Sapphire Shepherds - World Class Working German Shepherds from the Mission Valley

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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 ( # to be posted soon!!) OFA Elbows NORMAL ( # to be posted soon!!) Owner: SAPPHIRE SHEPHERDS Rhea, the Mission Mountains and Mission Falls as seen from our backyard.
Rhea is a very elegant, medium large, strong 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 genetics has brought into our breeding program. She is a female that is ready at any time for work showing a great 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 level and protection drive is high but also has great social judgment and is easily controllable. Rhea doesn't have any problem with new environments. In all environments and situations, her character is confident and full of enthusiasm.
Rhea giving me her usual 110% attention, eye contact and enthusiasm!
Our breeding combination between Rocky and Warna has produced healthy hips/elbows (no hip or elbow dysplasia reported to date) and strong working dogs with huge drive and trainability. The prey, retrieve and hunt drive have been noticeably high on these dogs. I have started several of these pups in training and have been able to watch them work later on as adults with satisfaction. Rhea picks up new skills amazingly fast, always a joy to work with and is one of the smartest dogs I have seen in my program.
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 Sopka. Rhea 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 elbows. From 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.

We look forward to Rhea's offspring and expect her to produce excellent working progeny with a wide range of use. Strong bones, dark pigmentation, healthy hips and elbows and very high trainability.

Below I have posted photos of Rhea as a pup, her littermates, along with offspring from various breedings between Rocky and Varna:
Rhea and littermates	Rhea and littermates
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Rhea on left and bother right.	Rhea
Male littermate "ZOOT and owners the Florence's. Email received 16 Jun 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	"R" Litter pups
	CHAY-DA of SAPPHIRE MOUNTAIN: male Date of Birth: March 14, 2005, DNA Owner: Janet Wilts. ( Instructor / Trainer / Certified Search Dog Handler). Chay-Da's 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 To read more about Chay-Da; Click here.
Jazz enjoying a swim in Mission creek at Sapphire Shepherds kennel during a recent visit from TX.	JAZZ of SAPPHIRE MOUNTAIN: female Date of Birth: March 14, 2005 Owners: Vicki Kellum & Lisa Hendrickson Jazz's Training: Obedience, breeding female Hips/Elbows: x-rayed healthy, to be certified soon!!
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's 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's 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's Training: Tracking Hip's: x-rays show healthy hips free of dysplasia.

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

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