About TGK's Nebraska Pointing Labs

My name is Aaron Stover and I am the owner of TGK’s Nebraska Pointing Labs.  I have been hunting over pointing labs since 2000.  My family is a HUGE part of our small operation.  My wife Melanie, and our children Madison and Rylan are all heavily involved with the dogs.  We all interact with them on a daily basis as we firmly believe our dogs need to be well socialized and a part of the family, not simply dad’s hunting dogs.  When litters are being born and have hit the ground is when you really see our family work as a team.  Melanie has a special bond with our females and is right there with them when they are delivering pups, rubbing their tummy, patting their heads, or just letting them know she knows what they are going through.  When the pups become mobile, the kids take over with playing with them and loving on them on a daily basis.  Many a tear has been shed when the pups go home, because we love our pups and at the same time we are happy they are going to new owners to give them joy in their lives.

Our Philosophy

We want to provide you with "bend over backwards" customer service and an excellent hunting dog.  Our family takes great pride in responding to customers wants and needs.  We may not always have exactly what you are looking for, but we never want to miss the opportunity of placing a puppy with a new home because we didn’t take the time to listen and understand our customers.

All of our dogs are hunted and trialed. Let us be clear, our dogs are hunting dogs first and trial dogs second.  Each year I hunt all over the Midwest with annual trips to the most prime pheasant hunting available.  I am blessed to having family in Northwest Kansas, and Northwest Iowa, and I also go to South Dakota and of course hunt around home here in Nebraska. Our dogs quarter the field, point and retrieve birds (land and water), and are good companions. It is our opinion that training a dog to only pass trials does not make a good hunting dog or generate good blood lines. A dog must love to hunt and that only comes from getting in the truck and going for real hunts on wild birds in natural conditions. Training situations will never bring out a dog’s natural abilities that a cold fall morning of hunting wild pheasants and ducks will do.

References

Our Kennel always enjoys hearing back from our valued customers. If you are a TGK dog owner and have an update on your puppy/dog, a hunting story, and of course pictures, please email them to us.  Has your dog done something great, let us know about it and we will posit it on our current events section. If you are a potential customer and would like a list of references, please let us know and we will gladly provide them to you.

Current Events
April 27-29, 2012:  These few days are where all of our family's hardwork and teamwork pays off.  These next few days our puppies start going home to their new homes.  This is always such a bitter sweet experience as these little guys have been such a huge part of our lives the last few months and we love them all dearly and will miss them.  We are thrilled to see the excitement and anticipation on the faces of their new families and it makes all of the hard work worth it.  Our family continues to be blessed and humbled by our customers for entrusting us with this investment.  Thank you to our customers who have literally driven thousands of miles, picked pups up at the airport, or visited our home several times to pick out your puppy.  Your relationship is invaluable to our family!  To my family, thank you for making these litters a success.  Without Melanie's willingess to bottle feed when needed, take hundreds of pictures, clean bedding, etc. etc. this would not be possible, you are the second best mommy a puppy could ever have :)  Madison and Rylan thank you for playing with and loving the puppies on a daily basis.  They would not have their sparkling personalities without you guys!  Watch out world the next round of TGK pups is out there!

March 8-10, 2012:  Wow, what a busy few days for our family.  Nala delivered her 11 pups on the 8th and Kiera surprised us all with a 3 day ahead of schedule delivery on the 10th, with 8 puppies.  All are doing great.  Both litters have a few pups available, please see our litters page for further details.

Week of February 20, 2011:  Not a lot of news to report.  Nala and Kiera are progressing along well in their preagnancies and getting bigger by the day.  Their upcomming litters have been pretty popular and deposits on the litter have filled up quite well.  There are still a few spots on each breeding available depending upon what sex/color and you are looking for, please contact us for further information on availability.
We are down to our last couple of weeks with Jedi being home with us.  It has been a real pleasure having him home for awhile and awesome to go hunting with him.  Jedi's vacation will soon be over as he heads back up to SD to start the 2012 trial season.  Please check back often for trial and litter updates with Jedi.

Week of December 26, 2011:  Apparently the girls all wented to give me one more great hunt for the year, see below, because three of our girls all decided to go into heat this week!!  Candi, Nala, and Kiera all went into heat this week.  We are going to breed Nala and Kiera, and let Candi sit this one out as she has a much more regular heat cycle and you should look for her to have a litter in the fall of 2012.  We are thrilled to be using our brand new stud dog, Jedi, as we know these breedings will be exceptional.  For 100% sure these breedings will produce yellow and black pups, but there is also an outside chance that both litters may also produce chocolate, we shall see.  Please contact us for further information on these outstanding breedings.

December 22-23, 2011 (Kimball, SD):  I recently took a trip of a lifetime as far as pheasant hunting goes.  I went to Kimball, SD with my brother and friends Andy Schoeberl (trainer), and LeRoy Robinson.  Andy and LeRoy showed us an amazing time and hundreds of birds.  If you are an avid upland hunter please put a SD pheasant hunting trip on your to do list.  It was everything and more I have ever heard about pheasant hunting in SD.  Thanks again Andy and LeRoy!!

