Jes has travelled to Bosnia on two extended United Nations Missions. In 1998, he was made responsible for creating the first ever Police Dog Unit in Bihac, an area devastated by the war.

For over 15 years now, Jes has been an Instructor at Kildegården, the Danish National Police Dog School. His specialty, and greatest area of interest lies in tracking, specifically hard surface (asphalt) tracking.

In April 2000, Jes and I met while he was in California teaching a tracking seminar for several law enforcement agencies. He began training his third dog for police service in 2002. Hassan, a male Dobermann from our H litter, was PH certified the following year, winning the 2003 Regional High Point Perpetual Trophy. He is the only Dobermann working as a Police Service Dog in Denmark.

I have always been surrounded by animals. While growing up, my all consuming interest was in competitive horse jumping. When I left home for university, and could no longer keep a horse, I turned to Dobermanns.

In 1990, I earned a Canadian Show Championship and CD obedience title with my first Dobermann. Later, I put an AD endurance title on him, but soon realized that we had reached the limit of his talents in Schutzhund.

Two years of research led me to Monika and Norbert Schmitz of Kennel "von der Weyermühle." From a limited number of litters, they had produced many successful dogs in sport competition and police work in Germany. Countless other successful working dogs traced their heritage to this kennel.

In 1994, Qastra came to live with me in Canada, when she was eight weeks old. In 1996, her younger half-sister Snoopy joined us.

In five months, Qastra and I gained 2x SchH1 (High in Trial, High Protection), IPO1 (High Protection), SchH2, SchH3 & FH (the last two titles earned on the same weekend in 96°F temperature). We also attended the 1997 LV / DVG America Championships and won 2nd place in SchH1 with the only "V" score in tracking.

At two years of age, Snoopy earned 99 points in SchH1 Protection under DVG Chief of Judges Carole Patterson. In SchH3, Snoopy and I made a flawless 100 point track and 97 points in protection, taking home yet another High Point award. In 2002, Snoopy earned her Politihund Kåring (Danish Police Dog Certificate) with 108.9 /110 points, earning the Regional High Point Perpetual Trophy.

Qastra and Snoopy always received "pronounced" ("a") for courage & hardness under USA, DVG and SV Judges!

From my first 4 litters, I have bred 12 Schutzhund titled dogs and one bitch with French Ring 1 (the first Dobermann in North America) and one bitch with French Ring Brevet and Mexican Personal Protection 1. Please visit our Titles page. To expand the gene pool in America, I helped friends import Janus and Kiro v. Bayern, as well as pups from the C litter Urftquelle in 1998. I also imported Pascha v.d. Weyermühle in 1999.