Cynological Vita Margit van Dorssen

My name is Margit van Dorssen and I live in Cologne. I am married and have one daughter.

I have been breeding German Shepherd Dogs for 45 years under the kennel name „von Arlett“. During my work as a trainer and dog handler I attached great importance to – whenever possible – presenting my own dogs during the competitions they took part in.

In 1996, I begann my career as a breeding judge for German Shepherd Dogs.

I am very happy about my appointment as breeding judge on the occasion of the WUSV-World Championship UNIVERSAL in Switzerland in 2023 – in particular because I have always been interested in the more universal aspects of German Shepherd Dogs in trial and breeding.

My basic philosophy aims at breeding dogs with excellent structures who can also be used as working dogs. In the breeding programm of the „von Arlett“ kennel, dogs of grey and also black coat color are frequently used. Winner of universal shows who participated in national and international events were the „fruit“ of my kennel.

My work of recent years was focussed on the encouragement and motivation of young dog handlers.

With kind wishes,

Margit van Dorssen

www.arlett.de

Margit van Dorssen – „Vita“ with dogs

• Since 1978 I have been active as a breeder for German Shepherd Dogs, with 383 litters.

• 1996 Appointment as breeding judge – since that time I judged approximately on 400 national and international shows – twice on the occasion of the BSZ Conformation Show.

• In 2001, I was appointed as Breed Survey Master and ever since I evaluated 106 breed survey competitions in Germany and at a world wide level.

• I judged Siegerschauen in about 25 different countries. In 2017, I had the honor to judge German Shepherd Dogs on the occasion of the World Dog Show in Leipzig to which a total of 31,000 dogs of all kind of breeds were registered.

• Dogs with ranking VA from the „von Arlett“ kennel on German Siegerschauen:

• Ulk, Huppy, Ghandi, Peperoni

• 27 progeny groups from „von Arlett“- fathers on German Siegerschauen (Agent, Joker, Ulk, Flick, Nicco, Huppy, Rickor, Ghandi, Flipp)

• Breeding Groups „von Arlett“: participation 14 times, 2 times 2. place, 3 times 3. place, as well as one time the second place and one time the third place with my group of grey coat color.

• In 1997 I was the head of organization of the BSZ Conformation Show which obtained a record number of registrations.