Multiple Winners at Crufts including Best of Breed

Our 5 UK bred Champions shown here in a superb pastel drawing by Louise Jarvis

I am Joanne and I live in the beautiful Cheshire countryside with my family and all the Ravendane Gang.

Before we meet the gang I would like to tell you a bit about how I started on the road to breeding Champion Great Danes.

I grew up on my mothers Arabian Stud Farm so I wanted a big dog that was compatible with horses.

That's when I acquired my first Dane a blue dog in 1979 called 'Steel Blue Knight' (Spencer). He was a true Dane and hooked me on the breed forever!

He was not on his own for long as I was given a black bitch 'Gerandesta Fantasy' (Asti), who lived to be 15 and a half years old.

She in turn had 14 puppies, 7 black and 7 blue. I made so many friends through the puppies that I got encouraged to show a black bitch.

This set me off on the lifelong road to successfully showing and breeding Champion Great Danes. So, feel free to meet the current gang on the Show Danes page.

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***All our adult Great Danes are health tested***

We are a founder member of The Kennel Club Assured Breeder Scheme, having joined in 2004 when it was then known as the Accredited Breeder Scheme.

This means that our dams are 2 years old or over before they are bred from, and both sire and dam are

hip and elbow scored under the British Veterinary Association scheme and have relevant certificates to validate this.

At the schemes inception, it was essential to both Hip & Elbow score ALL danes that were being used as part of a breeding program to ensure they were healthy enough to be bred from. Some years later, it was decided by the Kennel Club to relax elbow scoring and just keep hip scoring - we as a breeder still continued to do both as we felt it was essential information to ensure we were breeding healthy puppies from known healthy parents.

In 2012, it was decided by the Kennel Club to then further relax hip scoring in danes, making it a recommendation and not a requirement. Despite this, we still continue to hip & elbow score ALL our adult dogs before they are used as part of our breeding program - it is considered essential to do this in other parts of the world

so personally we feel the UK should not be any different.

We are also ongoing participants in the Liverpool University Dilated Cardiomyopathy Scheme to eradicate heart issues within the breed so some

of our adult dogs are also heart tested, we intend that in time they will all have been tested

The Past Danes page has photos of our Danes from earlier days. Our Puppies page has some photos of our pups and also information on upcoming litters.

Finally, our 'Links' page has information about the organisations and clubs we belong to as well as links to other recommended websites.

Enjoy your visit....

Elmo (Ch. Ravendane American Pye, AI JW)

We specialise in Harlequins, Mantles, Blacks & Blues

Ravendane Great Danes
Warrington
Cheshire
England

Phone: 01565 777330
Mobile: 07734 364675

Email: info@ravendane.com

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