Marlon: What makes a DDK dog?
Stability, strength, speed, gentleness. This is a Hall of Fame.
It's a long history of dogs here.
This is where it all started.
This is the Hall of Fame in my house right here.
So this is just kind of where it started.
Although we're known for our training skills, breeding these dogs,
and producing the dogs is very important.
I just became obsessed with dogs, you know, just like the,
the idea of that, like, you know, I could, you know, change something about a dog
that I thought might be able to be a little bit better.
So I just kind of become very intrigued with the project of
creating my own style of dog you know.
So I then just like scoured the internet at the time,
years ago, different internet probably dial up.
And the more I started to see, the more I started to realize
that I wanted to do something different.
When you create a bloodline, you know, it's years and years that it takes
for this to build. Basically everything's connected you know.
Maia was one of my first dogs,
my first breeding dog. Without Maia, none of these dogs exist.
My first breeding actually that I ever did with was Maia
to Cassius, rest in peace my boy, I love you.
And that's where Hulk’s grandmother came from.
The journey began you know.
Maia and Cassius produced Mia.
This is Mia, that little brown dog in the front is this dog here.
This is the King. I built an entire Empire with this dog right here.
He's also the Hulk’s grandfather.
And he actually, actually he is right here.
So that right there is the king.
King on his bed.
We bred Mia to General and they created Gianna.
Mia, Mia chill. Come on. Come on.
These two dogs produced Gianna who is Hulk’s mother.
So these are Hulk’s grandparents right here that you're looking at.
Okay, that's actually where Ghostface comes into play.
Ghostface I bought from a different kennel just to bring length in.
I knew that I put enough girth in Gianna
to where you know she is wide like a truck.
So any dog that I bred to her that was tall,
they were going to meet somewhere in the middle.
So that's where Ghostface came into play and
essentially that's where Hulk came from.
You take these two dogs, you put them together - Ghostface and Gianna -
and you get Hulk. We know this guy.
This is Hulk when he was first born.
Gianna looking in the background like what you doing with my baby.
You see me with no moustache, little young looking fellow.
They all have you know relation then so if you go back to it.
So if General is Hulk’s grandfather, Zion is a son of General.
We got Blade right here.
Blade is the son of Zion so there's relation there.
Sossa comes from kind of a special situation.
His father Blade was shot somewhere off my property
and Blade bred to his mom the day like
the day before he got shot.
I just got I got really lucky this time.
You know, obviously you can see that there's one key dog that is not up here.
He was here before in the middle of the hallway.
He's not there anymore.
Day before he passed away his, his painting fell on my stairs
that’s a true story. Ace was absolutely
the most amazing trained dog that I've ever seen in my life.
It's the same lines as Hulk. They’re cousins,
they have the same grandfather.
That is one in a million.
So over to Roxy about Roxanne,
And we bred Roxy and the Hulk we came up with Dynasty and Hercules.
That’s where they came from.
I then bred Roxy and Hulk a second time,
and I sold the dog, a dog named Magneto.
And what happened was I ended up getting Minaj from them,
because she is actually in the pedigree. So she literally is related to like,
everybody around here, Roxy included.
I did a breeding with Hulk to a dog named Cleopatra,
and that's where Kobe came from.
So basically the females just don't get the ***** credit they deserve. They just don't.
I’ve had Stella since she was eight weeks old.
She does this funny thing where she smiles at you.
Scares some people but it's, it's adorable.
So one of Kong’s great features, he's like his mom Stella.
He just has this amazing cheese grin, he smiles.
If I had teeth like that, I'd smile like that too.
Kong is Hulk’s son. They have kind of a special relationship,
they really like to roll around and, you know, just being kind of big guys together.
You know, I've lived with these dogs for 15-16 years
and just it was a meticulous project, you know, to get to
where we are, you know, a legacy that will live forever.
Legacy is massive, you know, it’s what you leave when you’re gone.
We've built a fine legacy so far,
I think the dogs speak for themselves.