Legacy Miniature Schnauzers

Learn to groom your Miniature Schnauzer the correct way!! A grooming DVD for your Miniature Schnauzer pet! 75 minutes of grooming instruction presented by top-winning show groomer and Miniature Schnauzer breeder Patty Ledgerwood. Professional videography by LightCurve, LLC features beautiful close-up shots and a menu-driven DVD format. Click link below for more information and ordering, and see customer comments. Reviewed by *Video Librarian* and given a three star rating and "Recommended" status! Click here for Grooming Video Information and Ordering From Video Librarian: "Of course you'd really have to love dogs to be a groomer, but when Patty Ledgerwood, a breeder of Miniature Schnauzers, discusses "how to press the anal glands" - with the helpful reminder to move your head in order to avoid some of the oozing - the weaker-kneed pet owners might gladly decide to opt for professional care. This straightforward how-to begins with a look at the equipment needed - Ledgerwood touts name-brand preferences, which may be helpful for getting novices started - followed by demonstrations of shampooing and drying, clipping, grooming the ears (cropped and natural), cutting the hair between the paw pads, working with the groin area on a male dog, scissoring, "fine tuning the groom," and caring for nails and teeth. She thankfully doesn't include information on how to color pet hair (a service advertised by a local groomer) or paint the dog's nails, and obviously much of the information here could be adapted for use on other breeds. Personally, however, I think I'll stick to self-cleaning pets: cats are a lot less maintenance. Recommended. " We are also a distributor for Healthy Pet Products, a premium raw food diet for dogs. Click here to visit Legacy's web page on the raw food diet. Some of the results we have noticed from our anecdotal experience are: a happier dog with more energy, better coats, more muscle, great appetites, healthier skin, smaller and more firm stools and easier whelping by pregnant bitches. In addition to the raw commercial product, we feed raw chicken wings or turkey/duck necks several times a week and our dogs have no tartar buildup on their teeth, and the teeth are pearly white. Legacy's Mini-Views We will be adding these short feature videos from time to time, on a variety of subjects. Some will be about puppies, some will be educational and some will be just for fun. Four current videos are slotted for the webpage, with an archive to past videos. To see the archive, click the "Menu" button in any of the videos. You'll some tiny thumbnails of the videos in the right side of the video pane. Hovering your mouse curser over them will scroll and magnify the thumbnails so you can select a past video to view. Check back for more feature videos in the future! Content suggestions may be sent to us at mack@legacyms.com.
Hot Dogs The puppies are now a bit over six weeks age, and have become stronger and more coordinated. They are weaned to raw food now and have become precocious little "hot dogs". It concerns us greatly that puppymillers will sell puppies at this age, when they still have so much development to take place and certainly need to stay with their littermates and the familiar environment where they will be protected by knowledgeable breeders from events that can harm the growth of confident temperaments.	Puppies and Chicken Wings The puppies, now seven and one half weeks old, are introduced to raw chicken wings. Their baby teeth are breaking through and they love to gnaw on these wings until they are exhausted. At that time, the wings will be given to the adult dogs to finish. Turn your volume way up - at 1:02 into this video, you will hear Benjamin (our neighbor's donkey) bray as if to warn us ("hey-ayyyy"), and then a flock of those huge Canadian Geese fly over about 15 feet up. The racket scares the puppies momentarily. You can literally hear the wings of the geese beating amid their honking.
Playing With the Big Dog On a cloudy day, a couple of the puppies, now 9 weeks old, play with our 10-month-old male, Robin. Robin is just a big kid himself. But he's very good with the puppies and has lots of energy. And at the end, yes, that's an earthworm the puppy snacks on. That's what your dog does when you aren't looking!	Chasing Bubbles The dogs love chasing soap bubbles. They were well into the play session when I started the video taping, as you can see by the tongues hanging out. Nonetheless, they still had enough energy to provide us with a laugh or two.
Our new boy Legacy's Rockin' Robin (CH Wards Creek's Flying Solo X CH Legacy's Carry On) is shown here at the home of Portland, OR friends. "Robin" is a natural-eared boy whom we think will do fine at future shows. He is 11 months old in this picture and is a very nice moving dog, possessing lots of body. Click here for more Robin pictures. *Top Producing Dam (tie) in the US for 2005: CH Carmel Foxy Roxy At Legacy* "Roxy" had three daughters finish their championships in 2005, for a total of six champions produced. And now, with daughter CH Legacy's Dance-Dance-Dance (Tango) finishing in April, 2006, she has produced a total of seven champions! This is our annual "puppy picture", taken by Vavra Photography of Gates, OR. These puppies are from two different litters, all sired by Robin, who is shown above. They are a rambunctious four months old and are usually bouncing off the walls. Yes, it was very hard to get them posed like this, but Jerry and Marty Vavra are great at what they do.
Welcome to Legacy Miniature Schnauzers! We're coming to you from Pasco, in the southeast part of Washington State, USA, where the Snake and Columbia Rivers merge. We wanted to provide a useful, informative and entertaining site for people who view dogs as companions. Our particular breed is Miniature Schnauzers, but all dogs are special in ways each of us can appreciate. I'm reminded of an old quote: "To each dog, his master is Napoleon; hence, the popularity of dogs". That, after a fashion, sums up the undying devotion and friendship a good dog can provide, in return for your care and hospitality. In addition to the dogs, we've always had a cat or two around, and all pets get along great, in a sort of mutually respectful arrangement. We've bred and shown dogs in AKC conformation and obedience events for some twenty five years. Over time, one comes to understand the very unique and unparalleled nature of the canine/human connection. But you never cease to wonder, on occasion, at the sometimes inexplicable displays of communication these fuzzy little creatures can show us. This site will always strive to provide worthwhile information, intended to advance the welfare of all dogs. We can never, however, compete with some of the special links that are provided (see Links). Your comments and advice are always welcome, and we hope you leave here with something of value.
Mack and Patty Ledgerwood Mail comments or questions to: Mack or Patty	Members of: American Miniature Schnauzer Club Richland (WA) Kennel Club Christmas, 2008, with Robin and his puppies.