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RHEA of SAPPHIRE MOUNTAIN
ROCKY VENUSINA SOPKA
x VARNA z POHRANCINI STRAZE
Certification:
Cadaver Level 1 (bred/trained/handled by Ramona Helmer, tested under Tri-State requirements)
Hips/Elbows:
OFA Hips EXCELLENT # GS-78250E26F-VPI
                       OFA Elbows NORMAL # GS-EL21638F26-VPI

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Rhea, the Mission Mountains and Mission Falls as seen from our backyard.
 

Rhea is a elegant, medium large, female with beautiful expression and sable coloring. A very healthy female who is OFA certified Excellent Hips and Normal elbows. She is a very nice representative of what her parents (Rocky and Warna) combined genetics have brought into our breeding program, healthy hips/elbows (no hip or elbow dysplasia reported to date from this combo) and strong working dogs with much drive and trainability. Rhea is a female that is always ready for work showing great agility, speed and willingness to work with the handler. Always beautiful, full eye-contact every time I work with her. She is a passionate retriever, has very strong prey drive, is very intelligent and performs all commands with great joy. Her hunt drive is outstanding, her natural aggression is high but also has great social judgment and is easily controllable. In all environments and situations, her character is confident and full of enthusiasm. Rhea picks up new skills amazingly fast (both mentally and physically), always a joy to work with and is one of the smartest dogs I have seen in my program. Rhea has offspring currently being prepared by experienced handlers/trainers of GSD's for a number of working areas;  Search and Rescue, top sport, detection,  service dog for hearing impaired.

 

From her sire's line Rhea is from the 2nd bloodline founded by HETTEL Uckermark to the renown working branch over GREIF v. Felsenstein. Rhea has these significant ancestors in her pedigree: DAR z Przma, IWO v.d. Buschecke, CORDON An-Sat, TOM z Pohranicni straze and her father our ROCKY Venusina SopkaRhea is a typical daughter of Rocky from which she inherited her great agility, strong retrieve drive and natural aggression.

From her dam's side she is from the 3rd. bloodline founded by KLODO Boxberg. She is a typical representative of her great-grandsire's GRIM z Pohranicni straze line, over her significant grandmother DARKA z PS, and mother, our VARNA z Pohranicni straze. Other important dogs in Rhea's pedigree are: the great stud dog ARGO z Travnickova dvora, and ARYS z Travnickova dvora who is famous for his progeny possessing certified excellent hips and elbows. Rhea is very valuable as her grandmother, DARKA z Ps comes from 6th generations of puppies that all had excellent hips and elbows along with her mother VARNA z Pohranicni starze, and all her littermates certified excellent hips and elbowsFrom her mother, Rhea inherited her high working drive, perfect boning and temperament.
Rhea's mother VARNA z Pohranicni starze was not only a exceptional producer for our breeding program , she also produced 2 excellent litters overseas: From her breeding with Furo Kamos she produced the well known EX z Jirkova dvora.  Her breeding to Ory produced: AGAR-sluzebni pes PCR-SPV, ARCO-ZM, BH, ZVV1, FPR1, IPO2, VPG1, ZPO1,  and ARKYN- ZM, ZVV1. I was very blessed to have Varna in my breeding program.

 


Rhea giving me her usual 110% attention, eye contact and enthusiasm!

 

Rhea.

 

Below are photo's of Rhea as a pup, her littermates and other offspring from Rocky and Varna litters:
 


Rhea and littermates


Rhea and littermates


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Rhea on left and bother right.

 



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CHAY-DA of SAPPHIRE MOUNTAIN: male
Date of Birth
: March 14, 2005,  DNA
Owner
: Janet Wilts. ( Instructor / Trainer / Certified Search Dog Handler).
Chay-Da' Certifications:
Cadaver, Water, Avalanche, Wilderness Search, Trailing 1, Trailing 2, HRD, Evidence, Working Certified Narcotics and Tracking dog for the Grand Teton National Park & Teton County Law Enforcement Departments.
Hips/Elbows:OFA Hips; GOOD
#GS-76062G24M-NOPI              OFA Elbows; NORMAL#GS-EL20277M24-N0P1 



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Jazz enjoying a swim in Mission creek at Sapphire Shepherds kennel during a recent visit from TX.
 

MARAI of SAPPHIRE MOUNTAIN: female
Date of Birth: March 14, 2005
Owner: Diamond K-9
Marai' Training: Obedience, breeding female
Hips/Elbows: OFA Hips: Fair Elbows: Normal


Ramona & Mira enjoying a little rag play while at Sapphire Shepherds kennel for breeding to Lary.
 

MIRA of SAPPHIRE MOUNTAIN: female
Date of Birth: March 14, 2005
Owner: Rimrock Shepherds
Mira' Training:  Tracking, breeding female
Hips/Elbows:
OFA GOOD # GS-76885G28F-PI


Amara while at Sapphire Shepherds kennel for breeding to Lary.

AMARA of SAPPHIRE MOUNTAIN: female
Date of Birth: March 14, 2005
Owner: Clete & Linda Zink
Amara' Training: Obedience, breeding female
Hips/Elbows: OFA Hips: GOOD#
GS-77123G29F-PI
                 OFA Elbows: NORMAL#
GS-EL20961F29-PI



 

MEGAN of Sapphire Mountain: female -spayed
Date of Birth: March 14, 2005
Megan' Training: Tracking
Hip's: x-rays show healthy hips free of dysplasia.
 
 

Owner's: Mr. & Mrs. Florence: MT

Email received 6-16-2007: Hi Ramona - just thought you'd like to see how Zoot is growing.  We're taking him to Schutzhund practice and have decided to leave him intact. He has quite a personality and we couldn't be happier with our choice from your litter. Thanks, Chuck

Email received 10-25-08:  Hi Ramona, I thought you might like to see a recent picture of Zoot.  He will be 3 in Dec.  He's a wonderful playful house dog with a great personality. He loves kids... and all our students love him too when they come over for sax lessons.  We are totally satisfied as he is a big part of our family.  He's well trained, smart, and very fast.  We decided not to get him fixed. Just thought you'd like to see him, Thanks again. p.s. his weight stays around 80 lbs.
 

Rhea

Ramona Helmer, (406) 777-7272, info@sapphireshepherds.com

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