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Bhaskerville Great Danes

Welcome to Bhaskerville Great Danes located in Portland, Oregon! I am passionate to learn and share information about our beloved breed. A Great Dane puppy can be a wonderful family addition. I'm Shanda Bhasker and I share my home with my wonderful husband and our Great Danes, currently, our senior Great Dane CH Remy Is Cooking Up a Storm, our very successful and fun loving GCH Paxton's Live Long and Prosper and Zefram's young daughter, Daynakin's Let Your Heart Be Open. Zefram not only has wonderful structure and beautiful movement, he also has an exceptional temperament that has been commented on by performance trainers as well as conformation handlers and exhibitors.

I discovered Great Danes over 10 years ago and love them. They are fun loving, warm, affectionate, quirky creatures. I created this site to share my love of these dogs and to help educate people looking for information about Great Danes.

I started showing my dogs as a fun hobby and found great friends and tons of information about Great Danes, their health and training. People who show are passionate about their dogs, many involved with rescue. If you want a pet Great Dane puppy who has a great start in life, I strongly suggest acquiring a pet puppy from a breeder who at least health tests, and preferably shows, not because you want a show dog, but because you want a beloved family pet that has been bred with care and careful consideration to bringing healthy puppies into the world. Puppies that have good temperaments and look like the Great Dane is supposed to 🙂

Mantle Great Dane Doolin hangs out at Amazon

October 29, 2019

Over the past few months my awesome son (2 legged) whom has the great good fortune to work for Amazon in Portland, has filled out forms to register his “brothers” as Amazon dogs 🙂 With the completion and acceptance of all the forms, Doolin and Remy have become Amazon dogs, https://blog.aboutamazon.com/working-at-amazon/how-much-does-amazon-love-dogs-just-ask-one-of-the-6-000-pups-that-work-here and our mantle Great […]

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Health Testing - Orthopedic Foundation For Animals

In your best interests and the puppies, insist on Health Tested Parents before you bring home a new Great Dane puppy!

The recommended health tests for Great Danes are, OFA hip Xrays or Penn Hip Exam, CERF eye test, Thyroid blood test and Cardiac Exam. Using either the AKC registration number or the parent's registered names you can look up health test results for puppy parents on either the Canine Health Information website or the OFA (Orthopedic Foundation for Animals) website.

Mantle Great Dane puppy

Mantle Great Danes

My favorite colors are fawns and mantles. Mantles have beautiful black and white markings and fawns have brown bodies with dark black masks on their faces, but what is most important about these dogs is their wonderful temperament

The origins of the Great Dane come primarily from Germany and Denmark. The dog was developed to be a boar hound. Today's Great Dane should be a regal calm athletic dog that is friendly, dependable, patient and never timid.

Priorities for Great Dane breeders should be good sound healthy structure, good type, a Great Dane should look like a Great Dane and a have great temperaments. There are seven showable colors: Fawn, Black, Brindle, Mantle, Merle, Blue and Harlequin. Because of Harlequin color genetics, Harlequin breeders produce Merles, White puppies with black or grey markings and black puppies with a sprinkling of white. Although these puppies may not be showable, they make wonderful pets. 

Our lives are greatly enriched by the wonderful Great Danes we share our home with.  And by the wonderful friends we've made while showing our dogs. I've learned so much about the health and welfare of my Great Danes from people who have spent decades breeding and showing them. Our dogs are 99% pets and 1% show dogs.