Michaela Schwägerl

My name is Michaela Schwägerl and I come from Ústí nad Labem. I fell in love with the Weimaraner breed when I first thought about getting this breed. It was 2007 when I found a fateful ad on the internet where the breeder had the last available girl with a black collar, named Angel from the Amsel-Easy kennel, who was born on January 25, 2007. It was my first dog, my first Weimaraner, who brought me on my life's journey, the journey of hunting, hunting cynology, sporting cynology and breeding. In a relatively short time since the arrival of a new member of the family, in November of this year, I signed up for a hunting license course and in September 2008 I successfully passed the hunting exam. In the period from enrolling in the course, after passing the exam, I was already registered as an adept in the Zálesák Povrly Hunting Association, where after 4 years of adept practice, I became a full and valid member. They say that a hunter without a dog is half a hunter, but the same applies to a weapon, which is an indispensable part of a hunter for exercising the right to hunt and also for training hunting dogs. That is why I also applied for the exam to obtain a weapons license, which I also successfully completed and thus became a full-fledged hunting dog leader and hunter. I think it is worth mentioning that I come from a completely non-hunting family and I am even more pleased that this connection has become the content of my life, which was greatly supported by my husband Vojtěch Schwägerl, who comes from a hunting family in which hunting has been known for several generations, and was guided in this direction from an early age. Over the past few years, I have had the opportunity to read a lot of literature about dogs, sighthounds, hunting dogs, hunting dog training, dog sports and many other publications about dog behavior and signals, which has helped me a lot to better understand and live together. However, I am still studying and learning, we learn all our lives. When it all started, I had no idea what awaited me and us, I didn't know anyone, no hunting dog owner, no hunter and I didn't know how and where to start. Therefore, I would like to thank all those who contributed to where I am now. Above all, I would like to thank you for all the valuable advice, experience, patience and time that they gave me for a long time, especially in the beginning! I must also not forget those who, even in today's difficult times for training hunting dogs, provide us with hunting grounds, spaces and conditions so that we have where and what to train our charges in a quality way. And thanks to this, we have sufficient fields, water and forest areas, which we can change as needed, and we have both wild game birds and wild game fur. However, for training purposes, we also have our own so-called released game. The D'Argento Suerte kennel was founded in November 2011. The name is very specific, but very apt, in translation it means silver luck. The kennel was founded in order to support the breeding of Weimaraners with typical features and characteristics for this breed and high-quality genetic potential. Which is actually my greatest achievable goal, to breed offspring without genetic defects, with a balanced and stable nature for the best coexistence, with all the typical natural characteristics such as the quality of the nose, a solid and stylish display in the Weimaraner standard and a good field! It is not for nothing that it is said that it is a very versatile dog, I cannot but agree, because in addition to hunting cynology, we engage in sports cynology, coursing, canicros, scooter, bikejöring, positive motivation and other joint activities with our dogs. The Weimaraner is a very trainable and manageable dog, but in its life it needs to be mainly satisfied and it is satisfied only when it can spend as much time in its life as possible with its owner and if it has a busy head and feels maximally used. Each individual has a unique personality and therefore needs an individual approach and everyone needs enough time to master their life stages. Nothing must be rushed and so-called pushed to the limit, or broken over the knee.

In conclusion, I would like to wish all future owners good luck in choosing a new family member, any hunting breed, whether it will be the next dog or the very first. Whether you plunge into hunting cynology, or just get him as a life partner! With open arms and sincerely from the heart, I offer all of you, whether future owners of our puppies, or all of you others, my many years of experience in selecting, managing, feeding, living together and breeding Weimaraners.

"I think we are drawn to dogs because they are unbridled creatures, which is what we could be,

if we were not sure that we know everything best"

George Bird Evans, author and dog breeder

Vojtěch Schwägerl

I was born in the Elbe region into a hunting family. Our family had everything from pointers, shorthairs to Hungarian hounds, because our hunting, in which we are members and which we take care of, is mostly field, with water areas, hence the choice of hounds. I remember when I was 5 years old and my dad told me that our German bay had died because he had eaten the wrong rabbit. It didn't take long and we went to get our first Hungarian hound. We traditionally named him Aris after the family. At that moment I started to "help" my dad with the training, or rather I ran after him everywhere, because I was very interested in all this and I was with him every time he went to train our new Ariska. I remember when I was pulling trailers and Aris was locked in the car so he couldn't see me, when I went to take a discarded animal, my dad always locked him in the car and I didn't really know why. But I liked it when he found the game and happily brought it back. When the law allowed it, I was able to go hunting for the first time and see it all in practice. It occurred to me that I would also want my own dog, but I was 15 and my dad, of course, wouldn't let me. We had to say goodbye to our first Hungarian hound, and it was all the harder because it was on the day of the first hunt in the 2009 hunting season. That year was just me and my dad, without the dog. It was so different, incomplete, and that's why on January 1, 2010, we went to get our second Hungarian hound, Aris again. I went through most of the training with him, as my dad's assistant. I went to the autumn trials with him, went to all the hunts and got closer to the world of cynology. When I started driving, I started riding as a hound on other hunts and I started taking my partner Aris with me. We worked great together. When he started getting old and his strength started to run out, at that moment I decided to get my own hound! At that time I was on a hunt where Míša was leading Weimaraner hounds, I suspected that there were some such hounds, but for me at that time there was only the Hungarian, the Fousek and the Shorthaired. They worked really great and so I started to get more interested in them. When Míša told me: "we want to breed in the spring", I knew that this was it! In our club they told me that the Weimaraner doesn't work, is sharp, doesn't run and that I would never make that dog and that was the engine for me! I'll show you! That dog will walk like a charm and I will train him to be versatile! I have been ridiculed and made stupid comments. To date, my first Weimaraner, named Aussie, is a versatile bitch and she is missing the last CACT title to become a working champion (update - she is no longer missing, we won her at the Josef Kobza Memorial Versatile Trial Competition and she became the Czech Working Champion). As for the cynological world, thanks to my Weimaraner I have met many experienced cynologists, interesting people and many great friends. And most importantly, the Weimaraner has brought us together so much that I owe it to him that I have become a proud and proud father, the head of the family. It is great to meet a person in life with the same diagnosis, the same interests, hobbies. And because my family lived exactly the same for many years, we receive maximum understanding, support and joy. I would like to thank all those people who were at the birth of this beginning and my love for hunting work with hounds!