"LARGEST WORKING LINE GERMAN SHEPHERD KENNEL IN THE UNITED STATES" - Page 1

I'm wondering what criteria this claim is based on? Number of dogs? Volume of sales? Or size of the actual kennels and land?  ( I am told Kreative Kennels is situated on 5 acres of land.)  kreativekennels.com/home.htm

 Big deal. I see ads in my area for the largest land area for a boarding kennel and the kennel has 5 acres or perhaps 10. I have far more. It is a stupid way to advertise and means nothing. But they sure breed a lot of dogs - that is a different issue altogether.

They claim to average 150 dogs on the premises.  I bet that's what they are basing the claim on.  Working Dogs "R" Us

I went to their website under stud dogs and some of the dogs have titles that I never even heard of: ZZO, ZPU1, ZPO1,ZPS1, RPD-3 and EDD-3

I assume that these titles are equivalent to schutzhund titles? What does the abbreviation stands for? What's different about these partiular titles then the average SchH title?

Brittany

Most of those are Czech titles.  In other languages they use different words and letters.  Things like the BH, FH, PPD, etc. don't trasnsfer directly into the same letters.  Do a little research. 

The only thing I found interesting is the fact that they just got into Shepherds 6 yrs ago when one was given to them as a present.  They are now the largest after six years of intense research.

Why would anyone WANT to be the "Largest" ?????????????  Wanna be puppy miller??? Sheesh...

I can't wrap my mind around the 150 dogs on the premises.  How many kennel workers would you need to give that many GSDs appropriate care? 

I guess it would be possible to learn all you would need to know in order to import, train and breed such a huge undertaking.  Personally, I don't know enough and I'm not a slow learner, maybe if you concentrated on nothing but working line GSDs you could do it?  Or  I guess if you have a lot of money you can hire all the right people to do the job for you?

I keep hearing about Kreative Kennels because they are affiliated with the breeder here in Wisconsin where my longcoat  male Trigger was bred. characterk9.com/  (They were called Challenger Farms at the time.)  I believe this is where the gift of a German  Shepherd came from. I was surprised when I went to their site today and saw the claim of being the largest working line GSD kennel in the U.S. I also know their prices are very high. Last year I called them about a 10 month old  (at least I think she was about 10 months--can't recall for sure) untrained female longcoat and was quoted a price of $3500.

Great marketing can do wonders!  If you "say" you sell high priced dogs, and "say" you have lots of dogs, maybe you will appeal to those who think you have something that you really don't.

 I wanted to go out and look at a male they had, and my very good friend told me I would be very upset if I went out there, and saw the conditions of the dogs.

 I normally don't post to negatives on this list, but this kennel from what I have heard, just has a great marketing team!

Don Corleone,
I'm more into the West German Showlines and West German workinglines. I don't know about the Czech lines. You seem to know more than I do so why don't you help me to do the research? After all I do come here to learn new things. Can you provide me some useful links to help me to learn more about these equivalent titles in the Czech lines?