Von An Der Rott
About Us
Von An Der Rott German Shepherds
First, we want to talk a tad about our background. Our family came from An Der Rott (district of Passau in Barvaria) Germany. There our family began working with German Shepherds. We have since continued the work here in America and are proud of all our dogs, and all we do with our dogs. My wife just happened to have a similar background. Her father bred strictly for the local police in Illinois. So, you can imagine our joy when we met and discussed our family history with the GSD.
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Let's touch on our purpose as breeders: We breed for service first. We have a long history of creating service companions for others. We started with my father in law here in the U.S with high drive dogs, working with law enforcement. Then my wife began to get a mysterious disease that took over our lives. We had one of our dogs constantly alerting her she was going to pass out, and have seizures. She took the dog and began to work with the dog.
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Then our neighbor who had PTSD (veteran) asked for a dog and to help train the dog. We successfully trained the dog for PTSD. So, then we took our work and began to come up with a program to assist others. We took some training under a man in Colorado who went to be trained at the Leerburg ranch. He taught us how to pick through the pups and place them into categories, working, service, SARS, and pet homes. Since then we have been successfully training service dogs and etc for others.
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Each dog in our program is picked for a purpose, They live indoors with us. No one is bred until they pass their OFA, and other testing. They must also have something to offer our program.
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we hope you enjoyed learning a little about us.