Holly Schorr has been involved with owning, showing (Obedience and Conformation), breeding and training Doberman Pinschers for almost 38 years. Together with husband, Steve, under the Kennel name of PennyLane Dobermans, they have shown and bred over 50 Champions, multi Best In Show and Best In Specialty Show winners in two countries with many obedience and tracking titles also. Holly teaches Obedience and Conformation for all breeds.
Dr. May Jacobson resides in Wayland, Massachusetts and has been a Doberman fancier for 35 years. During that period she has bred, under the kennel name Chalmar, or owned the sire of over 30 American Champions and among them two multi-all-breed Best in Show winners. Her interests have extended to working dogs with her participation in the Sport of Schutzhund . She presently is the breeder of the second Doberman ever to achieve an American championship and Schutzhund 3 title, the only one owner handled.
She is licensed to judge the Working Group and has judged these breeds in Germany, Scandinavia, Europe, Australia, Asia and South America. She has been elected four times by the membership of the Doberman Pinscher Club of America to judge the National Specialty.
Her club activities include serving on the Board of Directors of the Doberman Pinscher Club of America, President of an all breed club, President of the Pilgrim Doberman Pinscher Club, and is presently on the Board of the DPCA and Pilgrim Doberman Pinscher Club. She is a founding member of the United Doberman Club.
Dr. Jacobson received her Doctorate degree in Biochemistry and is a medical staff member In the Department of Hematology at Children´s Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston.
She has numerous publications in the field of Hematology.
Dr. May Jacobson,
Chalmar, USA
I grew up in a family that always kept hunting dogs – usually a Brittany spaniel and a black and tan coonhound. I spent a lot of time as a child in the field with my grandfather learning about dogs and nature. My grandfather hunted with a man who kept a large kennel of redbones, foxhounds, German shorthaired pointers, Brittany’s, blue ticks, etc. I was around these dogs on nearly a daily basis. A dog had to be able to do its job – if they didn’t, they weren’t there the next time I visited. A harsh lesson learned early.
My own childhood dog was a mixed breed, but I was told he was part Doberman. And I believed every word! Looking back, probably nothing could be further from the truth but the love I had for that little “part Doberman” is probably the seed that led me to the breed later.
In 1981, my boyfriend (now husband) and I purchased 2 Dobermans for all the wrong reasons. Dobermans were popular and they were “cool”. And yes, we watched Magnum PI. However, we did manage to purchase dogs from a reputable breeder who taught us about shows and helped us to become involved. I’m not sure whether to thank them or curse them!
We owned Dobermans for 15 years before we contemplated our first litter in 1996. To date we have co-bred 3 litters with Jane, Allan and Maureen Marshall of Solar Perm. Reg., the people who sold us our first Dobermans. We have brought only 15 puppies into this world and are proud to say that 4 are Canadian champions, another 4 were pointed before being altered, one CD so far (more to come!), one TT, 3 CGCs, one Best Puppy In Show winner, 2 Best Puppy In Group winners, and most importantly, all are much loved pets living in family homes.
I serve as secretary of the Woodstock & District Canine Association, and am a Member of the CKC, DPCC, DPCA and the Greater Mid Ontario Dobe Fanciers. I take active part in fostering and placing rescue Dobermans as well.
I’m a Contact Person for Dr. O’Grady’s Holter Project at the University of Guelph, and am responsible for Holtering ~20 Dobermans annually.
Mary Korevaar,
Glengate Reg’d, Canada
Theresa Mullen has been devoted to the serious breeding and exhibiting of Dobermans since 1967, when, as a teen, her parents bought a young Champion sired bitch. Since then, she has diligently studied the breed and has many accomplishments.
After High School, she attended Michigan State University, majoring in Dairy Science/Endocrinology and Animal Husbandry, with an eye on a career in Large Animal Management. She studied Anatomy & Physiology and Genetics extensively.
In 1970 and 1971, she was honored with her selection to represent M.S.U. on their Inter-Collegiate Livestock Judging Team. She traveled the Country representing M.S.U., excelling in her ability to judge all species of livestock. She was also selected to be a member of the M.S.U. Quarter Horse Judging Team, competing at the All American Quarter Horse Congress in Columbus, Ohio. There, she helped win over more than thirty Universities and Colleges. Theresa has judged all breeds of beef and dairy cattle; sheep and hogs. She has also been active as a 4-H Judge in these venues.
Theresa’s success and experience as a Livestock Judge, working with many Standards, has extended itself to her understanding of the Doberman Standard and it’s application to the live dog and selection of breeding stock.
Before her involvement in the “Dog Sport”, Theresa was initially captivated by the “Equine Sport”. Her parents bred and raced Standardbred harness horses. She helped train, groom and condition the family’s horses, as well as worked with several top Drivers and Trainers at Michigan Racetracks.
