Santee
SANTEE SIOUX AT GOLDMALI (Crufts 2016 above)
Malinois
dog, d.o.b. 24th August 2014
Red with black mask
Sire:
Foxbriar Dashing Desperado Dam: Goldmali Faith
Breeder: Lewis Jones
Hips:
5/6= 11
Elbows: 0/0 = 0
Last
eye tested clear October 2022 SDCA1&2 DNA tested clear
BP at
his first show aged 6 months
"Very promising puppy of 6 months with lovely outline, very
good quality and masculine headpiece and wonderful
temperament." (Frank Kane)
BP and BEST PUPPY IN SHOW
at his second show aged 7 months; BSDA of GB
BP at his third show
BP and Reserve CC at his
fourth show
KC Good Citizen
Bronze
2020
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Santee's
pedigree name is in honour of his great grandfather
Champion Sioux Warrior (pet name Lakota, owner Thea Jellicoe),
who truly was a GREAT dog and whose start in life was very
similar to Santee's.
PUPPYHOOD UNTIL NOW:
Santee
is the son of Rona's (and Dot and Fame's) litter sister Kilo
-Goldmali Faith. Kilo had a litter of just 3 pups to Saxon;
Foxbriar Dashing Desperado, bred by Sonja Cafferata. Kilo and
Saxon are both pure pets (both hip scored and eye tested)
and their owner found out the hard way that breeding and
selling Malinois puppies is not easy.
Kilo had previously lost a litter and when mated again gave
birth to fours pups, one of which died.
The three surviving pups did well but finding good homes
for them wasn't entirely easy. Sonja who bred Saxon agreed to
have the bitch; Breeze,
the breeder kept one of the dogs, Ghost, and the third pup
went to a friend of his as a pet.
Just two days later I
received a phonecall from a man who had found my phone number
on the KC's website.
He said he had a Malinois puppy he needed a new home for as he
simply could not cope with him -he had not at all realised
what he let himself in for when acquiring a Malinois.
By sheer coincidence this turned out to be Kilo's third
pup. The owner decided to give things another go but three
days later called back admitting
he simply could not deal with this pup and needed a new home
for him. To be fair to him, Santee turned out to be one of
these Mali pups that ARE hard work indeed
-definitely NOT a pure pet, but a pup in need of a lot
of training. John and I agreed to take the pup -after all, he
was a great grandpup of Ripley and much as we had not planned
on another puppy,
let alone another MALE dog, it felt like the right thing to
do.
So Santee (name
changed from original) came to live with us when just under 9
weeks old. He was very friendly with people and other dogs
right from the start,
but initially suffered from separation anxiety and would not
even go out into the garden or indeed could not even cope with
us leaving the room without starting to scream in panic.
He had, after all, been in a total of FOUR homes within
just one week: from breeder to new owner, from new owner to
friends of ours who collected him for us, then to us.
Santee was terrified of being abandoned, but thankfully
over the next few weeks started to realise that he was now
HOME and here to stay,
and now he has got over the separation anxiety. The other
dogs, in particular Rona, Penny and Ritzy welcomed him with
open paws. He was one of them from day one!
Santee the
day after he arrived