Tambuku Rhodesian Ridgebacks

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Tambuku Rhodesian Ridgebacks trace their lines back to the old classic kennel names such as Glenaholm, Isimanga, Mushana, and the more recent South African Kennels of Pronkberg, Roodedraai, and Cartouche.

While imported blood from American and Australian lines have been introduced into Tambuku's bloodlines to open up our gene pool, the imported hounds have been bred, and are bred, to hounds of the older, now increasingly rarer African lines. Tambuku ascribes to the older, more classic look, or working-type Ridgebacks who are comfortable in the African landscape.

Working as an anthropologist and researcher in the Drakensberg mountains of KwaZulu Natal and the Orange Free State, and in the bushveld, I am able to observe my dogs move and behave in a natural manner in the setting for which they were bred. It is to retain these characteristics that Tambuku has adopted as it's objective in it's breeding program.

Tambuku Yesaba Bobese's last litter (bred by Scotty Stewart of Clachlan Kennels) have been placed in homes located in private game reserves, and with conservators, hunters and field workers in South Africa and Canada. Their progress as workers in a natural environment, and with various types of wildlife will be closely monitored.

It is Tambuku Kennel's wish to continue to produce original classic-type Rhodesian Ridgebacks that are both able to hold their own in the show ring, but with the desire and ability to work in their natural environment and with wildlife. It is important to us that our hounds retain their strong protective instincts without acquiring an innate aggression.

Our concern to keep and produce hounds that have high working and functional potential  without the exaggeration of form that is becoming so prevalent among show dogs of the breed.

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