My husband and I owned pet Schnauzers for 15 years before I got involved with Miniature Schnauzer Rescue, Inc. (MSR) in 1995, a non-profit organization for the placement of Mini's that can no longer be kept by their owners. I worked with MSR, Inc fostering and placing many rescued Mini's for over 11 plus years before starting another rescue group called MapleCreek Miniature Schnauzer Rescue in 2006. Theone Hutchman and I are working rescue together. This has been extremely rewarding.  Our website for MCMSR is http://www.maplecreekmsr.org/  which is operating as a not-for-profit organization.

In 1995 we were fortunate to obtain two females from a breeder who could no longer keep her dogs and allowed us to breed them and show their puppies if they ended up to be show quality pups. That is when my husband and I started MapleCreek Miniature Schnauzers. Since then we obtained our foundation bitch "B.J.", a "Rep" daughter.

We have been breeding and improving our lines ever since, showing those Mini's that have promise.

•  MapleCreek's Fire Storm aka "Junior," Championed January 2001
•  MapleCreek's Magic Equation aka "Einstein," Championed July 2005
•  MapleCreek's Forever Amber aka "Amber," Championed June 2006
•  MapleCreek's Magic Moment aka "Mickey," Championed July 2008

Our priority in our breeding program has always been and will always be Health first, Personality second, Conformation third and other appointments last. We absolutely adore our Mini's. Our dogs and puppies are raised in our home and given a lot of love and hands-on attention. We expose them to as many types of situations as we can so they are very well socialized before they leave us. This is important for both the pups we sell as pets and also for the pups we keep to show.

All of our dogs are very solid and agile. The puppies we sell as pets have natural ears unless otherwise specified and are sold on a spay/neuter contract and are not to be bred.  We do have puppies available occasionally.

My club memberships include: 

Portland Miniature Schnauzer Club
American Miniature Schnauzer Club
Oregon Trail Havanese Club
Havanese Club of America
Columbia Alpaca Breeders Association
Alpaca Ranchers of the Northwest
Alpaca Owners and Breeders association
Alpaca Registry, Inc