While in college, Theresa continued her interest in showing and breeding
Dobermans. She purchased her first foundation bitch in 1972, a Ch. Thorvald Vom Ahrtal daughter. Through this bitch and her descendants, Theresa, along with her sister Judy Mullen, has bred/owned a continuous line of * Eight Generations * of Champions and Champion Producers—up to the present day.
Theresa’s Dobermans include many DPCA Top Twenty dogs; Best In Show winners; Best in Specialty Show winners; DPCA Superior Quality Specimen’s; DPCA Stud Dog winners; many DPCA Class winners as well as Obedience titled Dobermans. She has bred many Champions from a very limited and select number of breedings—proving you can breed the very highest calibre of Dobermans without having to breed large quantity.
Theresa’s philosophy on breeding Dobermans revolves around the “Strength of the Family” both Sire Line and Maternal Family, and its strong influence on an animals ability to successfully reproduce itself.
Theresa is a DPCA member and currently is Coordinator of it’s Public Education Committee. She is also a DPC of Michigan member and with her sister/partner Judy Mullen, breeds under the prefix of “Terrylane”.
Theresa Mullen,
Terrylane, USA
I was very lucky to meet Peggy Adamson in the early 1960´s at an obedience training class. I was enamored with the beautiful Dobermans she would bring to class each week. Before long, a lifelong friendship was begun as I started to help working her dogs in class. From this I went on to whelping and raising puppies, socializing and training them and keeping many of the older dogs at home while Peggy was traveling.
Peggy was a natural teacher and I was like a sponge, soaking up as much information as I could get. Since then, I have tried to give to others, the opportunity that Peggy gave to me. Dobermans became my world and my life. Besides breeding and training, I became a professional handler in the early 1970´s, showing many other breeds along with Dobermans.
I bred my first litter in 1966 and for a little while used Peggy´s Damasyn prefix. A few years later I became Carosel Dobermans. I have bred over 50 Champions and 10 ROM´s. I have also bred many obedience and agility titled dogs. I believe a Doberman should be able to do it all.
My most well known dog was Ch. Carosel Make My Day, WAC (Basteque). He was a Top Twenty winner, a multiple Group, Specialty and BIS winner and the sire (to date) of 56 American Champions. Ch. Carosel B In A Hurry, CD, ROM was BOS at the DPCA National in 1982 and was a dog that everyone admired for his outstanding true Doberman temperament. Ch. Carosel Mexican Princess CD, ROM, MX, MXJ was High In Trial Agility DPCA National in 1999.
I live in Brooksville, Florida with my daughter Evelyn and a houseful of Carosel Dobermans. I am actively breeding and showing.
Carol Petruzzo,
Carosel, USA
I purchased my first Doberman in 1964, Kahlua´s Princess Lisa, a Bismarck
granddaughter. She became my first UD Dobe. Since Lisa, I have been active in both the obedience and the breed ring. I have trained twelve Dobes to a UD, four to a CDX, three to a CD. I trained one Dobe to a SchH BH, and had one certify for a tracking test only to lose her to cancer before we could show.
I bought my first conformation Dobe from Terry and Denyse Lee. She became the first Dobe breed champion to earn an Obedience Trial Championship. She was American-Canadian CH-OTCH Teraden´s Sweet Gypsy Rose, ROM. Her daughter, American -Canadian CH-OTCH Teraden´s Cinnamon Rose, ROM and Pooh´s Taboo to You, American Canadian OTCH were my other two Obedience Trial Champions.
I have also bred a number of breed champions: Cinnamon; Canadian CH Merique the Witching Hour, CDX, WAC; and American-Canadian CH Merique´s Durango, CD, ROM.
Since retiring from public school teaching in 1996, I have been involved in dog training privately and for my obedience club, and have been doing a great deal of writing. In addition to dog training, I love to read, am a series movie buff and a rabid 49er fan.
Irene Quesnoy
Merique Dobermans
Conformation and Obedience
since 1964.
I bought my first Doberman in 1959. I’d gone to a couple of shows with a friend and fell hard for Dobermans and the show ring. Only because of incredible luck (certainly not from knowledge) that first dog turned out to be exceptional and he finished owner handled and later went on to a wonderful career as a Special with his breeder. I’ve tried other breeds since then but finally admitted there was NOTHING like a Doberman and acknowledged the inevitable.
I don’t breed–bred my first and last litter in the early sixties and figured out that I vastly preferred males to bitches–so I now share my home with an Australian Shepherd (the last attempt at a different breed) who raises the occasional puppy for me and two Dobermans. But I watch what the breeders are turning out and from time to time go looking for my next show prospect, although lately they seem to be coming to me. My latest excursion into performance events is tracking — my youngest Doberman and I are working at a TD which he’d probably already have if it weren’t for me.
