{"id":1562,"date":"2015-10-23T13:23:31","date_gmt":"2015-10-23T19:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.malinoisclub.com\/abmc\/?page_id=1562"},"modified":"2015-10-23T13:23:59","modified_gmt":"2015-10-23T19:23:59","slug":"history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.malinoisclub.com\/abmc\/about-malinois\/history\/","title":{"rendered":"History"},"content":{"rendered":"

First recognized in Belgium during the late 19th<\/sup> century, the Belgian Malinois was one of four varieties of Belgium Shepherd Dog having a consistent anatomy and type but differing in hair texture, color and length.\u00a0 Professor Adolphe Reul, described a square, medium size dog with well-set triangular ears and dark-brown eyes.\u00a0 Each of the four varieties was named for the region around Brussels where it was seriously developed; the short-haired fawn Malinois in the Malines region, the long-haired fawn Tervuren from the town of Tervueren, the long-coated black Groenendael from the town of Groenendael and the wire-coated fawn Laekenois from the town of Laeken.\u00a0 The first standard for the Belgian Shepherd Dog was adopted in 1892.<\/p>\n

As the breed developed in Belgium, several different clubs and organizations came into being.\u00a0 The Berger Belge Club was founded in 1898, in opposition to the Club de Chien de Berger Belge.\u00a0 In 1908, a second national kennel club, the Kennel Club Belge, was founded in opposition to the Societe Royal Saint-Hubert, while in 1910 the Groenendael Club was established to promote that variety.\u00a0 In 1912 the Federation Cynologique International (World Canine Organization) was was established, with the Saint-Hubert society quickly joining it.\u00a0 All have played a role in the breed\u2019s development in Belgium.<\/p>\n

The first AKC mention of the Belgian Sheepdog was a small notice in the January 1908 AKC Gazette mentioning that five additional Belgian Sheepdogs had been added to the NYC police force to work with an American bred one.\u00a0 Two Malinois along with two Groenendael were imported into the US and registered into the AKC studbook in 1911.\u00a0 They were registered as German Shepherds with the affix Belgian given to their names; Belgian Blackie (AKC # 148516) and Belgian Mouche (AKC 148517).\u00a0 One, Belgian Blackie registered with Saint Hubert as Blackor became an early AKC champion.\u00a0 During the period of time from 1911 until World War II, the Malinois enjoyed American popularity with many dogs from the best Belgian bloodlines being imported and bred.\u00a0 There was some renewed interest after the war, but the breed did not flourish.\u00a0 Before 1959, the Belgian Malinois was relegated to the Miscellaneous class because there were not enough registrations to provide competition for championships.\u00a0 Interest in the breed increased again in 1963 with sufficient numbers having been registered with AKC for the breed to move to the working group and be eligible to compete for championships in 1965.\u00a0 Belgians were registered and shown as one breed in the United States until issues arose over color and inter-variety breeding.\u00a0 In 1959, the AKC gave each variety a separate breed status.\u00a0 In Europe and Canada they are still considered varieties of the Belgian Shepherd.\u00a0 In 1983, the Malinois was moved to the new Herding Group with any other herding breeds. \u00a0In June of 1995, the AKC lifted the three generation rule on imports for all breeds.\u00a0 While this has increased importations, it has also complicated the Belgian \u201cseparate breeds\u201d dilemma.<\/p>\n

A debt of gratitude is owed to the strong supporters and founding breeders of the Belgian Malinois breed in the United States.\u00a0 Early breeders and kennels of note include: Antonia Diamond, Diadem; Donna Haworth, Souvenir; Dorothy Kutlik, De L\u2019Ferme and Frank and Carol Knock \u2013 TriSorts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

First recognized in Belgium during the late 19th century, the Belgian Malinois was one of four varieties of Belgium Shepherd Dog having a consistent anatomy and type but differing in hair texture, color and length.\u00a0 Professor Adolphe Reul, described a square, medium size dog with well-set triangular ears and dark-brown eyes.\u00a0 Each of the four […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":31,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1562","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","post"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malinoisclub.com\/abmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malinoisclub.com\/abmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malinoisclub.com\/abmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malinoisclub.com\/abmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malinoisclub.com\/abmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1562"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.malinoisclub.com\/abmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1564,"href":"https:\/\/www.malinoisclub.com\/abmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1562\/revisions\/1564"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malinoisclub.com\/abmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malinoisclub.com\/abmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}