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ROCKY VENUSINA SOPKA

We have had requests for and have placed Rocky's offspring worldwide: Rocky's offspring are working in  various areas of service: police, search and rescue,  drug and explosive detection,  along with offspring being placed into serious working breeding programs. Rocky's offspring are proving to also be very successful and capable in the areas of SchH ( competing at National Levels), agility, competition obedience and personal/family protection homes.

 
 
 ROCKY at 9 years and 9 months of age
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Rocky is a handsome bi-colored German Shepherd male with strong original conformation type.  He possesses beautiful pigment, a strong masculine head type, a correct ear set along with a proportionate and athletic working structure.  He is a very strong working dog with excellent nerves and versatility in his working abilities.  He is a passionate retriever and an excellent tracker.  He has strong hard defense accompanied with super well-balanced working drives.  Rocky has a strong love and will to work and is very agile and tenacious while working.  He is very self confident and possesses excellent social behavior.  A loving member of our family, he will however uncompromisingly and swiftly protect his handler, property and himself whenever needed.

Rocky’s working bloodlines are outstanding. Rocky’s father, the legendary Tom z Pohranicni Straze; a Czech Police Dog and producer of many Police Dogs is without argument,  one of the most successful stud dogs used in the breed of working dogs.  In 1999 Tom became the Winner of The International Stud Dog Show in Bratislava, Slovakia. (this is one of the largest working stud dog shows in Europe.) With certified Border Patrol dogs in his third and forth generations Rocky’s pedigree is full of some of the greatest working and producing dogs of the present and past, Cordon An-Sat, a great producer of many outstanding working dogs in Slovakia/ the very influential DDR producing stud dog,  Iwo v.d. Buschecke,/ and the great Klara z Pohranicni Straze to name a few.  Rocky’s mother, Hobby Venusina Sopka  along with her grandfather Cir z Vrtovske Doliny has competed numerous times on the Czech Republic and European levels.  Hobby possesses the old Czech working blood of the dog Dar z Przma,  who in his time was the most successful producer of working dogs in Czechoslovakia.

 
Click on photos to enlarge. Photo's of Rocky at 8 -1/2 years of age.
 

Ramona Helmer, (406) 777-7272, info@sapphireshepherds.com

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