OVERVIEW
What she is
Vee de las Flores is a young female entering the next stage of evaluation for the breeding program. She carries a pedigree rooted in serious European working lines and is already demonstrating the speed, agility, and engagement that make Dutch Shepherds such versatile working partners.
Still early in her development, Vee is actively involved in agility training and competition. Her natural athleticism and drive expression are well suited to fast-paced sport work and physically demanding training environments.
Beyond sport potential, Vee has also shown practical day-to-day usefulness. Her owners report that she began alerting to migraines at a very young age and has proven herself to be eager to work, quick to engage, and able to settle cleanly when the work is done.
WORKING TRAITS
- Pack drive: High
- Prey / Hunt drive: High
- Food motivated: Extreme
- Toy / play motivated: Extreme
- Balanced: Excellent working balance
- Primary strengths: Speed, agility, engagement, and day-to-day task focus
- Protection training: Not currently pursued by owner.
- Practical utility: Migraine alert behavior reported from an early age
HOME LIFE
Vee lives in an active environment and works comfortably in training and sport settings that require environmental stability, focus in busy spaces, and neutrality around other dogs.
She is described as gentle, playful, and strongly people-oriented. Vee greets people easily and enjoys interaction, while still showing appropriate awareness when someone approaches the door or steps into her space.
Just as important, she carries a reliable off switch. She is ready to work when asked, willing to stay engaged through the task in front of her, and able to settle back into normal home life when the work is done.
BREEDER'S NOTES
Vee is one of those dogs that keeps life interesting.
As a puppy she was famously inventive about getting attention. If she felt that being out of the crate meant it was time to work or interact, she had no problem finding ways to remind everyone of that fact. Even now she approaches life with that same enthusiasm. She is always ready to work, always ready to engage, and very quick to let her handler know if the instructions were not clear enough the first time.
Her athleticism shows up most clearly in agility. The moment she realizes it is her turn to run, the switch flips. More than once she has burst out of the crate, spun in place, and dragged her handler toward the ring because she knows exactly where she wants to be. Once inside the ring, the rest of the world disappears. Other dogs, noise, distractions. None of it matters. She is there to run the course.
What surprises many people, however, is how cleanly she turns that intensity off. Friends who see her working in agility often cannot believe she is the same dog relaxing quietly in the motorhome afterward. She settles easily, reads the room well, and seems to understand when her handler needs a slower day.
Vee is also deeply people-oriented. She has never met a stranger, though she will still alert appropriately when someone approaches the door. Once guests are welcomed inside she shifts immediately into social mode, happily greeting everyone.
She also has a playful personality that keeps her owners laughing. She watches television and “talks” to the animals on the screen, makes dramatic noises in her sleep that sound like she is calling someone from another room, and wags her tail so fast it looks like she might tip over.
In short, Vee is exactly the kind of dog people hope for in a Dutch Shepherd: eager to work, intensely engaged when the job begins, and perfectly capable of settling back into everyday life when the work is done.
Dogs like this tend to tell you exactly what they need if you are paying attention.