The Hidden Numbers at Balihara Ranch kennel

The Hidden Numbers

According to the Slovak Swiss Mountain Dog Club, Balihara Ranch has owned 161 adult Swiss Mountain Dogs. This number does not include other breeds it has bred or kept. Also, QAISER van’t Stokerybos is not even listed in the club’s records, so realistically, there may be many more dogs that Balihara Ranch has owned so far.

On its website, Balihara Ranch lists about 60 dogs in total. This is approximately 100 dogs less than it has actually owned so far. The discrepancy raises questions about the transparency of Balihara Ranch’s operations. It appears that the owner of Balihara Ranch purposely conceals over 100 Swiss Mountain Dogs from its website, possibly to avoid the impression of running a large-scale dog factory with probably huge tax evasion in addition to the suffering of the dogs. Not to mention the concealment of the breeding of other breeds that the owner of Balihara Ranch is involved in. Terriers, for example.

Breed Statistics

Balihara Ranch’s Swiss Mountain Dogs owned so far are divided into four breeds:

Appenzeller Mountain Dogs: 17 dogs (5 males and 12 females)

Entlebucher Mountain Dogs: 37 dogs (7 males and 30 females)

Bernese Mountain Dogs: 45 dogs (8 males and 37 females)

Greater Swiss Mountain Dogs: 62 dogs (14 males and 48 females)

Growth Over Time

Thirty dogs owned by Balihara Ranch do not have noted their date of birth on the Slovak Swiss Mountain Dog Club website; we found that these are the oldest dogs in Balihara Ranch.

Balihara Ranch’s most significant growth was recorded from 2007 when Balihara Ranch bred 126 puppies of Swiss Mountain Dogs that year. We will analyze the litters in a future post. From 2007 to 2022 (the year 2022 is still incomplete – dogs may appear on the breeding evaluation in 2024 and later), Balihara Ranch has adopted or kept from its litters a total of 110 dogs (87 females), which means that its breeding grows on average by almost 7 dogs per year. The most with a birth date of 2021 – namely 12 dogs (10 of which are females). This means that we can expect even more puppies to be bred at Balihara Ranch than before.

Breeding Focus

The Greater Swiss Mountain Dogs, which Balihara Ranch has kept/acquired since 2007, are the main focus for Balihara Ranch, with a total of 43 (33 females). This is followed by Bernese Mountain Dogs – 29 (24 females) and Entlebucher Mountain Dogs – 29 (23 females). Appenzellers – 9 (7 females) – are the least of its interest. Especially in the last years, Balihara Ranch has kept Entlebuchers, so we can expect an increased production of these puppies.

Lifespan and Breeding Practices

The average lifespan of the four breeds of Swiss Mountain Dogs varies. Bernese Mountain Dogs live the shortest, around 8 years, while the Greater Swiss Mountain Dogs live over 10 years, and Entlebucher and Appenzeller live 12-14 years. If Balihara Ranch’s dogs live to at least the average age, it should routinely have over 70 dogs in its backyard.

Conclusion

These numbers, unimaginable to a normal person, show that Balihara Ranch kennel is a factory with a huge number of dogs to produce a huge number of puppies. Dogs are obviously only a means to breed. They are only an investment that must be returned by breeding without restraint. However, it is striking that many kennels are willing to sell their puppies to this factory. This raises serious ethical concerns about the welfare of the dogs and the integrity of the breeding industry. The question remains: what happens to the dogs at Balihara Ranch after the breeding season is over? This is a question that demands an answer, for the sake of the dogs and for the integrity of the breeding industry.

When the Same Pairings Are Repeated to Exhaustion: What the Numbers Reveal About Breeding at Balihara Ranch

by Balihara Ranch Review | Nov 27, 2025

Publicly available records through 2023 show that at Balihara Ranch, identical parental combinations were repeated as many as four, six, or even eight times, producing dozens of puppies from a single pairing. Such a degree of repetition is not standard in conventional breeding practice and raises questions about where selective breeding ends and systematic multiplication begins.

When the System Stops Protecting Dogs: The Blind Spots in the FCI System and Breed Clubs That Enable Extreme-Scale Breeding (Part II)

by Balihara Ranch Review | Nov 20, 2025

In the first part, we showed where the system fails in the field — in limits, inspections, and exports. This second part uncovers something even more serious: club-level exceptions, conflicts of interest, and lax oversight by the Slovak Cynological Union (SKJ), all of which have allowed kennels like Balihara Ranch to grow to a scale that today’s mechanisms can no longer effectively regulate.

When the System Stops Protecting Dogs:The Blind Spots in the FCI System and Breed Clubs That Enable Extreme-Scale Breeding (Part I)

by Balihara Ranch Review | Nov 13, 2025

Current rules of the FCI and breed clubs contain fundamental blind spots: no limits on litters, no meaningful welfare inspections and weak oversight of exports. These gaps create the conditions in which extreme-scale kennels can thrive. And the only way to stop them is to change the system itself — not to address individual cases, such as the Balihara Ranch kennel, only after they grow beyond what today’s club and legislative mechanisms are capable of handling.

When One Breeder Needs Two Breeding Advisors: An Unusual Decision of the Slovak Club of Swiss Mountain Dogs That Reveals More Than It First Appears

by Balihara Ranch Review | Nov 6, 2025

The Slovak Club of Swiss Mountain Dogs has published an exceptional detail: two breeding advisors assigned to the owner of the Balihara Ranch kennel — the only such case in the entire system. This rare exception signals that behind the polished façade of the kennel may conceal a far greater scale of breeding activity and administrative workload than the public typically imagines.

Beautiful Dogs, Cruel System: When Breeding Turns Into Production

by Balihara Ranch Review | Oct 30, 2025

Balihara Ranch – nearly 3,000 puppies in thirty years. Not passion, but a system. Not breeding, but production. Beautiful dogs. Cruel rhythm. And a price we choose not to see.

When Facts Move Behind Closed Doors: How the Slovak Club of Swiss Mountain Dogs Locked Its Breeding Records After One Member’s Complaint

by Balihara Ranch Review | Oct 23, 2025

The Slovak Club of Swiss Mountain Dogs (SKSSP) has moved its breeding data behind closed doors after a complaint from the owner of Balihara Ranch Kennel. The data didn’t vanish — they were simply moved out of sight. Transparency has turned into a privilege, leaving honest breeders in the shadow of those who found facts inconvenient.