Rusape Rhodesian Ridgebacks

Sambo is a well balanced, calm and stable dog. He is friendly and relaxed in new situations. We have been on family holidays with him several times in foreign countries, where he had to deal with long journeys (with three 'little' children) and JRT Emil, in our caravan, going by ferry, he had to cope with crowded camping spaces, crowded beaches with playing children and other dogs. Sometimes in the caravan, sometimes in the hotel or even in the tent.

Furthermore as you can see we travel a lot to dogs shows locally and also to different countries, some of them in noisy and crowded halls, in the ring with several other males, staying over-night in hotel rooms. Sometimes we travel with our complete family, sometimes with Sambo's breeder Britta Käsbach and the dog family. We take him with us everywhere we go, to a restaurant or to a mall for shopping. Never experienced any problems with him.

Sambo lives with our Jack Russel Terrier, born in 2007, and there is no question at all who is the boss. Of course the JRT. The Rhodesian Ridgeback male Wakati Mzuri Mabou's Botha, born in November 2019, has also been part of the pack since the beginning of 2020.

With children Sambo is very familiar. Our youngest son turned half a year, when Sambo came to us in 2016 as a pup. Actually he grew up with him, his brother and sister, then aged 4 and 6 years. Especially very young children can be a rough challenge for (young) dogs and especially very young children and babies are challenging. 

Children might jump and run around all the sudden through the house and garden, throw sticks or chase each other, where the dog is actually not supposed to catch neither the stick nor the child!

Sambo got used to the buggy pace, to several visits of neighbourhood children, to childrens hands filled with yummy things and to a lot of other things. Sambo went through all that very normal and cool. He loves to jump in the trampoline with the children.

Towards strangers Sambo is a little reserved at first sight, but after a couple of minutes it is o.k. Of course he would stop strangers trying enter our premises when we are not around, but if we tell him it is ok, he accepts it.