About Us
WELCOME
On behalf of the DDDAWGS KENNELS family we would like to welcome you to the triple DDD Am staffs web site. We hope you find it not only informative but user friendly to navigate. As time goes on we will be constantly adding helpful information about the breed and some valuable training tips. We will also eventually be stocking high quality leashes, collars and training aids for your am staff.
Our aim:
- Using our vast knowledge and experience in the breeding, raising and training of dogs we aim to breed consistently better am staffs.
- We are working closely on the dogs abilities and temperaments with credited trainers. Dogs will be assessed on their ability to perform and excel in the following types of training.
- Obedience
- Protection work
- Crowd control
- Patrol work as you can see all 4 will need dogs with stable temperaments and an unshakable nerve. They must have courage, heart and great tolerances. But most important of all they must be calm happy social dogs.
- All our dogs have been vet checked and temperament tested before they are allowed to reproduce. We work closely with our vet. He is a great help to us with our am staffs. He is from America and has had a lot of experience with the breed.
- Even though people may want certain colours we will not be breeding for specific colours. All mating's will be to either enhance or protect certain characteristics or to pull other characteristics into our lines.
- Just as people are all different so are dogs. We hope to match the dogs to their new owners as best as possible by closely monitoring them from birth.
- Our kennel is and will always be a steroid free environment. Steroid use is wide spread with am staffs to make them look huge and more impressive. Fact is it makes them unstable and alters their reproductive genes meaning you don’t really know for sure what the pups will be like un till its too late.
If the genetics are good, and diet along with exercise is correct steroid use is just an overkill that seriously effects the health and temperament of your dog. - We will be importing lines from overseas but our criteria will be a lot different then other breeders. We want not only dogs that are proven in the ring, they must also be stable and have the ability to work. We will not bring in any lines with temperament flaws no matter how accomplished they are in the show ring.
- We are firm believers in AI (Artificial Insemination) This ensures that the female is in peak condition and is carrying no bacteria that can be passed to the pups. This ensures that all pups are given the best chance from birth and helps prevent any issues that could hinder the pups development. AI also ensures that the male is in peak condition and that only healthy mature sperm is used. Basically the whole procedure leaves nothing to chance.
- Unlike most other breeders we allow potential buyers to clearly see the pedigree of all the dogs we breed. People must be allowed to do their own homework. When you buy a pup you are not only buying looks. you are buying lineage that has already proven to be clean. Even if the parents look healthy and appear impressive, this does not ensure that their lines are clean of genetic faults. Understand mother nature is not always predictable but if effort is made all she gets to do is choose the sex of the pups.
Basically we are doing our best to not only preserve the breed but are putting temperament above all else. This is an awesome breed and I have seen a lot of good done with it but have also seen a lot of bad. All we want is to produce dogs that will be an asset to your family not a liability.
All the dogs here have been temperament tested and have all passed with flying colours. They are great with my children and all their friends. I run all of my girls together to ensure they have no dog aggression.
We receive constant criticism from other breeders because they are not happy with the way we are running our breeding program. They are happy with the level the breed is currently at in Australia. And yes confirmation wise we do have great dogs. The thing I ask is can any dog have too good a temperament?
Fact is most people do not show there dogs so if it has a toenail that isn't the correct colour they are not fussed. What they are fussed about is that they have a stable member of the family who would do anything to please and protect his new family.
We are hoping that other breeders will follow our lead to ensure this breed has a bright future here in Australia but so far it seems unlikely, at least until trophies and ribbons stop being the measuring stick as to how good the dog truly is. Even though our dogs are capable of being shown and doing well this is not a priority to us and never will be. We hold some of the best champion bloodlines you will ever find under one roof. They have already proven their ability in the show ring and have nothing left to prove there. Now is the time to show their true value. Our available gene pool is not only impressive but massive too, so we will never have to mate dogs that are NOT genetically compatible.
NONE OF OUR PUPS WILL HAVE EARS CROPPED. IF ANY DOGS BRED BY US TURN UP WITH CROPPED EARS WE WILL NOT HESITATE TO REPORT IT TO THE RELAVENT AUTHORITIES IN YOUR STATE.
"BUYERS BEWARE"
If you are serious about owning an Amstaff you must read...
The Australian Government has tried to stop the breeding and sale of American Pit Bulls with NO success. They are constantly advertised as American Staffs to avoid detection. Local councils have had enough and have started to actually inspect dogs within their districts. The only real way they can determine your dog is an Am staff 100% is if your dog is registered with the ANKC and has Pedigree papers to verify it, along with a microchip. Unless inspectors are 100% certain your dog is an Am staff it will be classed as an American Pit bull and you will have to deal with the consequence.
It is a breeders responsibility to provide you with 100% proof of pedigree and that IS NOT done with a micro chip. Avoid breeders who can not supply pedigree papers with your Am staff or hide the pedigree of the parents from you, they are just selling you heart ache.
You might save a few dollars at first but if your dog is found to have no pedigree papers it will be a sad day for your family and your dog. Not to mention you will also have no idea what you have bought or what to expect from your new pup.
Below is a link to that runs through the legislation in most states and gives a few horror stories as well.
http://www.dogslife.com.au/dogs_life_articles?cid=9446&pid=146514
Below is couple of paragraphs from the site.
In a hugely publicised case in Brisbane, the Middleton family was told their pet Ollie, who had never hurt anyone, would be seized by the Logan council on the suspicion he was a Pit Bull, despite two independent and professionally qualified vets ruling this out. Logan councillor Sandmann apparently told the family: "Veterinarians are good at looking after animals, not identifying them." Interestingly, another family’s dog had been attacked twice by a Cattle Dog without provocation, but was told by the same council there was nothing they could do.
The most integral part of the law, and the one that causes most outrage in the dog community, is the way in which restricted breeds are identified. First, there is no scientific method to identify a breed and identification often depends on the owner declaring the breed or the breed being identified by an authorised officer. Staffordshire Bull Terriers and American Staffordshire Terriers have been seized and destroyed on numerous occasions because they were mistakenly believed to be Pit Bulls.
This can happen to you.......