Members can you introduce yourself?

[Cheyenne Indians AST]

Hello Members ,
We all like to hear about eachother , therefor i ask you all to introduce yourselfs here.
I will start :
I'm john meijer , live in the netherlands , own 7 amstaffs in total with three placed.
I have bred three litters so far and one in italy , i work amstaffs for over ten years .
At this moment i train for IPO at a club called HSVA , a small club with about 12 members , most work with german sheperds , we have two rottweilers and now two amstaffs.
For the future we like to combine working and beauty in our breedings , so far we succeeded.
Just to give you an impression , now i like to know the rest of you.

john

[Tracey]

Hi John-

My name is Tracey I live in Canada, own 2 Am Staffs and 3 Pit Bulls( one is a rescue dog), all of which I am training in obedience and/or Schutzhund and one is also a Canadian Champion and has been to the World Show in Amsterdam and the US Specialty last year..so he is our world traveller:-)
I have been involved in dogs for 10 years, training in SchH for 7 ...I have put a SchH 3 on a Pit Bull, a SchH A on a German Shepherd and a BH on a Bullmastiff.
I am currently training a Malinois along with my Terriers.

That's about it!

[Will Monde]

Hi,

My name is Will and i have 2 AST's. One male of 8 years and IPO-I, 1 female 1 year training for her VZH. Working AST in IPO for about 8 years now, but did have to take a break in between.
For now i'm very busy working the administration of our club since i toke over that responsibilty about 1 month ago. But i'm still reading over here ;D, just don't have much time left for answering.

HELLO all new members i didn't had the the pleasure to meet yet.

Will

[Ingunn]

Hello there,

I'm Ingunn and I live in Norway. I have two ASTs, one female and one male. I hope to train both dogs in either Agility, IPO or Search & Rescue.
All of my sparetime goes to my dogs, and for the time beeing we are just working on basic everyday obedience.


-Ingunn-

[PitBullLeri]

Hello fellow members,

My name is Leri (pronounced Larry) and I live in Long Beach, California, USA. I am married with two children (19 & 16). At present I have no Am Staffs, but do have a yard full of pit bulls. 1 Gr.Ch.SchH3/IPO 3, retired bitch (14yo). I also have her half brother, SchH3/IPO 3, NPL1 and POST Narcotic certified, recently retired (9yo). I was gifted a Belgian Malinois that I gave my husband for fathers day, and am really enjoying the new training of ring sports. We inherited a 3.5 year old Chihuahua (sp?) that drives the entire pack nuts and is more dangerous then any of the big dogs in my yard!! We have a litter of 10 week old pups that I could not be more DELIGHTED with and have high hopes for :-)

In 99, I started my own dog related business teaching private obedience to pet owners, dog bite prevention to some of the local utility companies & community groups, and do a little volunteer work with one of our local shelters. I have a bad habit of taking on "projects", but will have to force myself to limit that as the yard will be completely full for a while. I feel the breed(s) are in terrible danger (have been the past 4 or 5 years, but getting even worse lately!) of BSL and take every opportunity to educate and demonstrate whenever possible.

That's probably more then you needed to know ;D

Bye fur now,
Leri

[PitBullLeri]

I previously wrote:
"1 Gr.Ch.SchH3/IPO 3, retired pregnant dog (14yo)"

That was a typo! Poor old Rosie is NOT pregnant and was fixed many years ago! What was I thinking?!

[Cheyenne Indians AST]

What a joke ...
I know what happened there , you wrote b i t c h - but thats a sensored word and if posted the word pregnant will appear instead ..so not your fault :-)

john

[dakota]

Hello,

I'm Kim Bague living in a rather small city Eeklo in Belgium.

I don't have a AST yet but since 4 years now I am looking into there eyes, and thinking "I wanna know everything about you, you know, I adore you for your wonderfull character and your nice appearence. One day you walk by my side to the training field for agility, or a pretty walk in the ring, or an IPO training-thing ( )."

