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Nikki Pollock 166 followers More information Treeing Walker Coonhound. Looks almost like my new dog :)Find this Pin and more on Loves <3 by Nikki Pollock. English Coonhound Redbone Coonhound Treeing Walker Coonhound American Coonhound Coon Hunting Hunting Dogs Hunting Birds Black Lab Puppies Dogs And Puppies More information Treeing Walker Coonhound. Looks almost like my new dog :)Find this Pin and more on Loves <3 by Nikki Pollock. More like thisSharp Tooth Kennels"The hollow where legends are born." One of the last breeders of the Original Lone Pine Finley River bred Treeing Walker Coonhounds. Located in Artemas (South Central) PA By Lavena JenkinsIn Memory of Stephen Jenkins
Treeing Walker Lone Pine Breeding Our hounds are bred to be extremely fast and accurate. Loud bawl mouth on track and bawl/chop on tree. Steve's philosophy was "Speed Kills" and can be seen in many of the hounds at Sharp Tooth Kennel. We breed smart long legged and very fast hounds. They run with their heads in the air but are also very adept at cold trailing to get a track started. Most of our hounds have big bawl mouths that can "rattle" the mountainside. We are fortunate to have a great mountain area in which we can let our pups roam for the first 6 months or so to become "acquainted" with the woods and its smells. When ready they are familiar with many of the smells they may run across on tract and in a hunt. We also will expose our dogs to not only big mountain but a wide variety of hunting environments to create a well-rounded hound. Steve had been hunting coons, big game and training hounds for almost 50 years. Coonhunting was introduced at an early age when working at Gene Harrison's farm in Woodbine, MD. As a young tyke hunting with his dad Truman, and Gene; Steve would help train dogs night after night, As he became older he became a handler for Gene, hunting every night, sometimes all night long. Sonny Everhart was the other original handler and they each had specific hounds they hunted to see if they had what it took to become part of the Lone Pine breed. In order to obtain the high quality hound for the Lone Pine breed consistancy was a must. Many times Steve would hunt a dog 100 nights in a row, regardless of the weather, to see if the hound would make it or not. Steve has hunted most of the legendary greats of the Walker breed and can tell you about many hounds you read about in history books or in your 7th generation of your pedigrees. The Story of Lone Pine Finley River hounds Lone Pine breeding was introduced by Gene Harrison, Donald Warfield and Stanley Duvall who were determined and relentless in creating a line of hounds that was the absolute best coonhounds in the world, bar none. That was the only agenda. The hound they were looking for must be fast, accurate, hardhitting tree dogs with the incredible tracking ability. These men searched nationwide for the best hounds that displayed these traits to breed together to create the Lone Pine Breed. That's where Finley River comes in. Lone Pine Lady, an exceptional female coonhound that had the qualities they were looking for, was bred to Finley River Chief, Finley River Spike, Finley River Pete and several other fine males, to become the base of the legendary Lone Pine hounds. The criteria to be chosen was very very strict and only the best were selected. Steve, just a boy at the time, was sitting on the front porch at Gene Harrison's front porch when the Lone Pine breed was named. Gene, Donald and Stanley were on the porch along with Steve. They were trying to decide upon a name for this extraordinary type of Walker hound they were working on. Gene had a lone pine tree in a big field on his farm down in front of where they were sitting. He looked at the tree and said why don't we name it Lone Pine, the other two partners agreed and that tree became the trademark of some of the best coonhounds for tracking and trailing in the world. This is the original beginning of the Lone Pine Breed. Our Lone Pine dogs today are built on that solid foundation these gentlemen started many years ago. Exceptional Finley River bred hounds which are renown for the tracking ability were a main ingredient in the original Lone Pine mix of hounds that took the world by storm almost 50 years ago. These same dogs are in our pedigrees over and over both in sires and dams of our Lone PIne Finley River hounds. These are the hounds found at Sharp Tooth Kennels. Steve believes good dogs are made in the woods. We are not about degrees and certificates although our dogs do have them. From Dual Grands to winning at Walker Days to finishing 8th in the World Hunt, our hounds have done it all. We hunt our dogs relentlessly on