Cinsar Kennels was established in 1978 in Lee County, Virginia which is located in the very tip of the Commonwealth of Virginia in the Appalachia mountain chain. It is located on a 200 acre mountain farm and includes eleven covered kennels which can be expanded into an additional ten kennels by simply cutting the kennel down 10 x 20 to 10 x 10.
Cinsar Kennels is owned and operated by Thomas Rasnic, a trial lawyer with over 43 years experience in Virginia, Tennessee and Kentucky. Tom began raising and training dogs more than forty years ago and has hunted these dogs on pheasant, grouse, quail, chuckar and huns. His original "grouse dog" was the daughter of an English setter brought to the United States by Dr. Rudolph Winkelbauer of Brunswick, Maine, whose registered name was Sharnberry Red Bracken. An article concerning Sharnberry Red Bracken appears in Sports Afield in April 1974 and was written by Jerome Robinson.
Cinsar Kennels first Sharnberry Red Bracken dog was a female out of K-Lee's Pride-n-Joy. Sharnberry's Moxey was bred to a male from the Cloncurragh line brought to the United States by Dr. E.E. Bickers of Pilot Knob, Indiana. From that cross, Cinsar kennels began crossing with the old Hemlock line including Stormy Trade Winds and Old Hemlock MyLord and sons and daughters from the Ryman lines including Shadbush Ryman's Ruff and other foundation bred dogs. The characteristics of all these dogs remain the same: they were fairly large dogs, dames averaging more than fifty pounds with the males going from eighty to one hundred pounds; close working, biddable, and natural pointing, backing grouse dogs.
Our current program involves the Ryman line as well as our Old Hemlock, Sharnberry/Cloncurragh line of dogs that are especially suited to the Appalachian mountains and for foot hunters.
Cinsar Kennels does not ship dogs; it has puppies available from two to three breedings each year. Our males are $600 each and females $750 with a $200 deposit. The dogs have their shots and their health is guaranteed. Out return policy is this: if a puppy fails to satisfy the new owner, we will refund the purchase price of the puppy within one year. We will occasionally have started puppies which means they have been acclimated to quail in our bird field and have been shot around with blank pistols and sometimes a .410 shotgun. We do not offer finished dogs but prefer that our owners finish their dogs by taking them hunting. We do not recommend putting our dogs in professional trainers hands since they tend to intimidate the dog. Our puppies are socialized and they remain in our kennels more then four months, they will be put in birds.
Our business phone number is 276-346-2811 which is Tom's Law office and the email address is tlrasnic@yahoo.com