December 17, 2011:  Today my friend Spencer Volzke and I headed up to Pheasant Bonanza and did a morning hunt.  The folks at Pheasant Bonanza do a wonderful job of showing you a good time. Spence and I got to shoot and shoot at :) several birds today.  All the dogs got to get on birds today so it was a great day.  APLA folks I did some scouting around here also and I think this location would provide the organization a wonderful place for a hunt test.

December 16, 2011:  Waverly, NE  Today I took the afternoon off and went hunting with my friend and insurance agent Rusty Wellman. Rusty took me to a couple of his honey holes right around Waverly. We saw several birds and got a couple of Roosters today.  It was a blast, thanks Rusty!!

November 23-27, 2011:  Atwood, KS for Thanksgiving.  Birds, birds, and more birds is all I can say.  Folks NW Kansas is back!!  I have been pheasant hunting in NW Kansas now for 15 years, thanks to my beautiful wife Melaine, and I haven't seen this many birds since she first took me home all those years ago.  A huge thanks goes out to my father in law who secured private land for us to hunt on.  I hunted Nala, Candi, Kiera, Flo, and our kennels future star Bleu.  All did well on this trip and got to see a ton of birds.

November 4, 2011:  Ceresco, NE, A fun and proud day for TGK.  This morning I took my son, Rylan, with me for a quick pheasant hunt.  This was Rylan's first time going with me.  We took Kiera, Nala, and Candi with us this morning and let them all hunt together as we had a very large section to cover by ourselves.  The dogs all individually did a nice job, but on this morning it was Nala that found the rooster and delivered him back to Rylan and I after I shot it.  Rylan was just thrilled to see the whole thing play out before his eyes.  I am quite sure I have a hunting partner for life now!!

October 2, 2011:  Parsons, KS (APLA Fall Test), Jedi earned his APR title!!  This wraps up a very successful 2011 trial season for Jedi.  Jedi earned his JH title and went 2/2 on SH titles in AKC trials to compliment his newly acquired APR title through the APLA.  Our thanks goes out to our trainer Brad Lhotak.  Brad and Jedi are becoming a very good team and Jedi will be a special dog to watch in 2012 as he finishes his SH title and competes for a MH title and GMPR titles.  Jedi is going to have a great/fun fall winter as he gets to go guiding with Andy Schoeberl at Pheasant Crest Lodge in SD.  What a lucky dog!!  Jedi turns two on October 17, 2011 and then we will do his health clearances and if all goes well he will be offered for stud to approved females.  Please feel free to inquire into his stud dog agreement and we will send you a copy.  Also, huge congratulations to Justin Poore and Winnie on her CPR title at only 9 months of age!!  Winnie is a puppy out of our last breeding between 4xGMPR Ridley x CPR Nala.

September 10, 2011:  Webb, IA (APLA Fall test)  The Webb, IA APLA Fall test continues to treat TGK well.  It is a pleasure to report to you that our kennel has added another talented female that will be sure to enhance our future breeding success.  TGK's Just Go with The Flo (Flo), earned her CPR title at this test.  Flo is not yet on our website, but soon will be.  Flo is Jedi's full sister and littermate.  Flo received the comment from the judges as exiting the upland field, "those were two of the best points we have seen all day!!"  That said our kennel and family would love to give credit were credit is due.  Our fist round of thanks go to Andy Schoeberl who agreed to sell back to us Flo, who originally aquired her as a puppy from us.  The second round of thanks goes out to LeRoy Robinson who ran Flo in the upland section of the hunt test and did a phenomenal job with her!!  Our kennel continues enjoy success highly due to our friendships and professional relationships with what we lovingly call, our "SD Boys!!"  Please keep a eye on our website for Flo's upcomming page.  She turns two this fall and then will begin her breeding career.  We are actively looking for a qualified stud dog to match Flo's pedigree and intense hunting sytle, any suggestions?

August 20-21, 2011:  Missouri Valley AKC Fall Hunt Test (Valley, NE)  I was so nervous the night before I could barely sleep.  In Jedi's first attempt at upper level testing he slammed it.  Jedi went 2/2 in the SH testing this weekend.  We are super excited about this.  Jedi continues to improve week after week and this is just the beginning for this exceptional dog!  Most likely this is it for AKC tests in 2011, now onto the Fall APLA tests.  Brad Lhotak has done a wonderful job with him and we will be anxious to watch him compete at the APLA events now.  Stay tuned.

August 14, 2011:  No grand news to report just wanted to get some thoughts down and keep folks up to date on some upcomming things for TGK.  The first is as we approach the fall tests we are anxious and hopeful that Jedi will be ready to perform at the upper level testing.  Jedi continues to make strides each week and as anxious as we are all for these "big dog" titles we still have to remember he is not even two years old yet. We will keep you posted on how he does. After the fall tests are over and he turns two we will be getting his health testing done before he starts his breeding career.  Speaking of his breeding career, the second thing is I am already starting to get inquiries on his availability as a stud dog.  I am currently working on our stud dog policy and will put that information on the website in the very near future.  That's all for now folks, start excercising your dogs.  The weather is turning cooler now, kids are going back to school, and the fall is quickly approaching.

