Rin Tin Tin Puppies - Page 1

The legacy continues.  Rin Tin Tin puppies:  http://www.rintintin.com/upcominglitters.htm .

I see dogs of the exact quality found in any newspaper, priced outrageously, riding on the coattails of a famous line of movie dogs from over 80 years ago. Nice to see the health testing, but what can they do now? 

KCzaja,

 The breeders of Rin Tin Tin puppies participate in charity events, including placement of therapy dogs:  http://www.rintintin.com/events.htm .  

That's awesome. But is has nothing to do with the breed. Goldens make great therapy dogs. Would you pay over $2700 for a puppy because decades ago it had an ancestor in a movie? I guess it depends on what you want in a dog. That's just not for me.


Edit: I take it back about the health tests. Some have a letter from the Ontario Veterinary College and some just say "x-rayed".

Great,
I have been looking for my next PSA canidate to take to PSA 3.  Now the search is over, I will get a RIn Rin Tin.  They MUST all be great working dogs

The owner of the Rin Tin Tin kennel, Daphne Herford runs a charity called A Rinty for Kids www.arfkids.com/   to provide dogs for special needs children. I am not sure if these dogs are considered therapy dogs or service dogs. One of the Rin Tin Tin dogs is currently working in SAR. Daphene and her grandmother also used to run security companies in Texas that used Rin TIn Tin dogs along with licensed security officers. She no longer does so, as the temperment of the Rin Tin Tin dogs has probably gone down the crapper along with the rest of the American GSDs... :(

See this link here for details about the security work. It won't let me right-click, so I can't copy and paste.

www.rintintin.com/story.htm  It's about 3/4 of the way down the page.

The dogs ARE tightly and carefully line-bred on the original Rin Tin TIn dogs, and their ancestry can be traced back to welll-known American lines, like Villa Marina, San Miguel, Bodyguard and Long Worth, and from there to German lines. (But of course the same can be said for most of the American dogs out there...)

Good morning sunsilver. To answer your question, the rin tin tin dogs temperaments are fine and have not, as you suggest, "gone down the crapper." The temperaments are great.

And for KCcaja - we do pre-lim x-ray our dogs and when they are of age we OVC or OFA hips and elbows. In addition, we guarantee our pups to OVC or OFA H&E.

A good number of our puppies are placed through A Rinty For Kids Foundation as service or pet assited therapy dogs for special needs children. We also have working SAR (live find and cadaver) dogs, we also have performing dogs for appearances and films. And some of our clients title their dogs in performance events at UKC and AKC shows. So out line is versitle.

Okay, but could the Rin Tin Tin dogs still DO security work? Very few American line dogs can.

I know the temperments must be stable and people-friendly in order to do the publicity and service/therapy work. But do they still have the ability to protect?

Keep up the good work RinTinTin!   I salute you!

Hey Rin TinTin?

Is this Daphne Hereford or a spokesperson or a person with "Rin Tin Tin" as an author name?