Yakir Black Grand Calvera (CZE) - aka "Yoyo"
What a happy and beautiful dog fresh from the Czech Republic for Easter 2023 - we are looking forward to some time in the show ring again and some of the best ever puppies yet!
Showing and breeding Standard Schnauzers has been a passionate hobby for over 20 years, with success at the Royal Shows and several Australian and New Zealand Champion titled dogs and bitches. We started out with Salt & Pepper and Black Standards, but due to the desire to keep this activity at a level where our dogs are also just our family pets, it was necessary to limit numbers and decide on one or the other colour. In Europe the two colours are distinct breeds, and a decision was made to specialise in Black Only Standard Schnauzers.
We needed European genetics, and imported frozen semen first and then in 2007 came the wonderful dog "Ozzie" - CH BORN TO OZ GRAND CALVERA (imp CzRep), from illustrious bloodlines: - Son of VON SHAMAN KPNG UP APPRNCES - WORLD WINNER 2008 and Halfbrother to DEEP PURPLE GRAND CALVERA - WORLD WINNER 2009 and TACILLAN SUPER STAR - WORLD WINNER 2014.
We are immensely grateful to Denisa from Grand Calvera Kennels in the Czech Republic for making all this possible, and even better, again this year in 2023 sending us "Yoyo" - YAKIR BLACK GRAND CALVERA in 2023 - what an absolutely delightful and stunningly beautiful dog, who is ultra happy! He is by WORLD WINNER 2021 - FIT TO FIGHT GRAND CALVERA. So exciting! We've already been back in the showring with him and can't wait for him to sire the next crop of Klabauter puppies.
Over the years, although it was time-consuming, costly and frequently unsuccessful, we persisted with the use of frozen semen so we could access the best bloodlines available in Europe. We had successful matings of Ch Klabauter Kenya (AI) to Multi European Champion Djarfur Noir vom Schwarzen Opal pictured below, producing the S Litter, the U-Litter sired by Multi Champion RESPECT od DALAJSKÉHO POTOKA and the W-Litter by Totem Otisboanergos Grand Calvera, and several others. Please visit our pages for 'males' for information about the frozen semen sires used, so you can see what went into the genetic make-up of our females.
We regularly receive some very nice Updates from Klabauter Puppies, so we have put some of them on this website, and we also have a News page to keep you up to date. The menu at the top of the page allows you to get around, and to find information about the Breed, the Breed Standard, Puppy Care and Grooming.
Breeding Goals
Healthy, happy and good looking!
From almost every litter we breed we retain a puppy for ourselves to go into the showring, often to replace a female that can head into a well earned retirement. We want to see them have long and healthy lives, and this means that breeding healthy dogs is the first and most important goal we have.
The Standard Schnauzer is a very robust breed and has no hereditary health issues that can not be dealt with by a good breeding program. We undertake the available DNA testing in this regard to ensure our stock are not affected. Please read our Health Information page for more.
The second most important thing in a companion animal is its temperament, well before looks. We have over the last 10 years paid great attention to temperament, and now have dogs that are very clever and are happy to participate in any activity on offer, but are generally not very high energy dogs. This makes them very suitable as family pets living in a suburban setting, and many of our puppies have gone to families with small children.
Where possible, we will try to meet the future sires from Europe we plan to use 'in person' so that we can see whether their temperaments will suit our ideals.
We are on a quest to constantly improve conformation, coats and movement in our dogs for the showring. We have been very lucky to have the help of Grand Calvera kennels in the Czech republic, who has produced World Dog Show winners and sent us the best available bloodlines.
We went on a couple of 'reconnaissance' mission to Europe, the World Dog Show in Helsinki in 2014 and Eurodog 2019 to see for ourselves. We learnt lots, critically viewing so many dogs during judging. We have just imported new frozen semen and hope to use it in the near future.