Kennel Casfan ... In loving memory

This page is dedicated to our wonderful dogs, who unfortunately isn´t with us anymore.

Fanni was Karin´s first Tervueren-bitch. She had 2 litters at kennel Corolla´s. The first litter was born January 1^st 1993 sired by Nadir of the Two. The second litter was born November 14^th 1994 sired by Rollif´s Kuzak.
Fanni was trained in tracking, obedience and defence, but we only passed the trial for beginners (BPB-obedience), and she was a trained security-dog.
She was a friendly and sociable bitch.
She was put to sleep November 27^th 2002 because of cancer at the age of 12 years and 5 months.
She is strongly missed... The first love... The first and the best...

Usva was Karin´s first imported Tervueren-bitch. She was from Finland.
Usva was supposed to be the foundation-bitch of my future breeding, but destiny put a sudden end to her life October 21^st 2002 , when she was put to sleep because of a tumour in the brain.
Usva was a temperamental bitch of excellent type. Despite her light colour of coat, she has at shows gained 2 out of 3 CAC´s for the title Danish Show Champion.
She was trained in tracking and obedience, which she thought was very funny.
We miss her so much - our little girl from Finland...

Koira was Karin´s first Groenendael-bitch. She was primary my working-dog. She was acknowledged as a security-dog. She was trained in tracking, obedience and defence.
But it was also the plan, that she should be the foundation-bitch of my future breeding of Groenendael. But when it got known, that there was many cases of epilepsy in her family, I chose together with her breeder not to breed with Koira. At that point she was still working as a security-dog without any problems.
But after her season spring 2003, Koira started to have epileptic seizures. It got very quick worse during the summer, and when she had several seizures in one night, I decided to give her peace.
She is strongly missed... The first black love...

IPO 3, BHP 3

Oud Sabbinge Laika v Kasius

(Kasius des Deux Pottois / Tasca-Sofie van de Oudenakker)

born February 8th 1990
dead February 4th 2002

Laika was Danni´s malinois-female out of workinglines. Laika was the first danish-bred FEMALE, to obtain all 6 working-exams: IPO 1+2+3 og BHP 1+2+3.
Laika passed the exams for IPO 1+2 in a young age. Then she got problems with her breathing, and the veterinarian concluded, that she had astmatic broncitis, so training with her more or less stopped. By a change of veterinarian later due to a movement, it came out, that Laika´s throat was too narrow. She had surgery, when she was 7 years old, and then training was regained on full time. Laika passed the exams for IPO 3 and BHP 1+2+3, when she was 9 years old.
She was put to sleep because of a haemorrhage in the brain at the age of 12 years. We miss her deeply... Honour to her memory!

Olympia-Gaïa of Dark Brightness

(Golan van de Wielander / Elegant-Shannon of Dark Brightness)

born October 11th 1999
dead February 17th 2004

Gaïa came to us, when she was 2 years old. She developed a lot during the first year at our place. She became a very self-confident female with a strong character, very calm and well-balanced. This secureness and calmness she inherited to her puppies, which she unfortunately only got 2 of.
She died of a heart-attack during a normal walk. We massaged her heart and were breathing thru her nose, and very briefly she had an irregular heartbeat and was breathing on her own 3 times, and then her heart stopped again. The following attempts to bring her back to life failed.
Both our own veterinarian and the specialist for heart-diseases at the Research- and Education-Centre for Veterinarians could not give us any reason for Gaïa´s sudden death other than, it unfortunately happens.
She was in a top-condition, and a health-check shortly before her death showed, that everything was perfectly fine.
She died only few weeks before, she was going to be mated with the french male Narval de Brunalines for our F-litter.
We miss her so much... The girl who stole our hearts...

Casfan Enya

(Mischa-Dylan van de Lamar / Olympia-Gaïa of Dark Brightness)

born August 29th 2002
dead November 11th 2003

Enya was Danni´s first Tervueren-female. Enya "chose" Danni, when she was 5 weeks old by biting her nose and looking very cheeky at her ;-) and Danni was sold to this little girl.
Enya was a very friendly and sociable female, both with people but also with other animals.
Enya was mentally very strong and very eager to learn. She had the right strength and a good firm bite, which made Danni choose to train her for IPO. We called her our "longhaired malinois".
Unfortunately Enya began to limp on her hindleg, when she was around 11 months old. Training with her stopped, and we were hoping, that it was because she was still growing. But it did not get better.
Enya was x-rayed, and result was B/C. The last months before the x-ray, and while we were waiting for the result from DKK, Enya showed us very clearly, that she was in pain. This is why, the difficult decision was made to give her peace - only 15 months old. Words can´t describe our sorrow of loosing this girl...

