About us
The first time I came across this breed was in 2003 when I was looking for a healthy, long-lived and active molosser. Back then the breed seemed very interesting and got deeply caught in my mind. There weren't many representatives of the breed in Finland at that time (if any) and no one had heard anything about the breed, so getting to know the breed started on my own. Because my living conditions were not desirable for Boerboels (nor did I want them in the city) it was only a dream for a long time until in 2009 I started to re-consider getting my first representative of the breed. By then I already knew what kind of dog I was looking for, what type and what bloodline would suit me best. After a long search I found a perfect bitch, relatively close to us also and then began the waiting for my very first Boerboel puppy. In 2012 that wonderful bitch gave birth to an amazing litter in Russia and we finally had our Savanna Boerboele Chelentano.
In 2014 we bought our first import from South Africa, Authentic Mizpah Savannah. Ever since Tano came to Finland, the breed has stolen our hearts completely and we have gotten few more Boerboels.
During these years, we have met so many great breed enthusiasts and breeders abroad. We will continue to work closely together with them.
I have successfully completed the Finnish Kennel Club's breeding course 17.10.2010.
I'm member of:
Boerboel Foundation (Holland) - nr. 20200001
Suomen Boerboelit ry (Finnish Boerboel Club) - nr. 0001
WBBA - nr. 001101
We live in the beautiful and quiet countryside of Mäntsälä in a 2.6 hectare site, where our dogs can fulfill themselves by doing park ranging duties through guarding. They are also active dogs in different sports and live together with our small children.
Our breeding principles
Our goal is to breed healthy and most importantly good natured Boerboels, according to the original breed standard.
Years of background work have helped us understand what kind of dogs we want in the future to live in the everyday life of a large family and how we want Boerboels to remain in the future. We don't want to turn the breed into a giant, overboned, oversized, sloppy and lazy companion dog breed, but with our own choices we strive to preserve the breed as it has been: an active, healthy and sound farm dog with a strong guarding instinct.
As a result of this, we have ended up with the one of the original lines, Mizpah Boerboels.
Since the breed already has a narrow gene pool, we do our best to avoid matador males and their offspring. All over the world, Boerboels are already related to each other in some way and the old original lines are disappearing. The lineage of all our Boerboels can be traced back to the founding dogs of the breed, so it goes without saying that we do not use dogs or their descendants that entered the breed after the 21st century.
The Mizpah line has been created by one of the most famous and legendary Boerboel-person in the world, oom Lucas van der Merwe. He was one of the SABT's (and later the HSBA's) founding members, who toured around South Africa in the '80s and searched for the remaining representatives of the breed for a base breeding stock. Oom Lucas grew up with this breed and wanted to preserve the breed as original as possible, avoiding to use too large and aggressive dogs for breeding and we have the same thing in mind. Oom Lucas unfortunately passed away in 2010, but today his daughter Carin Yorke Hart (van der Merwe) in South Africa maintains the Mizpah line.
All of our breeding dogs are tested for HD, ED, spine, knees, heart, VH/testicles and they are also DNA-profiled (HUU & CMR1). We also test our breeding dogs for psychomotor epilepsy.
