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Clan Clark Deckers (August 24, 2006)Greetings, welcome to our website. We want to make sure you visit our other photo albums while you are in the neighboorhood.
We are breeding high percentage Decker (giant) Rat Terriers. We breed for prey drive, temperment, and overall health/conformation.
While standard "Ratties" come in around 10-15 pounds, our stud male, Sir Duncan, is 45 pounds. Our Females, Mairead and Orla, are both around 25 pounds.
The Decker is blessed with a huge prey drive and also a dedication to their humans. While being relentless while hunting they love to cuddle up on the couch with you.
They were bred to hunt and love nothing more than to have a job to do. While not near as hyper as a Jack Russell Terrier, they have plenty of energy to do whatever you train them to do. They are more of a thinking type dog, but still terrier through and through. We have one pup that is now riding a boogie board and taking the yellow lab he shares his house with for walks! Yes he holds the lead in his mouth and off they go to the park. Another pup is going through a training program at Canyon City Colorado State Prison and may become a police dog or an assistance dog for the disabled.
Deckers can be taught to do just about anything you want them to do. Such is their desire to please their humans. They are so smart you have to be very careful with them or else they will end up training you to be the kind of human they want you to be! No kidding there! They are SMART.
They have been trained to hunt mice, rats, coons, 'possums, upland game birds, waterfoul, bounce deer, break turkey flocks, squirrels, rabbits, woodchucks, even baying wild boar. This versatile dog is without equal.
If that was not enough, once in the house they love to cuddle. You could never find a better critter to cuddle up with on a cold winters night. Each has their own individual personality that makes them even more special. They almost defy description. All we know is we have fallen in love with these dogs and will never own any other breed!
Please feel free to check out Sir Duncan's, The Lady Mairead's, and Princess Orla's photo albums. Also the planned breedings album.
Please feel free to contact us at maryjo_meyer2002@yahoo.com or call us at 616-366-5008 or 269-945-9660 if you would be interested in a puppy, or if you just want to talk dogs. We love company, it's a plus if you like to fish!!!
We are located in Southwest Michigan in the town of Hastings.
Please visit these fine breeders sites to get more info/pic's:
http://www.imageevent.com/kimsee
http://groups.msn.com/bluegrassratterriers/home.msnw
We will add more Decker breeders shortly. So keep checking in!! |
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Puppies and Planned Breedings (Spring/Fall 2008)Orla X Petey (son of Duncan) Fall of 2009
Mairead x Duncan Fall of 2009
UPDATE!! Great-granddoggies born on 06/16/2009 from Clan Clark's Chloe and Seegmiller's Bullet Proof - see photos below or go to www.imageevent.com/kimsee to see more pics. We are so proud of this litter!! |
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Sir Duncan (August 24, 2006)We are proud to introduce you to Sir Duncan. He is from Kimmy Seegmiller's breeding program. Let's all give her a standing "O" for all she has done to preserve this noble breed!!!
We will be having Duncan collected so if anyone wants to breed we can do so without having to ship dogs all over the country. This will be much less stressful for all our dogs, and us as well! If you are interested please contact us for details.
Duncan is now just over two years old now. He is 40lbs. of solid muscle!
We think Duncan will be valueable to the entire Decker line, with his classic "Decker" looks, his intelligence, great demeaner, and of course his size.
His first litter with our Mairead has produced 5 outstanding puppies! We are thrilled!
The Fall of '09 we will be breeding Duncan with our Granite Oaks Mairead and possibly with Orla. We may breed Orla with Clan Clark's Petey who is a pup of Duncan and Mairead. This should produce top notch puppies.
Please feel free to call us anytime if you have any questions, or just want to "dog chat."
Clan Clark Deckers
Hastings MI. 49058 home# 269-945-9660
or e-mail MaryJo at: maryjo_meyer2002@yahoo.com |
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The Lady Mairead (August 24, 2006)Update: Mairead is now a mommy! She had 5 pups on 9-10-2007, two girls and three boys. She had her second litter on 11/02/2008 with 4 girls and 2 boys. To see them, go to our granddoggies album.
Mairead is our first female Decker Rat Terrier. Mairead is from Paula's Granite Oaks Kennel.
She is out of Granite Oaks "Noble Additude" (Addy), and Seegmiller's Axle Rose.
We will breed her in the Spring of 2007. Her first breeding will be with our very own Duncan. We have high hopes for this breeding. It will be some very high quality puppies. At 6 months she is not a bit gun shy, and loves to go hunting with me. A prey drive that is top notch.
It is now May '07, and Mairead is going into her 3rd heat. We are going to breed her with Sir Duncan so keep visiting to see the results!
She is 25# now, and just a spitfire! She loves to walk with MaryJo in the woods everyday after "Mom" gets off work. She runs off-lead and just a joy to watch. A fantastic hunter that NEVER quits! A true Decker through and through! |
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Orla | Orla is our newest female Decker. She is Seegmillers Orla @ Clan Clark Deckers. We think she will be a VERY special girl. Orla and Duncan should produce some extaordinary puppies. Keep checking back as we will be posting many more pictures of this wonderful young girl. |
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Granddoggies | Where our granddoggies are and our new Decker family. |
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Hunting with Deckers (June 24th 2007)| Our dogs love to hunt. Last night they treed their first coon. Then this morning I spotted a wood chuck about 80 yards from the house. Mairead got to learn about chucks!!!! |
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Links These are some of our favorite sites. You can link directly to these sites below.
A huge thanks to Kimmy Seegmiller for getting us started and we continue to work with her. We are looking forward to bringing some of Kimmy's dogs to our kennel to breed to our Duncan in the near future.
Bridget Placka has one of our granddoggies Liberty (Libby). We are excited as we have some upcoming breedings together to expand our lineage.
Eli Brown has some fine dogs and we are looking forward to some future breedings with his dogs. Also check out Eli's book on the Deckers.
We are a member of the top 100 Decker Rat Terrier breeders. |
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Our Friends | We will be adding to this album from time to time, stay tuned! |
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Wildlife | Some pic's of the wild critters around our place |
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The new property (August 24, 2006)| where we are moving to... we hope. It's 20 acres 10 being cleared, 10 still in native woods. Plenty of deer, turkeys cranes, and a private lake across the road. We are looking forward to building a log home in a few years, then having Mom and Dad move into the trailer. MJ wants to raise Alpacs, and the Decker Rat Terriers, and I will do a huge garden, some chickens, a couple of hogs a year for our own use. MJ wants me to build another pond, this time I think I will rent a backhoe!!! We are thinking of nameing the place "Clark's Oasis." What do you think? |
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Remodeling project (Fall '07)| We are laying down oak flooring. We have the middle bedroom and the hallway done. This winter I will be doing the back bedroom, the livingroom, and the kitchen. |
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Nebraska '06 (August 24, 2006)| I went back to Nebraska to help Bill plant wheat this fall. I had a blast getting my hands dirty again, thanks Bill and Teri!!! It was great! |
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Our wedding (August 24, 2006)| MaryJo and I were married Aug. 13 2006 and we would love to share some photo's with all of you. |
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