Tia

Beloved Tia is shown below: our foundation; dam to Pirate, Picabo, Fanny, Guidon & Maud, granddam & greatgranddam to other certified/titled produce (and their many great pet littermates!).

Above Tia at 12 wks & below as a young Champion.

Above Tia with offspring (ALL titled) & below as Ch/CD & in whelp.

Above with Fanny as a newborn & below her beautiful (if faded) face as an older Veteran.

She gave me eleven years and eleven months of joy, happiness and good luck, nevermind she gave me a 1000 firsts, bests and lasts, along with a cornucopia of talented offspring; now four generations worth of joy to many. Never ill a day in her life and bothered by no health issues but a little arthritis those last few winter months, we said goodbye to her when her years finally began to weigh heavily on her. Dam (or granddam) of the dogs listed below, CH/CD Tia was Specialty major ptd. from the puppy classes & also won various Best Puppy & Sweeps awards before she was a year old.

She started out by winning with me on the lead her first time in the ring as a baby in the 6-9 mo. at a Specialty (under Dr. Sophia no less), and went on to go WB or RWB all that weekend. She also went BOS Sweeps that day to a dog of Lorraine Rainwaters (Mr.) who I believe finished that day. She then went to the big Tucson Specialty and proceeded to "repeat that feat" going WB, Best Puppy and BOS in Sweeps at 9 mo. for a major win with Dick and Cathy Schaefer helping me get oriented. Jill Ferrara's Woody was the WD that needed to cross over to finish, and Jill was gracious enough to thank me after I handled my in-season<G>baby in Breed. I handled her mostly to the rest of her wins and she finished at Kachina while one of my mentor's bitches (the Zarlin's Pepper) went breed and into the Group that same day. So many wonderful memories!

At home she was working to become that dual-ring dog I envisioned as the basis of my working Dane kennel. Tia was a certified, working TDI Therapy Dog as of her first birthday, an AKC breed (conformation) Champion before her second birthday, and finished her Companion Dog (obedience) title in three entries, with three first places, ending with a 195 & highest scoring Working Dog for a Group win, and was ranked in the Top Ten Danes for Obedience for nearly two years. She received the honor of the Versatility Award from the GDCA in 1998. She became a coveted Venerable Dane in 2005. She worked most all her life, showing into her veteran years, as well as keeping up her therapy dog activities alongside her children and grandchildren. She was the benevolent dictator of the ChromaDane pack for more than a decade. Tia was moreover a typical dane: wonderful with people of all ages & kind to all animals.

She was bred twice, both times to Champion Harlequin males, and produced from both multiple titled offspring including two Specialty Best in Show Champions, a Hall of Fame son, a Utility Titled son (now working on his UDX!), multiple specialty High In Trial offspring, and several kids and grandkids who have achieve breed firsts of various kinds. We're happy to add she was not only OFA hip clear & thyroid normal (at 10 years, 10 months!), but OFA Cardiac clear (and tested as a veteran). All her children (grandchildren, etc.) of ours (see below) also are CHIC-certified: they are tested (& cleared normal) for hip, heart, thyroid & eyes; & all are titled as well. Tia is a Fraser daughter from a major-pointed Rox/Sugar daughter: BISS CH Fraser of Michaeldane N'CO x Michaeldane JayBee Rox Ann Dgn. Tia was bred by Jodie Keim, Michael Chiles & Trudy Muller. We are forever grateful for the Great Dane they entrusted us with in selling us Tia! I came from Europe in 1991 with no Danes of my own but big dreams for what my own Danes would look and act like. Thanks to great bitches like Tia and being able to stand on the shoulders of giants in this breed, I've been able to make myself a start at what mattered so much to me, to produce a heirloom kennel of working style Danes: Danes that are structurally secure, mentally able & correct in type; Danes that can endure, oblige & look beautiful while doing it.

Let Fate do her worst;
there are relics of joy,
Bright dreams of the past,
which she cannot destroy;
Which come in the night-time
of sorrow and care,
And bring back the features
that joy used to wear.

Long, long be my heart
with such memories filled,
Like the vase in which roses
have once been distilled.
You may break,
you may shatter the vase
if you will,
But the scent of the roses
will hang round it still.

