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.

02-04-1995 to 01-02-2007

Dam of these titled/certified Harlequins:

GDCA HOF (Hall of Fame), VA (Versatility) & Venerable Dane, Group Winning & BISS Champion CHROMA Thief of Hearts, CD, RA, OA, AXJ, OJC, NAC, TDIA, CGC, 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 (Lived into double digits: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 (Lived into double digits; 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 aka Frenchie: Owner-handled to her Championship in New England competition. CHROMA-Orion of the Red Bluff, CDX, RE, AXJ, NA, OF, NAC, NJC, NGC, SJ, SR, HIC, CGC aka ORION: USDAAAgility 2006 Qualifier, 2007 DOCNA Finalist, 2007 & 2008 AKC Agility Invitational qualifier, 2007NADAC #1 Dane, & owns at least 2 other breed "Firsts". CHROMA Three Times Charmed, TD, RN, RL1, MJ, CGC, TT, TDinc. aka Charm: the nation's #1 Dock-Diving Dane, only one Master titled & tracking titled as well Nat'l Speciatly HIT & all-bred HC CHROMA Gamble N Rose, UD, RE, CGC, TDI aka Rose: OTCH ptd & twice a qualifier for the AKC Invitational, always ranked on obedience. CHROMA Chemin de Fer, CGC (ptd) aka Jewel *(above were veterans in 2008: whelped by our Tia daughter Picabo from her only litter)*

Ch. Mercerwood's CHROMA Tiramisu, TDI, CGC aka Suzi: finished in 3 months with 3 Specialty majors before she was two yrs old. Working Therapy Dane. Ch. CLRWKS Spotaneous Combustion aka Lady Bug: owner-handled to her AKC Championship and a UKC Best In Show Dane. SR CHROMA X-Quiz-It Druidess, CDX, RE, AX, AXJ, OF, aka Quizzy: qualifier for the 2007, 2008, 2009 & 2010 AKC Agility Invitational & #1-2 Dane nationwide. National Specialty HIT SR CHROMA Druid Shaymus, CDX, RE, AX, AXJ, OF aka Shaymus: qualifier for the 2008, 2009 & 2010 AKC Agility Invitational & ranked for 4 years in agility & obedience. sp-HIT SR CHROMA Druidess Joker, CDX, RE, AX, AXJ, OF, aka Joker: another of the Catasticks ranked for 4 years in agility & obedience & qualifier for the 2009 & 2010 AKC Agility Invitational Clrwks Mixed Media, RN (CHIC sire with titled get) aka Ryu. WhtShadow CHROMA Kaleidoscope, RN, TDI, CGC (also ptd) aka Kalei FINCH Jattilaisen Hyacint Hebe aka Siinti **(above sired by our Tia son Pirate with just six litters on the ground)** CHROMA Normandy Invasion, CD, RAE, CGC, aka Martine: youngest ever rally titled Dane & 2008 GDCA National "highest scoring Harlequin" to complete her CD all breed High In Trial CHROMA WHD Allons!, UD, TDI,CGC, aka Dare: one of the rare all-breed High in Trial Danes, scoring consistently 194 or better CHROMA Swift & Sure, CGC ***(above sired by our Pirate & Picabo's 1/2 brother Guidon)***

Look to "OUR DOGS" to see grand-get, etc. of our Tia.

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

Tia 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--I will always be grateful. jpY

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