Superior Pointers is a small kennel owned and operated by Mark and Kathy Wendling in northern Bayfield County, Wisconsin, five miles from Lake Superior. Our acreage is prime ruffed grouse habitat, and adjoins over 89,000 contiguous acres of actively managed Bayfield County Forest. This provides us the opportunity to work and test all our dogs regularly on wild birds.

We are bird hunters who hunt every dog in the kennel. We don't keep "stud dogs" or "brood bitches" primarily or exclusively for breeding. We spend several weeks on the western prairies each fall hunting sharptails, chickens, and huns while training and evaluating young dogs that we are considering adding to the kennel. After mid-October, we concentrate on locally abundant ruffed grouse.

From our proven wild bird dogs we will produce a few exceptional litters of puppies each year. Our dogs are all relatively close-up to four time champion Elhew Strike through his progeny - McGoo, Sea Wolf, Gamemaster, Gambling Man, Snakefoot, Damascus, Striking Kiwi, Kelly and Jubilee. It is our opinion that Strike was the most outstanding performer and prepotent sire ever produced by Elhew Kennels' master breeder, Bob Wehle. Strike, therefore, appears multiple times in every Superior Pointer's pedigree. We particularly favor dogs descending from the Elhew Strike X Elhew Kiwi nick. In our experience, such dogs are abundantly blessed with natural ability, train easily, mature relatively early, and have exceptional tenacity and character around game.

At Superior Pointers we are dedicated not only to maintaining, but continuously improving, the Elhew Pointer as a class shooting dog. Our primary breeding objective is to produce intelligent, trainable, sound, classy Elhew Pointers with an abundance of natural ability for discriminating walking hunters and field trialers. We think that Bob Wehle would approve.