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