Further Reading about the Large Munsterlander

This webpage was last updated on December 28, 2007

2008 Calendar - SOLD OUT!

The calendars are 8 1ˇ2 x 11 and were printed on high quality 80# glossy paper by a professional printer. The calendars feature LMCNA member dogs in a variety of outdoor settings and will contain some interesting "first" facts about the LM from the book written by Joe & Sheila Schmutz "The Large Munsterlander Club of North America, Thirty Years", described below. The cost is $15 each and includes shipping and handling. They will arrive about December 27 and be mailed before the New Year. All proceeds from the sale of the calendars go to the LMCNA Protection Fund. Email Lori Rothenberger at rtrl@hotmail.com to reserve your calendar(s) today (please put LM Calendar Order in the subject line). Make your check payable to Lori Rothenberger and mail to: Lori Rothenberger 2806 Lakeview Drive Yankton, SD 57078-5119 Thank you for your support of LMCNA and the Large Munsterlander breed! Thanks to Lori Rothenberger and Nora Hale for a terrific job on our first LM calendar! With this amount of demand, they just might do one next year!

Books

"The Large Munsterlander Club of North America®, Thirty Years" edited by Sheila and Joe Schmutz was printed in May, 2007. This 132 page paperback book is now available for purchase. The cost is $25 in North America (U.S. for Americans and Canadian for Canadians). An additional $11 postage for mailing outside North America please. Please mail a check or money order made out to Joe Schmutz. The profit will be put into the LMCNA Protection Fund. Joe & Sheila Schmutz RR2 Site 202 Box 123 Saskatoon, SK Canada S7K 3J5 (note extra postage required to mail from the U.S. to Canada) The Table of Contents is shown on a separate webpage. This also illustrates that approximately 68% of the material has not been published previously. The remaining portion consists of about 17.5% from the 20th Anniversary book (see below) and 20% from Newsletters or Breeder's Bulletins published in the last ten years.

A 184 page book, "The Large Munsterlander, Twenty Years in North America", edited by Sheila and Joe Schmutz. Paperback first edition was published in 1997, but is now out of print. CD 2nd editon available for purchase for $5. Please mail a check or money order to Joe Schmutz at the address above.

Articles in Magazines

"The Large Munsterlander" by Rick Van Etten, Gun Dog, Nov./Dec. 1987.

The Kennel Club's Illustrated Breed Standards, 1989, Bodley Head, London. (standard + picture)

Hunter Pointer Retriever, the Continental Gundog (~1991) by Tony Jackson, Ashford Publ., England. Eleven pages of coverage.

"Roots of the German Versatile Hunting Dog in History" (1992) by Josef K. Schmutz, Gun Dog, Oct./Nov. 1992.

"German Versatile Hunting Dogs" (1992) by Josef K. Schmutz, DOGworld, July 1992.

Gun Dog Breeds (1992) by Charles Fergus, Lyons & Burford, Publishers, New York. The LM has 1 page under "other Europeans".

Dogs (1993) by David Alderton, Stoddart Publishing Co., Don Mills, Ontario. A ticked LM has a 2 page spread in this quality pictorial encyclopedia of dogs.

"The Large Munsterlander" by Bodo Winterhelt, Pointing Dog Journal, May/June 1994.

An article about hunting dogs by Joel Vance in South Carolina Wildlife, July/Aug. 1994 has a few paragraphs and a full page photo of Dogwood Hill's Kodi.

An article appeared in Bird Dog News in fall, 1996.

"The Large Munsterlander Revisited" by Josef K. Schmutz,Gun Dog, April/May, 1998

"In the Spirit of Versatility " by Kort M. Clayton,Versatile Hunting Dog, February, 2000

"Dash, Large Munsterlander " by Jennifer Claridge,Pointing Dog Journal, July/August 2003, p. 46

"The Large Munsterlander in North America" by Joe Schmutz and Randy Haines,Gun Dog, October/November 2003, p. 52-57

"The Large Munsterlander; by Jerry Thomas,Gun Dog, April/May 2007, p. 38-43

"In Geronimos Jagdgründen - Grosse Münsterländer in Nordamerika; by Josef Schmutz (in German) Wild und Hund, June 6, 2007, p. 18-22

Please direct general questions about the content of this page to: e-mail joe.schmutz@usask.ca or e-mail sheila.schmutz@usask.ca

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