Importing process from Czech to USA - Page 1

I am just wondering what the process is on importing a dog into the USA and if anyone has any experience using these airports....I can either use Philly, Baltimore or DC airport (whichever one is easier, I've heard negative things about Philly.) What kind of fees am I looking at on arrival? This will be a couple months down the road, I just want to be prepared as I've never imported a dog myself before and quite frankly I'm out of practice... It's been 11 years since I bought a dog.

By the way, I know some are going to say "Why import when there are plenty of good dogs here in the USA" I know there are but I have been looking for specific bloodlines for several months and I finally found something I like, it's just not from a litter in the USA.

Care to share the breeding and what you value about it? The other thing to consider is a more genetically diverse Czech/Slovak X West German breeding which you could find in N.A.

Lady Countessa if you want to email me I will give you info on shipping. There is a GREAT shipper in that area but I need to look up the contact info. My email is in my profile.

LOL apple since when is genetically diverse better

@ lady, allways better to use direct flight to avoid stress and mistakes, and get good agent to take care of business, when shipped from czech work with peter novotny or like I do ship from amsterdam use Animals to fly

 

good luck

Genetic diversity is better to alleviate problems associated with genetic bottle necking. You could argue the old zPS were better dogs than some of today's modern Czech working lines, but could also argue they had more health problems and were overly defensive/sharp, sometimes with nerve problems and too little prey. I believe blending some of the better and genetically suitable West German working line dogs with the better and genetically suitable Czech/Slovak working line dogs have helped improve the breed. Part of it comes down to salesmanship and branding. "100% Czech lines" is more of a brand than a description of what is being produced. The other side of the argument is that the pure Czech lines have been "sported up" to meet the demands of the sport market. I think the truth is in the middle. Also, my sources tell me that police and military departments are no longer looking for man eaters due to optics and political correctness, liability issues, and not having enough skilled handlers for such dogs.

You mentioned Peter Novotny of Jinopo/Jipo-Me.  Look at all of his and Jiri's dogs who are now infused with West German blood.

apples and oranges, LOL I mentioned peter novotny for shipping dogs, said nothing about his fathers dogs

"better " is a matter of desired suitability, more and more police centers and departments are asking, no praying they would get some dogs that would bite something other than a sleeve

also as was not referring to czech lines or german lines , but diversity as a whole, IMO diversity limits predictability in outcome of breeding and that is undesirable in my book

Many police departments are switching to Mals, and many of those Mal lines are not aggressive per se, they just have tons of prey drive and love to bite. Then you say diversity as a whole limits predictability, but a while back you commented that line breeding was not particularly useful. Do you think Jinopo's dogs are better than the old z PS dogs, or has he sold out to the pet market?

Good Lord, the woman asked for IMPORTING and SHIPPING info.

the fake story that many are turning to mals again, dont know where, other than some personal preferences,

 

about linebreeding one should read what I write, linebreeding as in doubling up names on paper, without the actual breedingdogs having the qualities of the dog your linebreeding on is useless, as that is missing the point of linebreeding

as for Jinopo, he breeds many dogs, some I like, some I dont, but still get a better percentage of policedogs when Im testing jinopo ofspring than when im testing IPO podium offspring in general

jenni, think i gave that, didnt I,

nothing wrong with additional educational info