July 30, 2011:  Puppy pickup day at TGK!!  Just wanted to say thank you to everyone who got a Trooper x Kiera pup and drove all those miles to pick up your pups.  Our family is truly humbled that so many of you drove so far for one of our puppies.  We would especially like to give a shout out to Charlee and Reese who rode all the way with their Dad and Grandma from Kentucky to take home "Hunny".  Make sure you don't spoil her girls!!

July 22, 2011:  Jedi passed his final leg of his JH title in Bemidji, MN.  Thanks to Brad Lhotak for obtaining this title.  Hopefully we are now onto SH testing and GMPR testing this fall!!

June 25-26, 2011:  Jedi passed a double AKC Jr. Hunt Test in Rapid City, SD.  Thanks to professional dog trainer Brad Lhotak for Jedi's continued progress.  One more pass is needed for his JH title and then on to bigger and better titles this fall.  Updated pictures of Jedi are coming to the website soon, if you want a sneak peak email me and I can get you some snap shots, he is really growing up!!

June13, 2011-Kiera delivers her pups:
On this day TGK produced our very first all GMPR breeding when Kiera delivered her litter.  This is a breeding bewtween 3.5xGMPR Trooper, MH x GMPR Kiera.  Rarely in the pointing lab world does the breeding include both parents being a GMPR, so we think this will be a very, very special breeding.  Please see out litters page!!

June 12, 2011 -TGK's Nebraska Pointing Labs has a very, very special day for us:
On this Sunday our family went up to watch some of the AKC Hunt test at Valley, NE.  Our own Jedi was competing, but so was Gator, and Rachael.  As many of you know we are very sentimental towards our Hershey x Tess breedings, and this gave us the opportunity to view three dogs from three different litters out of our Hershey x Tess breedings, so we couldn't miss the opportunity to go see everyone.  All three dogs had very nice runs this day.  We event took a "family" picture, as we brought with us Hershey and Tess just hoping we could get everyone together.  I have not quite figured out how to post the picture yet :), but if you would like to see the "family" picture let me know and I can get you a copy.

April 15-17, 2011 -TGK's Nebraska Pointing Labs Congratulations on the following:
1.)  4XGMPR, HRCH Rooster received his QAA title in Ohio.  Rooster is the son of our Hershey x Tess.

2.)  Aaron received his 2.5xGMPR title this weekend at the Higginsville, MO APLA trial.  Aaron was the stud dog we used on Candi's last litter, see our litters page.

3.)  Cruz received his 4xGMPR title this weekend at the Higginsville, MO APLA trial.  Cruz is the stud dog we are using for Tess's last litter, see our litters page.

4.)  Ridley earned his 4xGMPR title this weekend at the Higginsville, MO APLA trial.  Ridley is the stud dog we used on Nala's last litter and is the father of TGK's the Mountain's are Bleu, a yellow female we have the highest of hopes for!!

April 11, 2011 -GMPR Kiera was bred to 3.5xGMPR, MH Trooper :
TGK's Nebraska Pointing Labs enthusiastically announces our very first GMPR x GMPR breeding!!  We are absolutely thrilled to bring this pairing together (see our litters page).  Trooper needs no introduction in the Pointing Lab world but when paired with our very own GMPR Kiera, watch out Pointing Lab World, this breeding just may set you on fire.  In all seriousness I urge you to compare Kiera's pedigree along with her GMPR title to other breedings and I think you will see why we are excited.  We aren't the biggest, but we are trying to do our best for you, give us a shot!!

April 2, 2011 -CPR Tess was bred to 3xGMPR, HRCH Cruz :
We are thrilled to announce Tess's last breeding and we honored to use Cruz (see our litters page).  Cruz is the most talented Chocolate Pointing Lab currently competing in hunt test trials if not the most talented regardless of color!  Tess has only been bred to our Hershey in the past but he is now retired, and we were looking for a similar pedigreed dog as Hershey, as we know what type of dog this will produce (see either Hershey or Tess's page to view their incredible history), and Cruz was a easy choice.  When these pups hit the ground Cruz will potentially be a 4xGMPR and MH.  We are so excited about this breeding that we are keeping a black female for ourselves.  Look out APLA as she will soon be on the scene!!

February 21,, 2011 -Candi delivers her puppies:
Candi's due date was the 20th and we all anxiously waited all day for the pups to arrive, but the day came and went without the new puppies arriving. Aaron set the alarm for 12am, no pups, again I got up at 2am, no pups, the alarm was set again, for 4am, still no pups!  At 6am Aaron got up for the day, and two new pups were delivered.  The 21st was a scheduled very busy day at work for Aaron, so Melanie graciously stayed home and sat with Candi until the pups were done being born that day.  Candi has 4 beautiful chocolate pups and 3 black pups.