coons, bears and cats and are striving to maintain the standard set many years ago. We continue to strive for the best, most solid reliable coon and big game hounds. We have several exceptional hounds standing at present for stud. We are available if you would like to see them in the woods, yours or ours, any weather condition. Congratulations Chrissy and Bruiser - showed at Autumn Oaks in the kids bench show and is getting their pic in Bloodlines!!!!! Good Show!!! An up and coming handler for We currently have 2 beautiful females available out of STK Lone Pine Sharpshooter Annie and Stk Lone Pine Timber Buster-ready to go! Congratulations to Christine Mummert "Chrissy" and Brad Stottlemyer with Lone Pine Bruiser. A beautiful male out of Sharp Tooth Kennels Clementine and CH Lone Pine Finley River Jenks. CONGRATULATIONS TO Lorrie Case & Finn (a beautiful hound out of Katie2 x Hercules!) Congratulations to our Instructor Lorrie Case and Finn on their FIRST NW3 Title!!!! Every trial this team titles!!!! The future is bright for this team!!! GREAT JOB!!!!! Sept 24, 2018 Lavena, Just wanted to give you an update on Finn.�@ Yesterday he competed in his first level 3 nose work competition and he rocked it!�@ He was such a good boy.�@ It's only his third full day trial and he worked beautifully and was very clear in his alert. I also received multiple compliments on how handsome he is. Next week we try for an obedience leg.�@ He heels like nobody's business but does get distracted. Just not the same as nose work.�@ Regardless, he always puts his heart into all he does. Thank you. Lorrie Our pup JR out of NITECH Lone Pine Wing Dinger htx x CH Sharp Tooth Kennels Vicky has got a 1st place Registered win in a UKC hunt at the 2016 Christmas Classic at Berkeley Springs WV Dec 10, 2016. 300+ Handled by Billy Boggs! WAY TO GO!!! PU Congratulations Ranger! Owned by Dani Mummert this beautiful boy out of STK Lone Pine Ali-Gator x GRCH Hercules is now a GRAND CHAMPION. Finished at Meyersdale on 8/4/17. Great job guys! Robbe Baer's Charlie (6 mos) Ellie Mae x Winger Jr. cross 5/1/17 - Hey Lavena,I've been working with charlie quite a bit.The picture that comes with this text is the second coon that charlie has ever seen. I worked him a bit then dragged him into the house when he escaped 15 minutes later. He went right to the tree but the coon was gone. I have a log pile 10 yards away where the coon went. when charlie found him, he went right in after him and they got right into it. I had to grab him by the back legs and drag him out. I now have a coon about 100 yards in the woods to train with tomorrow and he has smelled him out. He's coon crazy. I guess what I'm saying is that I couldn't get rid of my pardner if I wanted to. I can't walk without tripping over him. I've got a good feeling he's gonna turn out to be a good hunter. I'll keep ya up on his progress. I ran him on another one this morning. He almost tore the trap apart Robbe (Baer) 2/17/17 - received from Roger Lenhart - Bonnie, a beautiful female out of Sharp Tooth's Patty x Sharp Tooth Kennels Hercules 11/7/16 Congratulations to Vicky & Roy Brachfeld of NY for the their dog "PIE" or LONE PINE SKULL n Bones making Grand Nite CH. But not only that look at the message from Vicky "PIE" -Finished his GRAND NIGHT CHAMPION Saturday Night and now becomes - The ONE and ONLY "THE FIRST" (AKC Grand Champion - UKC Grand Bench - Grand Field - Grand Night - HTX - International Champion - Intercontinental Champion - CGCA - TDI - AKC Multiple Group Placing - ) PIE is out of our Sharp Tooth's Lone Pine Sassy x Lone Pine Ricky. Ricky is a son our old GRCH Lone Pine Kate. A job well done for an incredible hound, with the conformation for show and the nose and hunting ability to excel in the woods. He truly is what legends are made of. Congratulations guys. Thomas Sutphin sent this pic and testimonial 5/5/17 -Updated pic received from Tommy Sutphin in Virginia. His name is Preacher - He is an Ellie Mae x Hercules pup. Looks like he is doing a fine job for you! He is an early 2016 pup. 12/2016 - Here is a email received from Tommy Sutphin in VA about Preacher! Trees last night doing great. Nice job Tommy! Keep us posted on his progress!!!! Tommy has just purchased another pup! A beautiful little female out of Pearl & Cochisse! She should be a real nice addition to his kennel! 1/17/17 - A great pic from Zach Gooch. Zach just purchased a beautiful Ellie Mae x Winger pup from us out of our most current litter. Approx 3 months old treeing on a bear hide. Great Job Zach!
Here is a 2015 Ellie Mae x Hercules pup owned by Bruce Myers of NJ. Bruce called 11/2016 to let us know what a nice job the pup did on his first season of bears. Read more on Bear Hunt with Sharp Tooth Pups!
