Any one know any good Belgian Malinois breeders in pa?

Me and my family saw a show with that breed in it. Do you know any breeders in pa? I think this breed will keep my old yorkie off her butt.
Answers:
I think that you should rethink Belgian Malinois with Yorkie :)

It is a very smart and obedient dog. Serious and watchful with strong protective and territorial instincts.

This breed needs extensive socialization from an early age, and firm, but not harsh, training from an experienced master. If you are harsh or overbearing they will become uncooperative. It is instinctively protective so it should be trained and socialized very well from an early age.

The Belgian Malinois has a lot of energy and needs a job to do. Working lines can have particularly high drive. Belgian Sheepdogs tend to bond strongly with one or two people. Take care when introducing this dog with small non-canine pets. Generally this Sheepdog gets along well with children, but they can be rather dominant toward other dogs.

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It will also keep you and your other families off their butts too, should you get

Make sure you understand the breed well, it will be nothing like a yorkie it require a LOT of training, EXERCISE and early SOCIALIZATION . It is a very intense breed denfinitely not the dog for most people, and requires continued training throughout it's entire life, it is not a dog you can do some standard basic obedience and have just as a pet without further work like most dogs

Comments from the american Malinois breed club on the breed

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The Malinois likes to play hard and needs daily exercise. Daily walks will not satisfy him unless you are an avid runner who jogs 5 miles a day with your dog! A fenced yard is necessary to provide a safe area for you to exercise your dog. Many Malinois enjoy playing retrieve games.
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The Belgian Malinois is an active, intelligent dog that requires early exposure to different people and dogs so that he will be accepting of them later in life. The Malinois requires training to channel his energy into useful activities.
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Malinois are good with children and other animals when properly introduced or raised with them. However, this dog can also be protective, territorial, possessive, and jealous. Malinois are high-energy dogs and, like many other herding breeds, are strongly interested in moving objects, exhibiting what is called high prey drive. This trait can lead to chasing vehicles, children or animals if the dog's natural instincts are not guided toward acceptable activities. The Belgian Malinois requires a daily exercise routine as well as exposure to people outside the family and to a variety of sights and sounds which should begin early and continue throughout the dog's life.

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The above also means without proper training OR if it happens to have a higher than normal prey drive could even decide while maturing to hunt down and kill your yorkie

So if you are going to get make sure you have a few hours a day every day to spend training, exercise and working with the dog, otherwise you will have a disaster on your hands

More info of the breed, breeders and rescue contacts on this site
http://www.american-belgian-malinois-clu...

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Before you get a malinois consider the following. Most malinois are working dogs and requiew a lot of time, space and attention. The good ones tend to be very dominant with people. They need early socialization and if they don't get it tend to become useless. They do not take corrections like other breeds do, unless they can justify in their minds that the correction was warranted. They DO need physical corrections because without them they wil not listen and they will dominate. They are not a breed that you can just motivate with that asine "positive reiforcement" only phrase. They are better suited to a working home environment with an experienced handler. To qualify this statement, I have owned malinois since 1980, I have had the first malinois to work the street as a police dog in the USA and I introduced the breed to this country. There is not a finer working dog in the world, but, the key word here is "working". Be careful with the choice you make.