My only real claim to fame is that I have nothing but males–intact at that. And they all get along just fine–I get a lot of entertainment out of dumping the three of them into Michelle’s ex-pens at shows and watching people do double takes as they realize that they are males and they aren’t fighting.
R. M. (Bug) Russell, USA
Even as a small child I was obsessed by animals! I would spend hours on the “Pony rides” at fairs any time I could. I would attend the Circus, read “Lad” books, watch Lassie & Flicka/Rin Tin Tin movies…
As a little girl, after attending the local “Bench show” (Golden Gate KC), I would train my old little poodle (with her little bonnet) and my dad’s hairy German Shepherd dog “tricks” to display to my parents! Oh, were those Poor doggies ever Patient with me. I would put on a little ‘show’ of sorts, jumping gates, sitting, doing tricks … anything for a ‘cookie’ I think. I guess I was Hoping my parents would see enough “talent” in me to buy me a Collie just like Lassie.
To occupy my little mind until I was big enough to handle a large dog (or until my poodle passed on) my parents engaged me in 4-H rabbit breeding and showing and in English Horse riding lessons. Eventually, I was ready to move on from rabbit breeding to sheep raising. I just couldn’t handle thinking of a poor little lamb going to the local fair “market” however and I couldn’t sleep with a horse so, at 14+ years of age, my parents were somewhat coerced into buying me my long awaited Collie.
As my mother began taking me to Fun matches and Conformation classes she decided it was time for her to get her life-long desire, a Doberman. She had had two when my brother and I were tykes in ‘the 60’s, but as they bit most of the neighborhood kids she was forced to place them.
During this time I also volunteered at the Local Humane Society in the Vet Department. I took Vet Technician preparatory classes in High School and worked for a local Vet clinic to gain experience. In my late teens I was eventually employed by the Humane Society as their Primary Vet Tech. In 1979 my mom purchased our ‘Baby Doe’ as she was affectionately known to the neighborhood. Eventually Pele matured into the foundation of Foxfire, Am. Ch. Janric’s Zerlina V Davanti, WAC. This wonderful bitch is behind just about Every Foxfire Doberman today. (spanning about 5 or 6 generations) I didn’t handle “Pele” to her Championship, Gene Haupt did, but I did put her first two points on her in the 9-12 class (my first points on any dog). Although I wasn’t a good enough handler to finish Pele, that moment made me vow to finish ALL the succeeding generations and with a lot of studying and some GREAT mentors I finished a great many of her progeny.
Starting with Pele’s kids (transgressing into client dogs as well, including many other breeds) I finished two from her first breeding. She eventually had a total of six champions out of 10 pups, the first of the Foxfire champions so to speak. I’ve finished some good (probably 70 plus Foxfire Champions to date and at least as many client Dobermans. Added to that total are four Foxfire-bred Dobermans handled by myself in the DPCA Top Twenty over a total of nine years, numerous DPCA Award of Merits, a DPCA Grand Prize Futurity winner and a BOB from the Veterans Class at Our National Specialty in 1998 with Am. Ch. Foxfire’s Devils N Demons (Demon), Pele’s grandson.
So, all this brings us to the present day where I feel compelled to give ‘something back’. My forte is teaching/writing my ‘Conformation Tips’ which can be found on the DPCA Breeders Education web site as well as the DPCA web site but I am also open to questions at any time.
Judy Doniere has enlisted me for support with the DPCA Breeders Education Committee and I have been asked to head the DPCA Exhibitors Education Committee as well. (I will head a seminar each year at our National Specialty). Through this I hope to be of help to Breeders and Exhibitors alike, that are starting out as I did, with a single goal in mind — to preserve and protect the integrity of the Doberman Pinscher!
Michelle Santana
Foxfire, USA
Jessica Wilcock, DVM is a practicing veterinarian at Evergreen Veterinary Hospital, a four doctor small animal practice in the greater Seattle area. Evergreen Veterinary Hospital has a large breeder clientele, and Dr. Wilcock’s special interest is canine reproduction, including ovulation timing and artificial insemination, pregnancy ultrasounds, and the diseases and disorders of the reproductive system.
Jessica also has been involved in training dogs since 1990, and has been training and showing Dobermans in conformation, obedience, and agility since 1995; she added flyball in 1998 and Schutzhund in 2000.
She recently bred her first litter under the kennel name of Talent, out of her foundation bitch CH BJF Sonata v Aquarius, NA, NAJ, FDCH, ROM, CGC, VCX.
Jessica Wilcock, DVM,
Talent, USA
My parents were Fox Terrier breeders from England and I followed them to dog shows from as early as I can remember. I received my first Doberman as a birthday gift in 1944 when I was nine years old. From that time till now I have been involved with the Doberman Pinscher.
