Andy Maly Vah SchH3, CDX, RN, TC, TDI/CGC - Page 1

I would appreciate opinions on this dog as a breeding prospect.Anyone know anything about him besides his titles. I would like to know what the family has produced besides this dog.

thank you

K9sar:

I have had the pleasure of knowing Andy since Melanie acquired him a few years ago.  He is an awesome dog both on the field and in the home.  One minute he is her 4 year old daughters (brother - that is how Devon refers to him) playing house and next he is out on the field giving it his all.  Before I met Andy - I would not ever guess that a schutzhund dog could be such a wonderful playmate to a little girl and be so impressive on the field, but Andy showed me that this is possible.  I am a novice in the schutzhund world, but love watching him and Melanie compete.  Andy truly found his place in the world the minute he met Melanie.  It was definately fate that they ended up together. 

Cheryl

hi  i am a member of hegins valley police and schutzhund club in pa.i have seen andy in all 3 phases and plan to use him in my next breeding !! any questions please contact me directly.steve macphail 

K9Sar:

Check out this link Mel had sent me of Andy playing with Devon.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nFA5XwQaHk

C

Hello Everyone, My name is Kyle and I used to do the helper work for Andy prior to Melanie joining Hegins.  Andy is a very for real dog in protection. Andy's grips are always full and firm.  He actually compresses the bite bar on a gappay hard sleeve.  In the blind Andy's guard is  close, focused and intense with very confident barking.  In the escape, Andy comes hard with much force.  In the long grip Andy comes very hard and commits fully.

In general Andy has a nice balance between prey and defence.  The more pressure you put on him the firmer his bite becomes.  Andy has a great disposition .  He can turn it on when it is time to work and is calm and gentle when off the field.  In my opinion this is the type of golden middle that we breeders would be proud to produce.  By no means is he a points dog.

Melanie has done a great job with him, has learned and achieved alot in the sport in a very short period of time.  I'm not a confirmation expert but his build allows him to work effortlessly, for long periods without tiring.  Andy is nice dog. Use him if he matches and or compliments your female.

Best Regards,

Kyle

I have seen Andy Maly Vah work and was very impressed with him. It would be hard to find a nicer dog than Andy! jo

I too have had the pleasure of seeing Andy work and love to watch him! 

Kathy

Hi all, Just returned... I was out of town for the weekend

K9sar:
Thanks for considering Andy. I have great respect for the work you do and your awesome dogs. Your voluntary service to the community in many ways isn’t given its due respect, IMO SAR should be a government paid service and it should be a breed worthy FCI recognized title (I was thinking they could do something like combining the SchH A and RH to create a SAR1 title, or something like that). With your SAR and LE connections no doubt the pups would be placed well. Which, without a top female of my own to breed is exactly the kind of outside cover I’d like.

I also have some SAR friends here in PA, Chuck and Vicki Wooters, who belong to the organization Sardogs of PA - www.sardogs.org. (FYI - their website hasn’t been updated in several years so the dogs on their site are now retired...Rika vom Kirschental is Vicki's current Sardog, she's in the database).

Actually, when I first got Andy and before Chuck knew much about his previous training he wanted me to train in SAR with them. With Andy’s excellent drives, outstanding nerves and social demeanor he probably could have been an exceptional SAR dog, however considering his previous PDK9 suspect search/apprehension training I didn’t think it would be a safe transition to attempt…Chuck agreed and said sometimes the victim can be hostile to the dog saving their life.

I probably could have just done Cadaver with him but the Wooters’ like to cross train their dogs because they say many times you do not know the condition (dead or alive) of the victim so it is best to have dogs who are cross trained and will find the victim either way.  I think at one time Chuck had the only cross trained (live and cadaver) dog in this area (Wynthea’s Redd Baron CD, NA, CGC, TDI.

Any-hoo, I decided on SchH….

My only regret is that our paths didn’t cross sooner. I have learned and we have accomplished a lot in 2 years but if we only could have more time I think the sky would have been the limit. Although he’s still going strong at 7 years old, I can’t help to think that our time is limited.

As much as I talk about Andy here and with the spread I put on his website it’s not hard to tell what I think of him, but to see everyone’s wonderful comments is very nice. Thank you all very much.

The one place I feel my knowledge is lacking is pedigree’s…not reading one, but knowing the dogs well, their production and so on…so I can’t give you much about that. The extent of my knowledge of his bloodlines is posted on his website at the bottom of his “pedigree page”. I’ve been told the lines down through the N-litter Ben-Ju are excellent with the cross of Car and Titus. I will ask his original owner in Slovakia if he can give me more info. I notice that dogs that never leave Czech or Slovak Republic don’t have much info available on the internet, especially in English.

Thanks for thinking of us, check out his video’s on his website http://andymalyvah.tripod.com

Regards,

Melanie