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 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 Zevaluck v Crest	Santera Zevaluck v Crest - Zeva is the only offspring we have here out of our lovely Mika ( our Lucka daughter). She is a very sound girl with OFA Good hips and clear elbows. She is genetically clear of vWD and her eyes have been CERFed. She has also been DM tested and came back Normal. She is a lovely moving girl and can carry a nice coat. She is a sweet girl but has not been shown. She was slow to mature and then I am not able to get her out due to my health issues. We are excited that she was bred to Ch. Lewa's Old Dan Tucker and is due to whelp her first litter in the late fall of 2011.

Santera Alexandra Cascade	Santera Alexandra Cascade - Our Cassidy was born in 2009. She is the younger sister of our Jettee. She is marked well and very sound in movement and balance. She is OFA Good with clear elbows. She is genetically clear of vWD by parentage and has had her eyes CERFed. Both her parents, Santera Northern Turina and Yadigar av Milkcreek, were DM tested and came back Normal. We hope to breed Cassidy in the fall of 2011.