I am a Canadian All-Breed judge and travel the world judging Dobes on a regular basis. I have bred 57 litters of Dobes but have not bred recently because my travels interfere with raising my favorite breed. But I will breed again.
I bred and handled my own dogs for many years, finished over 100 Champions, and have bred and shown the top Doberman, top Working Dog, and campaigned a Dobe to be the number two dog, all breeds, in Canada. I was a professional handler but after a few years I decided that handling was not for me and began my judging career. I am currently the President of the Canadian Dog judges Association.
I have written over 100 articles about the Doberman Pinscher and was asked to contribute to this breeders education web site. We should never stop learning about our breed and this site will be a great learning tool for the new Doberman owner as well as a reference source for the rest of us.
Fred Heal,
Jagermeister, Canada
Bill lives in Virginia Beach, Virginia, with his wife Audrey. Bill’s love affair with Dobermans started when he was in college. He and a few fraternity brothers saw an advertisement in the Richmond, Virginia newspaper for a dog show and off they went. Being somewhat of a hot shot athlete Bill was immediately drawn to the Doberman ring and for the next four decades has been in love with the beauty, grace and athleticism of the Doberman Pinscher.
As an owner/handler Bill has owned, shown and finished quite a few Dobermans. His first champion, Ch: JP’s Shadow Of A Doubt “Ginny”, a Best-In-Show winner, taught Bill what a good Doberman was all about. His last champion, Ch: Adlerheim’s Rampage “Thomas”, a multi Best-In-Show winner, was a Top Ten finalist for two years running.
As a judge Bill is a stickler for the standard and feels it is one of the best written in the sport of pure bred dogs. He evaluates dogs strictly on how close they conform to that standard and has no tolerance for personal preferences that deviate from the standard, and he prides himself on being able to get the good ones up front.
Bill is truly a student of the breed and has written many articles regarding the breed and the sport of pure bred dogs, garnering him an award of recognition by the Dog Writers Association Of America. After years of reading and studying the standard Bill has developed a twenty-nine word description of the Doberman Pinscher that he feels sums up what a Doberman is all about:
“The DOBERMAN PINSCHER is a Square, Compact, Medium size dog of Balanced Proportions, Noble in its carriage, Courageous by nature, keenly Intelligent and SOUND of Mind, Body and Joints”
Judy Doniere has been owned by Dobermans since she was about 6 yrs. old. To this date she has not lived a day without them. Sadly, Judy passed away from ovarian cancer September 23, 2009.
Upon being married to Pat in 1955 he promised he would get her a Dobe pup as a wedding present. Well, this is one promise that he kept as they went the day after returning from their honeymoon and bought a cute little black bitch. Although she was shown, she was really pet quality.
Two years later they purchased a beautiful, well-bred, red bitch they named Chemi. She was shown mostly by Judy but Pat put her finishing points on her due to Judy’s pregnancy. She was Ch. Wahlmar’s Baroness, C.D. Chemi became the # 1 leading dam in the nation on two occasions, thus making Pat and Judy leading breeders. All Toledobes’ dogs trace in an unbroken line to her and to her six Champions.
Pat & Judy have bred/owned and finished well over 100 Champions.
In 1969 Pat became a Judge of Dobermans and now is approved for Working and Herding breeds. Judy became a Judge in 1975 and is approved for Sporting, Hound, Working and Terrier Groups and soon for Toys. They have both judged all over the world.
Judging on a weekly basis has prevented them from doing more breeding but with the aid of co-breeders the Toledobes line continues. It is also very difficult for them to get out and finish dogs of their own, therefore they keep only two bitches in their home.
Pat and Judy have been members of the DPCA since 1955 and both have served on various Committees. Pat has been a member of the DPCA BOD on a couple of occasions. He is one of the founding members of the Judges Educational Committee. Judy herself is on the Breeders Committee.
Both were founding members of the Maumee Valley DPC, Members of Senior Conformation Judges Association (Pat is President) and the American Dog Judges Association and were the founding members of the Las Vegas Judges Study Group.
They categorically state “Dobermans are our love and we will always have them”.
Judy resides in Henderson, NV (Las Vegas area) but she and Pat were formerly from Toledo, Ohio. She has three grown Daughters and a Son, nine Grandchildren and two Great-Grandchildren.
Additionally they were the breeders of Ch. Toledobes Serenghetti, the all time top Working Group bitch in history as well as the all time top Doberman bitch in history. They have bred and owned many Top 20 Dobermans as well many as outstanding dogs and bitches throughout the years.
Judy is constantly striving to breed healthy, long lived, beautiful Dobermans that people are proud to own.
Judy Doniere,
Toledobes, USA