Received an email 11/14/16 from Allen Vollmer (Ike shown above) Hello Steve and Lavena. Just wanted to let you know my pup Ike who is almost 11 months old was in on a bobcat race today. He did a good job on track and tree. There is a lot of pup in him around the house but when he gets a nose full of something that he wants he really gets to work in the woods. He is out of Hercules and Ellie May 12/24/15. I have owned a few hounds but only one that was truly good. This pup fro you is going to be a good one. He has charactger, drive and a willingness to please. I will try to send some pictures. Thanks Alvin Vollmer This was a good cross. Also received a phone call from Bruce Myers from NJ who also got a pup out of the same litter of Hercules and Ellie May. His pup had a wonderful year running bear in Maine. He said considering his age (10-11 months) he did a phenominal job. Feels he is really gonna make a nice bear hound. 7/17 Heard again from Bruce Myers from NJ. " Buster is doing great job strike to tree My first day out and the first strike in Maine"starting the training season this year. Speaking to Bruce later that week he stated that he looks for this to be a great year for this young hound. Got a great letter from John Sergi from Myakka City FL Aug 2016 To Lavena and Steve Hey, Sorry it took so long to write. But I have been coonhunting. Thank you for Buddy. Best Hound I ever had. He is 2 years old now and I really did not have to do much. He was on it. He hates a coon and he trees hard. Good mouth on a truck. Very happy with him. Great with other hounds and by himself. Don't have much more to day. Buddy does it for me. All I can say is this. Fella hunters, you want a hound, then Sharp Tooth Kennels is the place to get one. Thank you again but its time to go tree a coon. Thank you. John Sergi. I have since received more calls from John. John has been buddy hunting Buddy in FL and has won over $1500 in "gentleman hunts". He is currently getting his UKC and PKC paperwork and going to do some serious hunting. From what I understand he is getting to be quite the hound in Florida. Good Luck John & Buddy. Have fun and keep us updated! August 2016 - Received the following from Lorrie Case - Hi Steve & Lavena Just wanted to tell you that Finn was in his first nosework trial ever yesterday. He earned his title. He was super! I was so proud of him. We had so much fun! Thank you so much for him. We are looking forward to more trials and fun! Lorrie (Finn is a Sharp Tooth's Lone Pine Katie2 x GRCH Sharp Tooth Kennels Hercules cross.) Hoss, a beautiful Sharp Tooth Lone Pine Katie2 x GRCH SHarp Tooth Kennels Hercules cross running bear in Washington State. Owned by Tyler Peasley. he is the grey silver walker shown. Here is what Tyler says about him. "He's been a phenomenal bear dog for me up here. Would like the chance of buying a female bred similar to run on big game. Hoss has been amazing from truck to tree for me. I've never had a dog out work him on the box. He's also proven to have a good nose to get the older cat tracks moving. And not to many dogs around here that bay as hard as he does. He likes getting close! Last week he ended a 6 hour bay in the corn fields on three legs with his pack of 4. I love bear bays and love a gritty dog that will stick around to get the job done!" Thanks Tyle Hi Lavena Update from the McClains received 2/14/16.
Update from the McClains 4/27/17: Hi Steve and Lavena No Ralph, you are not wrong. Congratulations Daisy is a Nite Champion! Steve Lavsa's dog "Hammer) (another Lil Francis x Buck 2 pup) I decided to check out your website today and I noticed you just did an update from the McClains and when I noticed the litter info, I seen that it was my pups (Hammer) sister. He was out of Lone Pine Lil Francis and Buck 2. He was the only one that didn't have the full saddle markings. He's a little on the small side probably a touch under 70 lbs (looks the... same size as McClains female). I just figured I'd shoot over a couple of pics of my dog Hammer. We bought him to be a house pet but he was just coon crazy from the time I first showed him a caged coon so we figured we had to hunt him. I don't compete with him, but he is a very fast hunter and trees in short order. I've thought about entering him in a hunt but he seems to do much better on his own. (I noticed McClains hunted their pup solo too, hammer does it all on his own too) He would do great at one of those hunt tests where he's by himself. Cut him loose, he will open by chopping on the trail and starts to bawl hard once hes treed. Either way, I just wanted to share that with you to let you know that you did have another pup out of that litter that is still doing great and is a good hunter. Steve Lavsa More on Pocahontas, owned by Zach English
