Breeding Plans 2022 - 2023

02/03/2022

Working Springers : 

2022 Plans:  I am mulling over the idea of breeding Smudge (Pod X Joules) this summer for FALL puppies. Reservations are open for both hunting/gun dog and active lifestyle pet homes. Contact me for details!

2023 Plans:  Two litters are planned. Zozzy will be bred to the frozen Toby semen for a late spring/early summer litter. I think it will be spring when we breed Joules  for the final time - we are looking at a National Field Champion back east for her retirement litter.  I will only take deposits for these match-ups until after the breedings have been done and we verify a pregnancy.

No other springer litters are planned in 2023. 

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 to pick up, and puppies travel in the cabin.

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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 and I am not open to the public. It shocks me how many people think they can just show up whenever they want. We are a private residence on 360 acres.

Yes, there is surely 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.

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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Our big puppy yard is one acre
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The puppies use the little puppy yard when learning to use the doggy door and they have access to it at night. 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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10/15/2021

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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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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05/17/2021

Hellfire Nosework Dogs

Not everything the Hellfire springers do is bird hunting related! We have placed many puppies in professional Medical Detection, Search and Rescue (trailing, human remains), AKC Scentwork, Nosework, and tracking working venues. Barn Hunt is another fun hide and seek game where rats are humanely placed in plastic tubes and hidden in a straw bale course - the field springers rock at it!

Field Springers are epic CANINE ATHLETES. Without genetic health screening, breeding five generations of dogs with sound joints/heart/DNA and eyes  would be impossible. Dream, below, out of FC AFC Blanco X Zephyr, is also OFA CHIC certified

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"Dream" Hellfire's Heartbreaker CAA DCAT SWA SCE RATS CZ8B DS CGC TKI ORT NW3-Elite NW3-C NW3-E NW3-I NW3-V L2C L1E L3I L1V - 
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Riddle and Ravin are both working SAR dogs in Oregon (and do AKC agility!)

 

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05/13/2021

Hellfire Springer Spaniels | Hellfire Gun Dogs | Hellfire Kennels

Hellfire Kennels has been an ESSFTA member since 1998 - the year I made my first Master Hunter with a lovely black and white girl named Annie (never bred).  Since then we have been very active in the performance sports, have owner/handler competed to the highest levels in all of them.  In addition to our hunting companion and active lifestyle pet homes. we have bred over 10 Field Champions and Field Trial Winners, over 30 Master Hunters, and placed puppies in dozens of agility, obedience, rally, barn hunt, nosework and search and rescue venues. We have over 20 years of OFA results and ALL of our breeding dogs are fully health screened. 

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AKC Obedience and Multi-Title Awards
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