Health:
Hips: OFA GS-115358F25F-C-VPI Fair
Elbows: OFA GS-EL53061FF25-C-VPI Normal
Cardiac: OFA GS-VCA1026/25F/P-VPI Normal-Practitioner
Dentition: OFA GS-DE1165/25F-VPI Complete, Scissors Bite
Spine: OFA Normal
Degenerative Myelopathy: Normal/Normal
Pituitary Dwarfism: Normal/Normal
AKC DNA+Health Panel: All Normal/Normal
Tango is a beautiful black factored sable female (3/4 German working & 1/4 German Show) with a happy, playful, and affectionate personality and a dependable temperament. Tango has always been a super easy dog to live with and her nickname should have been “easy” because of just how easy she has been to raise. Tango is great with all the other dogs, including the littles and oldies, she never seems to do anything wrong, and has such good judgement and disposition that without any training effort on our part she has matured into a practically perfect companion dog.
Tango is an large, stretched, female with very powerful bone and substance, weighing in at 85 lbs. Despite her powerful build Tango is a natural athlete, jumper, and has an efficient, ground covering gait plus the endurance to go forever. Tango is a beautiful and correct girl with a strong but still feminine head with perfectly almond shaped eyes, correctly placed ears, a powerful muzzle, and a dry mouth from tight lips with no sag (it’s sad we have to say that, but since wet mouths due to overly sagging lips are now a problem in the breed, there it is). Tango has a rock solid topline, straight with no roach or drop off (spine OFA normal) and very good angulation front and rear. Body proportions are correct for the breed and her chest had excellent breadth and a long underline.
She is a black factored sable stock coat with a correct coat.
Tango is one of our Frankeigh daughters and like her half and full siblings she has inherited many of his merits such as his medium size, strong bone, robust health, and playful disposition. Frankeigh comes from 5 generations of our home breeding and his pedigree features many of our favorite dogs, such as Disco (Spider), Pyro, Hasso, all the way back to Susanne’s second GSD, Indeigh (a daughter of DDR Legend Zorro LaagerWall). .
In many ways Tango is her mother’s daughter, she shares J’Eyleen’s (Norma) sable color though darker, her steadfast disposition (which Norma inherited from her mother Babsy) and her absolute loyalty and devotion to her person. Like Norma and Babsy, Tango is always at my side, doing whatever I feel like doing, and helping however is possible. Norma is one of our Kiro daughters and we are hopeful his abundant merits will be present in Tango’s offspring as well.
Due to the increase in frank spinal defects and disease in the German Shepherd breed and it's now ubiquitous genetic influence in the European bloodlines we have decided to add a complete spinal evaluation to our already robust health testing protocol. Because spinal evaluation is a non core test for the GSD in the OFA system our dogs will not be issued a certificate number as they are for the other tests and we will instead post their OFA certificates as proof of their evaluation. We are dedicated to keeping spinal defects out of our program because of the painful and life altering nature of these conditions. Going forward all our breeding prospects will have spinal evaluation as standard.
