DEEPFROZEN SEEMEN

July 2001 we sended deepfrozen seemen to the USA.

Well... we brought the left-over straws the whole way 'back home' and the seemen is now stored at the University in Merelbeke (Ghent).

The seemen is out of 3 collections june-july 2001 and was tested : all values were excellent
for ex. motility 95 %, alive 96 %, normal morfoloqy 90 %
and was still at 64-66 % 'alive' after tawning.
And each A.I. was succesfull and gave pups.

One A.I. in Michigan at the Pointe aux Pins kennel gave 7 pups/6 alive.
The second A.I. in Italy in 2003 resulted again in pups, unfortunately only 1 survived the birth
The third A.I. in Belgium in 2005 gave 5 pups, all in the same horn, so probably there was some damage from the first litter.

So Quality is excellent and the seemen was not affected by all that travelling.

There is enough left for 2 breedings.


We realize that most people will think we must be crazy to do all those efforts and also turn down further breedings in the USA, Canada and Australië ... So why ???
We just love him to death. We really think Ursus is our "once in a lifetime dog" and had always wanted a daughter from him to. But as we had engaged to raise Kiserdei Vidocq, we had postponed to add another puppy.
But one month after Vidocq left, Ursus became that ill
see report and this changed all of a sudden our further plans. We tried to get a girl out of his litter born in the USA, but her pedigree would not be accepted as the LCA is not recognized by the FCI.
So the seemen was on the wrong continent for us and we decided to be real selfish now and try to make our dream come true. Thanks again to all those people who were that understanding and specially to Bonnie Meldrum who arranged to send the seemen back home.


We give now absolute priority to European FCI recognized countrys and to breeders who are willing to consider us as candidate n° 1 for the so long dreamed off puppy-girl.
You can contact us at
berggat.leo@skynet.be



As Cyd Erich is a much better photographer than me, I present here a selection out of the many pics she made at her visit with Brenda. Pics are from 26 sep 01, Ursus was 5,5 y at that moment.
Brenda meets Ursus, father of her Merlin


an attempt to make a 'showpicture' but then he saw the camera, struggled and escaped...:)

he ran away but stopped when we called
 

he hesitated and then came back happy running
some head-shots

27 september at the frontdoor
"Oops that camera again !" and a farewell pic

And this is a picture from 7 april 2002 (Ursus +6 years now)

(his coat is not in full shape yet, as they shaved whole parts of it)

 

Ursus in full coat again but he realized now he should better blow some of his undercoat, after all it is summer.

pics from 1 september 2002 (Ursus 6,5 years)

April 2004 we had a visit from a lovely bitch and to our great surprise, Ursus was making a real fool of himself.  He was so in love with her but she didn't love him !  Later it turned out that we missed the right day - Zissy had a very early ovulation and out of all days the AI should have been on Eastern.

 

for more about Ursus click here

for his children click here and click on the date of the birth for more.

 

 

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