Balruggen German Shepherds

06/01/2024

Happy, happy 4th birthday to Kai, Kobie, Bear and Raven.... how quickly the years pass! 🥰🥰🥰🥰

04/12/2023

Handsome Bear enjoying the festive season ❤️

04/12/2023

Pretty Isla ❤️

27/09/2023

A bit late, it's been a busy day... Happy Birthday to our 5 year old beauties - Eli, Lucca, T'challa, Athena, Widow and our own glorious Hannah ❤️🥰

23/09/2023

Gorgeous Bear, looking floofy after a bath 🛁 🥰

01/08/2023

Happy 8th birthday to Cain, Harley, Alba, Wilf, Rico, Razor, Indy and remembering Ziggy and Freya ❤️💝

15/05/2023

Indy visiting granny 🥰🥰

12/05/2023

This made me laugh..🤣🤣🤣

01/05/2023

Beautiful Eltanin looking after her 'brood' 🥰 so gentle 😍

30/04/2023

Happy 4th birthday to Reba(pink) and her brothers and sisters, Rafe (blue), Trent (purple), Eltanin (yellow), Ziva (red), Ruari (green) and Amara (orange) ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🎂

18/03/2023

Happy 7th birthday to these gorgeous Balruggen babies ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

26/01/2023

Well it's been very quiet for pictures of our babies on here for ages, so if anyone, who has one of our Balruggen babies, would like to send me some update pictures of their gorgeous pups, please feel free to do so and I'll post them... Or feel free to post on this thread 🐶🐕‍🦺❤️🐾xx

06/01/2023

Can't believe these cuties are 3 years old today 😱😱 where DOES the time go! Happy birthday Bear, Kai, Kobie and Raven ❤️❤️❤️❤️

22/12/2022

Here's hoping the KC move foward on this soon

This may be of interest to some of you to sit and read and maybe even share.

For many years I have asked the UK Kennel Club why they don't ask for DNA proof of parentage before issuing any paperwork.

Over the years their response has gone from, no response at all, to a very honest 'it will restrict our revenue and put people off'. It won't of course put people off that are genuine in their breeding ethics.

So recently I was so pleased to see an e mail land in my mail from the KC.

The e mail questioned the parentage of Athena and Captain's pups and informed me it was not possible to produce sable pups from 2 none sable parents.

I was delighted.

Delighted to see that they are in fact starting to check on parentage.

Fiona Gierus, helped put an e mail together to explain why it was possible - thank you Fiona.

We have been DNA profiling our parents for many years and so it was very easy for me to test one of our sable boys to see if in fact Athena and Captain were the parents.

With the help of Animal Genetics, we were able to provide the proof that Athena and Captain are the parents.

This is a really great step forward from the UK Kennel Club and I hope that it will go some way into 'tidying' up bad breeding ethics that are facilitated for by the current paperwork process used by the UK KC.

I am even more delighted that the UK KC are looking into the possibility of insisting on DNA testing of all pups prior to paperwork being raised.

Below is the back end of an e mail conversation I've recently had with them

Andrea Wood
To:Health Results
Fri, 9 Dec at 10:00
Hello

Much appreciated

Do you think that the Kennel Club will ever insist on DNA profiles & proof of parentage for all pups before any paperwork is raised?

This would be the very best way forward to authenticate COI and other important information relating to inherent issues.

I for one DNA profile all of my dogs and have done for years.

Look forward to your response

Kind Regards

Andrea Wood

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Health Results
To:Andrea Wood
Wed, 21 Dec at 15:57
Dear Andrea,

Thank you for your email. I believe this has been under discussion for the future.

Best regards,

Breeder Services
The Kennel Club
Clarges Street
London
W1J 8AB
0129 631 8540
www.thekennelclub.org.uk

14/12/2022

Honey wearing the necklace her human little brother made for her ❤️❤️

11/11/2022

Mantrailing Scentwork Tracking K9 Laser Guidance Obedience/ General dog training (Everything from Loose lead walking to Recall) Puppy training Canine First Aid Courses Dog Wardens referrals and dog reactivity cases. We also do 1/2/1's, so if you don't see anything that suits you please get in touch....

09/11/2022

Here are some beautiful pups from Hannah's litter sister, Athena, who is owned by Andrea at Glebevonwood. Please contact Andrea directly if you want further info/are interested ❤️

04/11/2022

Isla, having a more relaxing time than Freya lol 😂

04/11/2022

Freya on 'workman watch' 😂

27/09/2022

Happy 4th birthday to Eli, Lucca, Widow, Athena, T'challa and, of course, our gorgeous Hannah ❤️ as you can see Hannah is having a chilled birthday 🎂 ❤️

21/08/2022

Nom, nom, Sunday mornings are for venison bones... ❤️

05/08/2022

Little Miss Beautiful. Eltanin ❤️

01/08/2022

Handsome Tweedie and his bestie ❤️❤️

01/08/2022

Happy 7th(!) birthday to this wonderful bunch - Indy, Wilf, Rico, Freya, Cain, Harley, Razor(Storm), Alba and remembering darling Ziggy ❤️

26/07/2022

Stunning Lucca ❤️

25/07/2022

Isla 😂😂😂😂😂❤️❤️❤️

24/07/2022

Rico having a blast at the dog field ❤️

22/07/2022

What a lovely boy Eli has matured into ❤️

19/07/2022

Lol

19/07/2022

I think we need a bigger pool 😂😂😂