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Bernese Mountain Dogs - Retired Dogs

The following dogs have been retired from our breeding and show program. Please feel free to contact us by e-mail or by phone.

Males:   Females:
AM. CH. Kadoo's Gannon v Santera   Santera Diva's Fired Up
AM. CH. Santera Kobi v Crest   Santera Pipit v Crest
Santera Charo v Crest   Santera Element of Surprise
  Santera Kyrie’s Prelude
    Santera Mikaluck v Crest
    Santera Sennianna v Crest
    Santera Arctic Tearose
    Santera Tavia’s Cadenza

 

AM. CH. Kadoo's Gannon v Santera

 

AM. CH. Kadoo’s Gannon v Santera - Gannon, came from Kathy Donohew and her Swiss import Benno and CH. Dallybeck’s K Swiss. I had seen the first breeding of Gannon’s parents and thought that a puppy from the second breeding might be beneficial to our girls. Gannon did give us two of our best when bred to Santera Tob Melody Noel (Sequoia ex Harmony daughter) and Santera Changing Tempo (AM. CH. Deli Standing Ovation daughter ex Harmony). The girls from those litters that we have here that have done well for us are CH. Santera Punkianna v Crest who finished at 15 months and CH. Santera Lucka v Crest who finished at 18 months (finished in 6 weeks). Both girls are OFA certified hips/elbows and CERFed as was Gannon. Gannon was a standard size boy who was very sound with a great temperament. After finishing him and using him on our girls, we had few females left to breed him to. Visitors who came to our kennel who had just lost a dog very much like him wanted him as their house dog so we let him go when he was a little over four years of age. He is still doing fine as an only dog in his own home. 
   

AM. CH. Santera Kobi v Crest

 

AM. CH. Santera Kobi v Crest - Kobi, is one of Remi's offspring out of Bounder. He has an outstanding temperament. Before he was two he was shown very sparingly, but did accumulate several major reserves and several points. Shortly after his second birthday we started showing him more frequently. He picked up 4 majors within a 6 weeks period and finished his championship in style. Kobi is GDC good hips/elbows, CERFed, and vWD clear. His brother, Santera's Millennium Bordeaux, and his sister Santera Evening Masquerade, are also both pointed.
   

Santera Charo v Crest

Santera Charo v Crest - Charo is one of our Cherub’s sons out of our Phoenix daughter, Jolie. He has a lovely head with a nice dark eye and excellent markings. He is an easy going boy and easy to be around. We did not take him to his first show till he was 28 months old as we were just too busy with some of the other boys. At his first weekend out he ended up with a 5 point major reserve. He has OFA Good hips, elbows are 0/1, eyes are CERFed, and he is genetically clear of vWD. He and Tavi, half brothers, have much in common in type.

 

 

Santera Diva's Fired Up

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. 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 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 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 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 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.
   

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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.
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