The Beginning
When
I was growing up I always seemed drawn to Great Danes. There was one at
a local restaurant, another that wandered the neighborhood, another that
belonged to a friend. I got my first Great Dane when I was 18 years old
from a friend that couldn't keep him. "Sam" was a blue merle - very
large, protective yet very gentle. He was so large that my parent's just
didn't want him in their tiny house.
We gave him to a
neighbor that had a big fenced yard and another large-breed dog.
As soon as I moved out of the house into
my own place I got Sapphire. I bred my first blue/black litter in 1985
and I was hooked! Best known from this litter was WYSIWYG Blue Star's
Wulfgar, owned by Sheila and Mark Lobdell. Wulf was quite the character
and he lived up to three weeks shy of his 13th birthday. I purchased
Gulliver from Phyllis Bronson in December of 1989, bred him to Sapphire
in 1990, and the rest is history!
