THE HISTORY OF BUITENGEBEUREN

A short history of Buitengebeuren Great Danes. We really fell in love with the breed,long before we started in Danes.

In 1969 we were driving around looking at the countryside,when we saw this blue great dane that stood in front of his house,and looked like a true Apollo,that dane was Ch. Blanka as we later found out,when we were inquiring about a puppy.

It so happened that there was no puppy available at that time, but the kennel owner was expecting a litter later that year. We bought our first dane Blue Boy,we ran in to a bit of trouble with him when we were moving house.

He was supposed to stay on the terrace but somehow he managed to free himself and ran off. We were looking for him when we heard a great noise, it so happened that our poor boy had been hit by a big truck,sadly he died at the scene.

We went straight back to the breeder and bought two danes, two males one was two and a half years old, and a puppy of Ch. Blanka and Alwina. She was a litter sister to our older boy, Apache.

The puppy was called The Old Favorite Castor Who is the foundation of our kennel together with Impton Onieda and Willowrun's Blue von Riverwood. At the time when we bought Impton Onieda nickname "NUCENCE". She was a black. We also bought Perrywinkle of Oakhatch, a Blue bitch out of the Domofendi line. She was the closest we could get to something out of Domofendi because they had stopped breeding.

Well you can guess what happened, two males and two females. Of course we would like to have a litter, and that was the start of our kennel in 1974.

We have bred 62 litters in 3 colours, and a total of 22 Champions to date,and are very proud of what we have achieved especially in the blue colour, when we started this was the most difficult colour to get headtype, bone and substance. We have bred 10 generations, but we are most proud to have won best dog and bitch over all colours in 1986 with CH. Wrangler v't Buitengebeuren and CH. Ufillia v't Buitengebeuren.

As I got more and more involved in the breed I wanted to learn more and more about genetics, anatomy and so on,so when I was asked to do my first Open show in judging Great Danes I accepted. This was in 1981, and I have been judging ever since. The first time The Kennel Club allowed me to do tickets was in 1988 and I have seen a lot of the world since then. And have friends in many countries through the love for the Great Danes.