How often do you see Belgians

I see them a lot around dog events, but not so much day to day. Well..actually I see the occasional terv but there is a local breeder here. I've never seen a Mal or Groenendael in my store. I saw a Terv walking down the street in Chicago, and a Mal walking down the street in Boston. I don't usually see them out on the street around here.

I actually saw a Dutchie (I know, not related) at the trade show. Love.

I never see Belgians around here. This place is full of the 'generic' dog breeds, y'know the labradors, goldens, and bulldogs. There really are no less common dog breeds around here. I've seen a Malinois once, and that was driving past a dog training center while an event was going on (that I sadly didn't get to go to). The closest thing to a Malinois--or any Belgian for that matter--are the oversized German Shepherds that seem to be wandering around everywhere.

Now that I think about it, I really don't see Belgian anythings all that often. There is a Petsmart "trainer" here who lectures me every time I walk in to the store about how cruel I am for putting a prong or any other type of training collar on my dog, who claims he has a 120 pound Malinois. I've never seen this mythical beast, but does that sort of count? Kinda?

Maybe his 120 lb Malinois is related to the guy from Amanda's store...

lol

There were two Malinois that boarded in at work a few years ago. (Glad they don't anymore, those dogs were nuts! Or maybe just typical Malinios. Lol) I've also seen a lady walking a pair down the road when I head to work sometimes. We have a client that just purchased a Malinois puppy. He's ex-military and worked with one while on duty, so when his service was over he wanted one.

Other than that, I haven't really seen many in this area. Although I have seen a few ads on craigslist for maliwah dogs. :/

I play Flyball so I see Mals often. I have friends with Mals and a friend with a Laekenois.

OK, that makes more sense!

There are two other Belgians nearby. A lady in my club has a Terv. The next county over has a Malinois K9.

I run into a terv every now and then at petco, but that's pretty much it. I have a LOT of people ask if Lucy is Belgian, which kinda surprises me that people out and about even know what one is.

I don't see many around here out and about, but there are two working line mals from a breeder in Lansing that are members at the park and I see one very frequently. They're expanding!

As far as I can recall I have never seen any type of Belgian (well maybe at the one dog show I went to several years ago but I don't remember). We really don't get very many unusual dogs in my neighborhood or my college town. Labs, pit bulls, Huskies, German Shepherds, Greyhounds, and the common small breeds as well are all I really see. I saw my one and only real live Doberman a few years ago.

Rarely.

My friend has 2 groens. Then there was another groen in rally with us and another two that run agility at trials we go to. Then my other friend has a groen and a terv. And then a judge up in Calgary has 3 or 4 mals.

Other than in my house...

I see a lot of Groens and Mals. I'm friends with a lot of Belgian people, we have multiple club members with Groens and one with Tervs at the local club, at the local performance place the owner has a Mal, one instructor has one and several students have Mals or Groens and there is a slew of Mals and some Groens at flyball. If I went to training every night at any of those three places, chances are I'd see other people's Belgians every night. Oddly I see less Tervs, although they are definitely the more popular hairy Belgian. And like Emily said, Mals are definitely gaining popularity (and in the wrong kind of way).


Now beyond a "dog person setting", I don't see Belgians very much at all. I have very rarely run into people who have one as a pet or knows someone who does.

I see far less of PyrSheps, no one else at the training club, performance place or flyball has even one. I see them at local shows a lot though. I'm pretty sure that there will be some PyrSheps at the Agility National

I hope so! I will be stalking them.

I see mals fairly often. There's also a mal breeder local

In my city there's me and my two friends that have 7 Mals in total, and one guy that breeds Tervs with the worst temperaments ever. I've never seen another Belgian here other than the ones I know. One time I saw a dog in the back of a truck that looked like a fluffy Mal, he claimed that he bred Mal/Husky crosses, but I haven't seen any more of those around.

I forgot to add... There's also apparently a ton in pet homes around here. I get 2-3 people a week telling me about their "Malinois" and such.

Apparently here, anything pointy that's fawn with a black mask is a mal.

Wellll, Dutchies and Mals are pretty frequently interbred, and while they're not EXACTLY the same thing, I think many Dutchie owners would argue they're pretty close. I'm quite certain there's a little bit of Maligator in my Dutch. (She's my SD too, so that's pretty awesome.)

I never see any Belgians. I have met one, ONE Malinut in my entire life, and he was bad enough it made me not want to seek one out at any point.

Maybe I'm crazy enough to consider one in the future, but I'd be quite happy to just have a long coated Dutch as well.

Although, I do love the fluffy butt Mals. I think there's one or two in Michael Ellis' videos, I'd love to steal. It may be the one named Enzo, as a matter of fact, lol


Even at AKC shows, I don't think I've run into any of the Belgians, though I may just keep missing their breed ring.

Just about every time I go to Auggie's breeder's house and see her son's Terv...

There's a Mal who does agility around here and I see him pretty often. I have seen one other Terv doing agility but that's about it.

I don't see them out and about and I've never had one in a class.

Enzo is a bit large but he totally catches my eye. I was hoping Phendi/Jersey would throw some fluffy babies, extra swoon.

They're nutterfutz but ****, they're fun.