Litter “M” – Minions Niktel (CZ)

UPDATE 22. 10. 2024 – Puppies are here. All are thriving, mother and puppies are doing fine. All have their new families.

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UPDATE 19. 10. 2024 – Day 60. Belly is growing, the weight gain is 8 kg now. Future mumy is still happy and fit, but whelping is coming close. The whelping box is assembled and heating turned on high. We are prepared.

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UPDATE 3. 10. 2024 – Reservations full. There are still some last reservations possible in litter N, expected at the end of October 2024. The next litter will then be planned for spring 2025.

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UPDATE 17. 9. 2024 – Pregnancy confirmed! Expected date of whelping 19.-21.10.2024.

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UPDATE 4. 9. 2024 – Reservations for females from this litter closed. For male puppies one last space. If you want a female puppy, please go to litter N.

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UPDATE 23. 8. 2024 – Diamond has been mated to the chosen stud dog. Our long journey to France was successful. Now we will be waiting for pregnancy confirmation at the second half of September.

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UPDATE 19. 8. 2024 – In the upcoming days, we are planning to set off on a trip to France with Diamond. As soon as her progesterone level reaches the required level, we are ready to go.

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The puppies will be both short-haired and long-haired with the predispositions of calm, balanced characters, suitable for example for families with children as guide dogs, canistherapeuts or companions for any everyday activities, hikes and sports.

Puppies:

All puppies in our kennel go through a well-thought-out socialization program with many stages. We pay great attention to socialization and focus on ensuring that the puppies leave us confident, socialized and fearless as much as possible. We start very early, already a few days after the birth, and we continue gradually with individual follow-up phases, according to the development of the puppies and in proportion to their age. If the puppies stay up to 8 weeks (normal age within the Czech Republic or Slovakia), there are roughly 30 different stages. If due to the import rules and regulations of the destination country the puppy has to stay longer (usually up to 15 weeks of age after full vaccination), there can be up to 50 socialization stages. We record every part of the socialization on video and send it to future owners, or we publish selected videos on our website, Youtube channel and FB page of our kennel. For a clearer idea of ​​how the socialization takes place in our kennel and what each phase means, you can read about our previous litters, or watch the various published socialization videos – YT playlist dedicated directly to socialization can be found here.

Puppies from the M litter have a very interesting pedigree with bloodlines from all over Europe, and after mother also from Australia and after the sire from Russia as well, with a number of very successful and well-known ancestors. You can find the pedigree of future puppies on the pedigreedatabase here. The puppies will be issued an FCI certificate of origin from the Czech-Moravian Kennel Union (ČMKU). Puppies can go to their new homes after 8 (or 15 depending on the country) weeks of age, regularly wormed, min. 1x vaccinated, chipped, fully socialized, according to their age, with basic hygiene habits. They will receive from us an international passport (vaccination certificate), a starter pack with some equipment and food for the puppy to begin with and a lot of printed information regarding the development to date and advice and recommendations for the upbringing and development of the puppy in the future. After the puppies are born we take a lot of photos and videos of each puppy, which we send to the future owners via WhatsApp on a daily basis, so that they can follow their development while they are still with us and to know how the puppies are doing, what they did that day and how they are growing. Last but not least, we guarantee all owners lifelong breeder’s service for watever advice they may need in the future. The visit of the future owners of the puppies is possible with us immediately after the first vaccination (for the safety of the puppies), i.e. from approx. 6.5 weeks of age.

Before going to their new homes, our puppies go through a character test (Volhard puppy aptitude test), where their character traits and assumptions are checked and tested. Based on the results of this test, the planned use of the puppies by the future owners and in cooperation with them, we select the most suitable puppies for the best families to “fit” together as best as possible.

Parents:

The parents of this litter are completely unrelated within 4 generations back.

