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 [email protected] "Ruby"
CH Hellfires [email protected] "Summer"
CH Hellfires Sweet Serendipity "Nim"
CH Hellfires There and Back "Smoosh"
Hellfire on Twosday (both majors) "Twosday"
Up and comers:
Hellfires Marvelous "Pax"
Hellfires Marvelous Sunshine "Olive"
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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
SUMMER/FALL 2023 Puppies
UPDATE 5/14/2023: Joules is being bred this coming week and will have puppies by the third week of July. The Joules X Pod puppies have jobs in Search and Rescue, Field Trial/Hunt Test, Agility/Obedience/Nosework as well as being outstanding hunting/family companions.
CURRENTLY FULL as of 5/14/2023: We are also doing the final litter with Speck X FC AFC CFC Toby MH RE VCD1 OAP OJP VS this summer. I only have a few Toby breedings left and then it's gone forever. Because of the extra repro procedures, irreplaceable froze semen, and Toby's proven track record of outstanding competition quality offspring, the prices are appropriately high.
SPRING/SUMMER 2024 Puppies:
Zozzy X Toby repeat of 2021 (Outstanding HIGH DRIVE puppies!)
Gem (Zozzy X Toby) X Pod (first litter for Gem)
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Although we are no longer competing with our own springers (who knows maybe in the future I'll get back to it), many of our puppy homes are and we enjoy living vicariously through their success. The quality of our dogs will ALWAYS stay high.
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 breeder with 20+ years of OFA health results in the public database.
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)
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"
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.
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:
Hooray, put a fork in him, he's done! Knox finished his championship with 4 straight 4 point majors, all points over other champions, over the weekend. He also picked up 8 points toward his Grand Championship. Knox is a littermate to Bruce, my lovely puppy who went BISS from the Bred By Exhibitor class.
Knox is out of "Maverick" GCHB Sundowners Repeat Fire CD RAE RATO CGC X "Gwynnie" CH Hellfires Serendipity is Marvelous and is my 13th Hellfire bred Champion. Hoping to finishing this boys GCH in the spring, because we are definitely looking forward to less dog shows and more obedience and hunt tests!
I hauled Sussex and springers up to the Helena dog shows last weekend to have our eyes CAER screened. Montana does not have a veterinary eye specialist and field bred springers in particular are riddled with various genetic eye conditions and retinal dysplasias. When Dr Roberts from Colorado stopped coming to Montana a few years ago, he pretty much left us high and dry, with no replacement. I am very thankful that Dr Breaux, from Boise agreed to step up and will be coming back next year!
I am thrilled to report that Baby Gem (FC AFC CFC Toby X Zozzy) and Smudge (Pod X Joules 2020) became my SIXTH GENERATION to pass with normal eyes...and 20 years of OFA normals through the same line of bitches. Proud breeder moment.
Four Generations of my Sussex have been eye (and BAER hearing) screened with normal results.