mountain Mutts. Moved to Las Vegas, contacted breeders as Monique now no longer working, and received mentoring.
2007 - Had second boy - Liam, Jazz became babysitter. Monique and Wayne get married.
2008 - Jazzy becomes pregnant with 1st litter.....

The Full Story

We have always had big dogs in our life, my (Monique) first was an Alsatian, who stayed with me until I was 16.

When I was 21, we rescued a dobe whom I called Jack. He was in a very poor state, and deeply damaged. The general reaction to Jack was that I should put him down as he had been badly beaten, and his personality was not the best.

I was very lucky that I owned and managed my own company's and was always able to have Jack around me. He never completely recovered from those early months, which just goes to show what an impact that time has in a pups life. Jack was always "MY DOG" only, and didn't have much time for anyone else. He was very protective, and bit when provoked, so I pretty much kept him away from everyone unless he trusted them.

Back then we were more career orientated people. However all that changed when I received the news that I had cancer (at 30). My work took a dive, and I began the painful process of chemotherapy. I lived alone then, even though Wayne (now my husband) was a very good friend and business partner, it was just me and Jack.

I have to say that it was Jack that got me through it. He used to stand all night after a bad session, resting his head against mine, and letting me know everything was going to be all right. While I was ill, I chose to do a diploma in Animal Communication, and started to apply what I knew through my own alternative therapies, to other dogs. It worked quite well.

After the chemo, I decided to move to the rainforest (away from the big city) and heal properly. Wayne was now a lot closer to me, and we started our relationship, and lo and behold - I fell pregnant with my first son Connor.

Straight away, I knew that my son would need his own best friend, so before he was born, I started contacting good breeders to find the perfect mate for him.

A wonderful woman by the name of Gail owned a kennel called Glanikdobe. I explained to her what I wanted, not so much a show dog, but a friend for my son. I explained he was going to be a new baby, and I needed an incredible dog to meet this task

Gail came through. 2 weeks before my son Connor was born, Glanikdobe Nifty Nikita entered the world. Gail informed me of the litter, but admittedly, I was a bit more concerned about my own.

6 weeks after Connor was born, we took a trip north, and picked up Jazz. Straight away I knew her, and it seemed straight away she knew Connor.

Having any sort of children around dogs has always given me the heeby geebies, and most certainly I was not going to let Jack anywhere near my baby (he wasn't that interested anyway), but the connection between Jazz and Connor, not to mention Wayne, was incredible.

The new babies

About 4 months after I had Connor, I decided to travel abroad to see my father in Sweden for 2 months....I had a house sitter that Jack had known for over 10 years, stay with him, and against my better judgement - Jazz went to stay with Wayne. I explained to Wayne that she was enrolled in obedience, to make her go and get her trained, and how important the first few months of life is. Already she was brilliant with Connor, slept at the foot of his bed, and was very well behaved.

Returning from Europe, I discovered that my very well behaved doberman, had now turned into a very human doberman. Not only eating and living out of each others pockets, Wayne now had Jazzy firmly implanted in the main bedroom, not only on the bed, but with head on pillow as well!

Anyway, I opened up an alternative dog shop, with Jazz and Connor as my mascots. They grew up as mates, and Connor grew to become a very gentle child when it came to animals and smaller babies.

Jazzy grew a little faster in size

Fast forward a couple of years to 2007, and Wayne asked me to come to america, get married and live with him here. Jack and Jazz followed us 3 weeks later, and we had another baby towards the end of he year. This time Jazzy took on a different role. Instead of the mateship that she shares with Connor, she now became the nanny.

Jazzy forever the nanny

Her relationship is more of a mother/son relationship with baby Liam, but with Connor it is still littermates.

New Baby Liam

Well, I met some beautiful doberman Breeders in Las Vegas, 2 women I regard very highly - Lora Van Epp and Lisa Burroff. It is with their experience, their mentoring, their advice, and their opinions of Jazz, that I have decided to give the rest of my life into improving this breed.

A few weeks ago, we had to let poor Jacky go. He was 16, and I hope I had made it up to him for his first few months of neglect. I miss him, however, he was MY DOG. He was not my familys, and I feel for him that he missed out on that. He was my protector, my best mate, and will be in my heart forever. It is a hard thing to let them go, I've written quite a bit about my life with him under Death of a Dog link. But he was so old, in so much pain, that it became cruel for me to ask him to go on - just for me. I loved that dog so much.

Liam is just about to get a doberman mate of his own now, one which shares all our lives. And being one of Jazzys sons, I know will be up to the best doberman standard.

I hope this gives you some insight into the roles our animals play in our lives. How you have a chance to make a really good friend for life for your family.

Please look in from time to time to see how we are doing. And dont forget to check on Jazzys progress.

Bye

Monique

Our Litter is Due on 12/13/08
(Ch.Kansa's Out All Nite V Tristar WAC X Glanikdobe Nifty Nikita)

For those of you considering a puppy, I hope some of the following pages help

New Puppy Owner
New Doberman Owner
Children & Dogs
Showing
Agility
Breeding
Death of a dog
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