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Interview
in the crate, in many different rings and with hugely grateful to my Puppy Owners who give
many noises and ideally different handlers all all my beautiful puppies their loving forever
in one day. I enjoy showing but my focus is on homes . A big highlight for me is that a Female
breeding correct dogs to standard therefore I do I bred was working in Turkey and found one
not change my breeding programme for the ring. person alive after the Earthquake. This touched
The puppies see how the mom behaves and start my heart that not only are my dogs getting the
to learn and they spend time with my adults who best lives they are also out saving human lives.
also began the process of socialising them. Some
incredible show dogs will produce incredible Do you see any difference in today's A/S
offspring while others may not. This is also true compared to those from 10 years ago? If so,
that some dogs who are not great show dogs what are the biggest differences you see?
can go on and produce you beautiful puppies if Absolutely in the Last 10 Years the Breed has
bred to the right mate. changed a lot and sadly not all for the better.
Recently we have had many overdone heavy-
What do you consider your biggest highlight bodied dogs which are not within our standard.
and greatest achievement as a breeder/owner? Too many who are very tall, heavy in bone and
It’s important to say I am proud of every dog I bred over coated. Mostly with heavy heads, big ears
and own. My biggest highlights are Top Dog all and unsound movement. I think breeders and
Breeds of my Country, Dortmund Bundessieger Judges are starting to realise this is not correct
Best in Show, First and only European Breed for an Australian Shepherd so we are slowly
Aussie to be in the top 12 Final in the Eukanuba getting back to our roots. We are a moderate
World Challenge, Crufts Res. CC, Junior World working breed and it is very important we do
Winner and only Aussie who won res. Junior not forget that. I have personally changed my
Best in Show at the World Dog Show, European breeding a lot in the last few years as I saw how
Winner and 5 Bred by ASCA Champions. I am easily I could have gone in the wrong direction.
What aspect(s) do you think that breeders need
to work on improving?
I love this question. As I said before we as breeders
need to work together and communicate about the
Breed. As I said before alone no one individual can
be successful and for the betterment of our breed
we need to not be selfish. Even the most famous
Dogs in our History were never the result of
one breeder or owner, they had many people
who contributed to the pedigree who
worked together and supported each
other. This is deeply missed in modern
I think sometimes you have days and it is very sad. People who
to let your heart decide and it may I work with or who work with me
know I am a big supporter for
be right or it may be wrong however sharing and helping each other.
I often find my instincts are right and Others may disagree but I
believe working together
end up with what I hoped for. will bring us away from
all those things that
I mentioned in the
previous answer that
are now plaguing
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