2104 BZS US Success Working Female - Page 1

Working female class results are posted: https://www.schaeferhunde.de/fileadminBSZS/pdf/Ergebnisse/GHKH.pdf

Congratulations to the two US entries Blake v.Temar a US bred female placing V43!

Special Congratulations to Yuliya Matvyeyeva and Wiva vom Zellwaldrand. Yuliya spotted this young female at an early age and brought her to the US. She did everything with her, trained,titled, showd, most of all believed and kept progressing. Wiva placed a stunning V12. Cratulations!

I desegree with Dog1,Viva was bred by Ralf Viessner and was sold to Yulija as a puppy.After NASS 2012 in Chicago Viva placed SG1 Ralf Viessner took her back to Germany where he train her,showed her and did everything right with her.I don't think Yulija deserved all the credit,maybe some but i think Ralf did deserved most of it,it was his breeding and most of the work he put into this beautiful female paid off.

If Yuliya did actually trial and train this bitch  at all,  I still give her credit.  It is 1000% more than the vast majority of the show folks do. Congrats!  

I'm not sure how many females HOT trained in the US have done well at the German Sieger, but here is one from 2005 Impressions of the Sieger by Fred Lanting. He also mentions the VA-5's outstanding protection routine. Why don't GSD breeders pay more attention to the females when they contribute half of the gene pool too?

If you have no interest in the bloodlines, just skip over the next paragraphs, but most readers will appreciate my comments on the performance of the males (who influence the breed most because they produce more offspring than the females do). Before that, though, I want to mention two females: an American entry (half-sister of Ando Altenbergerland, ZW 74) named Funny (89), owned by Helen Gleason earned a very respectable V-89 despite not having been campaigned throughout the summer as is usually needed for a high placing at this show. I was told she did a very good protection routine. This was of some special interest to me, since I had recently trained and titled an Ando daughter for my friend Andrew Masia in Florida, and have been impressed by his bloodlines for courage as well as other great qualities such as good hips and pigment. The other bitch was the homebred Peruvian Siegerin Anta v. ben Harten (100), who got this year’s VA-5 ranking after a stupendous performance in the courage test. I saw her get her Siegerin title in Lima more than a year earlier, but she endeared herself to my “working dog” heart. Her proud owner, Roque Benavides, is also an SV judge.
 

It may be a good exercise to break out some of what it takes to get a dog to this level. First you have to start with a suitable prospect. In this example Ralf, the breeder had contributed his expertise as an accomplished breeder to produce her and have her achieve a SG24 placement at the sieger show. Here's where the first accomplishment comes in. How do you get an SG20ish dog from the sieger show? Not everybody want to let them go and when they do, they usually let them go to the 'right' situation. Right situation can be a list of obligations from sharing litters to promise of future showing. At this point you are attempting to export what may very well be an important set of genetics. It could also be a dog not able to progress into the working class. You have to be knowledgeable in your acquisition.

Once you import the female it's up to you to get her titled and continue her career. In this case Wiva went almost directly to the sieger show in the US and placed SG1. A very good follow up to her place in Germany. From there you're faced with a decision. Do you title yourself or do you send her back. History show us about 95% of the dogs imported at this quality level go back for titling. That wasn't the case here. The work was put into her using local clubs and resources up and down the East Coast. Persistence paid off and Wiva did her first Schutzhund attempt at our club and earned her SchHá at that event. She progressed shortly thereafter and earned her IPO1 and breed survey.

At this point you're not done yet. To be competitive in Germany you have to show the dog there. This takes a lot of time, money, and resources. In this case Wiva was shown 6 times in preparation with 3 being just prior to the sieger show. It's not easy to show enough times under enough judges to put yourself in the place to be a top contender. This is where the special recognition part comes in. Who else does this? There were three US entries in the working class at the German Sieger Show this year. The answer is nobody else has put the work into the dog themselves. To do that and come up with a V12 placement may not seem like a lot to those that have never been there. Having been there,I can appreciate it and it's quite an accomplishment.