The Doberman Network Magazine

Published on May 10, 2024

Beyond Clean: What’s In Your Disinfectants? Quaternary Ammonium Compounds, also known as QACs or Quats, were developed in the 1970’s and have been a part of our everyday world ever since, but particularly so with the advent of COVID. Although […]

Published on September 18, 2023

The Rest of the Story I was listening to the podcast of This American Life a few days ago. The topic of that episode was Paul Harvey and his trademark “The Rest of the Story” series. For those of you […]

Published on January 31, 2022

I daresay that many are glad to have the last two years behind them and look forward to a new year ripe with potential. It is a time that we make resolutions for ourselves, but do not forget your four-legged […]

Published on December 2, 2021

By the time you open this issue Christmas will be quickly approaching. Hopefully you have already knocked out most of your gift list, but in case you are missing a few here are some fun and unique gifts that are […]

Published on October 8, 2021

Two weeks before this National I had the pleasure of acting as the Handler Judge for the American Bullmastiff Association’s Top 25 conformation event. Ray Carlisle was the brainchild of the DPCA Top Conformation event, first held in 1974. Since […]

Published on August 4, 2021

As fate would have it, a new study on Fading Puppy Syndrome (FPS) appeared in my inbox a couple of weeks ago, just in time to include in this annual Puppy issue. As a breeder I have lost my share […]

Published on June 4, 2021

Show Bitch = Brood Bitch? Not necessarily… It is rare that every bitch in a litter happens to be show quality. Of those, it is rarer still to find a gem- a brood bitch that easily takes breedings, that efficiently […]

Published on April 5, 2021

Everywhere I turn the past few days there are signs of Spring flowering trees and folks outdoing yard work. But in the world of dogs we seem to be in a time of Spring like renewal as well.Besides an abundance […]

Published on June 15, 2020

Many of us have an emergency plan in mind to evacuate our dogs away from our homes in case of fire, hurricanes and the like.  But Covid-19 has brought a new dynamic to such emergency plans- what to do when […]

Published on September 27, 2019

Every year I have the same conversation with newbies taking their first dog to the Doberman National. “You don’t go to the National with the intention of winning anything,” I say. “Considering that the cream of the crop is usually […]