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...

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!

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...

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...

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!

Daffy came to us from Czech Republic, when she was 4 years old. An insecure dog, who apparently had no trust in people or used to anything else than an outdoor run. She came to us on a leasing agreement for 1 year and 1 litter of puppies. But we wanted to give her more time to adjust, so when the year was over, we asked to buy her, which we could. Otherwise she should have moved on to a breeder in Finland for 1 year and a litter.
Daffy had 2 litters in Czech, before she came to us.
During the first year we succeded to find a sweet and lovely dog behind the insecure outer. She had become calm, more happy and had adjusted well in the pack. She had become more free, and she had got used to be with us in the house. Yet it took another year, before she wanted to lay on the sofa. Since then it has been obvious for her to be there ;-) She was an extremely happy dog - she barked out of joy on the daily walks, and she was sparkling of life-joy. Everybody who has seen her on these walks have smiled and been happy over her incredible joy and happiness, that was shining out of her.
After a year with us she was mated to a lovely french bred male, Magic de la Prairie de la Sommerau - but unfortunately no puppies came from that. The year after she was mated to Risky Black of Dark Brightness, which resulted in our F-litter with 2 males and 4 females.
1½ years later she got our H-litter with 1 male and 1 female sired by the dutch male Duc Nicolas Bergers du Rayon. Since this litter had to be delivered by caesarean, then Daffy got sterilised in the same operation.
After the last litter Daffy was retired, and she enjoyed that very much.
The last 2 winters she lost a lot of weight, when it got really cold, even though she got extra food etc. She went regularly to the veterinarian for checkup, bloodtest and urinetest. Nothing wrong with her. The vet couldn´t find any other explanation for her weightloss than her age. With age she also got rheumatism in her hindlegs and her sight and hearing became bad.
Now she is gone quiet to sleep... Sleep well, you happy and crazy girl... She leaves a huge gap... She was almost 11 years old.

Ylan van de Hoge Laer

(Pavot van de Hoge Laer / Montana de la Clairiere aux Louves)

born 31.03.1999.
dead 24.10.2011.

We have chosen to make a special memory-page about "Pinoh" (Ylan), not only because he was father of our Devil the Red Dragon but also, because he left a huge impression with us.

Devil was our first male. We had followed his father Ylan during some years, and when we heard, that he sired a litter in Belgium with the wonderful female Lapanya - well, the decision was made. We just had to have a puppy from this litter. After a very long and exhausting trip with snow, hail and ice we finally got our lovely boy from Belgium home.
Devil did well at shows (CAC, BOB, CACIB), but he also got a 0 (disqualified) due to a useless judge. Devil was trained in obedience and tracking, which he really liked and did well.
After living with us for a couple of years, we could see, that he didn´t do well in the pack. Especially when the females were in season, he lost a lot of weight and was very stressed. So we chose to replace him - but he stayed in the family ;-) He lived with Edda and Hans Christian (Karin´s foster-parents), where he adjusted very well, gained weight and really bloomed. He developed a lot during the years, he lived with them, and he became a handsome and selfconfident male. We can never thank you enough, for opening your home and your hearts for this very special boy.
Devil became father of 4 litters in 4 countries. First litter in Germany with the french female Miss des Crétuz Neufs. Second litter here with us with the czech female Kaya Deabei. Third litter in Belgium at his breeder with the belgian female Elze of the Home Port. Fourth and last litter in Sweden with the swedish female Thunderwolf´s National Treasure, who is a littermate of our other male Thunderwolf´s Red Rock West. From all 4 litters are kept / sold puppies for future breeding.
Devil got problems with enlarged prostate in 2010, and the medical treatment didn´t work, so the only solution was, to get him castrated.
His illness and sudden death came as a shock for us all... The vet couldn´t get closer to a diagnosis than, either he got a sudden failure of the kidneys, or he had cancer in the liver or in the kidneys.
We miss him immensely... He was only 7 years and 2 months old...