I come from a beef cattle and horse ranching background and spent the better part of a decade buckarooing in the ION (Idaho, Oregon Nevada) and CA areas on both small 'mom and pop' cow outfits to some of the largest cattle ranches in the West.  I have had and raised horses and dogs for the better part of my life.  In the 1980's I knew and corresponded frequently with, the famous Molosser expert and judge, Christofer Habig of Germany, and wrote for his famous but now out of print Molosser Magazin, in addition to articles for Dog World, El Mundo del Perro and Western Horseman.  

With my ranching and cowboying background I know first hand the problems ranchers face with predators and livestock.  My unique working background allows me as a dog breeder, a deeper appreciation for and understanding of, the rancher's needs and problems in tackling calf, lamb and kid losses to predators.  In that regard, in order to assist ranchers in combating increasing predation problems, most pointedly wolves, I have imported some of the most rarest and largest LGD breeds in the world to the USA in order to get them into the hands of ranchers and farmers who are finding it difficult to curtail stock loss using more traditional LGD breeds. And, I'm also on a mission to make them affordable to working ranchers.