12- What are your prefer blood lines and why?   First of all, I respect all breeders who achieved establishhing a distinct line of closebred quality Boxers ( the term “bloodline” is bit outdated, for blood has nothing to do with it). Especially those lines that can be followed on the mother-side and keep on reproducing along this side. When speaking of “lines” nearly always it is understood: the line via the male-side. Female lines are underestimated. For example, if you look at the breedingprogram my parents did follow, you will notice that they always tried to hold on to the same type of female. And each time – for whatever reason – this type tended to slip away, several different males were used to “re-conquer” the type. (In reality, three different types, three different females were “used” to slowly mold the type they wanted – but that would be too long a story). And for the male influence, one could say three major influences. One: the Fred/Plato van de Hazenberg component, in itself referring to one of the oldest belgian lines, “Van het Dennedaal”. Two: as in every continental breeding the infuence of Xanthos vom Bereler Ries, but maybe more so that of his son, “Boss vom Bereler Ries”. And three: the dutch component firstly via “Bello” (wellknown in Spain) but especially via Bandolero. And as a special outsider: “Carlo v. Sankt Barbara”.     13- Pleas, could you say the name of your best two boxers?   I would not be a boxer lover if I gave you only two names. So, even if you push me…I won’t give you two names. Sorry.     14- If you have a boxer in front of you, what are you look first?   The expression in the face. A split second after that: the whole boxer.   15- What is the worse defect in a Boxer?   I have lots of problems to accept a boxer if he is afraid. Still there is always the question: is this dog afraid from the start or is there a bad history behind him. The history of a dog is always part of his personality (the “why” he is what he is, or seems to be); this fact should always be remembered when looking at a dog. It is very hard to see the beauty of a boxer if he/she is afraid.   16- What do you think about the Dog Beauty Shows?   At this moment I see it as a game: sometimes it is unbelievable what happens in a show ring. I respect very much the idea to compare dogs and to look for the best. When this comparison is done with respect for the breed, I’m really positive on shows. Unfortunately there are way too many judges that simply have not enough experience with our wonderful breed. The atibox world dog show is very important for our breed, even when the judging is not always as it should be. The main thing is that this organisation gives us the chance to compare our own boxers to others, to see if there are interesting new dogs, to have an overall view on the quality, on the negative and the positive trends and to share information between breeders.     17- Do you think that It is necessary to get the IPO I before to be a Champion?   IPO is a sport, not a behaviour test. In IPO there are exercises that go really against the standard of a boxer. Think about retrieving…our boxer is not a retriever. Does a Boxer champion need the quality to retrieve? No. Nevertheless: without a good retrieving behaviour you will not pass the obedience part and as a consequence not the IPO trial. I train boxers for a living and still I say that this is a sport and that it has very little to do with breeding. Of course, we can ask ourselves if a champion title has anything to do with breeding of good boxers. The books are full of “Champions” that have left no trace in the breed – and not because they had no matings…   Let’s take another example: you sell a good behaving nice puppy. For whatever reason the new owner does not give that puppy/young dog the socialisation/basic education it needs. A year later you see the young dog again. From a nice puppy he grew to be a very beautiful boxer but when you move to quickly or he hears a loud sudden sound, he shrinks. You knew the puppy wasn’t like that when you sold it, and you even can guess what did go wrong. But with this two, or even with one of these behaviour traits he will never succeed an IPO trial, maybe not even a BH trial. And still for you, an experienced breeder: this Boxer is every bone a champion. He is a champion and at the same time he will never be one. And in the actual situation it is highly probable he will never mate, never have the chance to prove himself. Sometimes in breeding the genes are more important then what you actually see, but you can only see a glimpse of the genes if you also have the knowledge of their history.     18- Do you think the best boxers are in the Beauty Dog Shows?   Maybe, maybe not. Maybe the best boxer of the moment is somewhere on a sofa…we can only speak about the dogs that we see, not about all the boxers.   19- What is about your future project?   My future has changed a lot because of important changes in my life, especially the last year. At this moment I am only sure about one thing: the fact that as long as I am breeding boxers, I wil do my best to breed excellent Boxers. Not sure about the fact if I will ever work again with one dog to achieve the top in working trials...lets say I don’t say no.