Hellfire English Springer and Sussex Spaniels

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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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"

 

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!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

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

 

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 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

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

Puzzle time!

Hellfire puppies do a LOT of puzzles!

We use the Puppy Culture Workbook as the standard for age appropriate puppy enrichment and socialization. Getting those brains and super sniffers working early is an important part of our puppy rearing program. 

Note: Our puppies are raised in the house, not a kennel. Our litters are livestreamed 24/7 from birth until they leave.

 

New Hellfire Sussex Champion

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!

CH Hellfires Cusp of Aries "Knox"

 

 

 

 

OFA Health Tested Dogs

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. 

A car full of perfect Sussex retinas

Six generations of normal eyes!