Welcome
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Welcome to the Karlsruhe German Shepherd Dogs website. Based in Co. Kildare, Ireland, Our focus is on showing, working & training our dogs to achieve success, with a future breeding programme to equal the best.
Having grown up with dogs and horses all my life. I purchased my first German Shepherd Dog - ‘Axel’ when I was 18 years old, He was by Mutz De Los Porches - a Frei vom Holtkamper See son -> (Canto von der Wienerau). I concentrated mainly on competition obedience but also showed him. A few years later I purchased two Lando Van Noort females (Grimm vom Lehmbachtal / Lasso di val Sole / Quanto von der Wienerau) from the Wenden Kennel, and that’s where I got started...
Having grown up with dogs and horses all my life. I purchased my first German Shepherd Dog - ‘Axel’ when I was 18 years old, He was by Mutz De Los Porches - a Frei vom Holtkamper See son -> (Canto von der Wienerau). I concentrated mainly on competition obedience but also showed him. A few years later I purchased two Lando Van Noort females (Grimm vom Lehmbachtal / Lasso di val Sole / Quanto von der Wienerau) from the Wenden Kennel, and that’s where I got started...
I choose the prefix/affix ‘Karlsruhe’ as this was the place in Germany where SV dog no.1 - Horand von Grafrath was spotted and purchased by Captain Max von Stephanitz and subsequently won first place in 1899.
