DMikeM
Well-Known Member
So questions were brought up about Boerboel registration processes and appraisials. I'll post a little about it here, I know I will catch hell from the dragon lady across the pond because she has a spy here but oh well the puss filled haggas faced witch can kiss my sodding tosspot a$$. Ah hem pardon the outburst.
So here is some of the stupidity but maybe not real stupid
You have 2 pure bred BBs let's say they score 90% and 85% on appraisals and have been registered as SAB/SABT Boerboels. You mate these 2 grand champion BBs and get a litter of 10 pups. 8 pups are the normal colors of brown with black masks but you get an Ultra Reverse brindle and a powder blue. You announce your litter with SAB and they issue birth certificates for all of the puppies. They have a pedigree line to back them up. Now you sell the puppies off and a year later the new dog owner goes to appraise the Blue Powder. Well he gets disqualified because he is the wrong color and is now called a dog not a Boerboel then the owner is told he is forbidden to breed that dog and should have it neutered. Now the lady with the Ultra Brindle goes to have her dog appraised but it has a liver colored nose, and it also gets DQ and she can't breed her dog either. The other 8 pups goes to appraisal and scores between 82% and 87% and get registered as an SAB Boerboels. All these dogs are pedigree with long lines of great dogs but those odd 2 get culled from the breed. Both good and bad here not every dog meets a breed standard but at least you get to register them.
Now the famous black boerboels. I don't have the exact details but I am going to paraphrase it to a usable story. Someone found a dog in a pet store that looked like a boerboel but it was black. So he buys it and gives it to his dad who owns a boerboel kennel, he registers this dog with SAB/SABT as a brindle because black is not in the standard but he uses his kennel name on the dog. He breeds this dog we call Pet Shop Jim to his high % bitch Boerboel and they get a couple black pups. Then her interbreeds this litter with Jim and gets a few more black dogs and he sells these rare black dogs for as much 10 grand. But then SAB pulls the plug and says there are no black boerboels and puts a red X on all of Petshop Jim's offspring making it so none of his offspring can be registered to breed as Boerboels. sheeesh!
Now EBBASA/BI come into play. They say there are no Blue or Black Boerboels PERIOD! So now these people that thought they could breed their rare black boerboels that SAB had previously registered can't. They have registered dogs that are now shunned upon by the ORGS.
Boerboels have only been a recognized breed for about 30 years. Back in the 80's several people searched the South African areas for the best of the best Boerboels, they looked at over 250 dogs and selected 72 to represent the breed. There were no black dogs and it was expressly stated there are no black boerboels all other colors were accepted. There was a phobia concerning black dogs back then.
Now on my personal research I am contacted by a woman whose father raised his father's boerboels far before the time of the gathering of the 72 dogs. She tells me she had black boerboels back then as did her grandfather and other farmers in the region. Flash forward to the present, one or more of these black dogs are exported from Africa and introduced into a couple of big name breeders/kennels but still the ORGS say there are no Black Boerboels.
So hopefully I didn't Boer (LOL) Bore you with this story but it is such a convoluted mess it becomes interesting to try and investigate and find the truths.
So here is some of the stupidity but maybe not real stupid
You have 2 pure bred BBs let's say they score 90% and 85% on appraisals and have been registered as SAB/SABT Boerboels. You mate these 2 grand champion BBs and get a litter of 10 pups. 8 pups are the normal colors of brown with black masks but you get an Ultra Reverse brindle and a powder blue. You announce your litter with SAB and they issue birth certificates for all of the puppies. They have a pedigree line to back them up. Now you sell the puppies off and a year later the new dog owner goes to appraise the Blue Powder. Well he gets disqualified because he is the wrong color and is now called a dog not a Boerboel then the owner is told he is forbidden to breed that dog and should have it neutered. Now the lady with the Ultra Brindle goes to have her dog appraised but it has a liver colored nose, and it also gets DQ and she can't breed her dog either. The other 8 pups goes to appraisal and scores between 82% and 87% and get registered as an SAB Boerboels. All these dogs are pedigree with long lines of great dogs but those odd 2 get culled from the breed. Both good and bad here not every dog meets a breed standard but at least you get to register them.
Now the famous black boerboels. I don't have the exact details but I am going to paraphrase it to a usable story. Someone found a dog in a pet store that looked like a boerboel but it was black. So he buys it and gives it to his dad who owns a boerboel kennel, he registers this dog with SAB/SABT as a brindle because black is not in the standard but he uses his kennel name on the dog. He breeds this dog we call Pet Shop Jim to his high % bitch Boerboel and they get a couple black pups. Then her interbreeds this litter with Jim and gets a few more black dogs and he sells these rare black dogs for as much 10 grand. But then SAB pulls the plug and says there are no black boerboels and puts a red X on all of Petshop Jim's offspring making it so none of his offspring can be registered to breed as Boerboels. sheeesh!
Now EBBASA/BI come into play. They say there are no Blue or Black Boerboels PERIOD! So now these people that thought they could breed their rare black boerboels that SAB had previously registered can't. They have registered dogs that are now shunned upon by the ORGS.
Boerboels have only been a recognized breed for about 30 years. Back in the 80's several people searched the South African areas for the best of the best Boerboels, they looked at over 250 dogs and selected 72 to represent the breed. There were no black dogs and it was expressly stated there are no black boerboels all other colors were accepted. There was a phobia concerning black dogs back then.
Now on my personal research I am contacted by a woman whose father raised his father's boerboels far before the time of the gathering of the 72 dogs. She tells me she had black boerboels back then as did her grandfather and other farmers in the region. Flash forward to the present, one or more of these black dogs are exported from Africa and introduced into a couple of big name breeders/kennels but still the ORGS say there are no Black Boerboels.
So hopefully I didn't Boer (LOL) Bore you with this story but it is such a convoluted mess it becomes interesting to try and investigate and find the truths.
