Doberman Chat Forum

Hello everyone!
I know I’m not here very often, life is pretty chaotic but in a good way.
Our girl Charlie, she’s the cutest!
She is in training to be my husbands service dog.
She just started and is 2 classes in.
Prior to that she did 3 rounds of basic training.
The problem is at home.
She intimidates and bullies and beats up on ...

Was not sure where to post this, or if it's been posted somewhere.

If the FCI discovers any social media posts, photos, or videos showing a competitor using prohibited training equipment, including but not limited to electronic collars, electric sticks, or pinch collars, that competitor may be disqualified from the FCI Championship.

This applies even i...

6 months ago, someone asked me if I planned to show Zastava. My answer was kind of a hard nope. I understood, at the time, why people do show their dogs, and that the work that training for, and then trying to execute a goal together is a way to form a wonderful bond with your dog, but it just wasn't going to be for me. Z and I had just started training for nosework and were loo...

I had a great learning experience this past weekend with Christian Gomez and the Endeavor Working Dog Club near Los Alamos, NM. Great people, felt welcomed to the group, we had two sessions each day, one in obedience and one in protection. Christian adjusted easily for each dogs needs and was SO intuitive toward the dogs and what they needed more of or less of. I probably had th...

There has been an emergence of a new amdovirus that has affected the Doberman breed in Russia and abroad. In March and April 2026, the world’s first confirmed case of Raccoon Dog and Fox Amdoparvovirus (RFAV) in domestic dogs was identified in a Doberman Pinscher breeding facility near Novi Sad, Serbia. The outbreak, likely introduced via dogs imported from Russia, affected four...