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The history of the bouvier kennel van de Lage Banken begins in the city Etten-Leur around the year 1980. The kennel is at that time a small kennel and is situated at the Mechelenstraat. The kennel is named after the sports center de lage banken situated in the neighbourhood of the Mechelenstraat. After a couple of years it was time to go to a bigger place at the Pauvreweg, where Cor and Jos could work in all tranquillity at the breeding of their own line of bouviers. And with a lot of success.
Right away in the beginning the female bouvier Bonja Zierce van de Cerberushof, one of the first breeding dogs of Mrs. Valentijn- van Zomeren, gave beautiful puppy's and this made that they got more interested in the breeding of bouvier. At that time they decided that it was time to take their dogs to the big shows. The first top dog who came out of this bloodline, which runs through the history of the kennel as a red line , was Bjorno Bonja van de Lage Banken. This male, was the first dog of the kennel that succeeded to get some CAC CACIB points. This dog was followed by Elja Bonja van de Lage Banken and Angéle Elja van de Lage Banken, which both got excellent results in show. Through the experience of years of breeding and a strong selection of the breeding dogs, out of this dog, Angéle Elja van de Lage Banken came the Dutch champion Uran Angéle van de Lage Banken . At the same moment Aram Donny van de Lage Banken took of on a very successful career in show which resulted in the American championship and a Canadian title, he also is the vice European Champion.
One of the other top dogs of the kennel is the World Champion Xaroch Malou van de Lage Banken who has gathered a very impressive list of titles . beside the championships and prices in show these male dogs have also good results in breeding as you can see at their litters Utah Brooklyn van de Lage Banken and Unta Brooklyn van de Lage Banken, brother and sister, which are litters from Uran Angéle van de Lage Banken and both are already American champion. An other example is Yoscano Gingy van de Lage Banken who at the age of 1 year, already won the Canadian championship. and is also a litter of Uran Angéle van de Lage Banken.
The big successes which are gathered by the dogs of the kennel in Europe as well as in America and Canada,are not only based on beauty en looks alone but most of all on the good character of the dogs, as known out of the results at working championships.
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