German Boxer: Specialty Shows for 2022

About the nursery

Nikink-Var-Hard nursery welcomes you!

Let's get acquainted:

Yulia Valerievna Nikitenko – dog handler, open category judge Sergey Borisovich Nikitenko – dog handler, trainer-trainer, performance judge.

Sergey is a prize-winner of the Russian IPO Championships, a participant in the FCI and WUSV IPO World Championships as part of the Russian national team in 2013 and 2014

We are the founders and owners of the Nikink-Var-Hard nursery. Our kennel is registered in the RKF - FCI, in the RFLS Federation, is a member of the Kennel Club of St. Petersburg and the NCP "German Boxer".

The name for the nursery was not chosen by chance. Nikink is an abbreviation of our surname Nikitenko, and Var and Hard are part of the names of dogs that lived in our family at the time of the creation of the kennel. Var - boxer Variation, Hard - Rottweiler Harold Life.

We started breeding German boxers in the 90s. Realizing that in the city it was almost impossible for all our dreams and plans to come true, we exchanged our city apartment for a house with a plot in the small cozy village of Levashovo within the city of St. Petersburg. Here the main work on the creation and construction of our nursery began.

We organized a grandiose redevelopment of the house, taking into account the specifics of working with dogs - we made a specially equipped room for dogs, rooms for giving birth to bitches and small puppies, built comfortable outdoor enclosures with individual walks and, of course, a separate large and comfortable walk for adult boxers - big fans of play and frolic in the fresh air.

In 1999, we officially registered our nursery.

The first basic bitch and the founder of the kennel was a dog with Polish and English blood, Benvenju Variacia Valerie. The puppies received from her then were already of the desired, modern type.

In the 90s in Russia, the blood of dogs from leading European kennels was actively used to produce boxer offspring. Dogs from Italy, Spain, Germany, Holland and France were especially in demand. In those years, we focused our personal breeding on the best sires and descendants of the Italian nurseries “Del Colle Dell'Infinito” and “Della Cadormare”, as well as the Spanish nursery “Di Soragna”.

Currently, we are working on several breeding lines at once; we use breeding animals obtained from different base bitches acquired at the time of the formation of the nursery.

The goal of our work is to obtain pedigree, preferably of the same type, offspring from our dogs, superior in quality to at least one of the parents. Or, if the parent himself is of the highest class, consolidating his qualities in his children. But, of course, in addition to developing a stable number of dogs in the kennel, we also want to get bright representatives of the breed who can worthily represent the kennel. The result of this work can be assessed at exhibitions of various levels both in Russia and abroad. Our dogs participate in such exhibitions and become prize-winners.

Over the years of work, more than 100 boxer litters and more than 600 puppies with the Nikink-War-Hard prefix have been registered in our kennel.

The staff of our nursery is our greatest pride, our support and support, people who have forever given their hearts and souls to boxers. Their contribution to the development of the nursery is priceless!

We have one very pleasant tradition - this is the annual breeding review of our dogs, which we called “KENNEL DAY”. The first such show took place in 2006, and since then every year in mid-September we gather the owners of our boxers for this, one might say, family holiday.

The holiday program is always very eventful, including a parade of participants and a ceremonial lineup, summing up the results of the nursery’s work and awards, presenting memorable gifts to each participant in the review, including numerous guests who also come to congratulate us and rejoice with us.

Then an exciting series of competitions begins, the main participants of which are our boxers. Dynamic, fun team relay races - one for children, small, but already boxer athletes, the other for adults, where the teams already consist of pairs - a person and a dog. And the culmination of the holiday is tea drinking, traditional barbecue, pies and other treats. The site has many photos and videos about this holiday.

We are happy to do what we love! In our house there is practically no lull from the cheerful barking and hubbub of little puppies, which, growing up, go to their new families to give joy to their new owners.

German Boxer: Specialty Shows for 2022