Foto: Mijne (left), Mojo, Jessie, Evie (front), Jane (back) and pup of A litter: Venture (2024)

It's never just a dog

Jessie & me

Who I am

My name is Eveline Broeders-Wilke. Together with my husband Martijn I moved in 2020 from The Netherlands to the US and we now run The Sunnyside Sisters Bed and Breakfast in the deep South of Virginia USA.

Jessie & Jane & the chickens

Home of the Sunnyside White Swiss Shepherds

Since I can remember we always had dogs and cats. I love to be with them: play and work with them, train them. Our dogs are part of our family and where we go, they go.

We share our home on 23 acres with six White (Swiss) Shepherds, two cats and 14 chickens.

When I decided I wanted to breed with this beautiful breed I registered my kennel with the FCI. Our home is called Sunnyside. And because our dogs love to play, have much fun together, I came up with the name Of Sunnyside Frolic White Flock.

I have specialized myself in: dog behavior, dog massage, obedience training (regular, service dog) and dog nutrition

Lazy afternoon with Jessie

Jane, Jessie, Mojo, Mijne and me

We have to think constructively how to breed dogs who primary purpose is not to herd sheep, retrieve gain or win prices in dog shows, but rather to be rewarding, obedient, healthy, happy family pets.

John Bradshaw in his book 'Dog Sense'

My mission

Health of our dogs and of the breed is priority for me. I do everything to make sure that our dogs are and stay healthy and I only breed with healthy parents and bloodlines. In order to gain this goal we only breed with parent dogs who are:

1. Not related in four(4) or more generations
2. Healthy tested by Wisdom Panel and/or Embark and are clear of Mdr+ and DM.
3. At least 24 months of age evaluated by OFA for HD and ED and found sound for breeding
4. From healthy bloodlines
5. Physical and mental healthy

Mijne (left), Jessie, Jane and Mojo

And more

Mijne (left), Mojo and me.

Find & fetch: morning exercise.

The White Swiss Shepherd is not a recognized breed by the AKC (see also the White Swiss Shepherd page) and therefore there is no official breed club.
So I chose to breed according to the FCI Circulaire 7/2007 and the International Breeding Rules of the FCI.
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My other breeding principles are:

Females
I only breed with females older then 2 years and not older than 8 years. In order not to burden the females too much, they are bred a maximum of once per two cycles.

Males
The males are allowed to sire a litter no more than four times a year.This is to prevent the popular sire effect (or popular stud/sire syndrome) which occurs when an animal with desirable attributes is bred repeatedly and to much inbreeding occurs. Which increases the risk of genetic abnormalities in the breed.
Something we must prevent at all costs.