It all started when… I got my very first show ridgeback in 2004. I had grown up with ridgebacks in my parents’ home in Texas since the early 70’s, but hadn’t had one as an adult with my own family. When we moved to the Texas Hill Country on over an acre, we surprisingly had the opportunity to get a puppy from our old family friend and South African, who had provided ridgebacks for our family as we were growing up. My two sisters and I each got one, but there were some health issues in this litter. We all three experienced something different. This set me on a search of pedigrees, following bloodlines, health clearances, kennels and breeders all over the world as I traced my boy’s lineage all the way back to the very first registered ridgebacks. I started studying the old African lines, photos, progeny, contacting and talking to breeders. I ended up on the waiting list of a breeder in South Africa (formerly from Germany). A year and a half later we had our Selah.
Yani is our Selah’s granddaughter, and I’m thrilled to have her. She is feminine, yet strong & well muscled, not over-stated, very graceful, as her grandmother was. I love the idea of improving upon generations of ridgebacks, looking forward to even better in generations to come. We always breed with thought towards two to three generations ahead, yet we so treasure the unique beauty and of the generations before that we are building upon.
Yani is in a perpetual good mood, loving - yet not clingy, energetic - yet very attentive. She enjoys life and is an easy girl.
