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Best Mexican-Bred Dog in all breeds, so far 2008 |
Rafael & Nayar, Elisa & Alpuyeca,
Fidel & Tenango,
Xolos should
be kept a pure breed, without strange innovations
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For our family’s pleasure, faithful to a millenary tradition and with great pride, we've been devoted for a lifetime to preserve and promote this ancient Mexican breed. Over so many years we've learned that the best way to do it is improving the quality of our dogs, generation after generation, and litter after litter.
Placing the dogs carefully with loving families all over the world,
and providing the foundation stock for institutional breeding programs in
The second generation of Xolo breeders of our family was born among Xolos, breeds them and shows them with wonderful results, and now the kids of the third generation are handling only Xolos in shows, socializing the puppies better than anyone, learning how to produce fine Xolos, and they already have a taste for quality, so we know some day they will breed too, which makes us very proud. Together we own around 50 Xolos of the three sizes, most of them champions, and this is our only breed. We've always shown Xolos in conformation in the Mexican Kennel Club (FCM) shows and in other countries as well, with great success: several of our Xolos have been # 1 in the breed in Mexico in the 3 different varieties. We believe conformation shows are like final exams for bloodlines and breeding programs, they provide the opportunity to compare the quality we produce, against the "perfect dog" described by the official standard, according to the Judges' opinions.
Last year our breedings gave us the honor of
wining Best of
Breed in the Miniature and in the Intermediate varieties
in FCI’s World Championship Show held on May
27th in Mexico City,
judging the very
reputable all-breed Mexican Judge Dr. César Gutiérrez Pérez, appointed
by FCM (National
club of the country of origin
of the breed)
for his expertise, having
judged before a breed specialty show in Mexico City, written articles, and
represented Mexico in conferences about
the Xoloitzcuintle in other countries. What about 2008? This year our dogs have won several group firsts and 5 all-breed Best in Shows. We'll attend the World Show in Stockholm Sweden and some shows in Europe in July; at least three of our boys residing in Europe will be shown all over the Continent, one out of England, another one out of Poland and another one out of Sweden; and a beautiful girl will be shown out of Israel.
Now the breed is no longer at risk of extinction, the goal of all Xolo-Breeders should be the improvement of the quality, temperament and health of our dogs, not just to increase the numbers without specific purposes. Selective breeding, and careful choosing of the homes Xolos will go to, are the keys. If you want to breed Please be responsible! We strongly oppose the breeding, selling and showing of haired descendants of Xolos (called "coateds", being really mix-breds, descendants of the hybridation with haired dogs that xolos suffered for centuries). They're a result of careless breeding, reflect impurity of the breed, and now they're seen as a business. We beg the owners of Xolos to refuse mating them to haired dogs of any kind, in order to keep the bloodlines pure.
We encourage very much every prospective Xolo
owner to read thoroughly the breed standard and
never buy a dog from the
money-hungry puppy mills and backyard
"breeders" that pretend to make a living out of this
special and beautiful breed. There's
no worse mistake than buying a dog from these people or their brokers.
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