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MAC Great Danes

History

Welcome to the home page of MAC Great Danes. We own, breed and show harlequin,mantle, black and merle Great Danes. MAC Great Danes originated in 1983 with the purchase of a harlequin bitch named MAC’S Britny (WF436755, born 08/06/83). The Kennel name MAC was created from the first letter’s of my children’s first names: Michael, Angela and Christine. MAC Great Danes is not a kennel that has dogs attending shows every week and breeds several litters a year. We have bred three different bitches a total of five times in the past 17 years. We breed selectively for quality vs. quantity.

Objectives

We breed to the physical standard as published by the Great Dane Club of America, with particular attention paid to conformation,temperament, soundness and most of all type. Our Danes are all first and foremost, family members. We carefuly evaluate each

pup we breed and try to place it in the best possible home. This evaluation enables us to make proper selections for our breeding program. We believe that selection is the

essence of breeding. Our breeding history and extensive research has shown us that selection is the process allowing breed improvement to occur over sucessive generations.

In our quest of breeding the perfect animal, we have selected breeding stock on the basis of their positive, and particularly exceptional qualities, and not on the basis of lack of faults. We select animals for breeding purposes for its good and particularly extreme points, those qualities that epitomize excellence. We have utilized careful inbreeding to increase gene density. As explained beautifully by Dr. Morell Mackenzie: “ By inbreeding, the blood of superior animals is concentrated, and the more it is concentrated the greater will be the resemblance of the offspring to one another and to their parents, and the greater will be the probability of improved characteristics becoming fixed, and so hereditary or transmissible from parents to offspring".

We consider all harlequin color variants to be unavoidable,integral, and useful components of a harlequin breeding program. Each breeding stock that we use must be judged for the potential contribution to the excellence of the next generation. We think that showing is a way of maintaining the standard of the breed. Our long range goal is to breed our ideal Dane. We have a concept of what the perfect Great Dane should look like and we're striving to attain our ideal.