Stud Services Available - $2500

Before any of our American Sentinel K9 bandogs or our APBTs are used in our breeding program, they must pass a series of performance evaluations to make sure they have the traits needed to excel as protection dogs, guard dogs, or hog catch dogs. We evaluate our dogs by assessing their...

1. ability to be stable minded with our family, even when under stress,
2. movement and structural soundness during work and recovery, and
3. ability to fulfill a healthy functional life.

Form follows function, and not the converse. Those who place structure (form) before ability (function) eventually end up losing the working attributes and health; therefore, we place the above working attributes first. While hip x-rays do not determine ability or even structural soundness, they can be used to identify physical limitations or predict concerns about the longevity of a dog's likelihood of developing physically limiting conditions such as hip dysplasia or arthritis. For this reason, we X-ray the hips on our breeding stock as a secondary measures of culling our breeding stock...for we expect our breeding stock remain capable throughout their entire lives.