Nosam Kennels started in 2014 but the love affair with Vizslas started prior to 2014. Alex and Sierra were set to get married in 2013.

A few months after our engagement, a red dog showed up on our doorstep, but he was never claimed. Wesson became a part of our family, and we never looked back. This stray dog was in fact a purebred Vizsla. We fell in love with the breed's active, nurturing nature and Velcro tendencies. Zoe, our first registered Vizsla came almost a year later and just 5 months after the birth of our son Mason. After falling in love with the Vizsla breed Sierra switched from Vet tech classes to dog training courses and began training dogs in basic obedience professionally. As our knowledge grew together Sierra and Alex started to train gundogs in their spare time and began entering AKC events to test their Vizslas. Which is how they were introduced to further breeds such as the GSP and Bracco. 

 

Sierra and Alex have trained, tested, and handled most of the pointing breeds known, and a few that aren't even AKC-recognized yet.

By handling and training many different breeds, we have gained invaluable hands-on knowledge of each breed's hunting and training styles. This allowed us to narrow down the breeds that best fit our home and learn how to tailor training to each breed's needs. On the same note, we also have personal experience with many different bloodlines within our breeds, allowing us to select the lines we wanted to add to our breeding program and the lines we wanted to avoid. By selecting dogs from lines that are easy to train, have the drive to hunt, and sport a good temperament and avoiding lines related to dogs who came to us that were more difficult to train or were not biddable. Our knowledge from training dogs has allowed us to make smarter breeding decisions. We have handled dozens of our personal dogs, and client dogs in both AKC and NAVHDA hunting tests. 

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After 10 years have decided to pause our training program to focus on our family goals and our dogs. However, the passion for working, training, and hunting is still as strong as ever. We enjoy running our dogs, hunting, testing, and furthering our dog's training on our days off. We have since opened a hunting preserve just 7 minutes from our home and have over 100 acres to train our dogs on with the two combined properties. 

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The name Nosam was inspired by combining the two things we love most: our son and our dogs. Nosam is "Mason" backward. 

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