Le Marais Great Danes

30/05/2024

Happy 3rd Birthday to all of Nellie’s siblings 🎉 I hope you all get spoilt today 💜❤️💜

10/01/2024

Happy 2nd Birthday to these little cuties 🥳 💝
I hope you gets lots of love from your parents and maybe a little spoilt 🎁

26/10/2023

What do you mean I have something on my face 🤷🏻‍♀️🖤

20/09/2023

Twinning 🥰🙌🏼

20/09/2023

So true! Especially for our giant goobers ☺️ tell me if yours is one of the ‘weird’ ones and likes them. Both Paris and Nellie prefer the chin or cheek pat 🥰

𝗕𝗬 𝗟𝗔𝗥𝗚𝗘, 𝗗𝗢𝗚𝗦 𝗗𝗢𝗡'𝗧 𝗟𝗜𝗞𝗘 𝗣𝗔𝗧𝗦 𝗢𝗡 𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗜𝗥 𝗛𝗘𝗔𝗗

One of the most common myths is that rescue/rehome dogs for example have been hit if they shy away from head pats.

Nope, dogs by large don't actually like being touched on the head by strangers and sometimes even by their humans.

Most dogs who accept head patting simply have learned to tolerate our weird ways. Of course, there are outliers, the more social individuals who love any kind of pat.

If you have a rescue/rehome, they don't need stories of why they do and don't do things, they need, training, leadership (rules & boundaries), consistency & clarity...maybe more so than dogs who grew up in the one home especially at the start of your relationship.

Yes, some dogs have had abusive backgrounds but unless you know what happened, the story doesn’t benefit your dog.

11/08/2023

A message to our followers.
We currently do not have puppies and have no plans to have any until 2024.

23/07/2023

I am proud to announce that yesterday at the Canine Stewards Association of WA Championship show under Judge Mrs D Johnston (NSW) Nellie got her final points to now be known as

Australian Champion LeMarais Zarkana 🎉

18/07/2023

So so proud of this girl 🥰
She showed her socks off !!
Best State Bred in Group 🤩💜

28/06/2023

Love this 🙌🏼💜
If only everyone who owned a dog would read and ‘follow the directions’ it’s not hard!

It seems so obvious doesn't it, "Some Dogs Need Space". Why does your dog need space?

Fab drawing by Doggie Drawings by Lili Chin

02/06/2023

Nellie had a pamper by Bec at Paws on the Prairie Dog Grooming Muchea and Wanneroo this morning ready for this weekends shows!
We will be there from noon tomorrow and 9 on Sunday if you want to pop into Dogswest and say hi 👋🏼

29/05/2023

Happiest birthdays to our Cirque de Soleil litter (Luther x Paris) 🥳
2 years has flown by and I still can’t believe how little you all were 🥰💜

20/05/2023

Thank you Andrew and Zoe for the lovely walk this morning 🥰 the girls had a great time 💜

13/05/2023

So incredibly proud of this girl ❤️

Canine Stewards Association of WA Champ Show 1 - Judge Mr Shane Thomas (QLD)

🎊 STATE BRED IN GROUP 🎊

🎊 RUNNER-UP BEST OF BREED 🎊

🎊 BITCH CHALLENGE 🎊

Show 2 (1-4) - Judge Mrs V White (WA)

🎊Reserve Bitch 🎊
🎊 State Bred Bitch 🎊

Thank you to Mr Thomas for thinking so highly of my girl!

Back tomorrow for another 2 shows 🥰

Congratulations to all todays winners and well done for getting through the downpours 🌧️ 🌧️🌧️

09/05/2023

Love these two so much 🥹💙🖤

29/04/2023

Such a great day!

Metropolitan Kennel Club of WA
Mrs Michele Reichmuth (NZ) - Judge

CHALLENGE BITCH 🎉
State Bred of breed 🎉

So proud of my girl! She is heading towards her Championship title with a 10 point challenge today and I couldn’t be more proud 🥹

Thank you to our support crew and a HUGE thank you to Mel for taking care of mumma Paris at home so I could get down there today ❤️

28/04/2023

🖤 Miss Nellie 🖤

We will be at Dogswest this weekend if you would like to pop down and say hi 👋🏼 🥰

15/04/2023

Beautiful girls enjoying the sunshine 🌞 🖤💙 (excuse my dirt patch)!

30/03/2023

Our sweet girl Paris ❤️ such a beautiful soul 🥰

09/03/2023

Western Classic weekend - not our weekend but Nellie looked great! 🤩🖤

08/10/2022

Non Sporting Dog Club of WA Championship Show

Group 7 Judge - Mr G Vernon (QLD)

LeMarais Zarkana - Nellie

RESERVE CHALLENGE BITCH 🎉

Best junior bitch
Best junior of breed

Group 5 Judge - Ms J Fynmore (NSW)

Icanhaz Eclipse for Skyefore - Ki

Best minor puppy of breed

BEST OF BREED 🎉

Was such a great day the kids did amazing, so proud of them both!

Thank you Lucy for running Ki today 🤗👌🏼

Congratulations to all todays winners 🥰

06/10/2022

Nosey girl 🖤

12/09/2022

Something to ponder ☺️

In the last few years, I’ve watched “dog culture” explode into a phenomenon I’d never seen as an early dog trainer. When I first started training dogs, people didn’t come to me with requests for their dogs to be able to handle things and expectations we put on them so heavily today. Nowadays, it’s amazing what we ask of our dogs because of this culture that emerged. And then we wonder why dogs are going downhill behaviorally so quickly.