Since 4 years I'm learning about the AST by reading,visiting our friends( two AST's Vany and Gaza) going to kennels, going to shows and visiting our friends in Medemblik( 7 AST and some cats ( ;D ).

Waiting for the happy(my amstaff) day to come....I give all members a and a .

When a helping hand is needed, you can call on me.


[glow=red,2,300]Dakota[/glow]

[Gamester]

My name is Robert Hughes.
I live in Norway and at this time I have two amstaff's and one (good for nothing) american bulldog.

I work both my amstaff's;
I train Atirah(Tercha's Notorious Atirah) for IPO at the local german shepheard club. There are a lot of german shepheards and some border collies and at this time one malinois there.

I train Mitra to one day become a sertified Search & Rescue dog here in Norway. It is werry hard training and it takes at least 2 years with good training methods.

I allso breed sound WORKING amstaffs.
We have one litture after CARD'S Tacoma Soldier and Mitra. (Mitra is Hip-X-rayed free and has an accepted good mental examination.)

Our NEXT litture will be a true Tacoma line breeding.
For this to take place we need a lot more of people willing to work their amstaff's to take contact with us.

Best,
Robert Hughes
[glow=red,2,300]Kennel Nordic Gamester[/glow]

[BajasDogs]

Hi,
My name is Mike Martin. I live in San Diego Californa. I own three Pit Bulls, Pitter Staffs. Mostly from Ruffian lines. I have been in the breed for about Ten years. I started showing in conformation two years ago. My b i t c h is a UKC CH, and her son needs one more major. I found this board researching bloodlines. Dog sports interest me. But I have never been to watch them work. What really sucks is my neighbor is head training director of the San Diego Shutzhund club They don't like pits Look's like a nice board hope to know you all better. Happy Hollidays
Mike Martin

[Cheyenne Indians AST]

Hello Martin ,

Welcome as i've already welcomed you before.
I just wanted you to know that we in holland can't train our amstaffs everwhere as well.
It seems that some people don't like the breeds , but do we good people want to train there ?? :-)
I don't , i like trainers and schools to know what they are doing and realize that it has got nothing to do with a breed ..most dogs training arent the best of social dogs anyway , but they don't want to let you know about that i asume.
Maybe you will be able to find another club where you with your dogs are more then welcome ..and that might be some time from now , but as you know patience will be rewarded.

all the best and i hope you will post as much here as possible.

john

[BajasDogs]

I'm in no hurry. Thank's for the welcome

[Erin]

Hi All,

I shall introduce me aswell ..I'm reading and posting from almost the beginning so its about time I do,how could I forget

I'm Erin 29 years old divorced and living in the Netherlands and I have two kids there little boys from 2 and a half and 6 years old.My new friend Ronnie is a Truckdriver international so he is not a lot at home.
We have no Amstaff yet but I still trying to learn as much about them as I can for the last past 2 years...

This year I hope to welcome my first one into the family and surely I hope to go and work with my dog if he's is cappable of it...
All the advice I got from this forum has been a great help to me, thankxxx for that.

I've been away for a short while becauce I just started to study again.
Its mabye not to interesthing but i'm now training to be an adminitrative assistant/secretary decision of my supervisors,I would prevere to be studying for Ethology witch I'm still planning to do.

So this is a bit about me,looking forward to meet you all and more of your advice/experiences on this forum.

Greetings Erin.

[Joey]

Hello everyone I am Joey. I am a police K9 officer in TN. I am currently working a dual purpose mal. Me and my wife have a 7 year old am staff and we have found her to be a very nice pet. My wife showed her in the AKC show ring. I am looking for a quality breeder of working am staffs. I would like to see if one could do dual purpose work. Of course health and temperment are a top priorty. Send me an email at
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Thanks
I have just found this board. It looks great

[Cheyenne Indians AST]

Welcome new members ,
We hope you will post your questions and remarks here as often as possible.

Further since we are special kind of people , we can only learn from eachother , so any answer is a good one .
But talk about everything you like , we enjoy reading them.

john