er --- without getting into it, shep4me i agree - even considering breeding a dog (even if it has a pedigree) that was a rescue -- wow, that just makes me lose respect for a person.
yuck - so what exactly IS the work you are breeding for - you repeatedly say they will have to do the work you breed for, but you have yet to indicate what actual work you are breeding them for. isnt breeding before you have trained, titled, and explored the breed further to its working potential a little "putting the cart before the horse" -- i would expect a breeder of true working dogs would understand and know how to work a dog first before they pump out a litter - its not an entry level position.
going further back - actually, i know someone that has many dogs from solar kennels, she has some awesome pups! however, not to argue points, but i think its funny yuck supports that dog, but solar dogs are purely show lines, arent they
they have a litter right now out of sequoia, i think hes a VERY handsome dog and has a great head (i will admit, i am a head fanatic!)
the KNPV is the dutch police dog association - if you google it you can get some links, i am sure. its a very rigorous program and it takes a good dog to get through. im simply saying if you want a dog with the neverending drive and such of a mal (if youve never met a mal, its like taking a GSD and giving it methamphetamine in many ways
), then taking other dogs will never make you happy.
and again - i dont know why you would look at a bad breeder and use their dogs to prove that dobes cannot work. why use BAD breeders as an example? bad breeders are bad breeders for a REASON - for their failure to responsibly, ethically, produce dogs that better the breed.