Kristoph kennels is owned by Christopher Seeyave and is situated on a 78 acre citrus estate (orchard) We are located just 5 minutes south of the Borough of Arima and 10 minutes away from the Piarco International Airport.

Our breeding goal is to consistantly produce the REAL German Shepherd Dog as described in the WUSV breed standard. A dog with the correct temperament, so that he will posses the confidence, courage, calmness and a strong fighting instinct to do any type of task presented to him. He must also have the proper structure (conformation) in order to carry out the task.
The dog with the best temperament is completely useless if it doesn't have a good physical structure to carry out its duties , similarly, the show winner with impeccable structure but poor character has nothing to offer the breed, no matter how many CC's and Best in Shows won. We do not breed from ONLY "Working " bloodlines or ONLY "Show" bloodlines but a combination of both. This way we can have a balance between the two extremes.

We got our first female GSD puppy in 1994, she had an excellent temperament and pigment but later on she got very cow hocked, which we were told was passed on to her by her father,since he himself was cow hocked. We bred her two years later to a very strong ,well structured male with a nice temperament and on 4th May, 1996 we had our first litter of five pups. From this litter I kept a male which is still in my kennel as he is now six years old today. I trained this dog myself in obedience and he is also trained to do protection work. This dog was entered in the obedience class of a working trial in August 2001 and came 3rd out of about 20 dogs.
Unfortunately, the sport of schutzhund is not practiced here because Trinidad doesn't have the proper affiliation, so even if we were to train for schutzhund we still wouldn't be able to title our dogs. However, the proper steps are currently being taken and we may soon be able to title our dogs.
We have had a total of sixteen litters so far. All the pups this female produced over the years had good temperaments but only average structure. Two of these pups were sold to security companies and one was sent to Antigua to do narcotics detection training.
In October 2001 we had to put her to sleep because she had breast cancer which spread to the spine and it eventually collapsed onto the spinal chord preventing any movement in the hindquarters.

I attended my first show (conformation) in 1995 and was so interested in showing I bought a second female a year later . At my first show in 1997, an all breed championship show, I entered her in the puppy class and she won best GSD puppy and eventually went on to win Best Puppy in Show Reserve. I think having such success the very first time I showed a dog is one of the reasons that I'm still interested in this wonderful breed. This female had excellent conformation but was very sharp and would bark at the smallest noise.

I spent a long time looking for good dogs from other local breeders but no one produced what I was looking for. I decided to search else where and after a lot of research I eventually purchased two females from Germany, Esther and Lena vom Hauswalder Bach, two half-sisters and daughters of the 2000 German Sieger VA1 Ursus von Batu and half-sisters of the 2001 Sieger Yasko vom Farbenspiel. Ursus himself being the grandson of two Siegers, Jeck vom Noricum and Zamb von der Wienerau.