AM. CH. Santera Original Kahill - Kahill was shown a few times when he was 16 months old and picked up a few points.  Then he lost his puppy coat and we put him away for a year.  When we brought him out at 2.5 years, we found that he did not like to show in the hot summer.  We thought we would wait for fall, but by that time he was out of coat.  We found we were limited to showing him in the springtime.  We picked up all of his points except for one major showing in very few shows each year.  We often traveled to the Nationals in the springtime which often took place during our local shows so there were no shows for him.  Finally, in July 2007, I decided I was just going to retire him lacking one major.  In the fall of 2008, with Kahill being 6 years and 9 months, I looked at him in the backyard and said to myself that he really looked good. It was fall and he had coat and it was cooler. I entered him in 2 shows and on the final day he went Winners Dog for a 4 point major.  Needless to say that made our day!

Kahill has 3 champion sons from one litter. In that litter there were 5 dogs x-rayed and all passed their hips and elbows.  In another litter from which Kayla came from, three were x-rayed and passed hips and elbows. One of those is working well in obedience with titles, another has a Canadian Championship and is pointed now in the states, and the third, Kayla, was slow to mature but in her second outing went BEST ADULT in at the Potomac Valley Bernese Mt. Dog Club sanctioned match in the fall of 2008.  I also bred him to Tia and got Turina who has hips/elbows that are good and normal. He seems to be strong in throwing good orthopedics. He has been tested normal for vWD by VET Gen and has had his eyes CERFed.