FzyBr Saints • Falmouth, Massachusetts
Female Saint Bernards at FzyBr Saints, Massachusetts
Our female Saint Bernards are central to the FzyBr Saints breeding program. From Lola Mae and Yolo to Remi, their stories explain how our program developed and what we hope to carry into the next generation.
They are also members of our family. We evaluate each dog for who she is, how she develops, and what she may contribute. A pedigree creates possibilities, never an obligation to breed.
What We Look for in Our Females
We consider the whole Saint Bernard: the dog in front of us, the generations behind her, and how her qualities may complement a potential mate.
Longevity and Vitality
Family history, longevity, and overall vitality inform our decisions.
Temperament
We value stable, confident, trustworthy dogs with the characteristic temperament of the Saint Bernard.
Structure and Soundness
Balance and functional movement matter in a giant working breed. We look for dogs that can move comfortably and efficiently.
Breed Type
We work to preserve the character, structure, and presence that make a Saint Bernard recognizable, alongside health and soundness.
The Female Family Behind FzyBr
King’s Mill Hemie, known at home as Lola Mae, helped establish our foundation. Melon City Yolo became a defining influence through the dogs she produced. Remi now brings Yolo’s family back into FzyBr another generation later.
Foundation Female
Lola Mae
King’s Mill Hemie
Lola Mae helped establish the standards we carried into the next generation. Her temperament, character, and maternal qualities were an important part of the early FzyBr program and shaped what we valued in the females that followed.
Melon City and FzyBr Saints
Jeff and Darcy Petersen of Melon City Saints have been important to the development of FzyBr Saints. Their experience, mentorship, and dogs helped provide a foundation from which our own program could develop.
That influence became especially important through Melon City Yolo and remains visible in our dogs today.
A Defining FzyBr Female
Yolo
Melon City Yolo
Yolo has had a profound influence on FzyBr Saints. More than any individual show result, her importance is found in the dogs and generations she produced.
Her 2022 breeding to CH Notorious Tru Blu Gixxer, bred by Jeff Creasy of Notorious Tru Saints, produced our keeper FzyBr’s Bolthor, known as Bolt. Yolo also produced FzyBr’s Caesar and Melon City Luka.
Through Luka, Yolo became Remi’s grandmother, giving us the opportunity to bring a female from this family back into FzyBr another generation later.
Bolt: A Meaningful Measure of the Breeding
At the 2023 Northern New Jersey Saint Bernard Club/SBCA Regional, breeder-judge Bob Sykora of Van Rijn Saints awarded Bolt Winners Dog for a five-point major. When asked what separated Bolt, Bob’s answer was simple: balance.
Bolt then advanced to the breed judging, where Glenn Radcliffe awarded him an Award of Merit.
Those wins were gratifying, but their greater value was the independent evaluation of a dog we had bred and retained. Bolt helped us assess what the Yolo and Gixxer pairing produced and what we wanted to carry forward.
The Next Generation
Remi
Remi brings that family forward another generation. She is Yolo’s granddaughter through Melon City Luka and Southern Giant’s Helen.
Helen, owned by Carolyn Cataldo of Opdyke Kennel, was Reserve Winners Bitch at the 2024 Saint Bernard Club of America National Specialty. She is by CH Melon City Apollo and out of CH Selma Herbu Przygoda.
That combination made Remi especially interesting to us. She brings Yolo’s family back through Luka, while Helen contributes another Melon City connection through Apollo and a different female family through Selma.
Carolyn Cataldo’s willingness to let Remi come to FzyBr gave us the opportunity to continue with a family we know while adding another generation of selection and a different combination of bloodlines.
Looking Ahead: Remi and Caesar
One possibility for the future is a potential breeding between Remi and Caesar. Caesar is Yolo’s son, while Remi returns to Yolo through her son Melon City Luka.
Two Paths Back to Yolo
We think of that possibility as a bookend breeding: returning to a female whose influence we know well through two different paths, while retaining the contributions made by the generations between.
This is a possibility, not an announced litter. Remi’s maturity, health, temperament, and development, together with our evaluation of both dogs and the proposed pairing, will determine whether we proceed.
Dogs First, Always
Our female Saint Bernards are members of our family before they are part of a breeding program. Their value is never determined by whether they produce puppies.
We breed when we believe an individual dog is an appropriate candidate and a proposed pairing can contribute something worthwhile. Knowing when to wait, or when not to breed, is part of that responsibility.
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