Santera Kennel - Bernese Mountain Dog Breeding Program

Bernese Mountain Dogs - Females

We tend to grow out some of our puppies that we feel have potential for breeding or showing. Sometimes we do not get all the girls out to show although they may have qualities that we hope they can contribute to our breeding program. Our girls, like our males, also have their hips/elbows x-rayed, have their eyes checked, and are genetically clear of vWD.

Sometimes after breeding a female once we may decide not to breed her again as we found that she had a hard time delivering pups, or just did not produce what we were hoping she might produce.

We have had some outstanding mothers here who have produced some great longevity, type, and super personalities. If I were to go back into the history of our dogs, I would state that our AM. CH. Santera Chastity v Bev’s produced some very nice dogs. She was a BMDCA top producer. Her granddaughter, AM. CH. Santera Harmony v Crest, also was a very good producer but she had very small litters and never had but a few males. Harmony’s daughters, Santera Tob Melody Noel, and Santera Changing Tempo were the next ones that gave us a lot of quality with both longevity and type. I ended up placing Melody on a co-ownership as a puppy so only got a few offspring here from her.

One of Melody’s contributions to our breeding program was our AM. CH. Santera Punkianna v Crest. Punky was the dam of our Santera Exclusive Premiere who gave us some very nice females. Santera Changing Tempo, Tempi, gave us our Santera Ria Remembrance (Remi) producer. Remi’s pups were not only typey but had super personalities. They were very people orientated and loved to be around their owners.

In the younger girls we have here now I would say that I have been very pleased with the offspring of our Santera Kyrie’s Prelude, Kyrie, a granddaughter of Remi. Most of Kyrie’s offspring are still young but she has produced well even though we have used different studs with her. Tavi is one of her oldest offspring.

We have several young females here that have not been bred or only bred once so what they produce in the long run is still to be determined. If the girls do not produce good healthy dogs, we do not continue to use them in our breeding program.


Santera Token of Providence	Santera Token of Providence is better know to us as “Petals,” Petals is a granddaughter of our Punky/Bounder breeding. Her dam, Patience, is a full sister to our Pipit. Patience was co-owned with John & Gloria Woodson who also co-owned Punky’s dam with us. She was bred to a full brother of AM. CH. Hayfield’s Grand Gardens Will, and produced Petal’s litter. Petals was such a lovely puppy we took her home to Santera with us. She continues to be a very sound and pretty girl although she is on the smaller side like her dam and Pipit. She is one of the sweetest girls we have here. She is OFA good hips/elbows normal, vWD genetically clear and eyes are CERFed.

Santera Kenzee Wind Harp	Santera Kenzee Wind Harp - Kenzee is a sweet girl with lovely movement and temperament. Her first and only show so far was the Potomac Valley Bernese Mountain Dog Club where she placed out of a class of 15. Kenzee is 11 months in her photo.

Santera Carolina MTN Trillium	Santera Carolina MTN Trillium – Ashlee’s mother is out of our AM. CH. Always An Angel and Santera Flamin’ Flare v Crest, a niece to our AM. CH. Santera Santos v Crest. She is a very balanced and lovely girl who is about a month younger than Addy (b. 7/07). We named her Ashlee as we had to drive through Asheville, NC, to pick her up. She has well received also under a number of judges. In her first show at 6 months she won the Sweepstakes class of 12 under breeder Sharon Groves. At 9mo. she won WB for her first point. At her next show at 11 month she won another point and a reserve the following day. She has a OFA good on her prelims with normal elbows. She is a well behaved young girl and we hope to have some fun with her as she grows up.

Santera Northen Turina	Santera Northen Turina, better know to us as Turina, is a very lovely young girl who was born in Dec. 2005. She has OFA good hips/normal elbows and is genetically clear of vWD and has her eyes CERFed..We have not shown Turina as she has white socks and runners up the inside of her front legs but she is a very pretty girl with beautiful movement, nice coat, and a very nice head. We hope she can add to our gene pool here with her pedigree and soundness in both structure and temperament.

Santera Tango v Brightwater	Santera Tango v Brightwater who is better know to all her friends as Kayla is from Georgeann and Bob Reeve’s Kennel. Her sire is our AM. CH. Santera Original Kahill and her dam, AM. CH. Aquabi’s Dancer of Doriath, is a daughter of AM. CH. Lowenzehn’s Reason To Believe. Kayla was shown once as a puppy but she was slow to mature. She has all her clearances (OFA hips good/elbows normal, vWD genetically clear by parentage and CERF). She was just brought out to show for the PVBMDC Match and ended up with Best Adult in Match.

Santera Zevaluck v Crest	Santera Zevaluck v Crest - Zeva is a daughter of our Yadi and Mika. She was born in the spring of 2007 and the only female in the litter. As a young puppy she was full of life and quite bouncy but she has matured into a very loving and sweet girl. She enjoys life and has a temperament much like her mom and her grandmother, AM. CH. Santera Lucka v Crest. It is interesting also that both Mika and Lucka were the only females in their litters. She has been OFA certified OFA good hips/clear elbows, CERFed and she is genetically clear of vWD by parentage.