My
life has always been centered on animals. Along with the normal menagerie
of pets growing up, I also bred and showed Peruvian and Abyssinian Guinea Pigs.
By my early teens, I was focused on showing hunters and jumpers. History of Andalin Dobermans
Welcome to my site. My name is Linda Voss and I have had a 33 year long love affair with Dobermans. I bought my first Dobe in the 1970's and except for a couple of months one time I have never been without one since.
My
life has always been centered on animals. Along with the normal menagerie
of pets growing up, I also bred and showed Peruvian and Abyssinian Guinea Pigs.
By my early teens, I was focused on showing hunters and jumpers.
It was from another exhibitor that I was
introduced to my first Doberman. I completely fell in love. When he
bred his male, I was with the pups almost daily and despite my parent's initial
refusal, arranged to buy a male pup. When I finally brought him home, my
parents fell in love also and all objections were lifted.
Atli went everywhere with me, lived at two show stables and finally on my own farm. Though my work with horses left me little time, I did some obedience work and entered a few matches. I also joined a Schutzhund club near Gainesville. Atli is still the dog who I look at for a model of the ideal Doberman temperament.
Living in race horse country, I soon got absorbed in riding the yearlings on the home farms and then at the track, and gradually started training and breeding. During this time, I also developed another passion, studying pedigrees. Oh, the hours I spent researching and reading everything I could on breeding strategies. I ended up with shelves of Thoroughbred breeding books going back to the 1800's puzzling out nicks and crosses, speed and stamina. It was a terrific foundation for my later foray into breeding dogs. And it paid off pretty well in the horses too, my first homebred won first time out and my first horse I purchased at the Ocala Sales also won first time out.
After a bad car crash which left me unable to walk for months, I moved up to Georgia, and without the horses, naturally turned to the Dobermans. I soon bought my first Dobe specifically to do obedience with from Jeanne Ratliff of Scotsbrae, he became Scotsbrae's Stay The Night CDX WAC (AKC ptd) aka Charcot. Luckily, one of the nation's leading trainers lived here also, Nancy Patton. With such a good foundation, we qualified for the 1995 Cycle U.S. Obedience Classic tournament from our Novice A scores. Along the way, we also picked up some points in conformation. I started Charcot in agility in 1995, though all showing came to an end when he tore a muscle jumping off a hotel bed the morning of his first agility trial.
A few years later, I bought another puppy for obedience from Skip Schnibben of Azar Dobermans. She became my first Top20 Doberman in Agility, Azar's Tidal Wave CDX ASCA-CDX RE MX MXJ NAC NJC CGC. From her first and only litter, she produced my second Top20 dog, this time in obedience, along with 5 other dogs with 30 performance titles and two UKC Champion titles among them, with several still competing and two just beginning.
Six and a half years later, I have my second litter on the ground and I'm looking forward to choosing my next competition dog and working with the new owners of its littermates.
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