And for those who question if they make excellent companion or family dogs here is a testimonial received 1/6/16 from Susan Kenney & Lyle Green It's Susan Kenney and Lyle Green with Jagg - Lone Pine Francis x Lone Pine Wing Dinger Per Stephen: First live coon she and the plott pup ran, bayed for about 15 minutes and then treed it barking every breath before shooting it down. Great Job Stephen! Looks like you have the makings of some real nice hounds to add to your fine bear pack 2/21/16 - Just received a phone call from William Brooks with Lone Pine Zoe's Meltdown (a NITECH Lone Pine Cowboy's Jody x Sharp Tooth Kennels Goliath cross) Zoe qualified for the World Hunt last night! Congrats to William and Zoe and all your hard work! Best of luck to you at the zones! I know I have other testimonials to go through and post so please be patient! And Thank you for your continual updates! Please keep sending them! SHARP TOOTH LONE PINE PUPS DUE ANY DAY - Lil x Jenks pups! Check out litter information page! . More exciting crosses on the way! We will have more on the ground soon. Check out our Pups for Sale Page and Litter Information Page for upcoming crosses, Parents pedigree info and pics. Email now to check availabity of current or of upcoming litters at As litters are confirmed we will update our Litter Information page, Pedigrees are found on that page as well. Any questions, please email us at . Reservations for pups are recomended. There is currently a article about one of our pups out of Lone Pine Paige in July 2014 American Cooner. Check out page 38 and read about Newbie, the little coonhound that could. Testimonials! Roger Kloepping from Illinois purchased a pup from our spring litter. He got a beautiful female, Reba, out of our Wild Annie x Bandit cross which is currently 3-1/2 months old. Here is what Roger had to say about his pup at 11 weeks. "Lavena , I am pumped i caught a coon last nite for 2 older dogs put the coon in the back seat of the car had little Reba in the front seat with me, soon as she smelled it her hair came up she growled & barked at it all the way to turn it loose , then barked at it with the older dogs. she is awesome i bet this will make Steve smile it sure does me. i will keep you posted have a great day i am." Roger, and in another email he states" At her age that is something to brag about, i told you she wasnt afraid of anything haha. Have a great day. Roger Update received 6/14/13 Hi Lavena, Went hunting last nite took Reba along my Frost dog got treed Reba and i walked into the tree Reba began sniffing around on some limbs leaning against the tree and began treeing. She continues to amaze me... have a good day Roger Thanks Roger...we look forward to hearing more about this beautiful pup. Another testimonial received 3/3/14 about a pup from our Spring 2013 Wild Annie x Bandit litter from Ricky Haines of VA. Hello Steve and lavena Its Rick from Virginia just wanted to give you an update on Joyce who is out of Wild Annie and Bandit. She has turned into a coon treeing machine by her self or with company. i have been hunting
her with a male dog who is only one win from grand and he is the real deal but i can tell you one thing about her she just turned 11-months and 4 out of 6 times she is first to stike and first to tree with the meat i had a guy wanting to buy her for 1500 dollars the other night told him no amount of money could buy her the If you are interested finding out more information on the prospective litter or reserving a pup from a particular litter, please let us know. Please feel free to email us about our current breeding program and pup prospects and to be placed on our pup reserve list if you like what you hear! Keep sending your pics. I will try to feature at least one pic monthly sent to us by proud pup owners! News Board! We realize that we could update some of this older information but we feel it gives you an idea about our kennels, our philosophy and our dogs! Events are chronologically listed. We were extremely honored to have our dogs posted on Every Dog Has Its Day on the UKC Coonhound Website on Friday 6/22/07 and through the weekend. Featuring our "Lone Pine Wild Annie" a last year pup really nailing the coon on her first time out. Also shown are Sharp Tooth Judy and Annie, another fine Lone Pine hound. You can see this picture in our Other Sharp Tooth Photos (along with a copy of the caption that was on the UKC website page) and Annie again in our Lone Pine Pups. Two other pups from that same cross are winning bench shows and are actively interested in tracking and treeing a coon. One is actively competing in water races and is really causing comment in treeing contests with his fast chop and big mouth. And two males are really making waves as young bear dogs. Please see their photos in My Photos. We are again amazed at the exceptional versatility and persistance of these dogs in the task they are given. Pictures are posted of these fine hounds in our Sharp Tooth Pups-Past and Present. 