In the world of Dobermans where some believe “one size fits all,” the House of Hoytt is your GPS navigation system. The vast majority of sellers can, at best, only present the parents of your ‘soon to be’ responsibility. Most will also show you a pedigree. Today almost everyone with a dog to sell show its pedigree but... like a list of cities in America, without a map showing just where each city is located, you'd spend your life just driving around looking for your utopia. Not only can House of Hoytt show you the cities on the map, we can also tell you which side of town to stay out of and the best routes around it.

A pedigree to a seller is something to make the dog available seem special.  Actually, it does separate the non-pedigreed dog from the pedigreed dog, but it is mostly used as a tool to sell the dog. In most cases, for the seller and buyer it only shows what color a dog is, if it competed at dog shows and received titles. Of course it also gives the names of the dogs ancestors - that's a nice touch, for even we like to point out a Hoytt Dobe that perhaps gained public notoriety as a service dog, therapy dog, companion and defender, perhaps one who had extreme obedience or conformation fame.   However, even those who know none of the dogs personally or have never even seen a pedigree before can look at the most import information found on a Pedigree - the Bloodline, if in fact a true bloodline exists in the dog of your interest. A true Bloodline meaning most if not all the dogs carry the same creator or kennel name before or after the name of every dog listed, otherwise anything less and the document has little value to buyer or seller but kitchen-table talk. At House of Hoytt every dog in today's Hoytt Dobe carries the Hoytt name. This means Hoytt has created and placed each of those dogs before the Dobe you just might be bringing into your life.

WHEN IS A PEDIGREE VALUABLE?...To breeders who have been fortunate enough to meet some of the dogs, to actually have AKC or breed specific club presentations about a dog as Dog World did years ago when they were a privately produced magazine - Oh, we were on its cover more times than any other breeder and each dog was outlined in detail - you can bet one did not make up stories or awards - when you are at the top of your 'game', those not there have a tendency to work very hard at finding errors. Anyway in the past we all ( professionals today and in the past ) used this magazine, breed magazines featuring a specific dog, and first-hand meeting of the great Dogs usually at the kennel of its people as well as actually meeting, touching and sometime foolishly giving this great Dobe a kiss after a big win - it is after all a star. 

SPECIAL NOTE: Don't kiss or hug a Dobe you don't know without asking permission first. Even we humans don't want a stranger to be so personal - it's a deserved honor no matter how well-mannered it is. After all, the educated canine presents itself as a lady or gentleman, may be very happy to be the center of attention, but this does not mean it wants a physical relation outside its accepted circle of family , friends or in an occupation it enjoys, and understands there is handling by non-family like therapy or service work.   

So today a breeder like Hoytt took their experiences and created their own Line. Now, as the breeder of each Hoytt Dobe on our pedigrees, a name offers us the opportunity to take an overview of everything that each past dog evolved into because today every Hoytt Dobe in our pedigree has been personally created and is personally known to us - they are our extended family. Checking files or from what we have learned in the past from each dog's owner gives us the advantage only other Professional Line breeders have.  We began as those today who are working toward the goals we had, using others' past mistakes and of course successes to create the great Adult Dog of tomorrow.  Why repeat others mistakes, like who died of what and when, or who ate the youngest of each family member - just kidding!  But this really is important to those with children or who plan on having children or have grand children.  Pleasant points...who lived how long...who never had but a few bad health days in its life... the good is endless, for at House of Hoytt back five to eight generations of our own Dobes are the foundation of the Dobe known as "The American Super Dobe".  We use this knowledge with each matching of producing pairs along with our Profiling each dog, and we have become an exclusive entity.