Our family consists of me (Cathy), my very tolerant nondog husband (Barron), our 11 yr old son who could care less about the dogs (Justin) and our 9 yr old daughter who is my constant shadow and Jr handler (Sydney). Our Danes and Cresteds are much more then show dogs, they are part of our family. We say kennel but the dogs sleep in the house with us. They have 5 fenced acres to run on anytime they want and then soft beds inside to come back to and relax. Our dogs are allowed to be dogs anytime they want. We don't believe in keeping them separated just in case they could hurt one another. This is something we are willing to take a chance with because we want them to enjoy life as DOGS not just show dogs.
Why "Equiss" Danes everyone asks? I wanted to do Equus because we are big horse people and these guys are big as horses but I had seen this name in a few Dane pedigrees and didn't want to step on any toes. I know people work very hard at establishing a name and don't want to take away from that. So we compromised and came up with Equiss. Still pronounced the same, just spelled differently. When we got the Cresteds we continued with the Equiss prefix since they all look like little ponies with their fluffy manes and tails. Again with the Whippets since they were often referred to as the poor man's racehorse.
Please feel free to check out the website and email or call us with any questions. We love to talk about our dogs and are happy to answer as many questions as we can.
