Parastone’S History

Our Story starts in 1988 when Paul decided it was time to realize his dream: owning an American Staffordshire Terrier. Paul spent many afternoons reading old magazines and books about the AmStaff. His favourite was Patton’s Red Rock Skillet. That was the beginning of his love for the breed.

Paul purchased a blue/brindle male puppy with roots back to the White Rock bloodlines. His name was “Burnie” and Paul did everything he could with him. They were inseparable. During this time Paul became active in the Kynologen Club Roermond e.o. He and Burnie were active in area Obidience and travelled to conformation shows throughout the Netherlands and Belgium where Burnie earned a lot of excellent qualifications. After a while Paul purchased a brindle female puppy also straight from the White Rock Bloodlines. Her name was Donna. Burnie and Donna became the best of friends.

Unfortunately, Burnie’s health failed and he was put down in 1991 at the age of 3 years. When Paul returned home that afternoon, Donna was waiting for him. Donna never left Paul’s side again. After some time Paul decided to purchase another male. Again he choose for the White rock bloodline. Gringo was the name of this blue/fawn pup. It seems that we had only bad luck with the males: Gringo had to put down at the age of 2 years because of cancer.

We did some breedings but were not satisfied with the temperaments of our puppies. At this point we decided to start all over again, only this time we agreed to spent more time choosing a particular bloodline. Exactly three years went by before we made our choice. Because of the uniformity in the litters we choose the WoodForest bloodline. Type, movement and temperament were already there. Just a few things had to be improved after our humble opinion.

In 1996 two beautiful puppies arrived at the airport of Amsterdam. It was a red/white male and female. The male was WoodForest EZ Devilish Dragon ( Clyde ). The female was WoodForest EZ Red Velvet Dragon (Demi). They did a great job on both obedience trails and showring. Clyde became the youngest Specialty Winner in the history of the breed in the Netherlands. They had everything we wished: good health, sweet temperament, wonderful type, sound construction and excellent movement.

A year later we felt that the time was right to start with a complete breeding program. Because of this we needed more dogs. Paul visited David and Marsha Wood in the U.S.A. He returned with three dogs: WoodForest EZ Black Molly (Molly), Woodforest EZ Red Roc-N-Roll (Yankee) and WoodForest EZ Thunder Dragon (Billy). Now we needed just one more male. Paul purchased a red/white WoodForest male who was born in Croatia. Ch. FlameWood’s Rainbow Dragon (Bimbo) appeared to be a history maker. These dogs are the foundation of our reborn line bred breeding policy, a foundation which we are very proud of.

Parastone’S American Staffordshire Terriers are hand-raised with great care, based upon the principle that a puppy raised with kindness and understanding will return your love ten-fold. They all live in the house - there are no kennel dogs here. All the dogs are loose together, eat, sleep and play together. There is no place for a bad temperament or unsound construction in the Parastone’S breeding program. We take great pride in breeding quality American Staffordshire Terriers. Bred for the Agility and Obedience rings as well as for Conformation shows, the Parastone’S AmStaff’s are unsurpassed in sound temperament.