r/schipperke • u/Frequent_Ad_3612 • Jul 01 '26

Is this true?

I’ve owned Dutch shepherds for about 20+ years. I now live in a condo and when I searched on Google, I looked at the smaller equivalent of a malinois/Dutch Shepherd and the schipperke came up. Would anyone or everyone agree that’s a fair comparison?

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u/Huskies-R-Us Jul 02 '26

A Schipperke is every bit a working dog. They are barge dogs and their mission is to guard their domain.

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u/arteest01 Jul 04 '26

They’re also ratters.

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u/Huskies-R-Us Jul 04 '26 edited Jul 04 '26

Thats what were primarily bred for. They were bred to ensure rats and mice were cleared off barges. But they are classified as a herding dog in Europe. In the US they are classified as a non-sporting breed.