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About us

About us
We live in Sandhofen, a little district of Mannheim, which is located in Germany’s south-west, ca. 70km from Frankfurt Airport.

In our families we grew up with small pets like birds, rabbits, cats, guinea-pigs, fishes and degus, but we never could convince our parents to keep a dog.

When we married in 2005, we thought again about having a dog, but it took another four more years until our first dog and our first flatcoated retriever “Jack” came to our home.

We decided for a flatcoat, because of their happy temperament, intelligence and working ability paired with an elegance that is unique among retrievers. We spend much of our time working and playing with our dog. As flatcoated retrievers are an intelligent breed with a strong desire to work, they need something important to do, so we do dummy training, participate in workingstests and go hunting (primarily birds and small game). In addition, we show Jack in conformation.

We are members of the German Retriever Club, Julia is also member of the Austrian Retriever Club, the Swiss Retriever Club and the French Retriever Club and Kristof is member of the Rheinland-Pfalz-Hunting Association.

When we are not doing dog stuff.... Kristof is a production engineer in the world’s biggest truck plant and Julia works as a biological technician at a well-known pharma concern.