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After visiting Eastern Cape, I travelled to Free State, and stayed at Mizpah Farm with Lucas, and we discussed black boerboels as well. As I had been very excited by them, the old man soothed me down, by saying that he regretted to allow them to be registered with HBSA, as “there was never black solid color boerboels that he knew of, and the only black dogs, that he ever saw and raised with at his grandfather’s farm, were those of an ultra-brindle color, very dark in appearance, with hardly noticeable stripes in them”. He also felt very pity, that boerboel started to loose its original looks and traits, and was getting more and more commercial interest from breeders, and that it was not that him and other founders wanted for the breed. As a matter of fact, he took me to his good friend and neighbour, Walter Holder (Slamat Boerboele), that’s about 5 km away from Mizpah, where Walter showed me an adult black male, (Great Dane x Boerboel cross), that they kept just for guarding (I have a picture of him too). I think that at that time if there was a need in reviving the black boerboel – it was a good chance for both of them to do it (e.g. Donkerhoek Kaapult’s background is no secter). But that idea could not even hit old men minds, as they knew the truth about the non-existence of the black boerboels, and they strived for pure-bred boerboels over the past 30+ years… When I asked him, why not to use him, Lucas just laughed and said that they can’t do that, it’s not right.
去完东开普省后,我去了自由州并和LUCAS 一起待在Mizpah农场,我们讨论了黑色南非獒犬的事。我对黑色南非獒犬的事非常激动,lucas 说他很遗憾把黑色南非獒犬在HBSA 上面注册了,因为“他从来没有知道过有真真正正纯黑的獒犬, 他唯一在他爷爷农场上所看到的那些黑狗也只是有ultra-brindle 颜色,外观上非常黑,基本上看不到条纹的狗。”老人家这话让我平静了下来。他也很遗憾獒犬已经开始失去它原来的样子和特性,对它们的主人来说,它们的商业利益成分越来越多。这些都不是他及其他创立者所愿意看到的。事实上,他带我去了他一个好朋友兼邻居Walter Holder (Slamat Boerboele) 的家。 那距离Mizpah5公里左右。 Walter 让我看了一条成年的黑色公狗(它是大丹犬 和 南非獒犬杂交的后代)。他们把这条狗做看门之用。(我也照了一张照片)我想,那时假如他们需要复兴黑色南非獒犬的话,那就是一个很好的机会了。但是这两位老人连一丁点这样的想法都没有,因为他们知道黑色南非獒犬根本不存在。过去30多年他们一直致力于培育纯种的南非獒犬。我问LUCAS 为什么不利用这条狗,他只是笑了笑, 说他们不能那样做,那样是不对的。
During my stay at Mizpah, it turned out that Jenny Wells (Quovadis Boerboels) also visited Lucas, and we continued discussing with him everything back and forth, again and again, over and over, and those of you, who knows Jenny, it’s hard to believe that she would miss the point, or wouldn’t get the chance to get to the very essense of the issue, dropping some important threads of the story somewhere down the road.
我在MIZPAH 逗留的那段时间里,Jenny Wells (Quovadis Boerboels) 也拜访了LUCAS。我们一起和lucas 来来回回反反复复地谈论了每一件事。 你们之中认识JENNY 的人可能会觉得以下难以置信:她竟然没有追问事情的重点,或者说没有抓住机会深入到整个事情的本质,只落下一些重要的线索。
Many interesting boerboel facts and stories were revealed to us, and many of our questions have been answered. That was back then…
我们听到了很多关于獒犬的事实和故事,我们的很多问题也得到了回答,这是那时的情形。
In 2009 Jakkie in his letter to me admitted, that on the short “black BB search” tour that he, his wife Elma and Jan le Doux (Egoli Boerboels) undertook, they visited many farms, and that the black dogs that they saw “was really a lot of sh**…” And the black ones that they had at that time out of Jack and his offsprings, were of the best quality ever known, and therefore I was offered to take part in a big commercial project involving black boerboel development throughout the world, that started to roll on with big success. I still was anxious and thrilled by the “magically survived” color, and again, I called Lucas van der Merwe, as I wanted to hear his opinion one more time regarding this color, hoping that I would hear something different, but nope, he made it straight, saying that he, with J, de Jager and later with P. Milstein arranged several trips years ago in the search of the black boerboels, and they could not find any on them, even in the remoted areas near Lesotho, except of some obvious crosses, that didn’t even reminded them of boerboels. After that conversation, I got a firm decision to leave it once and for all there where it was. Where’s a wheel, there’s a way. Lucas didn’t believe in its existence, and did not believe in “any black dog that barks being a boerboel”. I greatly respect the knowledge and experience of the man, who devoted his whole life to boerboels, and there was no one who could know this breed any better, and how and where it started.
