Hellfire English Springer and Sussex Spaniels

2023 Puppies

Working Springers : 

Our next breeding will be a with Speck X FC AFC CFC Toby MH RE VCD1 OAP OJP VS, hopefully this summer. She had 7 puppies from the 2022 frozen semen breeding.

I only have a few Toby breedings left and then it's gone forever. Serious inquiries  are welcome. 

We only have 1-2 litters a year, and although we are no longer competing with our springers, many of our puppy homes are and we enjoy living vicariously through their success. The quality of our dogs will ALWAYS stay high.

The 2023 Zozz X Pod mega-litter!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Note: We do not place our  Springer or Sussex puppies in any of the southern states  or with other breeders.

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

 

 

 

 

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, although he passed them as a puppy, Bruce has failed three of his pre-breed health screens as an adult. Yes, he had a great 2022 in the show ring, but 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

 

 

 

Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year

I tried to get the springer youngsters to sit still  while wearing reindeer hats for the new Christmas Card, but this ended up as the 2022 winner. 

Have a great holiday season. (Photo credit: © 2022 A Monaghan All Rights Reserved)

Baby Olive rings in the New Year

 

Hellfire Springers - 2022

Did you know that I have bred 14 FIELD TRIAL WINNERS?  I too was surprised it was that many!  From hiking buddy and family pet to world class gundog, I take great pride knowing my babies can do it all.  Breeder proud.

 

The Hellfires Sussex had a great year, but it was the Hellfire Springers who really rocked it! Agility, Scentwork, Hunt Tests continue to dominate the 2022 AKC events. If I missed somebody, huge apologies, send me a message to jog my memory! Versatile, talented, smart, sound in body and mind = Hellfire's primary directive.

 

Congratulations to all!

 

Hellfires Dynamis MH - Field Trial Open WIN

Mettalik Mtn Caballero Cloaked in Black "Poncho" - Field Trial WIN + Placements

Mettalik Mtn Take Me Down Little Seussy "Seussy"- Field Trial WIN + Placements

Hellfires Hidden Treasure SH "Stash"

Hellfire's Heartbreaker CAA DCAT SWE SCNE SIM RATS CZ8B DS CGC TKI "Dream"

MACH Grimms Hellfire Hexenbiest BN RA TD MXS MJB OF T2B CAA BCAT TKN "Riddle"

Hellfires Searching A Ravine OA AXJ CGC TKN "Ravin"

Hellfire's Time Bomb RN MX MXB MXJ MJB MXF HDM CGC TKA "Ska"

Hellfire Pump You Up DCAT "Arnie"

Hellfires Ruse Of Victory SWN "Ruse"

Hellfire Can Fly BN RI NA NAJ NF "Chip"

 

Hellfire Performance Springers

2022 Sussex Spaniel Dog Show Results

Despite the limited showing this year, I somehow managed to finish 4 Grand Championships:

RBISX3 MBISSX4 GCH CH Hellfires Dancing in the Dark "Bruce" 

GCH CH Hellfires Cusp of Aries "Knox"

GCH CH Hellfires Serendipity is Marvelous " GG"

GCH CH Hellfire Has Faith in Me "Margery"

MBISSX4 RBISX3 GCH CH Hellfires Dancing in the Dark "Bruce"

Fly High Mia!

I said the final farewell to my beloved Mia on August 10th. It was a surreal experience as her Smudgie great granddaughters were being born via c-section in the adjacent operating room. I hugged her as she closed her eyes, while hearing the newborns push out their first wails. I felt horribly numb and ambivalent as they handed me the box of babies...but, life goes on. My entire second generation of outstanding Hellfire bitches are now gone. 

Mia was the last daughter from my foundation bitch Maia, Abitt of Hellfire MH. Her sire was  Toby, FC AFC CFC Abitts Highlander Lord MH RE VCD1 OAP OAJ.  She was 14.  Her daughter  Cate, American/Canadian FTW Hellfire's Fling in Decatur SH was her magnum opus.

I already miss her so much. 

Hellfires Back in Black "Mia"

Fly High Faith - In Memorium

We said goodbye to Faith today. Like the kindly lady she was, she just went to sleep and then slipped away in my arms.  She was 14. This is my first Sussex to cross the rainbow bridge...and ouch, it hurts. I will greatly miss her hourly woo woos and howling. I am so grateful she passed with peace and graciously saved me that awful, last trip to the vet clinic. She was a lovely, very thoughtful dog. She was the undisputed Queen of Couch Potatoes, the perfect house diva, and I will forever be thankful to Don Krueger for sending her to me.

Faith won 10 championship points before she had to be spayed during a csection for litter #2, which abruptly ended her show pursuits. She leaves behind 4 champion daughters, MBISS GCHB Marv, CH Rogue, CH Twinky and CH Margery (Large Marge), and 10 CH grand-puppies. Her wonderful legacy of fantastically long and luxurious ears and very sweet, gentle temperaments lives on.

Fly high and be free, Faithy! I already miss you terribly. We will meet again.

Orions You Gotta Have Faith

Hellfire Super Sniffers

In addition to all of our professional working super sniffers, the highest ranked competition nosework springers in the United States were bred by me. Heat seeking missiles indeed!

Dream is a puppy out of FC AFC Blanco X Zephyr (photo credit Hazel T)

 

 

Home Sweet Home

I get asked all the time about our "facility".  As a tiny, HOBBY breeder that only has 2-3 litters a year, I don't have a facility, I have a private residence just like you... and I am not open to the public for tours. The very idea is absurd.

We have 360 acres with plenty of room for dogs to run, explore and hunt...and they do!  We are fortunate  to have a climate controlled indoor kennel of 8 runs. We do not keep intact male springers on the property. Our dogs are not prisoners and the springers are kenneled only at night, when we are having horrible weather (muddy floors - OY!) and during heat cycles. The Sussex are full-time house dogs. Our property is gated with several security cameras strategically placed to keep track of spaniel shenanigans. There are two, one acre puppy and dog yards, and a 40 acre fenced "yard" for the house dogs.

Oh, and Yellowstone National Park is about 90 minutes away. A fun factoid: Yellowstone the TV show is filmed in Ravalli County, in western Montana...pretty far away from the real Yellowstone. I don't watch the show but I hear it's great and I sure get lots of questions about it!

Here are some pictures of Hellfire doggy life here: 

Chateau Hellfire

We have 360 acres of rolling hills and forests to run and play on

Our puppies are whelped in the house, on proper bedding...no shavings, paper or straw

 

We have 8 sparkly clean, heated/cooled indoor runs

My grooming room is used a LOT.

The puppy yard is in two parts - this is the one acre "big yard".

This is the "little yard"  - the puppies have access to it at night and learn to use the doggy door around 5 weeks old.  The lavender gate opens to the big puppy yard.

Staying cool in the summer with pools in all the yards

 

View from the kennel door - with gravel airing yard and one acre play yard

Born to run...and they do

Our little puppy yard - the puppies sleep in the HOUSE

Browns in our field

Hellfire Puppies in Sweaters!

Sometimes it gets cold and puppies need sweaters.

 

Puppy Enrichment Matters

Even before Puppy Culture became cool, we did a lot of fun stuff in the ball pit.  Hellfire Springer and Sussex Spaniel puppies do a LOT of physical, mental enrichment activities to stimulate brain development, problem solving, natural hunting and exploration instincts.