Vom Schloss Billimack Working Dogs focuses on protecting and preserving the working heritage of German Shepherd Dogs and Belgian Malinois through world class training, proofing via IGP competitions (formerly known as Schutzhund/IPO), and the occasional selective litter.  We focus on working dogs with the drive and temperament which allows them to excel not only as sport, police K9, and search and rescue dogs but also as trustworthy family members.

Over a hundred years ago, Max von Stephanitz urged that “the breeding of shepherd dogs is the breeding of working dogs; and this must always be the aim, or we shall cease to produce shepherd dogs.”  While many show dog enthusiasts focus primarily on structure, we agree with Max von Stephanitz, the founder of the German Shepherd, that “utility is the true criterion of beauty.”  Our dogs must have proper structure to work, but excellent working dogs must also have the intelligence and drives to succeed.  This is true of all working dogs, whether they are herding dogs, terriers, pointers,  hounds or retrievers.  As modernist architect Louis Sullivan noted, “form follows function,” and we believe the same is true of working dogs.

A few years ago, Steve also started training two versatile hunting dog, an Epagneul Breton (French Brittany) and Pudelpointer, for upland hunting and UKC testing, and for the challenge of working another variety of working dog.