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Glenn DeMott with his Spaniels.
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I started training Springers with Jack Riepenhoff and John DeMott back in the 60's. At that time, my interest was in well trained dogs for hunting. John did the training and we both did the hunting. In the late 70's, John DeMott moved on to training Talbot Radcliff's Saighton dogs and I moved to Oregon to get a Masters in Fisheries and Wildlife.
I met Janet Christensen in Oregon and purchased two of her puppies - experiencing limited results with them. Later, while I was living in Eugene, Janet contacted me about some puppies that she thought I would be able to handle better for hunting. The puppies were from the McGee's. Janet assured me that all of her national champions were in the breeding. The bitch, Timberdoodle's Lollipop, was directly out of NAFC, CNFC, NFC Saighton's Scud bred to Sherwood's Lady Anne. The McGee's were retiring from breeding and they asked me to keep the
Timberdoodle name on this puppy. I brought home Timberdoodle's Lovely Lady (call name "Judy"). She was a very large and powerful female with a tremendous desire to hunt and please the master. I have kept the Timberdoodle name ever since because I have been extremely happy with every puppy I have owned from this line.
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Glenn DeMott with Judy in Oregon.
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We hunted pheasants, chukars, huns, grouse and ducks all over Oregon. I moved to West Virginia. I decided to breed Lovely Lady to an English dog, Druid Rock Boss, that John Isaac owned. Druid Rock Boss was a dog out of EFC Badgercourt Druid. Timberdoodle's Rosie was born out of this breeding.
Rosie soon distinguised herself as having tremendous desire and an amazing ability to make most any retrieve. Though she made many amazing retrieves, one of the most notable was while duck and goose hunting. We were looking for a goose towards dusk in light snow. This goose had been wounded earlier and had flown several lakes down in the string of lakes we were hunting. My partners and I could not find the goose. As we started quartering in a bean field, Rosie spun around and began heading
full speed towards the goose. Surprisingly, the goose took off. It was roughly 40 inches in the air with Rosie chasing the goose at full speed. They approached the top of a hill that dropped abruptly into the area of the ponds and we were sure the goose was lost. As Rosie and the goose reached the top of the hill, she launched herself into the air and pulled that full sized Canadian Goose out of the air. It was something that neither my hunting partners nor I had ever seen while hunting at anytime in our lives. That was just one of her amazing feats throughout her life.
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Freckles and Angel with Our Young Trainer, Megan.
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By then, I had moved back to Columbus and began training with Jack Riepenhoff, again. We bred Rosie to FC, AFC Gleanngillen's Flying Tiger in 1996. In 1998, Flying Tiger was the National Amatuer Field Champion. Three puppies went into field trials: AFC Timberdoodle's Spock, FC, AFC Molly of Westphal and FC, AFC Speed of Westphal. I rebred Rosie to Tiger - and that produced AFC Timberdoodle's Freckles, high point puppy in the Mideast. Spock's first breeding was to CNFC, FC Brandy's Big Ben. From this litter came Richard Domo's dog, AFC Big Mac, and our FC/AFC Timberdoodle's Angel, who is very smart with great stamina and desire.
Angel is our first dog to achieve double titles, which she accomplished in the spring of 2006. The newest member of the family is Timberdoodle's Kimba and she runs like her dad, AFC, FC Stonington's Cut To The Chase, 2nd in the 2005 National Amateur.
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