I was raised with weimaraners as a child and had an understanding of their temperaments and husband had seen a Weimaraner as a child and loved their looks. I actually bought our first weim, CH Grayangel Kodiak II, SH, SDX, RDX, VX, for the husband as a first anniversary gift, this had been a joke between us since I had the time to train a bird dog and he did not.
Kodi became our learner dog and also our foundation bitch producing three very nice hunting Weimaraner litters. Our crew of Weimaraners has grown since purchasing our first bird dog. We have also evolved over the years in our goals with our dogs. We will always be committed to promoting the breed as serious hunting dogs as we quickly realized back then that only a handful of Weimaraner breeders actually hunted their weims. We soon realized how lucky we were to end up with a great hunting Weimaraner like Kodi because at that time, they were extremely hard to find.
We are serious hunters and we hunt everything from deer to waterfowl and all upland species. Our focus soon became producing Weimaraners that right out of the gate are natural hunters. While we do believe that any dog or bitch that we do use for breeding should be proven in some venue our primary interests are hunting with events being secondary. We health test all of the Weimaraners we do use in our breeding program for hips, elbows, thyroid and eyes; we feel that healthy Weimaraners with great temperaments are also important to our breeding program. The health results can be found on the Orthopedic Foundation for Animals ( OFA) website as well as listed here on our website. Additionally, we are members of the Weimaraner Club of America (WCA), North Michigan Weimaraner Club, as well as lifetime members of the North American Versatile Hunting Dog Association (NAVHDA).
We are now many generations into our legacy of hunting Weimaraners and we are proud to say our Weimaraners do hunt! I have listed all of our personal dogs on the “Our Dogs” page with their health test information. I have several other bitches/dogs available for our future use that are owned by others but they too will be tested in field venues and have all the health clearances done before they are used in our breeding program.
I was recently fortunate enough to add a dear friend, puppy owner, and awesome amateur trainer as a co breeder; Mindy Brown has been added to the Timberdoodle family and has been an absolute pleasure to train and work with. Mindy has been in Weims with her husband Drew for many years and we share the same breeding philosophy regarding temperament, trainability and health being absolutely crucial in our breeding program. We also agree that exceptional bitches are crucial to produce pups that have a solid work ethic. Mindy did an outstanding job with her bitch Timberdoodle’s Toast to Touchstone, SDX, RDX, NAVHDA NA 1, UT 1, ,”Moxie” earning a UT prize 1, first attempt and then did an amazing job of preparing Moxie for the NAVHDA Invitational. Moxie is now remembered fondly and Mindy is carrying her legacy forward through her daughters and granddaughter.
Sincerely, Camille Rice & Mindy Brown