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.

Santera Diva’s Fired Up who is another granddaughter of both Remi and Punky has only been bred once but we are very pleased with her pups also. Diva has both her majors but due to her chewing wood she has lost front teeth and can no longer be shown.

Santera Arctic Tearose is another young female we have here who is an outcross but a granddaughter of our Punky has given us some lovely pups. Her pups are still young but show a lot of potential.

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 Kyrie’s Prelude	Santera Kyrie’s Prelude - Kyrie has given us some very lovely pups. She is one of our taller females with a great personality. She is one of our Phoenix daughters that has continued to produce some typey and sound babies for us. She is the dam of Tavi and Yoni. Yoni was born in June of 2005 so we are having fun watching him grow up.

Santera Mikaluck v Crest	Santera Mikaluck v Crest - Mika is a lovely young female who has the size her dam, Lucka, lacked. She is a sweet as her parents and loves to go to the shows so she can jump into everyone's lap. Mika won Best Puppy at the Potomac Valley Bernese Specialty Match at 7 months and went on to take Best Berner in Match. She was shown on a limited basis from the 6-9 mo. puppy class and ended up with a number of class wins over competition and a Reserve to a major. She will be out and about more as she grows up but we are very pleased with this sweet young girl.

Santera Diva's Fired Up	Santera Diva's Fired Up - Diva goes back to our oldest section of our pedigree. She is a Phoenix daughter and her dam is a sister to Santos who is a granddaughter of our Ariel. Ariel was the first Berner we linebred. She was linebred to our AM. CH. Santera Rio Grando v Crest and his sister Fiery. Diva is just beginning her show career. She was a year old in Feb. 2003. She has a good preliminary rating on her hips/elbows and is genetically clear of vWD. We hope to have a lot of fun with her. She is one of our favorites.

Santera Pipit v Crest	Santera Pipit v Crest - Pipit is a true daughter of her mother, Punky and her sire, Bounder. She loves life and is quite a happy girl. She carries a lovely coat and has a lot of body even though she is not a big female. She has a GDC Excellent on her hips with clear elbows. She is CERFed and vWD genetically clear.

Santera Sennianna v Crest	Santera Sennianna v Crest - Senna is a very sound typey female. She is a beautiful mover with great angles front and rear and a lovely personality. She is OFA Good with clear elbows, eyes have been CERFed, and she is genetically clear of vWD disease.

Santera Arctic Tearose	Santera Arctic Tearose - Tia, our little rose from AM. CH. Arctic Rose av Milkcreek, was taken from the Sunshine Kennel as a stud puppy. Rose is special to us as she stopped here on her way to CA from Norway when she was a puppy of 12 weeks. Her sire is our Santera Special Contender, better known to us as Tenny. We went to California to pick Tia up and brought her home in a Sherpa bag. She was a perfect angel the entire trip. She was so quiet the entire trip that no one knew we had her with us. It was a long trip from CA to MD but she did great. Tia looks much like her sire but has a little more of her mother’s attitude. She loves people and enjoys life. She is OFA good hips/normal elbows and has had her eyes CERFed and is genetically clear of vWD. In her first litter Tia proved to be a fantastic mom. She took great care of her litter. It will be fun to watch them grow up. She is proud of her brother, Ch. Sunshines Arctic Star (Hunter) who finished his championship before his second brother. Her dam also went Best Brood Bitch at the 2006 BMDCA National Specialty out of a class of 15. We are all very proud of both Rose and Hunter.

Santera Element of Surprise	Santera Element of Surprise - Meadow is out of one of Flare’s (Santera Flamin’ Flare - a sister to AM. CH. Santera Santos v Crest) last litters. She is a half sister to Diva who is also out of Flare (who will be 10yrs. old on 12/06). She was shown when she was young for a short time and does have a few points. She is OFA good/elbows clear, CERFed, and vWD genetically clear. She has an excellent temperament and is an exceptionally beautiful mover. If I had time to do more training with her, she would be an excellent candidate for agility and obedience.

Santera Oh Mercy Me	Santera Oh Mercy Me - Mercy’s was one of 18 pups born in one litter, all naturally. Seventeen of the pups were raised from Mercy’s dam, Santera Evening Masquerade, with the help of her owner, Sherry Von Engel. We named Mercy the way we did because this is the comment we thought Mercy’s mom might have said if she could have talked after looking at allllll of those puppies. Mercy is a sweet tempered dog. She is a smaller girl only weighing about 75 pounds. She has a lovely head and great markings. Her coat is full and she has nice angles front and rear. She has a OFA good on her hips and a 1/1 on her elbows. She has been registered with CERF and is genetically clear of vWD.

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 Tavia’s Cadenza	Santera Tavia’s Cadenza - Addy, born in 7/07, is a lovely young female with great attitude, structure and movement. She is a good representation of both her parents, Tavi and Tia. Addy has proved that she is a special little girl shown to the right judges. She took 2nd out of 12 in her first show in sweeps under breeder Sharon Groves. She went to the National and even though she was not totally trained went 4th out of 15 in Futurity under breeder/handler Jennie West. At 10 months we put her in handling classes so we could get ready to show her again. She is a super girl in a small package with a lot of attitude.

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. 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.