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"The Pointer hunts because birds are the most important thing in its life; the Weimaraner hunts because hunting is the most wonderful activity that can be shared with the people it loves." About Black Bear Farm We are located 4.5 hours north of the Hwy 401 and 400 intersections in North Toronto. Black Bear farm is not a farm. We have a small home at the end of a forest drive way recently carved out of the forest. We are located a half km from the village of Killarney. In spring, summer and fall, bears visit us almost every day. Killarney has one of the highest bear populations in the province and the bears cross our property regularly to visit the Killarney landfill site so we appropriated the name Black Bear Farm! Some times, in late summer, there are between twenty and thirty bears, all together, just a half km from our home. We see a lot of bears as they cross the property going back and forth. They get to know us and we get to know some of them. We needed a dog that was off leash all the time to protect our other animals and our child. We wanted dogs that would stay around and not wander into town when they were off leash. In part, our breeding program was motivated by a need to train the bears to make a detour around our home. But, as you can see there were exceptions. Once we had to lend a helping hand to a small bear. The dogs even socialized with her once they learned that her visits were allowed. My son Edward named the little bear, 'Baby Bear' after his favorite storybook characters. I grew up in the country. I moved to the city at age twenty, became a salesman for many years and got trapped in the city. Finally, I found a way to move back to the country with enough skills to make a modest living working from home in the forest. Its a remote and simple home with the most basic of services, but we are not quite off the grid! We have high speed Internet! Dog breeding came to me by accident as I looked for ways to create a dog team. I had kept German Short Haired Pointers in the city. When I moved to the north, I found my first Lab Weimaraner puppies and acquired them as hunting partners because they had thicker coats. One day I found a dog harness and tried it out on my male dog Avro, to see if he liked pulling me on skis. He did. I got another harness for Annie and tried it out on her. She liked pulling me on skis too. Together they could pull me at 40 KM per hour or faster on the lake over the ice. The next obvious step was to find a dog sled. I did find one but with only two dogs, the sled plus me was too heavy. I needed more dogs. In the mean time, I learned that Weimaraners didn't roam. Labs do. So, I figured that if I crossed Annie with a Weimaraner, I might produce good recreational sled dogs, hunting partners and dogs that would not be inclined to wander into town. My wife surprised me one day with Chief, a strong Weimaraner puppy of only six months. Annie and Avro pulled me on my skis the first winter. Chief, still a puppy, ran fast beside us but at twenty below, the moment he stopped running, I had to wrap him in a blanket! The next winter I tried him out in harness. He figured out what to do in less than five minutes and pulled all winter. I still had to wrap him in a coat or blanket when we stopped. Today he is my best sled dog and has been pulling for two full seasons. Chief and Annie's puppies have created my dog team. Now I have six to eight in harness, summer and winter. In the summer, they pull just me - no sled. I run behind them over the ATV trails. With them pulling, I can go for miles and miles without tiring. I kept some of the puppies with more Lab genes in their mix and offered the other puppies for sale to mostly Ontario and Toronto GTA customers. To my surprise the puppies sold well and we began to build up our Georgian Bay Sporting Dogs breeding program. We are in our fourth season of breeding puppies and we continue to train the dogs we keep for our dog team! I have acquired new Weimaraners to vary the blood lines. By 2008 I may be able to offer both Lab and Weimaraner crosses plus full blooded, not registered Weimaraners. As of 2007, we offer our puppies for pick up in Killarney or in Ajax Ontario, near Toronto. We have shipped our first puppy via Air Canada to Edmonton. We have just sold a puppy into the US, to Massachusetts near Boston. She will also be delivered to her new owner by Air Canada. Last season, 2006, was our most organized season of puppy sales and we recieved a lot of photos of our growing puppies from buyers. |
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