(Thomas Moore: The Scent Of The Rose)

Tia is: Versatility Award winning, Venerable Dane CH Michaeldane JB Advent, CD, CGC, TDI, GDCA-VA

02-04-95 to 01-02-07

Dam of these titled/certified Harlequins:

HOF (Hall of Fame) Group Winning, BISS Ch. CHROMA Thief of Hearts, CD, RA, OA, AXJ, OJC, NAC, TDIA, CGC, GDCA-VA, aka Pirate: winner also of the first Dane "Champions Of Health" Award from OFA & The Canine Health Foundation

CHROMA Trompe L'oeil, CD, RN, OA, NAJ, NJP, O-NAC, NJC, TDIA, CGC, aka Picabo: nomiated for the AKC Award of Canine Excellence (ACE) in the therapy category & titled in part by a junior handler

sp-HIT CHROMA Forever Mardi Gras, CDX, CGC, TDI, aka Fanny: not only Open titled & gaining a High In Trial with novice handler, but the star of TV commercials

(9 years old; sired by Venerable Dane, Versatility Award winning Ch. Amherst-Davisdane Roadrunner CD, CGC)


BISS Ch. CHROMA Maid to Order, CGC, TDI, aka
Maud: Specialty Best In Show winner from the classes, and California's Iron Dog Camp FreeStyle Champion

sp-HIT CHROMA Pride of the Regiment, UDX, TDIA-OV, CGC, RCV, aka Guidon: nomiated for the AKC Award of Canine Excellence (ACE) in the therapy category & one of less than a dozen (only 2 male) Danes with a UDX

(8 years old; sired by AOM BISS Ch. Michldn JB Dgn MT Pockets Ntl)

Grand-dam of these titled/pointed/certified Harl-family Danes:

Ch. CHROMA A Kiss for Luck, CD, CGC, TDI

CHROMA-Orion of the Red Bluff, CDX, RE, AXJ, NA, OF, NAC, NJC, NGC, SJ, SR, HIC, CGC (USDAA (Agility 2006 Qualifier, 2007 DOCNA Finalist, 2007 AKC Agility Invitational qualifier, 2007NADAC #1 Dane, & owns at least 2 breed "1sts")

CHROMA Three Times Charmed, TD, RN, RL1, MJ, CGC, TT, TDinc.

(Nation's #1 Dock-Diving Dane and Master titled.)

Nat'l Speciatly HIT CHROMA Gamble N Rose, UD, RE, CGC, TDI

CHROMA Chemin de Fer, CGC (ptd)

(above are veterans in 2008: whelped by our Tia daughter Picabo from her only litter)

CH CLRWKS Spotaneous Combustion

WhtShadow CHROMA Kaleidoscope, RN, TDI, CGC (also ptd)

SR CHROMA X-Quiz-It Druidess, CDX, RE, AX, AXJ, NF

(Qualifier for the 2007 AKC Agility Invitation & #3 Dane nationwide.)

National Specialty HIT SR CHROMA Druid Shaymus, CDX, RE, AX, AXJ, NF

sp-HIT SR CHROMA Druidess Joker, CDX, RE, AX, AXJ, NF

Jattilaisen Hyacint Hebe (FIN "WB" & Res Cert Puppy)

(sired by our Tia son Pirate with less than six litters on the ground)

CHROMA Normandy Invasion, RN, CGC

CHROMA WHD Allons! TDI CGC

(sired by our Tia son Guidon from his only litter to date)

....and Great Granddam to the following young stock:

BISW CHROMA Passionate Kisses v Granite, RN

CHROMA Walking on the Sun, RN, NAJ, NF, NJC, CGC, HIC (ptd)

CHROMA Turn The Page at Granite, CGC (both majors)

CHROMA T'anks For the Memories v Granite, RN, CGC

CHROMA Rock The Casbah v Granite, RN, TDI, CGC

(above are young pups still from our Picabo daughter Frenchie)

Tia is also multiple health-certified and the producer of multiple CHIC health-certified get. All the above adults that have been bred are CHIC'd.


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