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).

How It All Started

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 versitile 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 achieved his "CGC title" aka Canine Good Citizen title.  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 temperament, 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 16 going on 17yrs 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.

 Her son, Houdini is still with us at the age of 15yrs going on 16 yrs.  He is the King here and as his name reminds us of that "magician" he really can get out of anything.

  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 names of Stacy and Frank in owning, breeding and showing dogs and now cats. Our new Kennel/Cattery name prefix of  StaFra.   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!

  We are very active in our church.  We enjoy doing outreach ministries, marriage ministries and youth ministries.  Our 3 children are very involved with their drama team and with their youth outreach.

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