Litter Plans

My fawn girl Cookie gave birth to 11 puppies on 15th of October 2025. We have 1 fawn boy and 4 fawn girls, 2 brindle boys and 4 brindle girls. If you are interested in a puppy from this litter please fill out the puppy questionnaire below.

The last weeks were quite tough with Cookie having an infection on her C-Section wound, so I had to raise the puppies alone with the bottle. Then Cookie needed another operation due to a bleeding on her uterus trunk and then we lost a little brindle girl due to heavy diarrhea. Breeding great danes can be incredibly painful…

Now both mother and the 10 puppies that are left are doing fine. They had their first foto shooting and they got their names. Of course my first fawn/brindle litter has to be named after the most famous Loheland danes. The ones who have read my book about this famous German kennel from the 1920ies/1930ies will understand.

Some of the puppies are already reserved, some are still searching for a new home. If you are interested please fill in the puppy application form.

Now I can finally present the collages of my Loheland litter, which is named after the famous great dane kennel in Germany of the 1920ies and 1930ies. I wrote a book about this exciting and important part of great dane history last year and of course I had to honor the work of the breeder Hedwig von Rohden with my first fawn/brindle litter. The ones who have read my book know what I am talking about. The ones who don’t know and are interested can still order it (my book).

I am very happy with the puppies, they are all healthy without major faults and have a lovely temperament. Five puppies already found fantastic homes, but Ferguni, Gazelle, Ischulan, Rungnir and Wasdan are still searching for their new familes.

As this was Cookie’s (GaiAlmas Pippilotta) last chance to get puppies, I decided to use a young and proven sire and natural mating, as we had a lot of bad luck in the last years with artificial insemination/older males/unproven sires. I am very grateful, that Eila Leppälä from Finland let me use her fantastic boy Santtu (Samuraiwood’s Xavier Samuel) who is a proven sire and has excellent libido and is fully capable to mate naturally (unfortunately this is not so common anymore in great danes). So we are happy to confirm that Cookie is pregnant and she expects at least 6 puppies.

Santtu is a 3 year old brindle male with excellent health results (hips: A/A, elbows: 1/0) and his heart has been screened with ultrasound and EKG without any signs of a heart disease at the 8th of August 2025. He is International Champion, Finnish Champion, Swedish Champion, Champion of Estland and has many more titles that you can find on his page in the Finnish database. But as always these titles are not important for me when I choose a male, health and temperament come always first! As you can see on the pictures above Santtu is a correct male with healthy eyes and no physical extremes.

Also Cookie has of course a fresh heart check from 31st of January 2025, A-hips and elbows 0/0. Santtu is out of fawn/brindle breeding lines from Norway, Sweden, Finland and the USA and combined with Cookie, who carries less than 12,5% fawn/brindle blood, this is a very wide outcross with a COI (Coefficient of Inbreeding) of 0,05% and an ALC (Ancestor Loss Coefficient) of 96,83% (calculated over 6 generations). The closer the COI to 0,00% and the closer the ALC to 100,00% the higher the genetic diversity, which increases the chance for healthy offspring.

Both Cookie and Santtu have many old ancestors and are calm and friendly dogs. Combining all these factors I am hoping for healthy puppies with a sound temperament in fawn and brindle in the middle of October 2025. All this would not be possible without the help of Cookie’s Co-Owner Alex, who supports me immensely and who I cannot thank enough for his efforts!