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"Esquire Caucasian Mountains Dogs...they fill our days with love and have brought us friends around the world..." --stacey kubyn
Esquire Caucasian Mountain Dogs
- North American Breed Founders
- Chardon Twp, Ohio
- Ph: (440) 286-2374 Email: cocaclub@aol.com
- Owners:
- Russ Kubyn, Attorney At Law and
- Stacey Kubyn, Biologist and Attorney At Law
- Founders:
- Caucasian Ovcharka (Mountain Dog) Club of America (COCA),
- U.S. Breed Founders for Preservation Est. 1991
- COCA Code of Ethics Subscribers
- COCA Breed Rescue
- Owner: Flock&Family Guardian Network
- Caucasian Mountain Dog (Ovcharka) Worldwide Network
- Caucasian Mountain Dog Fanciers' International Online News
- Breed Experience:
- 9 years; since former Soviet Union permitted breed exportation. Stacey Kubyn, a biologist, breed lecturer and author of breed articles, has made multiple field studies on the Caucasian Mountain Dog in the former Soviet Union, where she has also attended conferences and has been an invited judge and guest speaker. Esquire dogs have made television appearance and have participated around the U.S. in promotional exhibits. Esquire owns the most winning Caucasian show champions in the U.S. to date, the first Best In Show winners at all rarebreed competition, and has conducted a limited breeding program since 1992, producing the first domestic born champion, Esquire's Bruno, unanimously rated "excellent" by FCI, AKC and rarebreed judges. Alena of Esquire is the first Delta Society Therapy Dog in the world.
- Location:
- Esquire Caucasian Mountain Dogs is located on a beautiful equestrian ranch in the Little Mountain vicinity of Chardon Township, Ohio. Little Mountain, elevation 1266 feet, is a sandstone sugarloaf believed by geologists to be the result of volcanic disturbances during the glacial period. The mountain and vicinity was once a favorite hunting ground of the Indian who, according to legend, regarded it as a "Special Dwelling Place of the Gods" and held many of their sacred ceremonies on the plateau. There are deep caverns, rock formations, towering conifers, and many springs of clear, cold water. On the forested summit in 1831 was built the first vast hotel, followed by three others and many summer cottages. The place attracted the notables of the political and fashionable world, and became the Saratoga Springs of the West boasting many summer attractions: a dry atmosphere, no dew, cool nights, pure sping water, the scent of the pines, and the absence of mosquitoes, gnats, and flies. The area was said to be beneficial for persons with malaria, pulmonary and other diseases, hay fever, and insomnia, and for those needing absolute rest. The famous and popular summer resort is now just a memory. During the early 1900s wealthy Clevelanders bought farms and property on and around Little Mountain. Since the 1970s large parcels have been donated to the Holden Arboretum for preservation.
- Little Mountain has a distinct climate. While the nearby Cleveland area averages 54 inches of snow a year, Little Mountain and the Chardon area average twice as much. This extra snowfall occurs because of the sharp rise in elevation from Lake Erie, at 571 feet to the top of Little Mountain, almost 700 feet higher. As winds come off Lake Erie, they pick up moisture, which is released as they rise, creating a snowbelt.
- Little Mountain was once the home of black bear, beaver ,elk, lynx, marten, wolf and panther. Today animals such as coyote, deer, fox, raccoon, woodchuck, squirrel, chipmunk, and opossum roam the area.
Visitors to the home of Esquire Caucasian Mountain Dogs are welcome by appointment.
© 1998 Stacey Kubyn All Rights Reserved
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