The index page of ChromaDane at the advent of the New Year showed Pirate & Maud romping in a rare Texas snow storm, photo also seen here:

He'll remain one of our favorite dogs forever.

We look to add a new Pirate daughter to our crew in 2010: look for Suzi aka Chroma Tiramisu to join us soon. Directly below is her brother, the Pirate son Ben: Scroll down to the Pirate x Mia breeding to see more on Suzi and her littermates.

HOF & BISS CHAMPION CHROMA THIEF OF HEARTS, CD, RA, OA, AXJ, OJC, NAC, TDIA, GDCA-VA, CGC. CHIC #: 13779 PIRATE IS A GDCA HALL OF FAME DANE & AFAWK STILL THE ONLY GREAT DANE TO EVER HAVE BEEN RANKED IN ALL AKC SPORTS! AND HE WAS CHOSEN by the CANINE HEALTH FOUNDATION as the FIRST GREAT DANE selected for the CHAMPION OF HEALTH AWARD --an OFA program to promote the "total purebred dog"! PIRATE was born fall of 1998 and lived 10+ healthy years (we lost him the end of 2008). He was heart normal at 10 years, thyroid normal as a veteran, and is a participant in the Canine Health Foundation's DNA Repository program: http://www.caninehealthinfo.org/dnabank.html

Bred sparingly he is producing offspring with outstanding structure & temperament & can offer those "lost" angles as well as a correct front, with balance of body & mind, a clean head & classic type. He has Champion offspring both in the USA & Europe, as well as offspring with *advanced* titles in all AKC dog sports (and more). Available as frozen on a private treaty contract, Pirate is pre-&-post collection lepto-free certified, rabies & brucellosis clear--for those discriminating internaltional breeding. ICSB frozen available (with vet recommendation) wordwide. Bitches must offer health screenings as well as quality, and a breeder commitment to the breed at large and puppy buyers in particular is naturally required.

SEE HIS PUPS! Links to his Litters:

CH MIA CH BEBE INNA Ms. BEAN CH JAYNE VICTORIA CAT CDX AX AXJ

TITLED OFFSPRING:

All Pirate's breeding offspring also have documented health checks as well as various titles.

BISS CH CHROMA THIEF OF HEARTS, CD, RA, OA, AXJ, OJC, NAC, TDIA, HOF, VA, CGC. CHIC #: 13779

BISS CH CHROMA THIEF OF HEARTS, CD, RA, OA, AXJ, OJC, NAC, TDIA, HOF, VA, CGC. CHIC #: 13779

Pirate is the epitome of "working type in black and white."

Pirate is a Group & Specialty winning Champion Harlequin Dog (exclusively breeder-owner handled)who is also obedience titled, mulitple-agility titled, rally titled & therapy titled. A Top 20 contender the year he finished, he's been ranked in the Top 10 in agility, obedience and rally, and AFAWK he's the only Dane to do all this. Pirate not only achieves, he excels! Always breeder-owner handled, he was competitive in every venue. CHIC program health tested too: hips, heart, thyroid and eyes normal; also chipped and DNA'd. Available to approved bitches of color upon consult. Pirate treaty breedings only. Live show-color is guaranteed. Discount to titled bitches. Producer of show-marked Harlequin, Mantle & Black: Irish "pure": not a piebald carrier.

RANKED in BREED, AGILITY, OBEDIENCE & RALLY--PIRATE is a TRUE TRIPLE THREAT! CHIC-certified, CHF "Health Champion," GDCA Hall of Fame, Venerable Dane & Versatility Award Winner, Obedience, Agility, Rally & Therapy-titled, Group Winning, Specialty Best In Show: CHAMPION CHROMA THIEF OF HEARTS, CD, RA, OA, AXJ, OJC, NAC, TDIA, GDCA-VA, CGC. CHIC #: 13779

LIMITED FROZEN SEMEN IS AVAILABLE TO SELECT BITCHES. CONTACT CHROMADANE.

COMING ATTRACTIONS & OTHER LITTER NEWS:

PIRATE's first linebred litter is here! While still waiting to use him on our own girls, at least finally we feel we can linebreed on our grand old man and foundation litter!	Click on their photo to learn more about these CDX, AX, AXJ + Danes: below are two of his linebred Futurity nominated get--click on their photos for their page........

PIRATE's BEST IN SHOW Finnish daughter CHAMPION JÄTTILÄISEN HYACINT

Visit Kati Nieminen's website here.

The AKC CH Pirate daughter "CH Colorworks Spotaneous Combustion" takes 3 majors from BBEX to finish! Jennifer Burns shown as owner-breeder and handler!

This is the only pup from Pirate to so far be shown in AKC conformation and she finished handily! Thank you Jennifer!

Lady Bug's brother RYU has his first litter on the ground--click on his photo below to see more.

CRLWRKS MIXED MEDIA aka "RYU". CHIC#44659 Click on his photo for more info.

PIRATE IS A HALL OF FAME INDUCTEE!

Here is a 4.5 mo. old Pirate granddaughter! Click on her photo for her own website. She's been out and in the ribbons with her owner-handler! NEW PHOTOS PENDING!

