Cher is the only female from the Nate x Shelby litter.

She is a nicely structured girl with lovely movement. She reminds us a lot of her half sister Joelle as a youngster. She has a nice chin, good rear angulation and an excellent topline.

Her pedigree is world renoun and contains some of the most influential Dogue families in the world today.

Although usually overshadowed by her brother Darius, Cher's quality is being recognised by judges and she is already a Class in Group winner at championship show level.

Cher's somewhat unusual registered name has caused us some amusement with comments from other kennels regarding "covert operations" and "conspiracy theories". In reality her name is quite innocent.

Her mother, Shelby, came down with mastitis when she was 10 days old and the whole litter needed to be taken off Shelby immediately due to the antibiotics she was on. The other puppies were happy to drink their milk from a bottle, but not Cher. After battling with her for two days, we were desperate and none of the suggestions from experienced breeders were working. We were told if she didn't work out how to suck from the bottle that night, we were to take her to a friends house the next morning. Next morning, Keith took her over and he hadn't driven half way to work when he received a phone call saying we had one fat, contented puppy, who'd just been given a bath by her new foster mother and who was now asleep with her new brothers and sisters. Cher's foster mother's name was "Secret". So we chose "Shared Secret" as her registered name because she shared "Secret" with Secret's own babies. For that, we are eternally grateful to both "Secret" and her owners and Cher's registered name reflects that!

It is hoped that Cher's qualities will assist us in the continuing pursuit of correct breed type.