Verylee Gaya of Dark Brightness

(Falco van de Lamar / Elegant-Shannon of Dark Brightness)

born June 10th 2002
dead February 14th 2007

Raya came to us, when she was 3 years old. A very tough girl with a mind of her own. She was everything, I wanted from character. I started training and socializing with her, and she came along very well. She was very happy doing tracking and defence-work, but she thought, obedience was boring. Since I got her so late, she became 4 years old, before I went to x-ray with her. The x-ray showed quite some deposits on one of her hips, and the result showed it as well – her hips were rated B/C. Her x-ray of elbows was perfect with 0 on both. During the cold wintertime she has had bad days with pain from the hindlegs and hips. Her training was reduced some during this time.
One day she jumped the fence after the cat. She has never done that. She hurt her leg really bad, and the veterinarian told me, that she needed at least one operation, and she would be in a lot of pain and would have to be heavily medicated during this long period. Her chances for complete recovery were very small. Chances were that she would probably have lost the leg in the end. After a day with many thoughts and a broken heart, I decided, that it would be best to let her go. She would never have regained normal use of her leg again, and she would have to have medication for the pain for the rest of her life.
We miss her so much... She was truly one of a kind...

Xeni came to us, when she was 1 year old. Karin needed a new dog for work, when Koira was put to sleep because of epilepsy. The choise was between a working Malinois (Xeni) and a German Shepherd. And it ended up with the Malinois - of course...
It was quite an experience to get a dog from pure working-lines after having had only dogs from show-lines or mixed show- and working-lines. Xeni was quite different from the other dogs - not only in looks, but also in behaviour. She was the clown in the house - always funny.
She was one hell of a good colleague at work! She learned very fast what to do, and also on the training field, she was great to work with. Of course - she had her ideas like all dogs, but we worked our way around most of them. I could not have got a better dog for my work as a security guard. She learned quick, when it was ok for people to be there - and when not! She really saved me a lot of walking into corners of the big warehouses, where she just as the most natural thing ran out and checked it for me.
Xeni has always been gaining and loosing weight during her life, but during 2007 it got worse. She lost more, than she gained. She got very quick exhausted, when she was working. Her coat got greasy, and she was smelling bad. We heard, that 2 of her brothers had been put down due to problems with the heart, so that´s what we started to examine, and it showed, that one of her heart-valves did not close properly. So training and working with her was stopped immediately. Further examinations also showed, that she had cancer in the liver, her numbers for red bloodcells were way too high, and there was something wrong with the gallbladder. We didn´t pay attention to the last things, the vet told us...
She is strongly missed - my one and only - forever in my heart!

Wara was out of the bloodlines from Deux Pottois, which Danni had wanted, since Laika passed away. Wara was picked up in Austria, when she was 8 weeks old in january 2005.
She showed an enormous potential as a workingdog already as a small puppy. Danni started to train her for the IPO-programme.
Unfortunately did Wara already as a young dog run into some problems with gathering of fluids in the shoulder. Then the training was stopped for long periods of time. She was x-rayed on hips and elbows, where she got the best result possible - HD: A/A and ED:0/0. Further she got her eyes tested clear for 13 different eye-diseases.
Wara surprised us very much, when she in october 2006 participated at the international show in Rostock, Germany. She was out of workinglines, so she was definately not a typical showdog. But she ended up becoming BOB with CAC and CACIB and gained the title ROSG06 (Rostock Sieger 2006).
Since december 2007 has Wara been very sick. She had much diarrhoe, and there was blood in it. She was put on dietfood and got some medication. This only helped for a few weeks, then it was bad again. Many examinations were done, and the diagnose was cronical inflammation in the intestine.
Wara was put on another kind of medication, but unfortunately with the same result. After a few weeks had she again diarrhoe with blood in. Other types of medication was tried - also with the same result. Further had she lost quite some weight during the time of sickness.
In may it was decided in consultation with the veterinarians, that it was best to give Wara peace, because her condition could not be improved or relieved.
She is strongly missed! Honour to her memory!