LoyalBlitz Dobermans

The Knappenberger family founded LoyalBlitz Dobermans with our first doberman, Tesla, who joined our family as a companion and for Kaydin to train and compete with in AKC and 4H events.  Tesla inspired us to get more involved in dobermans as a breed, and we are now members of the Metropolitan Baltimore Doberman Pinscher Club, the Doberman Pinscher Club of America, and United Doberman Club. We kept Rip, one of Tesla's puppies, and continued showing and competing with him and also co-own several of Tesla's other pups.

We are committed to producing healthy dobermans with the with correct structure per the breed standard and temperament to be great family companions, with natural protective instincts, as well as compete in various performance sport venues.  We show our dogs in either AKC or UKC conformation ("dog shows") but get the most enjoyment out of training and competing in traditional obedience, rally obedience, agility, and whatever else our dogs enjoy.

See the "Puppies" page if you are interested in puppies from LoyalBlitz Dobermans.  For the latest updates find us on Facebook at "LoyalBlitz Dobermans".

We have also joined the Doberman Diversity Project to support research on the health of dobermans, and the link to our dogs' results are posted under their profiles (see Our Dogs page).  Also check out this great link that explains what is known (and not known) about the genetics behind doberman diseases, especially with respect to dilated cardiomyopathy:  DDP Diseases

The meaning of LoyalBlitz:

We selected LoyalBlitz as our kennel name as a tribute to Tesla.  We chose the "Loyal" part of the name because of Tesla's loyalty to our family and the second part of the name because we wanted to incorporate part of her AKC registered name (Shadeko's Rainbow Lightning), so we added "Blitz", which means lightning in German.