About Us

Stacy grew up in Northern Illinois.  As a child, she grew up with Chesapeake Bay Retrievers.  The first dog she had ever shown was her dog "Clearwater Point Spike" aka Spike, a Chesapeake Bay Retriever.  He was laid to rest May 1, 1988, at the age of 11.5 years old.   Her sister, Paula and family in Illinois, are active in hunting, fishing and still today raise and breed the versital and beautiful breed,  Chesapeake Bay Retrievers. 

Frank grew up in Central Illinois.  As a child, he grew up with Poodles and 'pedigree challenged' pets.  He was not active in the dog world until he married Stacy in 1992.

In 1990, Stacy had owned Collies and started showing in Conformation and was active in training Obedience and Agility.  "Levi", Stacy's male Collie did finish his "CGC title" aka Canine Good Citizen.  Levi loved obedience and agility, but did not like the conformation ring.  It was not the end of the road for Levi, as he was their family companion, helped Stacy teach Obedience to adults and 4-H children, many types of teachings at schools, salon greeter and Stacy and Frank's example for what to always have in temperment, health, brains and beauty.  "Levi" was laid to rest at 11.5 years old. 

While exploring many breeds while grooming and in obedience, Stacy set her heart on the American Eskimo Dog. 

Together they formed Morgan's American Eskimos.

Morgan's American Eskimos (now known as Stafra) was established in 1994 with our first Eskie, "Morgan's Sugar Baby." Although just a UKC registered pet, she is still Stacy's baby. At the tender age of 14yrs old, Sugar still has that sweet pleasing and outgoing personality today.  She knows she is the "Queen" here and she uses those eyes to get her way. 

In 1997, we started competing in the AKC and UKC showrings with our first show Eskie "AKC Ch. Morgan's Tiffany of Sycamore." Since then we've added Chinese Cresteds and Ragdoll cats to our show team. 

In 2004, we started a bit of showing with one of our Chinese Cresteds. 

In July 2005, we moved from Illinois to South Carolina. 

In 2008, we added Ragdoll cats to our showteam. 

In 2008, we found there was another Kennel with Eskies using the Morgans kennel name prefix. Because of this, we searched for a new kennel/cattery name that would combine the "team work" of Stacy and Frank in owning, breeding and showing dogs and now cats. Our new Kennel/Cattery name prefix of  StaFra  is all about team work!

Our 3 children, Lauryn, Alex and Brittni, have been in the AKC and UKC rings with our dogs and other breeds they have shown for others and have done very well, actually winning majors and points. 

The best part about going to dog shows for us is taking a mini-vacation, being with just us and the dogs, our friends and hopefully a great win! 

Stacy continues to volunteer with schools, churches, nursing homes, and also with some hospital patients with the dogs and the cats as 'mascots' to enhance the lives of others. 

We are very active in our church, Rocky River Worship Center, Church of God, in Anderson.  We enjoy doing outreach ministries, marriage ministries and youth ministries.  Our 3 children are very involved with their drama team 'Acts Of Praise' and with their youth outreach 'Fuel'. 

So far, we have shown 8 of our own Eskies to AKC Conformation Championships, 2 of their Eskies to UKC Conformation Championships and have produced 5 AKC and 3 UKC Conformation Champions to date. We've been invited twice to the AKC Eukanuba National Championships, many Best of Breed placements, group placements, Top 10 and Top 20 ranking AKC and UKC Eskies owned/shown/bred by us. 

Many of our puppies have proven successful in obedience, rally, agility, conformation, therapy, herding and terrific companions. 

Still today, our concept of showing has not changed. They are our 'family' first and showing comes second. We strive for great temperaments, health, structure and breed type and adhere to our 'breed standards'. 

More about StaFra 

TOP AGILITY DOGS : StaFra is VERY PROUD of our puppies and their owners! Congratulations to you all!!! 

~ "Biz"... "Morgan's Risky Bizness MX MXJ NF". "Biz" is the #1 American Eskimo Dog in the USA in Agility at the young age of 2yrs old. Bred by Stafra, owned, adored and trained by Shirley Michaels -- has been invited to the AKC Agility Invitational in Long Beach California in December 2009. 

~ Ch. MACH Kessona Zasu Spitz XF, sired by stud at StaFra, bred, owned, adored and trained by Lynn Ancona and Jay Kessel -- has been invited to the AKC Agility Invitational in Long Beach California in December 2009. 

Litter mate to "Zasu" ~ Kessona Puttin On The Spitz MX MXJ XF, sired by stud at StaFra, bred, owned, adored and trained by Lynn Ancona and Jay Kessel. 

We will keep our site updated to let you know how they continue to excel. 

StaFra dogs owned by us and others are currently being shown in AKC and UKC earning their Conformation Championships and others are out earning their points for Championships and titles in agility, obedience and therapy. 

As we keep striving to enhance our goals, we are excited about the opportunities of the future.

 'Morgan's Woman On Top' aka "Isabel" will be out in the AKC and UKC show rings in 2009 & 'DcDolls Marco Polo of StaFra' aka "Polo" will be out in the TICA showhalls in 2009.

Stacy has professionally groomed, trained and handled many other dogs in AKC and UKC conformation show rings 'not' owned by us.  Some to points and majors and others to their Championships.   Those breeds include: 
 

StaFra is situated on 23 acres with 2 creeks and a waterfall in Upstate South Carolina. We are less than 2.5 hours from three major airports (Atlanta, GA; Greenville, SC; and Charlotte, NC).