6/07 - News Update of Sharp Tooth Kennels: NTCH Lone Pine Cowboy's Jody, the dam of our last year's litter, has been qualified for the UKC World Championship hunt. Now this is not a small thing for us. Steve really just wants to hunt dogs, whether it be coon hunting, bear hunting or cat hunting. He is not into competition hunting any more so we really had to some fancy talking to get Steve to come out of retirement of competition hunting. You can see her pictures in the Nite Hunting Pictures and her daughter, Lone Pine Wild Annie in the Pup pics and More Sharp Tooth Photos. Annie at 10 months old started really showing promise in not only hunting the coon but water races as well. 7/07 - Jodie did it again at the UKC Youth Event World Qualifier. She once again is eligible for the World Youth Championships. We also had another winner at this event, Sharp Tooth Molly who won best of show female. We are very proud of our hounds and their young handlers, Bruce Hoopengardener with Jody, and Connor Poole with Molly. Pictures can be seen of both of these fine winners in Sharp Tooth Lone Pine Dogs and On the Bench. Congratulations guys! 6/08 - Sharp Tooth Kennels Judy (Cujo x Sable) wins UKC 2008 YEP World Qualifier in Eckhardt, MD. Events - Water Race both Line and Tree as well as Field Trials Line and Tree. This is her second Water Race First Place (both in a row and both Line and Tree). YEP handler was 6 yr old Bruce Hoopengardener.. 7/08 - Sharp Tooth Kennels Judy wins Walker Sectional in Field Trials(Reg.) and Water Race (Reg.) Line and Tree in both divisions. This makes the 3rd water race in a row that Judy has won and she is now a Water Champion. See pics In The Water. 8/09 - Sharp Tooth Kennels Judy became a Grand Water Champion and Sharp Tooth Kennels Hercules won Champion of Champions Male and King of Show at the Treeing Walker Sectional held at Eckhart, MD on 8/22/09. 10/09 - Congratulations to Billy Boggs for his first place night hunt win and high scoring dog with Lone Pine Josie B at the Eckhart MD hunt on 10/10/09 and again with a first place win at Charlestown WV on 10/17/09. Josie can be found on our night hunt page and On the Bench page. She is out of Lone Pine Cowboy's Jody x Sharp Tooth Kennels Goliath (Cujo). She recently became a Grand Show Champion and is now really making her mark in the woods! This past week we have had great testimonials from folks who have purchased pups born this past fall and winter and even this July. We have had folks drive in from the Northwest region of the US again to purchase more of our line of pups because they were so impressed with the last litter. You can read their testimonials on our Testimonial Pages. This entailed approximately a 5500 mile round trip. 9/2010 - Read about Jenk's (a Chyna x Raven cross born 1/09 and his first cat chase this year. Really remarkable for the conditions of the ground at the time he was hunting. Once again we can say enough about the amazing tracking ability of these hounds. You can read more about it on the Testimonial Page 2. We can only say that we are very impressed at the great response of these pups to whatever game you wish to train them for, the versatility of these hounds for the types of terrain they easily adapt and thrive in and am thankful for the interest in keeping this line of hounds going for future generations to appreciate and enjoy. Please keep sending updates on your hounds. We love to hear about how they are doing and love to see your pictures. Read about Bear who is out of our 2008 Fall litter and I truly believe from what I am hearing is about to become a legend in his own right. 8/21/10 - Sharp Tooth Kennels dogs had a great day at the Walker Sectional at Eckhart MD. Sharp Tooth's Hercules, who is a Sage (World CH Handsome Hank) and Cujo (Lone Pine Cowboy x Slobber Slinging Poison) cross won Champion of Champions and King of Show in the Bench show. Another dog from our kennel and owned by Billy Boggs of Hedgesville, Lone Pine Jesse B won Champion of Champions Female and Queen of Show. And last but not least Lone Pine Babydoll won the night hunt with High Scoring Dog (550+ points). We are grateful that we have been blessed with the opportunity to continue to offer these great hounds that not only exemplify the conformation of the Walker breed but the top notch track and treeing ability in rough weather and terrain that this particular strain of walkers excels in. Check out our site and read more on our fine hounds. Exciting News, October 9, 2010 Lone Pine Babydoll became a UKC Night Champion. She obtained it with 3 1st place UKC wins this year. See Baby on her own webpage - Babydoll. A great hound and a joy to hunt. Take a look at two fine hounds we have on the Pups Past and Present Page. Here you will see two beautiful blanketback walkers out of this year's litters really nailing a caged coon on a tree. One is 5 months old and one is 7 months old. They are Lone Pine Finley River Lil and Lone Pine Finley River Odin. These are an