Arnaud and Aube

It all began when Arnaud was 14 years old and fell in love for the first time with a schnauzer — more specifically, a pepper-and-salt Giant Schnauzer. However, it would take nearly nine more years before he welcomed his first schnauzer into his home: Xtazy of Taita’s Ushabti. Not a Giant, but a pepper-and-salt Standard Schnauzer. With her, he took his first steps into the world of national and international dog shows — and with success: in 2001, Xtazy became Belgian Champion.

That same year, the kennel name “of Randi’s Ushabti” was born, inspired by the “of Taita’s Ushabti” kennel of Werner and Christel Stamm-Behets. When Christel moved to Germany, she gifted this beautiful kennel name to Arnaud — a gesture he still carries with pride and gratitude to this day.

Over time, Arnaud’s fascination with white Miniature Schnauzers continued to grow. In Belgium, this variety was still largely unknown and underappreciated, while abroad, more and more examples of exceptional quality were appearing. This growing interest led to a modest but purposeful breeding effort, using carefully selected parents — a personal contribution to the improvement and recognition of the breed.

The passion for schnauzers didn’t stop with Arnaud. His daughter Aube was quite literally born and raised among schnauzer puppies. As a child, she loved accompanying her father to dog shows, and very soon, she was presenting dogs in the ring herself. At just 15 years old, she travelled on her own to Germany to learn grooming from Werner and Christel. Like Arnaud, she shares a deep love and dedication to the white Miniature Schnauzer.

Today, we’ve grown together into a small, passionate, and family-run hobby kennel, recognized by the F.C.I. Arnaud also holds the official certificate for breeding LO.S.H. dogs. Our dogs are our passion — each and every one of them has a loving and playful temperament, and they live indoors with us as full members of the family.

Randi

Champion Randi Het Rittzenbroek was the first schnauzer of Christel. She was born on the 7th of February 1993, came to live at our place on Christmas eve 1998 and unfortunate died on December 30th 2004 She won many shows and was crown Belgian, Luxembourg and International Champion. She also had two litters, in totaly she give birth to 18 puppies. One of her daughters, Belgian Champion Xtazy of Taita’s Ushabti (04/03/1998 - 22/12/2009), brought just like her mother joy for many years in our home. We miss them both a lot.

In the spirit of Ushabti

An Ushabti is a figurine that was placed in the tomb of a pharaoh in Ancient Egypt as substitute worker for the deceased. Possibly this is a replacement of the use to sacrifice and bury servants along with the deceased king in the earliest history of Egypt. The word 'Ushabti' means 'answerer'. As the death were called to evaluate their life before the judges of the underworld, then the funerary figurine must answer as a friend and as a defender. It is not by accident that friendship and the defending of their master are typical characteristics of a Schnauzer. Knowing that the qualities of justice and loyalty were very strongly present in Randi, we try to breed all our Schnauzers in the very same spirit of Randi’s Ushabti.