Hellfire English Springer and Sussex Spaniels

2023 - 2024 Puppies

!!!! We are not taking inquiries for Sussex puppies !!!!

FALL 2023 - We had a Field Springer litter of 10 born 10/30! A couple puppies are available for non-hunting/active lifestyle homes. Click  links for parent bios, pedigrees and OFA health links. Both parents are leggy, lovely, athletic and high drive. Speck has a softer temperament but she has super mutant stamina and is ridiculously smart. Pod is a proven producer and his kids are competing in field trials (placements), hunt tests (MH titled), obedience, agility, rally-o, nose work, flyball, FastCats - and two are Search and Rescue (SAR) cadaver dogs.

Speck is out of FC AFC CFC Paragons Eustis E Wart MH "Mickey" X Hellfires Astormin' Storm

X  Pod is out of

(FC AFC Narvins Sully of Ivanhoe X Am/Can FTW Hellfires Fling in Decatur SH "Cate")

Alaska Air has upsized all of the jets out of Montana! We prefer pick ups or fly ins, but we do have some cargo shipping options again, weather permitting. Our puppies are livestreamed 24/7 - you can watch them whenever you want. 

Speck

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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EARLY SPRING 2024    Zozzy X TBD Field Champion 

This is all I have planned for 2024. Two litters are planned for 2025

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NOTE: Yes, we are aware of the bullsh*t and personal attacks being spread by Marie Poliseno (who is actively competing and winning with a 2021 Joules/Pod puppy). We have been breeding outstanding, high quality dogs for 23 years and Marie is by far the nastiest person we have ever placed a puppy with. We are happy to connect you with other Hellfire family members, including ALL the 2021 siblings from that litter, for excellent references. 

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Note: We do not place our puppies with other breeders or in any of the southern states, unless we personally know who you are. 

Our Puppy 411 Page is required reading before contacting us for info. Our puppies are raised in the house, not a shed or outdoor kennel. Our litters are livestreamed 24/7 from birth until they leave. Hellfire is an experienced and accomplished AKC Breeder of Merit, Trupanion  breeder with 20+ years of OFA health results in the public database. 

We breed for excellence. Although we are no longer actively competing with our own springers (while we chase Sussex points),  many of our puppy homes are and we enjoy living vicariously through their success. The quality of our dogs will ALWAYS stay high. There is a high probability that we will run on another hunt test ESS in the next two years as we wrap up the Sussex shenanigans.

The Zozzy X Pod mega-litter!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MACH Grimms Hellfire Hexenbiest BN RA TD MXS MJB MXP2 MJP2 MJPB OF T2B CAA BCAT TKN

Then there is the magnificent Riddle -

MACH Grimms Hellfire Hexenbiest BN RA TD MXS MJB MXP2 MJP2 MJPB OF T2B CAA BCAT TKN

Owned and trained by Linda Coffel

She's never been super fast, but she has always been super QQ consistent!

 

Also a highly successful Search and Rescue dog with documented finds. Why this amazing dog isn't an @AKC ACE Award winner, makes no sense to me. This dog has it all.

Two decades of purpose bred dogs.

(Ice X Haley breeding)

 

Hellfires Ruse of Victory JH SH SWA "Ruse"

Proud breeder moment: Team Ruse is on and went 4/4 Senior Hunter passes to his new SH title! Not bad for a field noob, with a dog who had not seen the hunting world until 2 years old. Ruse earned his JH SH in the same year!

Another woman handler with a Joules X Pod baby in the field, 2021 litter.

Owner/trainer/handler: Julianna Dome

 

Thank you Southern California Sporting Spaniel Club for steering these youngsters in the right direction.

 

Hellfires Ruse of Victory JH SH SWA

 

 

 

 

 

FC AFC CFC Hellfires Fast Track MH CD MX AXJ VS "Indy"

Remember this awesome guy? A dominant sire that is in just about every pedigree in the east coast.

FC AFC CFC Hellfire's Fast Track MH CD MX AXJ VS - an ESSFTA Versatile Springer

Out of FC AFC Rolling Oaks High Chaparral "Chaps" X Abitt of Hellfire MH WDX "Maia"

Bred by Angela Monaghan 

Owned/handled: Billie K Edwards

Gun dogs that can do it all. 

FC AFC CFC Hellfires Fast Track MH CD MX AXJ VS

Hellfire's Time Bomb RN MX MXB MXJ MJB MFB T2B BCAT DM HDM CGC TKA "Ska"

I don't post enough about my agility puppies but here is another one, he's also the #1 FASTCAT springer in the US: "Ska" aka Hellfire's Time Bomb RN MX MXB MXJ MJB MFB T2B BCAT DM HDM CGC TKA - with owner Katherine Ostiguy

Ska is also the #1 Fast CAT springer in the US. He's fast.

