JANNIK BOERBOELS

INTRODUCTION

 

 

SABT Breeder Member 8822

UPDATE 09.06.09 - New puppy pictures on the puppy page.

UPDATE 01.06.09 - Puppies born 24th May, 4 girls, 3 boys.

My name is Jan Mitchell, I passed my SABT breeders course last year, then travelled to Europe to assist in appraising Boerboels, whereafter I passed my junior appraisers exam. I hope to travel again next year to continue my appraising.

The Boerboel is a South African dog, a mastiff originally bred and used in South Africa to protect the farmer, his family and to patrol the perimeter guarding the stock against the African wildlife.

We welcome visitors to meet our dogs, and will wish to meet anyone interested in a pup.

If you are interested in finding out more about us, you can e-mail us at jannikbb@yahoo.co.uk or telephone on 07710 317006 anytime or 01923 262281 evenings.

 

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A brief introduction of myself, my dogs and family.

We have five Boerboels all living together with us in the house, one male and four females.  We live in the Hertfordshire countryside in the small village of Chipperfield, 5 minutes off junction 20 of the M25, or 5 minutes off junctions 5 or 6 off the M1.  We are surrounded by farmland, and although we don’t live on a farm we have six horses and some land, our dogs enjoy running through our fields as their daily exercise, and ‘helping me muck out’, it’s amazing how much dogs like eating horse manure!

I take all our dogs training at the Barking Mad, British Institute of Professional dog Trainers accredited school, where they have all passed varying good citizen awards.

Yogi and Winnie playing in the snow.

My husband Nick and myself have lived here for over 20 years, we have two daughters, Nikola and Janie, and a granddaughter Ashleigh. Pictured above are Ashleigh and a friend having a water fight with the dogs. Our dogs are our companions and guardians, I work from home during the day and would be very lonely without them.

We have owned guardian breed dogs all our married life, we started with Dobes of which we had three, one female and two males, then we had a pair of crossbreed English Mastiff/Great Dane dogs, and before we purchased our first Boerboel we had a black female Neapolitan Mastiff.

We bought our first Boerboel in August 2003, at 8 weeks old, a yellow male we named Yogi, then the bug bit, five months later we purchased our second pup, a female named BooBoo from the same breeder, very sadly we lost BooBoo to cancer at two years and three months old.  Since then over the years we have bought four more female pups , they are now between the ages of two and three.