PIRATE aka OFA/CHF CHAMPION OF HEALTH, CHIC-certified, Obedience, Rally, Agility & Therapy-titled, GDCA HALL OF FAME, Venerable Dane & Versatility Award, GROUP WINNING, BISS Ch. CHROMA Thief of Hearts, CD, RA, OA, AXJ, OJC, NAC, TDIA, CGC. CHIC #: 13779

We say goodbye to this great dog: PIRATE Shown here at 10 years of age. Cick above for his memorial. Scroll for his history and accomplishments.

Pirate is a proven producer of show-marked Harlequins, Mantles _and_ Blacks. Semen ships with success. (He has produced a litter of more than 10 from a frozen/surgical on a veteran maiden bitch!) He has Champion offspring & get ranked in every AKC dog sport. Pirate is a GDCA Versatility Award winner, Venerable Dane, _and_ a Hall of Fame member. Multiple-agility titled, with both NADAC and AKC titles, he is also one of first four Danes _titled_ in animal-assisted therapy (his full sister is another of the four). Both his parents are also Venerable Danes (lived 10+ years) and Versatility Award winners. He ran with his favorite human in competitive 5 & 10K races until his pal was deployed to Iraq in 2007. Pirate is also CGC temperament tested, therapy titled, & an active TDI Therapy Dog volunteer. He continued to be trialed (was titled and nationally ranked) in rally & obedience as a veteran and still showed on occasion as a veteran as well, added in free style to his repertoire when 8, and used this new skill to to help entertain when working as a therapy dog.Bred sparingly & only after full adulthood and testing completed. The first litter's a performance-specific litter with multiple littermates achieving at the highest levels in multiple sports & are still working at veterans, he has other litters dual-bred with pointed/titled (including Champion) get. Look below on details of each. We have yet to be able to use him on our own bitches as we're too small a kennel to have enough "distance" yet, but the future plans for him will certainly focus on his use as a key figure at CHROMA. Collected first at 5 years for freezing he produced over 6 breeding units per collection, and his post thaw motility was 85%. Chilled arrives also 80%. Harvested at 9 years he produced 23 breeding pellets at 75% post-thaw, so he was fertile to the end. See more photos below of Pirate and his littermates, plus extended family shown below and/or on links.

Pirate shown above & below as a veteran (2006). Click on the photos to see more "moving" shots of Pirate and his relatives.

Pirate is a Group & Specialty winning Champion Harlequin Dog (exclusively breeder-owner handled)who is also obedience titled, mulitple-agility titled, rally titled & therapy titled. A Top 20 contender the year he finished, he's been ranked in the Top 10 in agility, obedience and rally, and AFAWK he's the only Dane to do all this. Pirate not only achieves, he excels! Now eight years old, he's still sound and showing succesfully. CHIC program health tested too: hips, heart, thyroid and eyes normal; also chipped and DNA'd. Available to approved bitches of color upon consult. Pirate treaty breedings only. Live show-color is guaranteed. Discount to titled bitches. Producer of show-marked Harlequin, Mantle & Black: not a piebald carrier.

THIS IS PIRATE doing Freestyle in the PARADES at the 2004 GDCA National Specialty. CLICK HERE TO SEE MORE ABOUT PIRATE's WORKING CAREER. PIRATE IS THE FIRST GREAT DANE "CHAMPION OF HEALTH"!

Pirate as an 8 year old veteran doing pet therapy at the local library above. Below Pirate in agility, an AKC Excellent Jumpers course. Pirate is a GDCA HALL OF FAME dog and a Versatility Award winner like his sire & dam from of family of dual-ring dogs. One sister is multiple agility titled & a superior (titled) Therapy Dog; another full sister is Open obedience titled & training for Utility. Pirate is the ONLY Great Dane yet to rank in breed, obedience, rally and agility, plus he is continuing to work as a veteran, not only still competing and working as a therapy dog, but has taken up competitive 5 & 10K competition runs as a veteran. He has get titled in agility, rally and in obedience as well as pointed pups in the show ring. A CH/CD Willie son out of a CH/CD daughter of BISS CH Fraser, Pirate's pedigree offers superior Harlequin breeding with a host of healthy, happy dogs, including various well-known Champion Harlequins, plus multiple relatives with obedience & other performance titles. Health checks too. ( See pedigree below.)

Left is Pirate's sister O-NAC NJC CHROMA Trompe L'oeil, CD, OA, NAJ, NJP, TDIA, CGC (Picabo has all the same basic health checks with same results as Pirate), & right is CHROMA Forever Mardi Gras, CDX, CGC, TDI (spayed bitch). Below more Pirate photos.

CLICK HERE TO SEE PIRATE & PICABO AGILITY PHOTOS

Pirate shown above at one year (left) and at 3 years (right) of age.

So there's your saddle... How many times do we we Dane owners get asked<G>that? Well thanks to Rocking S Pony Express out of Lubbock TX, the answer is "right here" as they had a saddle that fit Pirate just fine. They did say they had ponies smaller than Pirate...

We spent Sunday afternoon at Stanton's "Old Sorehead Days"--a weekend 3X a year where this wonderful small town in West Texas has an old-style country fair & trade days festival with great food, great folks, lots of wonderful music & things to see, do & buy. Click here for more on working Chroma Danes.

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