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At the 31st Internayional Dog Show at Rotterdam on 30-31 August 2008, Sh Ch Pauline II V Bockenhagen at Kimmax became the first ever Deutsch Drahthaar / GWP to gain joint titles in both the UK and Holland.
Although incredibly successful in the Show ring in UK and Holland, Pauline is also the only titled UK [...]

Severe colour abnormalities are incredibly rare in Drahthaars, yellow roan, tri-colour and predominantly white dogs are severely discouraged and prohibited from breeding in Germany.
Many people wrongly criticise black and white dogs for having some dark brown discolouration on beards and eyebrows, and likewise liver dogs having light brown fringes on their beards. This [...]

Well, it is amazing how quickly these things come around. Seems like Timo arrived only a few months ago and now we are off to my 3rd Hegewald.

For anyone, who is going to watch the details are;
The main Assembly point is : Dithmarschenhalle, Meldorf, Schleswig-Holstein (North West Germany, almost Denmark!).
The nearest convenient airport is [...]

Apologies to our readers, I have been so busy with our main ‘Kimmax’ web site project (www.kimmax.co.uk) and work (well I have to earn a living to feed all those dogs) that I have been neglecting the Drahthaar site.
I have been changing the design to use the platform I have developed for our [...]

All puppies born in England from today onwards will not be permitted to be docked unless they are one of the breeds that has a working exemption. Even then the rules in assessing whether the dog’s owner can prove a puppy will be worked are still being worked out.
A similar ban exists already [...]