The Members:

Amy Fast - Amy works for the marketing/properties department at a professional sports organization. She is primarily responsible for traveling to dog shows, training the dogs for the ring and providing socialization for the dogs away from the house.

LaRita Fast - LaRita is a stay-at-home-dog-mom who cares for the crew 24/7. Taking care of the dogs is the perfect job for her. She keeps the Weimies on a feeding, exercising, and socialization schedule along with providing basic obedience training and grooming. LaRita's other passion is raising Orchids and African Violets.

As a mother/daughter team, we've been showing Weimaraners since 1990 , breeding since 1997 and have been members of the Weimaraner Club of America since 1990. As members and the webmasters for the Weimaraner Club of America, and Weimaraner Rescue, we are active in the breed club. We also attend all-breed shows, specialty shows and the yearly Weimaraner Club of America National Specialty when we can. Our dogs and breeding record speak for themselves. We've produced champions and continue to consistently compete successfully with dogs we've produced.

Breeder's Biography

We bought our first Weimaraner shortly after my (Amy's) 12th birthday. We narrowed it down to three different breeds, the Weimaraner, the Rhodisian Ridgeback and the Basenji. We chose the Weimaraner because of it's striking looks, intelligent temperament and the fact that it could be more than an "ankle biter" if someone broke into the house.

Libby

We'd done some research on what hip radiographs were and what makes a good pedigree. We bought books, a crate and tried to make the transition as smoothly as possible for our newest family member. We look back and laugh at what it was like to have just one dog.

Our breeder had planted the seed of showing Libby thought we weren't really sure how to go about it. We loved her dearly and wanted to have puppies with her someday, like many people do when they love their pet. We were determined to go about it the “right” way though – get a championship, hip x-ray and all that other stuff we learned about. Most of these dreams started to dissolve when we discovered Libby's hips were almost non-existent and the pain turned our cute puppy's temperament to a dog who would bite. It was devastating when we had to have her spayed. Libby lived to the ripe old age of 13 1/2 . Most of what we've done with our Weimaraners is a tribute to her determination to work around the physical and mental insufficiencies she had. We always wished we could wave a magic wand and make her problems disappear.

We joined the W.C.A. in 1990 at the encouragement of another local breeder. At that point we decided we wanted a male to show and looked through a few months worth of litter announcements and magazines. We waited what seemed like forever for the right puppy. We finally acquired Stuart who was out of one of the top-producing dog of all time, Ch.Valmar Smokey City Ultra Easy. We got him a few days after Christmas in 1991.

After showing Stuart for awhile, we decided we wanted a female dog…for obvious reasons. We waited about two years to get the right female for our breeding program from Tom Wilson and she was well worth the wait. Sophie arrived the fall of my freshman year in college and we had a great time showing her over the next two years. She won several BOB awards and made the cut in sporting group at six months old. Sophie would have made a great specials bitch but my college and work took priority.

Stuart

Nearly nine years after the original idea, we finally had our first litter of puppies with Sophie in 1997. This litter produced both of our BISS winners and Tommy who made it onto the top 10 in 2000. When the babies were about 8 months old, we packed up the whole crew and moved to 5 acres here in Colorado. We felt a more centralized location would make traveling to shows easier and more frequent.

The rest is history, so to speak…we're active in showing, breed clubs and other Weimaraner related activities. We attend 35-50 shows a year and usually breed 1-2 litters a year. Our web site highlights what we've accomplished with showing and breeding our dogs and our hopes for the future of this breed. Please explore the indexes and read about our dogs and experiences.