Welcome our virtual home, where dogs are our    best friends and our passion. We are relatively    new to the breed, but we were blessed to start our    adventure in the ridgeback world with wonderful    dogs, and the help of great mentors. Our dogs are    very special to us, and we consider them to be the    furry members of our family who get to share the    prime spot by the fireplace, and who accompany    us on all   family vacations not involving crossing    an ocean. We stress the importance of health,    temperament, function and soundness in our    ridgebacks. Let us introduce  ourselves.



I, Asta McCormick, share my RR passion with my daughter   Gabrielle and we are owned by two ridgebacks – Isis and  Dodo.  Having grown up in Lithuania, I left Europe and relocated to the US a little over 10 years ago. We currently reside  approximately 30 miles North of Chicago and thoroughly enjoy Midwestern living.

Rhodesian Ridgebacks are my biggest passion, and for me it goes hand in hand with photography. I love photographing almost anything, but I receive great pleasure trying to capture the many faces of our beloved breed – ridgebacks are so expressive! Here is a link to my photography site, astasphotography. You can also see more of my photos here.

Our livernose girl Meile is co-owned and resides with Shody Lytle, Paige, Steve and her adoptive RR brother Leonidas on the central coast of California. Meile is our long-awaited special girl, who was imported from Luanda Kennels in Slovakia. Shody is very talented in graphic design and web design, and also enjoys photography. Here is a link to Shody’s design site. You can also see more of Shody work here, and phot0s here .

We are proud members of the Rhodesian Ridgeback Club of the US, and we strictly abide by RRCUS Code of Ethics. I currently hold RRCUS treasurer’s position.