Mother – Diamond – Her absolute greatest asset is her perfect character. She is friendly, cheerful and completely fearless and confident. She loves all people and animals and is wonderful with children, she even has something loke canistherapy tendencies. She is the best partner a person could wish for, she will follow her loved ones even to the end of the world and fulfill whatever she sees in their eyes. She’s just a big go-getter and everyone’s favorite. Don’t expect a sharp guard dog from her, Daiminka is more of a welcoming type of dog. She sometimes barks behind the fence, so she intimidates with her size and appearance, but she would lick the offender rather than stopping him. When we offer her some action, she is immediately ready to run out into nature, on a trip or even a race. It is not for nothing that she became the first WSS female in history to win the title of The most hard working WSS of the year and Master of Endurance Sports for her lifetime achievements in sports. She runs canicross, obstacle races and does scootering with us. She is an excellent sports dog especially in mushing sports, she has a big heart and loves racing, adrenaline and overcoming all kinds of obstacles. During races, she climbs over, climbs under, swims, has no problem with confined spaces or, for example, with mud, if necessary she goes headfirst into everything. She is also excellent as a teacher for beginner runners, we often lend her to other people to run with, and she has absolutely no problem running with someone she barely knows.

She has year-round excellent dark pigmentation, extremely dark eyes, claws, strong skeleton, prominent chest and perfect body structure. During her life, she achieved a number of prestigious awards at exhibitions – she is Multi Grand Champion, Multi Champion and Junior Champion of several countries.

Diamond is still in excellent shape and has perfect health even at almost seven years old. In the racing season, she is well-muscled and weighs around 31 kg at a height of 59 cm. She has excellent health results from all possible mandatory and optional genetic tests, which we performed beyond the scope, so she has the best conditions to bring beautiful and healthy puppies into the world

• HD A (hips OK)
• ED 0/1 (elbows OK)
• LTV 0 (transitional vertebra – negative for this malformation)
• MDR1 +/+ (multiple drug resistance – free by parentage)
• DM n/n (degenerative myelopathy – free by parentage)
• full dentition, scissor bite

You can read more about Diamond on her personal page here, where you can also find many of her photos and videos.

Father – Joffrey – calling name “Géckyl” is a short-haired dog imported from Russia and living in the kennel “du Lac de Garm” in the Rhone-Alpes region of France.

In character, he is easy-going and likes to give kisses very much, just like Diamond. They are a great match for each other and we expect that this could result in an excellent litter with very nice temperaments. As a male dog, Geckyl is not so cuddly of course and likes to keep his distance and dignity. He is always devoted and loyal to his family. He is friendly and gets on well with other animals, as well as both male and female dogs. He is very dynamic and playful. He loves jumping into the water and running after sticks and balls, but he really doesn’t like to return and let go off the ball.

His fur is snow-white, without any rust coloring. He has a very dark pigmentation, a beautiful majestic head with a masculine expression and excellent ear shape. Perfectly straight top line, and strong frame. At less than 63 cm, he is not very high for a dog, which could help the constant problem of puppies growing over the permitted height.

His health results are the best possible and at 6 years of age he is still very fit:

• HD A (hips OK)
• ED 0/0 (elbows OK)
• MDR1 +/+ (multiple drug resistance – free)
• DM n/n (degenerative myelopathy – free)
• NAH +/+ (dwarfism – free)
• DNA profile
• full dentition, scissor bite

About the breed briefly:

The White Swiss Shepherd is a very sociable and loyal dog who loves his family above all else and will do almost anything for them. At the same time, it is very versatile and offers a wide range of possibilities in terms of its use. Active individuals like to train various sports (canicross, agility, dog frisbee, coursing…) or love obedience training. On the other hand there are calmer WSS who can become excellent canistherapy dogs and search and rescue dogs. They love nosework and are simply excellent companions for any occasion. In general, they are more sensitive in nature than maybe a GSD, so it is advisable to approach them gently and to raise and train them with a positive attitude. The white shepherd dog is also suitable for children, they usually love children and like to play with them. It is possible to keep them in an apartment, with sufficient physical and mental exercise, they will be happy both in a house with a garden and in a block of flats. We always offer advice and help with training to people with little or no previous experience with dogs, so it is not a problem to entrust them even to first-time dog owners.

We made a short film about the breed with our dogs in cooperation with Tlapka TV, which you can watch here, unfortunately the speech is only in Czech.