example of our pups. The great Christmas Pic we had of Tanner Folk and his new pup Lilly we had on this page for the holidays is not gone, only moved...Check out Testimonial Page 2 to read about Tanner and his Christmas surprise! Update 2011. Many great things are continuing to happen here at Sharp tooth Kennels. Lone Pine Bear has earned his htx degree (going out by himself and treeing a coon with a judge). He now joins Bo (Wing Dinger) and Babydoll has been in one test so far and passed. Bear also won as high scoring dog in a night hunt July 30, 2011. This young hound is showing a lot of promise. He is coon crazy and really no nonsense in the woods. Keep you eye on this hound. Read more about Bear on our At Stud page. Sharp Tooth Kennels Hercules is now a Grand Champion on the Show Bench. He is qualified in the World Champion Bench Show and for Lee Crawford Invitational for the second year in a row. Update 2012 Sharp Tooth is now International! Sharp Tooth Kennels now has pups across the "big pond" in a country that borders Russia & Turkey called Ajerbaijan. They are going to be running big brown bears (what we call Grizzlys') We also have pups running bears in Canada as well. 6/12 Sharp Tooth's Lone Pine Finley River Odin is now a Show Champion! This boy is just not all looks, out of Sharp Tooth's Sable x GRCH Sharp Tooth Hercules, this pup can really run a track and and run it fast with his head in the air. He is massive not only in stature but has a huge head and has a huge voice in the woods. You can't miss this hound in the woods or out! Very much like his grandmother Sable. He is only 2 years old and is really going to make his mark! 8/12 - Hercules won King of Show, Grand Champion Male at TWBFA Sectional at Eckhart Mines, MD 11/3/12 November 3,2012 Hedgesville.WV. UKC Hunt Lone Pine Bear won. 1st Place registered High Scoring Dog of Hunt. 11/17/12 - Culpepper VA UKC Hunt LONE PINE BEAR won 1st Place Registered. Lone Pine Bear is now a Night Champion with 3 first place wins~~ two of those 3 wins Bear was high scoring dog of the hunt. 11/18/12, sadly we wish to say our two wonderful hounds Sharp Tooth Kennels Goliath (Cujo) and Lone Pine Francis passed away yesterday. Both wonderful hounds in the woods, solid and reliable and as a member of our family we will truly miss them. We are fortunate they have passed their wonderful traits to their offspring; many who are still in our kennel. Lone Pine Bear mentioned above is a son of both of these hounds. You can read more about them on our Tribute page. News 2013 Great things are happening at Sharp Tooth Kennels. We have several exceptional crosses that are beautiful in conformation and already in the woods following tracks and treeing. These pups just seem to be naturals. A new dog on the AKC Show scene, Lone Pine Skull N Bones vom STK owned by Vicky and Roy Brachfeld. "Hunter Pie" as he is affectionately called is really making waves on the show circuit of AKC. Pie is a beautiful 2010 Lone Pine Ricky x Gooseneck Sassy cross from our kennel. Handled beautifully by Leah Ramsey, PIE will continue on his trek to next year's Westminster dog show. We will continue to monitor his progress! 4/7/13 - NITECH Lone Pine Bear Wins as high scoring dog at the Hedgesville night hunt. Go Bear! 5/25/13 Hercules won GRCH of Champions at Eckhart Mines RQE and is qualified for the World Show. 6/1/13 Sharp Tooth Kennels Odin (WCH FCH CH Sharp Tooth Kennels Judy x GRCH Sharp Tooth Kennels Hercules) won Champion of Champions Male in the Eckhart Mines Bench Show and NITECH Lone Pine Bear racked up another win in the Night Hunt! Great day for Sharp Tooth Kennels. 3 more wins for each to achieve Grand Champion Status. 10/5/13 Sharp Tooth Kennels Odin wins again at BBCHA Sectional in Eckhart MD...2 to go! 11/2/13 - Sharp Tooth Kennels Lone Pine Pearl has won her third Best of Show in a row becoming a show Champion. Thanks to Billy Boggs for showing her in her last two shows for us winning Best of Show both times! 3/2014 - STK's Lone Pine Finley River Odin is now a GRAND Champion. Thanks to Billy Boggs for finishing him out for us at
the Berkeley Spring March Hunt! We are currently breeding for future litters. Please check out our Litter Information - Upcoming Litters page. Contact us at for any additional information on our planned crosses for 2013 or how to be placed on our contact list or reserve list for puppies. Thank you for visiting our site. We hope that you take a look at our website and most importantly read what folks say about our hounds and see if its what you are looking for in your next coonhound. ITS HERE! CHECK IT OUT!