Well….. this month was a very sad month for us here at Apollodane Great Danes, yet on the other hand it was a happy month. You see we said goodbye to our beautiful Mantle boy “APOLLODANE ASTRAEUS” HARRY being his pet name and at 10 months old was already showing signs of a beautiful champion Dane in the making.

He has gone to a completely different climate to that of our own long hot sunny days, 320 days of the year. Yes he has gone to live in Finland and we are pleased to welcome him to his new home of Mi’Havanna Kennels and his new parents, Anna-Mari & Janne Vuori with joint ownership with Marja Partanen, Kennel Ozaenas.

We have already had our first pictures of Harry sent to us playing with his 7 new friends in the snow. Once he has settled we are sure we will be seeing a lot of Harry in the show rings around Europe and both Craig and I are very proud that both Marja and Anna-Mari wanted to take Harry into their prize winning collection of Danes. We wish them lots of luck, our love and our very best wishes, from all at Apollodane Great Danes, Cyprus, www.apollodane.com

Now then, the very much and very eagerly awaited arrival of AUSTRALIAN CHAMPION Rorlyn Who Spilled the Paint “DIVA” for short and Rorlyn White Collar Worker, “TURBO” for short have at last arrived at the APOLLODANE KENNELS in Cyprus. We are proud and very privileged to become the new owners and we are looking forward to introducing them on to the European show circuit quite soon. Both Craig & I would like to take this opportunity of thanking both Lynnette and Rory for all the hard work and effort that has once again gone in to producing such beautiful Champions.

Turbo has become famous in his own right for becoming the FIRST Australian Mantle Champion to be awarded the title and his winning ways will hopefully be carried on as we continue his show career here in Europe.

Both Diva & Turbo sit perfectly in our future breeding plans as an excellent compliment to our existing winners, Zac, Odette, Star, Polo & Heidie pups.

We are now busy planning for future shows, the next being the very famous and very prestigious CRUFTS in a few days time over in the UK, so we would like to pass on our very best wishes and good fortunes to all our friends and colleagues who may also be entering, we wish you good luck and we hope to see some fantastic results achieved by all.

Apollodane Great Danes once again would like to thank you for your support and condolences on our recent loss, we found all your tributes to be very kind, thoughtful and warm. Over the years we have built up quite a following on our web pages, however there may be some who wish not to receive our show news, photos, film and updates and if you are one of those people, please return the e-mail with the words remove and we will happily delete you from our newsletter.

We look forward to seeing many of our friends old and new at the European shows we have previously visited and found to be extremely well organised. It is always a pleasure after having travelled many hours by flight to know the show you will attend has been organised with care and professionalism. In 2007 we just happened to fly to 12 countries in total and visit 42 shows over the year, so our thanks once again to all the show organisers for GETTING IT RIGHT and making it so enjoyable we wish to return IN 2008.