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My name is Ajay Singh, I am a professional Civil Engineer, and my wife and I live in El Sobrante, California (just a few miles north of San Francisco). I grew up in Patiala, Punjab, India in an animal-loving family, and my late younger brother, Vijay Singh, was a German Shepherd judge, the President of the German Shepherd Club of India. The kennel name, Patiala, is the name of my home town (see the picture of our late King of Patiala, Maharaja Bhupinder Singh, with the German Seiger and Seigerin that he purchased and brought to India). I have loved and been a student of the German Shepherd dog since my teen years when my father got me my first German Shepherd puppy.
I came to U.S. as a student in 1985 and after receiving a Master’s degree in Civil Engineering from U.C. Berkeley, I chose to make U.S. my home with my wife and our two sons. I joined the United Schutzhund Clubs of America in 1988 after we bought our first German Shepherd puppy and I have been a member of the Menlo Park Schutzhund Club since 2000. Over the years, I have trained and titled a number of dogs of my own and have helped a number of other club members title their dogs. I am proud of training three dogs – Arek vom Bodenthal, Chief vom Patiala, and Jilnannah vom Talka Marda, from when they were puppies to compete at the Schutzhund 3 National Championships. I was fortunate to get an opportunity to compete with Arek at the 1998 World Championship (WUSV) held in Boston, MA.
My wife and I are hobby breeders but we try our hardest to make every puppy in every litter the best we possibly can. I am the Regional Breed Warden for the Northwest Region for the United Schutzhund Clubs of America. We believe that exceptional mothers produce exceptional puppies; therefore, only the females with impeccable health, sound character, exceptionally good working drives, and pronounced courage and fighting instinct, are used for breeding. We are very selective about the stud dogs we bring into our breeding program therefore we frequently travel to Europe to breed to the best dogs in the world. More than half of our 15 litters have been sired by stud dogs residing in Germany. The puppies are bred with a goal of producing animals which are good representatives of the German Shepherd breed, and it gives us special pleasure when we see that the dogs bred by us become desirable breeding partners as adults. The majority of our breeding bitches are the ones we have bred and titled ourselves, but when we import dogs to be a part of our breeding program, the selection is based on a thorough research of the dog itself, its ancestors, siblings, and their breeder’s ability.
We believe that a German Shepherd dog is a working dog – first and foremost; but also needs a correct anatomy to perform work. The selection of our breeding dogs is based on a broad based criterion that makes a German Shepherd dog a suitable dog for a wide-variety of functions, not just one extreme or another. We are proud of the fact that from our limited number of breedings, we have produced dogs that have competed at the Club, Regional, and National Schutzhund competitions and our working as Police and Search and Rescue dogs.
Over the last 20 plus years, I was fortunate to work with trainers like Michael Simmons, Ivan Balabanov, Dean Calderon, Eric James, Joel Monroe, Jose Lopez, Patti Garcia, Horst and Michaela Knoche. The breeding sense was partially instinctive developed by being a student of the breed for a number of years and deeply influenced by experienced and successful breeders like Randy Tyson Witmer and Horst and Michaela Knoche (vom Talka Marda), who have been our friends and mentors for a long time. We value the trust that a number of people have put into our breeding program by providing homes to our puppies, and by providing us the valuable feedback about the dogs bred by us. Through our dogs, we have been very lucky to cement great relationships with people we would have never met otherwise and we truly value that relationship.
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