"Ska" is from my FC AFC  Paragon's Cairnbrae Fionan Bhan X Zephyr breeding. Trained and owned by Katherine Ostiguy

(Photo Credit: Michael O'Leary, used with his permission)

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Ska doing what he does

 

 

 

Hellfire Can Fly CD BN GN RM RAE AX AXJ XF "Chip"

There are a handful of awesome Hellfire Springer puppies doing AKC Agility. Two have earned the MACH and/or PACH, I think two more are getting close, a couple more are getting started. I just realized I don't post enough about them, so I will start adding more of them on the blog site. 

Meet Hellfire Can Fly CD BN GN RM RAE AX AXJ XF  "Chip" has both agility and obedience rankings.

Owned by my dear friend Marie Poliseno  in Absarokee, MT   

(Photo credit: Becky Pearman Photography)

Another great Hellfire Springer, made in Montana

 

 

 

That's a Wrap!

Unless we go to Florida in December, our show season is finally over for the year. Team Hellfire put some serious miles on the van and we had a blast doing some new shows in new places, and made a whole lot of new friends along the way. It was no small task, but for the 2023 show season we finished 4 new Hellfire Champions, 3 Grand Champions and a Bronze Grand Champion.  THANK YOU to my (world's best) assistant Tyson and all our fabulous friends, dog sitters and family who stepped up to help. I am looking forward to whatever 2024 brings us, hopefully some obedience and hunt tests!

• New Champion CH Hellfires Flying By Faith "Poppy"
• New Champion CH Hellfires Rogue One "Tippy"
• New Champion CH Hellfire on Twosday "Twosday"
• New Champion CH Hellfires There and Back "Smoosh"
• New Grand GCH CH Hellfires Twinkle of Faith "Twinky"
• New Grand Champion GCH CH Hellfires Marvelous Serendipity "Gwynnie"
• New Grand Champion GCH CH Hellfires Rogue One "Tippy"
• New Bronze Grand Champion GCHB CH Hellfires Cusp of Aries "Knox"

 

Hellfire Sussex Spaniels

MBISS NBOSS GCHB Hellfires Mizz Marvel

Baby Marv! Sweetest dog on the planet. It's hard to believe she is 8 years old now. She is a great example of why it's more important to care about what's in the head, than the size of it.

Mother of:
GCH CH Hellfires Serendipity is Marvelous "GG"
GCH CH Hellfires Marvelous Serendipity "Gwynnie"
CH Hellfires Big Skye Surprise @ Three D "Skye"
CH Hellfires Ruby Flash@Primetime "Ruby"
CH Hellfires Supergirl@Primetime "Summer"
CH Hellfires Sweet Serendipity "Nim"
CH Hellfires There and Back "Smoosh"
CH Hellfire on Twosday "Twosday"
Up and comers:
Hellfires Marvelous "Pax"
Hellfires Marvelous Sunshine "Olive"

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Super FASTCats

I had no idea some of my puppy owners were doing this fast growing sport, but I DO know how exhausted I am after raising a litter of these little cheetahs! Good grief, three of the Top 5 FastCat springers in the US are my puppies. 

AKC FastCat is a running/lure coursing sport - the dogs chase a plastic lure (rabbit) about a course and their running speeds are clocked over a 100 yard dash. It's super fun. I've seen it at dog shows and have always wanted to try it, but the lines are so long we can never get in. 

Hellfire Fast Cats!

 

Smoosh'd it!

We are finally back in the show rings and off to a great start. For her very first show outing, the lovely "Smoosh"  (Frank X Marv) went Best of Breed from the Bred-By Exhibitor class, over two GCH specials for a 5 point major! (Judge: Eva Berg)  

Also happy to announce that my beloved, sweet Gwynnie, is now GCH CH Hellfires Marvelous Serendipity! (pending posting of AKC results.)  #hellfiresussexspaniels #montanadogs #akcshowdogs

Hellfires There and Back

GCH CH Hellfires Dancing in the Dark

I've had a few breeding inquiries for this dog and it should be stated publicly, that Bruce was placed with my co-owner Jann Grant, on a NON-BREEDING agreement. Additionally, Bruce has failed three of his health screens as an adult and because of the serious genetic nature of his faults  he is officially wiped out of my breeding program, and most definitely should NOT be considered for others! 

I have been breeding a very long time, and since my very first litter I have taken genetic soundness and health screenings seriously. Bruce isn't the first nice dog to be washed out, and he won't be the last. I do this for YOUR benefit. I am most definitely not saying that every dog I have bred has been perfect, but there is a big difference between dealing with the MANY issues that can unexpectedly come up from fully health screened parents, and intentionally breeding a dog with serious faults. This is especially true of the rare breeds, with tiny gene pools, that can easily be overrun with serious issues bred in by unscrupulous breeders.  Then there is this fact: whatever is in my pedigrees was put there by previous breeders. 

Bruce wasn't the only nice male from my Maverick/Gwynnie litter. His littermate, Knox, GCH CH Hellfires Cusp of Aries, is nicer through the rib and body than Bruce, with far more substance and better bone. Same great temperament. You can see his OFA HEALTH SCREENS by clicking the link. 

Baby Chunk from our 2022 Twinky/Frank litter