- SHARP TOOTH FINLEY RIVER TESTIMONIAL PAGE. If you have a Sharp Tooth Lone Pine pup and want to brag a bit, please send picture and comments on your special hound. It seems that almost every day we are talking to folks who have purchased hounds or pups from us. Every day we are hearing great things about your pups and dogs you have purchased from our kennel. Thank you. We truly love it. Its is always wonderful to hear the great success you are having with your Lone Pine Finley River hounds. Many times we update with your comments and add pictures you send to us. We truly appreciate the new pictures and testimonials you send our way. It's your stories~about your dogs, ITS YOUR TIME TO BRAG! so please..... ~~keep on sending them! We are constantly updating and want you there!!! **Read testimonials on Sharp Tooth Lone Pine Finley River pups. Pup Testimonials 2013-2014 A great testimonial received from Nils Balles of Three Springs PA re: his pup Gladys (out of Sharp Tooth Kennels Clementine x Gooseneck Willis. As received 7/4/14: I love all my dogs. They are all sharptooth.Been waiting on our youngest Gladys knight. She`s just two. When we ask for your advice, keep hunting her. Lawd almighty, just like lightning strikes here comes Gladys. From the quiet she is deadly accurate. Strike and tree ;true predator. Always a coon and she has the mouth to bring us there without modern technology. We have purchased four hounds from you each is family and precious, but it keeps getting better;thanks for sharing. Steve,Lavena.......Don`t tell too many people! Nils A testimonial received from another happy pup customer. Travis Ryan. Another great pup out of Sharp Tooth's Wild Annie x NITECH Mac's Ridge Runner Bandit. Born 4/1/13.Emailed by Travis Rec'd in Aug 1- He is doing good I messed with him more today he starts to eat at the cage now till he busts his lips open Update 9/12/13 Boomer is still doing awesome he is really starting to shape up and turn into a hound he is just about ready to start hitting the woods and bagging the fur. Morgan, another Wild Annie x Bandit female born 4/1/13 owned by Josh Kreitz of Fairfield PA. Hi lavena, I've been working Morgan which is the pup I just got from you. She showed tons of potential last night. I worked them on a cat and those 2 really worked well. She hated that thing when they caught up to it. I was really happy with her. She is little but tries to keep up with him and just worked her butt off. Roger Kloepping from Illinois purchased a pup from our spring litter. He got a beautiful female, Reba, out of our Wild Annie x Bandit cross which is currently 3-1/2 months old. Here is what Roger had to say about his pup at 11 weeks. "Lavena , I am pumped i caught a coon last nite for 2 older dogs put the coon in the back seat of the car had little Reba in the front seat with me, soon as she smelled it her hair came up she growled & barked at it all the way to turn it loose , then barked at it with the older dogs. she is awesome i bet this will make Steve smile it sure does me. i will keep you posted have a great day i am." Roger, and in another email he states" At her age that is something to brag about, i told you she wasnt afraid of anything haha. Have a great day. Roger Update received 6/14/13 Hi Lavena, Went hunting last nite took Reba along my Frost dog got treed Reba and i walked into the tree Reba began sniffing around on some limbs leaning against the tree and began treeing. She continues to amaze me... have a good day Roger . 12/30/13 - Got a nice update from Roger on Reba. She has been consistenly on track with the dogs and going to the tree. Just this past week she got it figured out and is treeing coon on her own! Great job Roger & Reba! Bill Bailey got a pup out of Wild Annie x Ridge Runner Bandit who is a littermate to Roger Kloepping's pup. His female is doing great. Took out a barked on her own track twice and then finished one with his old dog barking every breath on the tree! He's thrilled!in MI is doing great! His pup was born 4/1/13. Great job folks. Hope to see some pics soon! Got calls already on another of this year's litter of great pups. The pup Willis out of our Judy x Hercules litter born 1/1/13 is doing a great job running bears in Washington State. Dropped him in on his first bear run and he took it right through to the end! Go Willis. Judy x Hercules Pup born 1/1/13 Received 9/10/13 - hey lavena and steve it rick from va just wanted to let you know that ghost has started to run and tree on his own he just turned 8-months on the 1st and is doing a great job he is out of Hercules and judy I need to make plans one weekend to come up and hunt with ya! Dan Robiadek from MI Rambo, a STK's Lone Pine Betty Boop x Sharp tooth Kennels Hercules Pup - born 3/12/13 email received 7/12/13- Rambo is doing great I got him swimming with the big dogs there's lots of go in him can't wait to get him on some bears Donovan Traggai - Received 6/27/13 Hi Steve and Lavena: I just wanted to let you know that "IVY" is growing quickly and has been a great pup so far. She was a hercules x stylish babe cross incase you have forgotten. I havent begun any training yet, just teaching to walk on a leash and come when i call. She progressing in both areas