Fyke van't Leefdaalhof - Page 1

Tell me what you all know about this dog!!! Pros and Cons!!!!!

Ask Nate Harves.

Or Norbert Safko.

Very powerful male. Full hard grips. Fast strikes. Drive in all he does. Athletic. Fast speed. Medium size. Strong. Handler hard but very fair. Very helper hard. Easily takes pressure. Will not stop. Clear enough to be around you but not social. If you reached down and grabbed the dog as a stranger he will bite you. Clean in kennel and quiet in home kennel. Strong in all three phases. Powerful natural sustained barking. Fast longbite. Clean to equipment but not equipment locked, excellent civil. Prey/food/hunt/fight drives are very very high. Social aggression is very high but stable. Could've gone top sport or working police. Excellent nerves but low threshold for nonsense, easy to act. Not a dog for first time handlers, however, I have had multiple litters with him, and when bred to proper females produced overall social dogs with very high drives and strong natural aggression with stable environmental and working nerve.

 

When I first met the dog some naysayers spoke badly about the dog. I saw it for complete nonsense and used the male and had success for the type of dogs I like. I have been around the dog many times and worked him as a helper. I was the one who spoke out and said he should be used for breeding of working dogs and I stand by that. 

Nate Harves

Sportwaffen K9

Thanks for the info!!!!!!

It seems like such a dog would have been titled above IPO 1.  Why did the dog top out at IPO 1?

That you would have to ask his owner.

 

Your statement reads like you are questioning the validity of the assessment. Have you seen and worked and bred to the dog, too?

I'd rather breed a strong IPO1 dog than a point dog IPO3. Difference between a I and 3 is minimal. And a bigger title doesn't make sperm swim faster or harder. The dog could easily have gone on to a 3, and I think I'm known as a person who would be able to easily see that potential and rightly predict it with no BS. I was asked about the dog and I gave my statement. I breed by blood, not scorebooks. I have seen IPO1 dogs I'd readily breed and some WUSV dogs I think should die virgins and all in between. 

It's not my business to say why Anthony stopped titling him. 

It was not my intention to cast aspersions on the dog, his handler, grimmdog, or anyone else.  In answer to grimmdog's questions: I have not worked the dog.  I have not bred to the dog.  I didn't know anything about the dog until seeing this thread.

grimmdog, the question asked by Gunther Dietrich is a valid one, especially if someone were considering the dog from a breeding angle.  There are hundreds of reasons why a dog's sport career might be ended, ranging from the animal being so outstanding in the work that it would be criminal NOT to utilize him in real day-to-day work that utilizes his skills, to the more common reason we see this here in the US, the handler's lack of time/money/opportunity or combinations thereof.  One must also consider the reality that a dog my fall victim to an ailment that cuts short the dog's sport career...and such an ailment could be acquired illness or injury, or it could be something with a genetic link. If the abbreviated competition participation were to be the result of the latter, as a breeder that's something that should be weighed every bit as seriously--if not more so--than the power and speed of the dog's grip, the clearness of his head and the quality of his temperament. 

If there's some underlying current regarding the dog, his handler or owner, or other individuals, that's a different issue, but as a basic query, asking why the dog wasn't taken through to the third level seems legitimate and innocuous enough to put it out there and see if the reason was common knowledge within the sphere of the handler and/or owner.