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skittledoo - where are you located? If you know where to look, you can find lots of Malinois to meet. If you don't, they can actually be kind of hard to locate. Some of the best places are protection sport trials, or to a lesser extent agility, flyball, obedience, or conformation shows.

Some are imports, some are American bred. You'd have to look on the UKC website, they have upcoming shows and also what judges are licensed to judge Belgians. In some areas they have UKC shows that Belgians can show in on a semi-regular basis, at least a few times a year. In other areas...

Congrats. Looks like Keeva's instincts have kicked in, you are going to have a lot of fun working her in herding. I was just at an AKC herding trial last weekend, and there was actually a really nice Malinois turnout. We had dogs competing in HT, PT, HSAs, HIAs, HXAs, and HSBs. There...

Thanks. I'm pretty fond of her myself :)

I keep a list of people interested in a pup, either from a specific combination or just a pup from me. After I do a breeding, then I will take deposits for the litter, up to 6 total, 3M and 3F. And I continue to maintain a list of other interested people. Once the litter is born, I will...

Are you a lawyer, or otherwise in a position to gaurantee this? It sounds like, at least on paper, ownership of this dog could be challenged by the breeder. The papers are still all in their name, OP doesn't have a contract or bill of sale, etc. I wouldn't want to risk loosing the dog by...

A stable dog who begins protection training with a qualified trainer, finishes the training a stable dog with a much higher degree of control/training. Anything they were able to do before, they can do afterwards. And more. The challenge is finding the right dog for the training, and the...

The Malinois is included in the CHIC program, requirements are hips, elbows and eyes.

RR and FK have some very good points. I would think LONG and hard about this before I would take the breeder to court. Exhaust all other avenues, (face to face meeting, phone calls, letters) then continue to think about this. RR is right, if you sue the breeder your relationship is over. I...

This really isn't correct, especially when talking about a herding breed. A deaf dog may be able to do some up close fetching work, but they are not going to be able to work at really long distances, drive, etc without the ability to hear the commands from the handler. Asking the dog to...

First, mix doesn't neccessarily equal unknown parentage. The vast majority of KNPV dogs imported into this country for use as police dogs are mix breeds. But they have pedigrees that are many generations long. Here's just one example, a very well known "Dutch Shepherd" named Rudie Pegge, who...

One thing that might help in the house is to teach her a "place" command. You can set up a tether system at first if needed, but basically you are teaching her to go to a specific place (a dog bed is what I use) and stay there until released. It helps in a number of ways. First, the dog can...

I'm glad to see they treated him like they would have any other person. I wouldn't assume this, many working dogs are kennel dogs when they are home. For a variety of reasons. Sometimes they aren't good with the other family members (human or animal), many are raised as kennel dogs prior...

My information came from multiple officer that are familar with these devises. They are meant to be a backup to the officer leaving the car running with the AC on. There might be a way to rewire them, but the way they are intended to be installed they only work when the car is turned on, or at...

He looks awful big in some of those photos for his mom to be a Lowchen. Maybe his dad was a larger breed, but I'd be surprised if his mom survived the pregnancy/whelping if she bred with something big enough to produce him. The brindle can be a surprise sometimes. I saw a litter of pups...

These only work if the car is turned on. So in this case it wouldn't have done any good. He would have had to remember the dog was in the vehicle to remember to leave the car on so the heat sensor was working. This was a tragic accident, but I can't see comparing it to people who leave...

I'm not talking about a conversation that goes "Blah Blah Vet Clinic" "Hi this is Kadi, I need ..." "Oh Hi Kadi, how is ..." I'm talking about the phone rings and they pick it up and say "Hello Kadi, what's up" because they recognize my phone number on their caller ID. And I asked one time...

It really depends on what we are having done. My vet also gives me special pricing because I'm there so much. It's a little scary when you call the vet and they pick the phone up and greet you by name. I give my own vaccinations, except for rabies. And my dogs are on a 3 year schedule...

Both of the posts about playing with your pup were great, but I'm going to pick out this one part. You know your pup likes to play rough. So you know there will be some nipping before you get this under control. Puppy teeth are SHARP and if you flinch when she bites, she has gotten a...

Oh, the submission peeing thing. I had a Dobe years ago who did this, although in his case it was excitement not submission. Any time I came home he'd have a full bladder, get excited and "leak". I simply avoided the problem, since ignoring the leaking is the best response. When I came home...