“Hope” mother of my current three “Tallwater, Agressa, Boelbella” 

Hope was a pretty good bitch; tough, smart, protective, and eager to please.

She, like her daughters, was constantly looking you in the eye

Hope, just under a year here, with one of my sons

“Dopper Bafana”  Sire of  ” Tall Water”, ” Agressa”, ” Boelbella” all from “Hope”

Bafana was an outside male I used; He was well put together as you can see.  And I know he had good penn hip scores, for a Boerboel- .37 .37  because I made testing a condition of the agreement, despite being shown excellent hips scores out of S. Africa.  In hindsight, I guess I never did trust the owner; but the dog was stable, confident.

 The owner turned out to be the most twisted character I’ve yet to meet in the often strange drama I’ve come to refer to as “As the Boerboel Turns,” if not Dogdom on the whole.   An individual, turns out, so bizarre I’m disinclined to type his name, cause I don’t want to be associated with it, even incidentally, even by search engine. 

  if ever I needed an excuse not to give a guy a dog (which was supposed to be the stud fee) his story surly provided it ( chuckle ) The truth however is, we were exchanging threats before I even knew his bio, cause he tried to con me.   But it actually worked out to be a pretty good deal, for me.   I expect I’m on a very short list of people that managed not to get Bleeped dealing with him.  I got a nice litter out of it.  Gratitude and or bullets remains all I have to offer in return.

The brindle below was named “Doc” out of “Night Train” and ” Blackwell’s Vegter”  and dam to my “Hope”

“Doc” again

Doc again

Doc belonged to a gentleman by the name of Jerry Heater, who if memory serves, said she was the best he ever had, he also said she had exceptional penn hip scores.

 Doc was bred to Blackwells Vegter with Penn hip scores in the .3’s if memory serves.  A breeding repeated several times by the Kansahoma kabal and Blackwell kept and bred several bitches from it heavily. 

” Night Train” sired ” Doc ” dam of “Hope” dam of ” Tall Water,” ” Agressa,” “BoelBella”

“Night Train”  ( now deceased ) belonged to a breeder by the name of David Harris who basically built his kennel of him.  John Blackwell the founder of the USBA, also used this dog very heavily.  A lotta folks in a Boerboel centric circles of  the Kansas/oklahoma region seem to think Mr. Harris walks on water, I know better.  But what ever one might say about these two gentlemen nobody can deny they bring an extraordinary amount of dog experience and dog knowledge.  And they saw fit to build on this dog, like no other.   He’s probably the single most bred dog in USBA history.

Night train was purported to have Penn hip scores of  .28 .28 which was the best score in Boerboels for a considerable period of time.  

“Night Train” again below, The foundation stud of the Harris/Blackwell jugernaut 

Daughter of  ”Hope”

Boelbella’s OFA

“Boelbella” is the most athletic of three athletic sisters, you would be hard pressed to find a dog this size that move as well as she, I really need to get some video to do her justice.  As eager to please as all three, if not quite as quick to understand as Agressa.

Boelbella here getting ready to make some pups with “Apache”

Daughter to “Hope”

Agressa’s OFA

Agressa is the smartest of “Hope’s” three daughters, the alpha of her litter, the natural leader.   She’s the type of dog that has always got her eyes trained on yours; she’s a thinking dog.  If i’m going on a trip and I want to take a boerboel, she’s the one.

Below you see” Agressa” (center) as a pup with sister “Tallwater” on the left and sister ” Boelbella” on the right; you can see who’s ready for direction.

See the difference in the eye contact, just a subtile moment, but a good example

Below: Agressa all grown up

Agressa head shot

Agressa with two of her 1/2 Dogo sons ( see “Dobo” )

Agressa, like her sister Boellbella here, and like any dog I keep, is quite athletic

And they’re off

aka South African Mastiff

Boerboels 1 to 10 (breed description)

to see more photos or our last Pure Boerboel pups click here

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Current Adult Boerboels photos click below:

Bitches

“Tallwater” (photos)

“Agressa”  R.I.P. (photos)

“Boelbella” (photos)

Their Immediate Ancestors ( photos )

Prospects:

 To see more click “Mandela”:  A strapping young male prospect from the well respected Gretchen Kennel weighing in at 90lbs at 5 months, 120 lbs at 8 months, and too heavy for my old back to carry onto the scale by 13 months as seen in the photo above at 29 inches at the shoulder.  He moves remarkably well for such a massive dog.  

 He’s a lovable fellow really, steadfast, devoted and surprisingly protective for such a good natured dog, I’m quite pleased with him thus far and expect to use him extensively.

  As some of you may have noted after returning from S. Africa in the winter of 2010/11 I announced that we would look to import a pregnant Boerboel.  That was inspired by the hope to use a male named Nkosi that I found in Pretoria as the sire.   Nkosi was very close to my ideal Boerboel, very tall 30 plus inches, very athletic, not too heavy, smart and very serious about being a protector.  Mandela is the son of a Nkosi brother,  which is one reason I bought him.

 Unfortunately Nkosi was killed not too long after I left.  But I was able to purchase the first two picks of his last litter and have them shipped over.

 ”Brickhouse”  papered name Melma Milla

 and

” Spicylegs”   papered name Melma Muntow

 Photos soon.  When they are of age, assuming either pans out, I will probably do a relatively tight breeding to Mandela, in the hope of producing dogs like Nkosi