By reading the daily paper, you can easily see that crime rates are on the rise in many areas of the world. Assault and burglary incidents are up, and more people are taking their own safety into their own hands. One way to protect yourself and your loved ones is by owning a personal protection dog. Particular breeds including the Dutch Shepherd, the Rottweiler, and the Doberman pinscher can make excellent, well-trained guard dogs. These and other such breeds become aware of security dangers before you do and are willing to fight to protect you.
If you are looking for a personal protection dog to keep yourself and your family safe, consider the Dutch Shepherd dog. This breed has been used by police and military personnel around the world and can be successfully trained to be an excellent personal protection dog. Our company can provide a great deal of information about personal protection dogs for sale.
The Dutch Shepherd originated in the Netherlands and is sometimes known as the Hollandse Herder dog. Back in the 1890s, you might have been able to contact the official breed club, called the Nederlandse Herdershonden Club, to find one. Back then, the Dutch Shepherd dogs were thrown together with the Belgian Shepherd and the German Shepherds and simply collectively known as shepherd breeds. Although there were differences between the three types of dogs, they were often cross-bred.
Today, the differences are more distinct. You can find three basic varieties of Dutch Shepherd dogs, comprising a short-coat, long-coat, and rough-coat dog. Both the short coat and long coat breeds are typically gold or silver brindle. The rough coat, on the other hand, maybe gold and silver brindle or salt and pepper in color. The other similar breeds, like the German Shepherd, eventually had the brindle color removed through selective breeding. Between 1898 and 1914, you saw breed standards of the Dutch Shepherd changing and becoming closer to what is known today.
After World War I and World War II, the numbers of many dogs including the Dutch Shepherd were low. As a result, the breed was again crossed with Belgium Shepherds to help increase the population in a healthy manner. Although some crosses were again made with German Shepherds, they did not work well and were eventually abandoned. Over the next century, breeders refined and developed the Dutch Shepherd breed into what you see today.
Two main types of the Dutch Shepherd breed exist now. The first is one that is registered by the Fédération Internationale Cynologique (FCI). This group is a global canine organization, established in 1911, that has a mission to promote and protect purebred dogs. The FCI registered Dutch Shepherd have official pedigrees, and owners typically enter them in conformation shows, train them for various dog sports, or prepare them for careers as protection or police dogs through programs such as IPO,
Agility and SAR. About 4,000 Dutch Shepherds are currently FCI registered.
The second type of Dutch Shepherd dog is one that is trained in the Royal
Dutch Police Dog program or what is known as the “Koninklijke Nederlandse Politiehond Vereniging” (KNPV) training program. In the Netherlands, you will find mostly Dutch Shepherd in the KNPV, and in fact, two of the three founders of the KNPV training program were also involved in the Dutch Shepherd Club. These dogs are bred to be working police protection dogs and have garnered the majority of the awards in the national KNPV championships since the year 2000.
Although you will find FCI pedigree requirements met for dogs involved in most sports programs such as the French Ring and IPO, around 90 percent of the dogs in the KNPV training program do not have official pedigrees. This organization is confident that the training received in the KNPV program is more critical to Dutch Shepherds being successful police and protection dogs than the pedigree requirements. In fact, many believe that the KNPV-trained dogs could capture sports dog competition titles while those primarily competitive dogs could not be successful police dogs.
Since the Dutch Shepherds that go through the KNPV program do not have to adhere to the strict FCI pedigree requirements, they are often cross-bred with the Malinois breed. Technically, when the puppies of this cross are brindle-colored coats, they are classified as Dutch Shepherds. These cross-bred Dutch Shepherds are larger and more driven workers than the purebred dogs, but still, maintain the calm disposition noted in purebred Dutch Shepherds.
As a result, some countries including Belgium have allowed Dutch Shepherd graduates from the KNPV program to be listed in the FCI database. Because there is a continued high demand for police, military, and personal protection dogs around the world, the Dutch Shepherd will keep growing in popularity, and breeders will continue perfecting the best combinations to strengthen desirable qualities.
To learn more about personal protection dogs for sale, contact our organization. Our experienced professionals can help you learn more about the Dutch Shepherd as well as other breeds that make excellent personal protection dogs.
