whats up with this? I saw online some videos of some fairly large malinois.One had a gorgeous red coat with black overlay I believe they call it and the full black mask with black ears.At first I thought it was a GSD but the video said it was a Mal.One of them was a Joe Farm dog that seemed pretty large and solidly built the other Im not sure. Could it have been a Mal X ? Ive heard and seen adds for these MAL X. I remeber years ago they did that with the sheperd and the dobies. Guys were breeding 120 monsters. Are there breeders here that specialize in "big boned malinois". 65-75 lbs is suppose to be the norm isnt it. or is this changing?
or breed only the red coats.wasnt the red and black coat of the GSD once considered considered a more authentic working line purebread GSD?
it was a Utube video. The dog was beisser van joefarm.Just saw another ad for a Mal Pup, Father was from the Netherlands. Dark red sable. are you ready? 115lbs!!Saw the Father on a decoy and he was up high on a shoulder looked as big as the decoy only broader. unbelievable.
Many Dutch dogs are well bred police dogs without paperwork/pedigrees.
I have worked with a number of large malinois, some pedigreed and some not over the years. The malinois is much less homogeneous a breed than the GSD being represented by registered and unregistered dogs, NVBK, KNPV, and a very few show dogs, and now DMC dogs. These animals were bred without an over arching parent breed club influencing their appearance in most cases. The result has been the malinois taking over the title of most common police dog in the world.
I have a little guy out of Dutch right now, but have had a 90 plus pound one also. A fellow officer has a 95 pound black dog (short coat, black, dutch which of course is neither malinois or groendel if you read the breed standard).
So pot luck is the order of the day when it comes to the malinois.
kevin- I was looking at some bite videos and the bigger dogs always looked fat and slow when compared to the Standard Mal lean and fast.Even the Shepherds looked placid.they are exciting and a pleasure to watch.
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