GERONIMO HAS IT ALL…

CLASSY TREE DOG
Geronimo trees hard from the time he hits the tree until you get there. If it takes 15-20 minutes, you don’t have to stop and listen to find out where he is. You can tromp through the dry leaves, talk to your buddies, and follow the roar. If it takes an hour, he'll be there.  When you get to the tree, take your time and take a few pictures of him with his feet on the tree and his mouth wide!

SUPER TIGHT PRESSURE TREE DOG
Geronimo doesn’t get a step away from the tree. Usually, he doesn’t take his feet off the tree! With other dogs treeing, or running around barking, he trees all the harder.
 
EASY HANDLING AND SMART
Geronimo handles like a dream. He will hop into the truck and wait for you to put on his collars. As hard as he trees, you can pet him at a tree, tell him "We're done," and send him hunting. As hard as he hunts, you can tell him the hunt is over and he will walk beside you all the way back to the truck. We taught him this in one lesson! Geronimo was born housebroken. He never uses the bathroom in his kennel. We take him on our pontoon boat and he lounges around like an old dog until you cut him loose on the shoreline.

GOOD LOOKS
Geronimo is jet black with brindle legs and clean white trim. He carries his tail up and has a confident gait that just looks generally impressive. Everyone who sees him takes a second look.

EXTREMELY FRIENDLY TOWARD DOGS AND PEOPLE
Geronimo seems to have a smile on his face for everyone. He looks you in the eye and wags his whole body. He loves to play with puppies and kids. A male dog can face bark, growl, or snap, but they can’t make Geronimo growl or even bristle.

HUNTS AS HARD AS NECESSARY
Geronimo trees a lot of squirrels close by. However, if the squirrels aren’t there, he will get deep and do it fast. If he does tree deep, don’t get in a hurry. He’ll be there when you get there.  Wherever he's hunting, he never slows down.  At the end of the day, he hunts just as hard as he did at daybreak!

INCREDIBLE REPRODUCER
It may sound like bragging, but Geronimo has produced an incredible percentage of early starting, hard treeing puppies.  Don't take our word - check our references to see what everyone else has to say about them!

Mountain State Geronimo
2006 WTDA Dog of the Year
2005 World Combination Champion -- Reserve World Squirrel Champion

Our kennel is very small.  Right now, we have Geronimo and Mohawk plus three females and a couple of puppies. Some folks questioned the decision to sell Apache. 

With the two males we now have, we didn't lose any "dog power" and the plan was to develop a stud dog that was the combination of all three of our dominant crosses.  Geronimo is 50% Streak JR X Georgetta, 25% Duffs Bob X Pine Knot Tiger Paws, and 25% Toots Dale X Toots Candy.  He is like Apache in many ways, but we think he will be better. 

Looking to the future, Mohawk is stepping up as the future of our kennel.

HOW IT CAME TO BE...

In August, 2003, Allen Franklin brought his outstanding female, Franklin's Ginger to be bred to our Mountain State Apache.  Franklin's Ginger is a full sister to Jay Overholt's Deadend Buzzard.  They are out of Franklin's Thunder and Jay's Ginger, who was a full sister to our own Mountain State Holly

Geronimo was born in Allen's Thunder Mountain Kennel in Sarahsville, Ohio in October.  This first cross of ApacheXGinger produced several outstanding pups.  The second litter from this cross was born in May of 2005.

Geronimo came to his home among the hills on Adam's 19th birthday, May 27, 2004.  We are extremely grateful to Allen Franklin for allowing us to buy him, even though he fetched a four-figure price!  By the age of six months, this dog was not just treeing, but treeing first and staying treed.   

Anyone who has hunted with this dog will tell you that he is impressive.  Click here and you can read what some folks think of him.  Mountain State Geronimo is already a well-known name among the squirrel dog world.

In his first four years of breeding, Geronimo has sired 30 litters of puppies from PROVEN females.  If you have such a female and would like to raise a litter of great puppies, give us a call.

AT STUD $300

2005
World Combination Champion
Reserve World Squirrel Champion
3rd Place World Nite Hunt
High Scoring Cur World Nite Hunt
National Hunting and Fishing Days
Combination Champion

2006
WTDA Dog of the Year
Maryland Reserve Squirrel Champion
Big Red Summer Squirrel Champion
Big Red Fall Squirrel Champion
3rd Place WV State Squirrel Hunt

2007
WV State Squirrel Champion
WV State Combination Champion
Big Red Winter Squirrel Champion
Big Red Winter Show Champion
Big Red Winter Combination Champion

  2008
2007-2008 Big Red Squirrel Champion

2009
NCFBA World Squirrel Hunt - 10th Place

Geronimo's Pedigree...
                               Streak JR
                    Franklin's Thunder
                               Georgetta
          Mountain State Apache
                               Marmon's Dirty Harry (Duffs Bob X PK Tiger Paws)
                     Mountain State Pepper
                               Bonnie Beti (Duffs Bob X Pine Knot Tiger Paws)
Mountain State Geronimo
                               Streak JR
                     Franklin's Thunder
                               Georgetta
           Franklin's Ginger
                               Toots Dale
                     Ginger
                               Toots Candy