but listens pretty well. I have shown her a coon hide which she immediately attacked and started shaking. I was wondering if you thought it was time to start her on a roll cage (she is about 4 months). Any advice would be greatly appreciated keeping in mind im going to train without another hound since my friends dogs are competition hunters which is not what i want. I will send pics soon so you can see how she has grown. Thanks Again Donovan Updated from Donovan received 11/9/13:Hi Steve and Lavena: I wanted to let you know how ivy was doing(stylish babe x hercules). I have been giving her coon in a roll cage for several weeks and since trapping season opened nearly every evening. Its amazing how much she improved over the last few weeks. At first i couldnt hold her attention and now she is running and treeing most of them. I decided to take her out last night to see what she would do and she immediately opened up on a coon 50 yards from the truck and ran it 200 yards up the valley we were hunting. when she ended the track she barked tree for a minute then realized she was alone and came running back. with a little encouragement i got her back on track and when i arrived she was tapping a tree and running a small loop back to the same tree - no coon in it but a good first try. she also struck two other short tracks before we left. I couldnt be happier with her progress only being 8 months old. im carrying a camera so i can hopefully send you a picture of her first coon real soon. thanks for the great pup and all the training advice you have offered. If steve has any more training suggestions to help her along i always appreciate them. Thanks Again Donovan Traggiai
received 3/1/14 Hi steve and lavena' its Donovan from Butler, pa. Wanted to let you know my "Ivy" dog (Hercules x Stylish Babe) treed her first coon Saturday night. Its taking longer than I anticipated but she is doing well. unfortunately the weather here had all training shut down since deer season, its been freezing. anyway, a couple nights and she was running again and finally finished a track. remember im training without other dogs so its been tough but she is turning into a fine hound. thanks again You are doing great Donovan and so is IVY. This has been a real tough winter to hunt let alone train a pup and do it by yourself. Sounds like she is gonna be a real hound! Keep up the good work! Looks like hard and consistent work pays off! Read the following email received from Donovan on 4/20/14 Hey Lavena: Donovan from butler, thought you might like to know ivy has flipped the switch. She been averaging three trees a night. took her out with two night champions that already have wins toward grand and she held her own. got first strike three times and helped tree 4 out of 5 coon and broke off to tree a 6th on her own. very proud of her. cant wait till I can start knocking down fur to her, she is going to go crazy. I know you want pics, ill try to get you some soon. thanks again Looking forward to those pics Donovan! Congrats to you and IVY! 9/14/13 - Received the following email from Nolan Crowther in Idaho. Nolan has purchased 3 fine pups from us, trained over the past 2 years. He currently has purchased a pup out of our Lil x Bear cross that is being trained by us. Nolan hunts bears and big cats and you can see some of his cats on our testimonial page. Here is what Noland had to say about our hounds. We were out chasing bears today had 2 of your female dogs with us today lead pack of 9 dogs all day. I love these dogs very fast and have terrific nose. We will be running males on Thursday Tracker will be going. Best dog I have ever bought. You don’t find people like Steve and Levena every day. I will be purchasing another puppy next year. All three dogs are doing great could not ask for better dogs. Nolan Update 10/3/13 - received from Nolan Tracker is one fast dog. Fred (newest dog out of STK Lone Pine Finley River LIL x NITECH Lone Pine Bear htx, still at STK for training) better get his running shoes on if he is going to keep up with him. All in all our pack of dogs are really improving are looking forward to spring bear season with 4 sharp tooth dogs we are going to be hard to out run for any bear. Nolan UPDATE 10/29/14 - Got an update from Nolan on the pup we sent him earlier this year out of Lone Pine Lil (Gooseneck Anne x Willis) and Lone Pine Bear (Lone Pine Francis x Sharp Tooth's Goliath (Cujo). Here is what Nolan had to say about "Fred" "Steve, Fred is turning out to be the best dog I own just thought I would let you know". Steve also talked to Nolan by phone this date....Fred doing real good job with bears but what he is really shining on is running mountain lions. Thanks Nolan for keeping us up to date with how your pups are doing! 1/20/14 - Received the following from Rick Haines in Virginia. Rick got a Wild Annie x Bandit cross born 4/1/13. Here is what he had to say. Hi Steve and lavena: |