1. Dog “groups” where people get together with dogs on leash and do activities and social events. Including birthday parties, Halloween parties, etc etc

2. Dog daycares where dogs are kept in large groups to play

3. Dog parks where humans AND dogs interact in groups

4. Behaviors like perfect heel on leash, sit stays on beds, ignoring environmental enticement in the name of “training”

Then there’s dog sports, dog classes, therapy dog work, service dog work, dog shows, trail walks, public outings, restaurants, breweries, and farmers markets and parades and town days and family over (with their dog) for every holiday and apartment complexes and car rides and pet stores and all these places we’ve been made to believe dogs SHOULD go and should WANT to go to and if they don’t then you need to do more and more work with them and help them like it and if you don’t then you aren’t fulfilling them or meeting their needs and your dog isn’t happy and you are failing or they just haven’t been raised right.

Please. Take a breath.

For 20,000 years dogs existed beside us doing none of that. For 9,000 years they were created for purpose and work, not for pets (with the exception of a few toy breeds) We didn’t expect ANY OF THIS during that time unless they were designed and created for it: now it’s what we want all the time. From all dogs. That’s not fair.

Our culture has changed SO much and dogs haven’t had a chance to catch up. We want all this new stuff because it’s part of OUR new culture, but we need to pause and realize it’s not a part of most of theirs. People coming over? Not really what most dogs were created to enjoy. Going new places all the time? Not what most dogs were created to handle. Hanging out in groups and put in costumes and having their pictures taken? Not normal to a dog. Riding calmly in a glass box going past all these distractions at 35mph? Not part of their DNA either.

We would NEVER expect this of any of our other animals either. Why are dogs taking the brunt of this. Because dogs are extremely adaptable and truthfully, they love us so much they will try so so hard to make us happy and do what we ask of them. But, can we for a second stop and think that maybe it’s too much sometimes? Can we please take some accountability for their stress and mental health as part of OUR unrealistic expectations that we’ve been led to believe make for a good dog vs a bad dog? I’m not talking about not working with them and helping them learn to live in todays world. That’s important. I’m talking about taking a step back and having respect for who they are and why they originally ended up with us. I do this all the time before I put any of my dogs in a situation, and that means sometimes I don’t bring them.

If the culture is changing; let’s add human education and understanding of basic canine ethology, body language and respect into it too. It’s only fair to honor the animals who have stood beside us for so so long.

Helen St. Pierre

11/09/2022

Non Sporting Dog Club WA
Championship Show 1
Judge - Joe Daidone (QLD)

LeMarais Zarkana - Nellie

🎊🎊 Junior Bitch of breed 🎊🎊

Non Sporting Dog Club WA
Championship Show 2
Judge - Anna Ancell (NZ)

LeMarais Zarkana - Nellie

🎊🎊 BEST OF BREED 🎊🎊

🎉🎉 Challenge Bitch 🎉🎉

🎉🎉 Junior of Breed 🎉🎉

So so proud of this girl today, she showed her socks off and for just her 4th weekend back showing is proving she has what it takes.

Thank you to our cheer squad and congrats to all the winners today 👏🏼👏🏼

05/09/2022

WOW I don’t like to brag 🙊🙊 but how gorgeous does Miss Nellie look?!!! 🤩🤩

Photo credit Jodie Grieve Photographer 📷

04/09/2022

Ladies Kennel Club of WA Championship Show
Saturday Judge - Mrs Valerie Hutton (VIC)

LEMARAIS ZARKANA - Nellie

🎉Reserve Challenge Bitch 🎉

🎉Junior of Breed🎉

Ladies Kennel Club of WA Championship Show
Sunday Judge - Mrs Dawn Redman (SA)

LEMARAIS ZARKANA - Nellie

🎉 Runner up Best of Breed 🎉

🎉 Challenge Bitch 🎉

🎉Junior of Breed🎉

Knocked out of group class by the Best in Group.

I am so proud of my girl, she really did a great job today, is getting the hang of this show stuff 💃🏻

Oh and not forgetting little man Ki did a fantastic job strutting his stuff once again and getting best baby puppy of breed 😊

💜

28/08/2022

Hills Kennel Club of WA
Championship Show Saturday
Judge - Mrs Kerry King (SA)

Le Marais Zarkana

🎊CHALLENGE BITCH🎊

🎉Junior of Breed 🎉

Hills Kennel Club of WA
Championship Show Sunday
Judge - Mrs C Hobday (VIC)

🎉RESERVE BITCH CHALLENGE🎉

🎊Junior of Breed🎊

What an amazing weekend! So happy and proud with how Nellie went, she has improved so much in just one short week 😊

Next weekend she’s back in the ring and Ki will be starting his show career here in Perth as well 🎉

26/08/2022

Little man Ki has joined our pack. He’s on an epic world adventure on his was to the U S of A 🌎 we are super excited to be his next stop on his way to achieving his goals 🙌🏼
He will be joining Nellie and myself at shows most weekends so if you’re in the neighbourhood come say hi 👋🏼☺️