***  PLEASE DO NOT REQUEST US AS A PAL IF YOU ARE "WANTING A MATE TO BREED"***

WE DO NOT AGREE WITH CARELESS/BACKYARD BREEDING.  THAT MEANS IF YOU ARE NOT PROVING YOUR DOGS (THROUGH SHOWING OR PERFORMANCE EVENTS) THEN YOU SHOULD NOT BE BREEDING THEM.  IT ALSO MEANS IF YOU HAVE A MIXED BREED (EVEN DESIGNER BREEDS...ha ha ha) IT SHOULD BE NEUTERED AND CERTAINLY NOT BRED.

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Gus's daddy was a harlequin great dane.  His mother was a redbone coonhound.  He is an interesting mix of the two breeds.  He barks like a coonhound but is big like a dane.  His head looks like a dane but with longer, houndier ears.  Gus was born in a barn litterally! : ) He was the product of an irresponsible farmer's intact dogs left to do as they please until Gus's father ( who also had epilepsy but obviously wasn't neutered ) was allowed to run at large and ran out in front of a milk truck. No more dane mixes "free to a good home" in the paper. Yea!  Gus does not have a mean bone in his body.  I have seen Gus get attacked by a shorthair and he laid down and took it, didn't even curl a lip or try to defend himself.

He is also epileptic, has been since he was about 16 months old.  He takes phenobarbitol and potassium bromide to control his seizures.

Ripley is a harlequin great dane.  He came from a breeder in AZ that loves her dogs but shouldn't breed them.  Unfortunately LOVE IS NOT ENOUGH!!! There were 5 pups in Rip's litter and only two lived.  Those two turned out to be monsters.  Neither likes people or other animals.  Rip's temperment problems are GENETIC!  Please, leave the breeding to the experts.  The people who devote their lives to making better examples of the breed.  Just because you have a dog and it is intact DOES NOT MEAN YOU SHOULD BREED IT!!! You want to breed?  PROVE YOUR DOGS FRIST!!!

Ripley is lucky in that he ended up with a dog trainer and someone who understands him and his problems and is careful not to let him out to bite people.

ILP# Ben's exceptin to the rule

McKenze was given to us as a present- yet another bad idea!!! Don't give animals as gifts!

She was the last of her litter, lucky for us.  She is a GREAT rottweiler.  She LOVES the water and will dive under it.  She holds her breath!  She loves to play fetch and knows a lot of different commands.

Lilly is a merle Great Dane with cropped ears.  She and her brother Nigel were born at home.  Lilly is a real pleaser.  She stays close and tries her hardest not to get into trouble.  This past October Lilly earned her CD title from the AKC.  She finished with three first place scores.  We are proud of Lilly.

Charlotte came to us from a hoarder in NE.  She was underweight and hadn't been spayed or any shots.  She has issues like eating carpet, eating her way out of crates, destroying things that do not belong to her.....

We love her anyway.  She is funny, and not just looking.  She is an off color because her "breeder" has no respect for the breed standard. If you don't know what you are doing, leave the breeding to the experts... Charlotte is OF COURSE spayed.

Eine (pronounced INA) came to us from a wonderful friend.  She also happens to show and breed some of the BEST blues and blacks in the country, maybe even the world!  Eine is almost three and is a blue with croped ears.  So far she hasn't had any puppies but depending on how her show career goes, who knows?  She is beautiful inside and out, her temperment is stellar and her conformation is excellent!  Let's not forget that temperment is GENETIC!!!!!