Camelot is Kris Munday and Kim Loutsis, friends who became besties over the love of Dogues. Kris’s former husband Tony is also still involved with Camelot and co-owns a Camelot dog. Kris’ love affair with the Dogue began in 2000, when she adopted her first Dogue, Monet, through rescue. She soon found out that Bordeaux’ are like potato chips, you can’t have just one. So, she purchased Boogie, aka Phoenician’s Bouguereau (7/29/01-3/29/07). The numerous health issues Boogie made Kris want to get more involved with the breed, and learn as much as possible and to help others going through similar things with their dogues. The more involved she got, the more she wanted to help make the breed better. Kris started doing rescue and breed education. Kris purchased her first show dog in 2003, then in 2005, moved to Oregon to devote more time to the breed. Kris was also the DDB Rescue’s President and founder from 2006-2019, currently sits as a Vice President of DDB Rescue and has founded the DDB Preservation Foundation and published the educational site, Hooch Info. Our dogues are all house dogs and live in the house with us. Kim also fell in love with the breed through Rescue. She got her first through Seattle Humane Society, and after he passed, she purchased a puppy from Camelot’s first litter. The friendship and similar goals blossomed from there. Kris gave her Armani, whom she turned into not only a certified Delta Society therapy dog, but also champion, grand champion and in the top 10 dogues in the nation a few years in a row.
We have evolved into small hobby kennel that produces a limited amount of litters a year once our girls reach maturity and have acceptable health testing results. We have brought in top quality and the best blood lines from around the world to lay the foundation of our program. We continue to be very active in rescue, showing and breed education. All of our dogues are completely health tested and must meet our strict requirements in addition to preferably having Championship titles on them before we even consider breeding. Potential mates for our dogues must also meet the same requirements we have set for our own dogues. Since we have been so heavily involved in rescue, we see what happens when breeders produce litter after litter and don’t care about the future of the breed. We care about the future of this breed and it’s health issues. We continue to research and learning as much as possible about breeding, genetics and bloodlines to help us continue to “do it right”. We stand behind what we produce, we health test, we follow a code of ethics, we show, we microchip all of our pups, we register all of our litters AKC, and we remain in contact with our “new” extended families. These are things that responsible breeders do. With determination and persistence we are producing healthy, excellent examples of the breed with great temperaments and placing them in loving homes.
The Dogue de Bordeaux is a Guardian Breed dog and are not for everyone. They can be dominant, stubborn and dog aggressive (often same sex aggressive) and there are a lot of health issues with in the breed. They must be part of your family. They are not dogs that should live outside. They must have obedience training. Anyone considering a dogue must be prepared for what they may get. Again, the dogue is not a breed for just anyone. Please research both the breed and the breeder if you are considering adding a dogue to your home. If you are looking to add a companion to your family, please consider one of the many rescues that are available across the country.
To contact us, please email spoiltdogues@sbcglobal.net , or give us a call at 408-394-9685 (PST).