Welcome to Avonwolf Kennels. This website is about my breeding program, dog sport and more in depth information about the working line Belgian Malinois.

Licensed with the Stroud District Council, license number 23/00731/AWACT Licence 2023 – 2026  Avonwolf Renewal inspection 2023Licence 2023 – 2026 

I, Ursi, breed dogs for function, having successfully bred dogs for different jobs and sports. Our dogs have excelled at: 

• Police dog work including Firearms support dogs
• Search dogs as in Police, Fire and rescue, Cadaver, search and rescue, mantrailing and all sorts of tracking
• Security work
• IGP (national Champion 2025 and several international FCI and FMBB competitors)
• Agility (international championships)
• Flyball (international championships)
• Obedience (including several Cruft competitors)
• different ring sports
• Dock diving

I, Ursi, born in Switzerland have all my life admired Malinois, the ultimate breed. I started proper dog training at 12 yo with my Border Collie female Trixi. Although long before, I walked and started my training tries with all the local pet dogs. With Trixi, finally my own, I trained in Agility and obedience whilst being a member at the SKG (Schweizerische Kynologische Gesellschaft) local dog club.

Already there I always admired the Schutzhund dogs and as much as I also looked at the GSD’s the Malinois where just another level for me already at that time. I must add Switzerland is a bit ahead with training and the local forces had Malinois long before the UK and also used them as dual purpose dogs. I started studying the breed in my young teens whilst working my Collie, I was in varies forums, had regular updates on the breed from the DMC (Deutscher Malinois Club) and kept up to date in planning of having my own at some point in my life.

I followed health issues, tracked them down with where they came from or originated from what lines, studied combinations of breedings what they’d produce and what comes with it. The different lines fascinated me and looking at the lines producing what became my daily news feed to the point that I can look at a Malinois now and have a rough idea of it’s breeding!

After leaving my parents at 19 yo I starting my career as a Hotelfach Angestellte. I worked in several Hotels, Bars and Restaurant and had a break in my dog career where I instead ended up running Restaurants at a young age.

In 2010 I left Switzerland with my partner at the time to run a live music venue in Bristol UK, the deal of leaving everything behind was to be able to get my Malinois finally.

2011 Lucy, bred by a German girl joined and started my next career. Lucy a KC registered female with French lines was bred from security dogs and has thought me a hell of a lot 🙂

Me and Lucy achieved IPO 3, working trials TD and PD, Globalring Cat1 and also a NASDU security certificate. Lucy is an awesome female and has become the master mother of Avonwolf!

In my time in England I have been running the Avon Dog Sports Group for over a decade now together with a few club members. Started as a full Schutzhund club we have progressed from Schutzhund to IPO and now IGP all the way to a more relaxed working dog group who just enjoys working our dogs. I have been the head trainer at this club since 2012.

My IPO career had a good 10 year run, I have taken several dogs through the test with highlights of taking my home bred dog Keith (Avonwolf Al Capone Keith) from my very first Litter (out of Lucy) all the way to represent team GB at the world championship. First at the All breeds in Italy in 2018 and then again the following year at the FMBB Belgian Shepherd World Championship in Czech.

Besides IPO I have had a nice career in Working Trials with Lucy, the English old school working dog trials, I have had a go at KNPV with my dutch girl Xia with several visits to some good KNPV clubs in Holland but unfortunately not had much chance of carrying this on in the UK. Therefor it stayed a fun hobby whilst having the chance. Lucy and myself had a little go at Globalring after being asked to enter a trial and Lucy smashed it and won it lol. We’ve had a good run at different sports and I ended up having a little overdosed on competing and almost burned out since at some point I was competing with 4 different dogs in 3 different sports at the same time…..

Having come away from competing and sport I now enjoy working them in Security and VR with real life scenarios. I have licensed 4 dogs in NASDU Level 2 and one licensed in Victim Recovery (Cadaver) Water with NASDU level 3. I have also become a NASDU trainer and license new Dog Handlers.

A rough rule I like to go by:

My dogs🫶🏻

• first 3 years of life – learning
• Next 5 years – living in prime and proper work
• 8/9yo next 3 years work 50%
• Last 5 years enjoy retirement 🙌🏻