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by workingdogz on 06 December 2012 - 10:12
Fozzie, any time you get tired of that old 'sport' dog I'll
very happily take him off your hands
Great job, outstanding dog!
very happily take him off your hands
Great job, outstanding dog!
by hunger4justice on 07 December 2012 - 07:12
Wow,,,I like Nikita's Dam Enny's bloodlines and you have Askia, Troll, Fero and Leefdaalhof and Yoschy in that breeding (I also have Querry in one of my dogs that is a Grimm progeny). That would be a great litter to get a pup out of. I like your female too. Are you going to keep any of these pups from Nikita?
by fozzie on 07 December 2012 - 08:12
Yeah we'll keep at least one. Nikita has been a massive investment so its important for us to cultivate that line for the long term.
Getting her in the first place was an exercise in patience and tenacity. Initially we did the usual thing of going over to germany with the aim of buying a dog, money no object, and visited what seemed like every single German Shepherd in Germany but found nothing we really wanted to take home and came away empty handed. It took 5 years of going back to the Mohnwiese kennels and building a relationship with the breeder before we found something we really wanted and thankfully we were permitted to buy her
The problem with buyings dogs in Germany is they keep all the good ones for themselves or close friends or members of their clubs so when the foreigners come over they're quit happy to show you all the dogs they're desperately trying to get rid of, which is a tactic that makes a lot of breeders a lot of money in germany.
You can understand it though. Someone could come to us with all the money in the world for Kaiser (and many people did at the world championships) but we wouldn't part with him unless we knew for certain that wherever he was going was a nice place for him to live where he could fulfill his potential rather than rotting in a kennel for the rest of his life like a lot of "imports" do.
Someone said that there are not many good dogs, but there are even fewer good trainers and breeders. Finding good people for the dogs is the real hard work, otherwise we'll never see our lines achieve what they should.
Getting her in the first place was an exercise in patience and tenacity. Initially we did the usual thing of going over to germany with the aim of buying a dog, money no object, and visited what seemed like every single German Shepherd in Germany but found nothing we really wanted to take home and came away empty handed. It took 5 years of going back to the Mohnwiese kennels and building a relationship with the breeder before we found something we really wanted and thankfully we were permitted to buy her
The problem with buyings dogs in Germany is they keep all the good ones for themselves or close friends or members of their clubs so when the foreigners come over they're quit happy to show you all the dogs they're desperately trying to get rid of, which is a tactic that makes a lot of breeders a lot of money in germany.
You can understand it though. Someone could come to us with all the money in the world for Kaiser (and many people did at the world championships) but we wouldn't part with him unless we knew for certain that wherever he was going was a nice place for him to live where he could fulfill his potential rather than rotting in a kennel for the rest of his life like a lot of "imports" do.
Someone said that there are not many good dogs, but there are even fewer good trainers and breeders. Finding good people for the dogs is the real hard work, otherwise we'll never see our lines achieve what they should.
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