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Welcome to del Rio kennels!

The Belgian Malinois is a highly athletic, intelligient and active breed. These are traits that first drew us into the Belgian Malinois.  Once you have brought one into your life, you discover how much more there is to fall in love with.  The Malinois can bring endless joy and at times, heartache. But through out the journey with this wonderful breed, you will realize your life is much more enriched than it would have been without a "Maligator" by your side.

Bobby and Angela live in Petersburg, Virginia which is located just south of Richmond, the state capitol of Virginia. Their breeding program takes into consideration the ultimate health of the parents, the development of the litter through the first few weeks of their lives, and the training and upbringing of the Malinois once accepted into their loving homes. We stand by our puppies, not just as breeders, but as champions of the breed and friends of their new owners.

This blog will present you with the images, stories, and videos of our Malinois. At times, we will carry a story and a picture from our extended Malinois family. Feel free to contact us or comment on our site.

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Category Archives: b-litter

Kudos to Brooklyn in Illinois!

So this afternoon Miss Brooklyn ran in her first CPE trial.  We ran the standard course and jumped 16 inches.  Not only did she run perfectly, she had the best course time by more than 25 seconds at 30.07 seconds.  So we got a 1st place ribbon at her 1st run at her 1st trial! ...

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B Litter Celebration : We are two!

* This is a re-run of an original post from April 6, 2007. I thought it best described my life with the B litter and as they turn two years old, I know they have turned into wonderful adults.  I have added their call names to each description below*
Morning Rant: What will become of the...

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March 21, 2009 - 2:03 pm Monica Shaw - Soul Patch, aka Bruce, did not live up to rock star fame and actually ended up being TOO intelligent for his own good. However, he did become a serious tissue and bathmat thief, and takes a green-lipped mussel and Boswelia Serratta supplement daily!

Winter Wonderland – before and after

I thought this might make a decent before and after – so I took a snapshot of the house before it snowed and after it snowed.  And a few of my Thai running toward me.

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March 21, 2009 - 2:19 pm Monica Shaw - Love these pictures of Thai. She and Bruce look so much alike!

March 8, 2009 - 6:48 am Bobby - Well, you'll have to send him up here to Virginia for a winter.

March 3, 2009 - 9:13 pm Kerrie Honey - I would so love to see my boy, Bronson, running through the snow. Not much hope of that happening in tropical Australia though. I'll just have to enjoy watching him swim. Great shots.

What the heck? Life is blessed…….

A week ago today, I thought I would be writing a different blog post. During a normal evening with my 52 lb. Belgian Malinois female laying all over me, I felt an unusual bump on her upper thigh.  At first I thought it might be an embedded tick although it wasn’t the season.  I asked...

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March 3, 2009 - 9:15 pm Kerrie Honey - I am very pleased that all has turned out well. Cheers.

Interesting Pet Articles – USAToday.com

This one is about having pets in the workplace. It seems they run a similar article once to twice a year but it always makes you wish……..
This article is about dangerous pets.  I guess this was prompted by the recent chimp attack on its long time handler/owner.  Remember, its not the pet but the owners!
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Another Jackson Video!

One of our puppy owners have compiled quite a few vids on YouTube. The stars? Their Kaylu and Jackson. Jackson is Thai and Bebe’s brother. If you would like to see more, search for Jackson malinois on Youtube.com

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Last Images from UBSDA Nationals

Ub-sdah…..ub-sdah….
Here’s a pic of a baby Terv…..fuzzy wuzzy

And this is one of my pride and joys….Brooklyn, sister to Thai.  She’s favors Asia quite a bit due to papa Socks.

And last but not least, another Laeken sighting!

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Baby Thai gets another point

Thai went best of winners over the males yesterday in Bel Alton, MD for her second point!  She is slowly starting to come along.  Now, if we can just work on her puppy high butt [click to see full sized image]

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More pics to share

Here’s a great picture of Brooklyn, one of the B litter puppies. She favors Socks’ coloring but she looks like a cross between Thai [her sister] and Asia [her half sister]
Here is a picture of Lucas at his first show! He didn’t win but he did well
and a “fun” shot of me. My...

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And….pictures of Bruce!

So, now I think I’m caught up with recent pictures!  Here are a few of Bruce with his “parents” at the beach.
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Pictures of Brooklyn!

I’ve been a little slow with posts lately – I received these pics from Brooklyn’s momma a few weeks ago of Miss Brooklyn romping around and having herself a good ol’ Malinois time. [click to enlarge]
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Jackson Meets Thai

Mr. Jackson’s daddy came up from Rhode Island during the ABMC National Specialty and was able to hang out for few hours.
Jackson, at first overwhelmed by all of the Malinois in one place, soon came out of his shell and became the life of the party. At least my party. He was...

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More pics of Miss Thai

We took Thai to a local UKC conformation show for some more exposure. It was held at Colonial Downs racetrack. Very nice venue with a good turnout.  I was too lazy to remove the lead in the second photo.

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First Pictures of 2008

On the first day of the New Year, I was able to take pictures of three of the girls as I threw a ball for them. Miss Thai is growing up nicely and turning into…..QUITE A MONSTER! She’s a big girl but still very elegant. We’re very happy over her progress. Click on...

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We visit with Bruce, Amber and Monica [and one Westie named Spice]

Monica is the human and owner of this wonderful Malinois pair. Bruce is from the B litter and is as big of a pill as any of the other puppies we have followed up with. He resembles his daddy Socks very much and his Saxo’s earset and shape.
More images can be found in the gallery...

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