2009年在JAKKIE 给我的信中他承认道,在他、他妻子elma 和Jan le Doux (Egoli Boerboels) 的简短的黑色南非獒犬搜寻之旅中,他们去了很多农场,他们所见到的黑狗确实很差劲。 他们那时从JACK 和JACK 的后代那里培育的黑狗是人们所知道的最好的了。于是我被邀请参加一个世界范围内的大型黑色南非獒犬发展商业计划,这个计划开始发展得很成功。我那时为这种“奇迹生还”的颜色感到很振奋,因此我再一次打电话给Lucas van der Merwe,因为我希望再听听他对于这个颜色的看法,希望这次可以听到他跟以前不同的观点。然而他直截了当地说他和J, de Jager 及之后的 P. Milstein多年前曾经好几次外出寻找黑色南非獒犬,甚至连接近Lesotho的一些偏远地方也去过,但是除了一些明显混种狗之外,他们一个黑色南非獒犬都没看到。那些混种狗也一点都不能让他们联想到黑色南非獒犬。经过那次通话之后,我坚决地决定就到那为止了。Lucas 不相信黑色南非獒犬的存在,也不相信有任何会叫的黑色狗是南非獒犬。我很尊敬他在这方面的知识和经验,他把他一生都献给了南非獒犬,也再没有人比他更懂得这个品种,更知道这个品种是怎样和在哪里发源的。
I am not here to make any judgements, or accuse anyone, people choose their own ways to go, it’s just my little story, but I remember very well what Om Lucas had been saying to me many times, as well as all my conversations years ago with Anneke, his ex-wife, (who was on the Great Boerboel Tour with him), and especially over our last conversation with Lucas, 3 days prior his death, when he already had breathing difficulties, but was in absolutely clear mind- just for the sake of the breed, there’s no need to bring something new to it, as it is AS beautiful AS it is, even if multiplying the black color is profitable and attractive to many people around the world. There are other good dog-breeds that have black color in their standards and genes. There is also no need to overthrow the saying: “The leopard cannot change his spots”. Why should boerboels do?
我不是想在这做任何评论,也不是要指责任何人,不同的人选择不同的方式,这只是我的一个小故事。但我清楚地记得Lucas 在多次的交谈中和我所说的,也记得我多年前和Anneke及他的前妻(她伴随Anneke一起做过一个獒犬之旅)的谈话,我特别记得我和Lucas的最后一次对话,也就是在他去世前的第三天。那时他已经出现呼吸困难,但头脑仍然很清醒—就是为了獒犬这个品种本身,没有必要再给这品种寻找新的东西,因为它现在已经很好很漂亮了,即使繁殖黑色可以赚钱,即使世界上很多人喜欢这颜色,但都没有必要。世上还有其他好的品种的狗,无论在标准上还是基因里,都已经具有黑色。人们没有必要去推翻“一个豹是不能改变它的斑纹的”的说法,所以为什么就要改变的獒犬颜色?
With all my good and loving memory of Lucas van der Merwe, the true Boerboel Man of South Africa.
在这献上我对Lucas van der Merwe, 这个真正的南非獒犬人的怀念。
P.S. When I hear the story that there’re dogs of unknown origin in Muller Lady and Poppie’s certs due to the fact that J. Muller never registered his dogs and wasn’t involved with any of the Associations, it contracdicts the HBSA Registry of dogs. According to it, he’s been a member of HBSA since 2001, and registered his other dogs with it without any problem. So what was the true need to a sudden registering these 2 dogs in 2003 then (in fact there were 3 dogs registered on the same day, but I presume one of them just vanished), and the parents were not? Did this happen just because of the interest coming from some breeders that started their kennels as early as in 2001-2003?
另外:我听到有个一故事说因为J. Muller没有为他的狗注册,也没有加入任何一个协会,所以在 Muller Lady and Poppie 的证书上, 有一些狗的来源不明,但这说法和HBSA的狗只注册记录不一致。根据记录,自从2001开始,他就成为了HBSA 的成员,也成功地为他的其他狗只完成注册。所以为什么要突然在2003年注册这2条狗,而又不给这两条狗的父母注册?(事实上同一天注册的共有3条狗,我想另外1条就凭空消失了)这事情是不是仅因为有一些在2001年~2003年间成立狗舍的育种者为了利益而促成的呢?
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