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Date Posted: 08:09:07 10/13/10 Wed
Author: DKH
Subject: Working Boerboels

Greetings all,

My blood quickens when I imagine a group of Boerboel experts, experienced in the craft of protection training, knowledgeable of the nuances of dog breeding, and familiar with the rigors and requirements of a farm-dog. Then I imagine that group of individuals sitting atop a gene-pool of healthy animals in numbers sufficient to produce quality results that the general dog-owning public would have a use for...

Absurd. I watch with less than full attention while registries fumble with issues that have been debated and worried over for more than a decade...knowing full well that any serious dog-man/woman would have left the silliness behind many years ago, and are therefore understandably well past the bite-don’t bite argument. Any qualified breeder who knows better, but still allows the registry of his dog to dictate his breeding principles is not a qualified breeder at all.

As to work, and working qualities in a Boerboel; the registries haven’t a clue, and worse, they have obviously further stifled what little working ability lay latent in the breed for another decade while they finally decided to pull their collective heads out of their collective dark places.

Are they really ready to accept that they have been publicly against preserving and testing and selecting for guarding traits and abilities in a guarding breed, or are they afraid they are not appealing to enough people? The latter. Any group that decides after a dozen years that they, in their wisdom, need to lead us down a new path, will find themselves far behind those of us that embarked on this road with our dog as soon as we got them out of the shipping crate some dozen years ago.

Further, it is my humble opinion, garnered from over thirty years in the dog breeding game, that in this breed, the working sport crowd is the very WORST candidate for preserving the best qualities in the Boerboel... and yet you watch, the sport crowd will have the first word on how to “put back” what has been lost. I predict that huge mistake, you might want to right it down, I will be telling you I said so in a few years when this breed is so far lost you don’t want to save it.

I was the very first Boerboel breeder in America, probably the world to openly promote a working Boerboel...My first web-site so many years ago proudly proclaimed “HOME OF THE WORKING BOERBOEL” and I was chastised and ridiculed by these same registries for the bite-work, stock-work, and utility work I thought was so critical for the preservation of what little ability the breed still possessed...by these registries that NOW see the light? Remember when the arguments on the boards back then was “what do you mean by work” “training is not necessary” “this breed is a natural protector” ? Watch folks, they have made huge mis-steps in managing this breed...they are about to make their worst mistake now.

Now to those qualified few of you who happen to have a gift for training in protection, happen to have a load of first hand experience at breeding science, have multiple generations of Boerboels under your belt, and realize that the general public doesn’t have much need for this dog at his best, and are sitting atop a functioning gene-pool capable of reaching out another ten years or so...preservation is in your hands, not the registries. But you already knew this, didn’t you.

Just my humble opinion,
DKH

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