2023 Breeding Plans

02/03/2022

Working Springers : 

Upcoming 2023 breedings:  Three litters are planned with Speck, Zozzy and Joules (final litter).

I think this is the final plan as of 9/27/2022, doubt I'll change it again:

Zozzy X  Pod (repeat of 2022) Fall/Winter breeding = late Winter/early Spring puppies 

Joules X TBD (still looking) Winter breeding = early Spring puppies

Speck X Toby frozen semen (repeat of 2022) = Spring puppies

Reservations are open for both hunting/gun dog and active lifestyle pet homes. Contact me (link above) for details!

 Sussex Spaniels: We are NOT taking puppy inquiries. 

NOTE: We do not place puppies in the south or with other breeders. Our companion puppies are only sold with limited registration on non-breeding contracts. Cargo shipping is only available through Alaska Air to Seattle. Most people fly into Bozeman or Butte to pick up, and fly out with puppies in the cabin. We dock tails and dew claws off both front and back feet.

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A 2022 FC AFC CFC Toby MH X Speck puppy

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 Good Dog breeder with 20 years of OFA health results in the public database. 

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01/04/2022

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: 

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Chateau Hellfire
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We have 360 acres of rolling hills and forests to run and play on
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Our puppies are whelped in the house, on proper bedding...no shavings, paper or straw

 

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We have 8 sparkly clean, heated/cooled indoor runs
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My grooming room is used a LOT.
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The puppy yard is in two parts - this is the one acre "big yard".
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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.
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Staying cool in the summer with pools in all the yards

 

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View from the kennel door - with gravel airing yard and one acre play yard
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Born to run...and they do
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Our little puppy yard - the puppies sleep in the HOUSE
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Browns in our field

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12/30/2021

Hellfire Puppies in Sweaters!

Sometimes it gets cold and puppies need sweaters.

 

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12/26/2021

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. 

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12/24/2021

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.

 

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10/25/2021

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!

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CH Hellfires Cusp of Aries "Knox"

 

 

 

 

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10/15/2021

Montana Life

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I can help you with that!

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10/01/2021

Senior Living

When you are 74 years old in dog years, you can have whatever you want!

(FC AFC CFC Toby MH X Maia MH) - Mia is my very last Maia daughter.  I take her picture every year, just hoping to get  one more summer. Every day is a gift with our Senior Dogs.

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Hellfires Back in Black "Mia"

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09/28/2021

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. 

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A car full of perfect Sussex retinas
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Six generations of normal eyes!

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08/26/2021

Summer Puppies

It is so nice to finally put puppies in our puppy yard this year! I usually don't like summer litters, because of the heat issues, but my baby Tobsters have been so much fun, and they will get to go swimming in the real pond soon. It's a good thing the lavender gate opens up into a one acre play area, because these kids can already RUN. If you have had a Toby puppy in the past, you know what I mean. 

Thankful for the magic of science that brought my special boy back to life after all these years he has been gone, and gave me another wonderful baby from him.

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What else can we get into?

 

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08/22/2021

Hellfire Puppies - Our Newest Addition!

Please welcome Hellfires Precious Gem, callname "Gem". My special little keeper from our FC AFC CFC Toby MH RE VCD1 OAP OJP WDX X Zozzy (FC AFC Blanco X Zephyr) frozen semen litter. She's a fearless Amazon!

We will be using the frozen Toby semen again in either fall 2022 or spring 2023 (not 100% sure yet). Toby kids can be very high drive so we only place them in homes where the dogs will be trained and have a job to do.

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I'm Gem!

 

 

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