Puppies

2008 Litters

If you are interested in buying a puppy, please read our Letter to Prospective Buyers.                                                         

We offer a twenty-seven month guarantee on hips and eyes:

We are taking reservations now. A deposit is required for a firm reservation.

 Puppies are often available out of our wonderful males, Morgan, Linc and Pic. See below for info.

Maggie in Season; Ultrasounds confirms pregnancy!

   Maggie came into season on Monday, April 21 and was bred  to Tom Heidl’s Swiper on Friday, May 2 and Sunday May 4 and an ultrasound done on June 4 confirms that Maggie is, in fact, pregnant. Puppies are due to be whelped on or about July 1, 2008. See below for more info on the Maggie/ Swiper litter. 

RUFF DELIVERS…

   Ruff had her pups, sired by FC Riparian Windfall, on Thursday, April 24 in the late evening. The all yellow litter consisted of 4 females ( all reserved) and 3 males ( all reserved). Pups and mother are doing well and , God willing, will be ready to go to homes the weekend of June 13.

Ruff Bred to FC Riparian Windfall

Ultrasound confirms Puppies!

An ultrasound performed Friday, March 21 confirmed that Ruff is, in fact, pregnant. Best guess is 6-8 pups.

   Ruff came into season on February 13 and she was bred to Jeanne Garland’s  yellow male Rickey (FC Riparian Windfall ) on Thursday, Febuary 21 (and again on Saturday the 23rd) immediately after Rickey had did a fine job running a couple of double blind/distraction drills. I got the call as I was driving home thru the ice storms that blasted thru S. Illinois and Missouri that day.  Pups will be due about April 24. See info below.

Cypress Creek Retrievers……chocolate & black puppies soon available

   Clint and Louann Orms at Cypress Creek Retrievers in Gilmer, Texas are soon to be parents to a wonderful litter of chocolates and blacks( possibly trifactored) out of their female ” Broke” ( Lean Mac x FC-AFC Tatuh) and Frank Price’s wonderful chocolate male Roux ( Wing Magic’s  Louisiana Roux ***). Pups are due April 18. Roux just won an Amateur in Oklahoma and is on his way to his field trial titles. We are excited about getting a chocolate female from this breeding and recommend it highly. Check the litter out on the Orms’ website, www.cypresscreekretrievers.com or call Louann at 903-762-1436.

SOPHIE

Sophie has Puppies!!

Sophie whelped a litter of eight pupppies on March 7, 2008. Remarkably all the pups are chocolate…3 males and 5 females. All three males and four females have been reserved.  Pups will go to homes the weekend of April 25. Puppies will be $1200. Deposit required is $200.

Ultrasound Confirms Puppies!!!

An US performed on Monday AM, January 28 showed that Sophie is pregnant with at least seven puppies. While we would be thrilled with just seven we are hoping that, as usual, the US has missed a pup or two. We will take deposits on three pups in each category then we will take down names to be called in case of a very unusual mix of pups.

Sophie, HRCH Ten Bears Dream Catcher MH,came into season on Christmas Eve and after much deliberation we  decided to do a repeat breeding to Ten Bears Road Trip***, the hot young chocolate owned by Mike Judas of Ten Bear Kennels near Galesburg, Il. Glowing reports on the pups out of the first litter, now about 10 months old( whelped 2-19-2007), continue to come in and the pups are very nice looking as well. Breedings took place on January 1,3 & 4, 2008.   Pups will be picked up on the weekend of April 25. Tick is out of FC-AFC Carolina’s Smoke On The Water and FC Highpoints Troublesome Sugar and has an awesome pedigree as does Sophie who is out of FC-AFC High Tech’s CEO and HRCH Rascal’s Chocolate Pie*** MH( retired at age 3 due to injury). Both Sophie and Tick have all the standard medical clearances including CNM. Complete info on Tick can be seen at Mike’s website, www.tenbearkennels.net, or by going to our info on Sophie and Tick’s 2007 litter below.

Sophie’s litter should have been 1/2 chocolate and 1/2 black. As noted above Sophie has had an ultrasound showing at least 7 pups. I tried some veterinary humor and asked my vet to tell me how many black and how many chocolate and no one laughed just like I did not laugh when he told me had docked a litter’s tails when we took them in for dew claw removal!! Oh, Well!! Now that we know what we have pups will be $1200. If you are interested call and discuss this and other details.

At the present time( 12-28-2007) we are planning on three litters for 2008. Maggie should come into season any time now and Ruff should come in about March but on two occasions has come in two months early.

RUFF

 Ruff has been bred  to FC Riparian Windfall(www.riparianretrievers.net) for an all yellow litter. ” Rickey” won the Open at the River King Retriever Club field trial the weekend of March 28-30  and already has his amatuer win so he now will pursue the few points that he needs to get his AFC title. These puppies will have an absolutely beautiful pedigree. Males will be $850 and Females will be $950. Reservations are now being accepted.

MAGGIE

Maggie ( Blindfaiths Magnum Star JH) was bred to Tom Heidl’s beautiful chocolate male, Swiper ( HRCH UH Heidl’s Mallard Machine MH) on April 2 and April 4. Puppies are expected on or about July 1 which is Maggie’s birthday.  Swiper is a wonderful gun dog and companion in addition to being a very fine competitive dog. He is now running field trial Quals in addition to hunt tests. Complete info and pedigree/pictures can be seen at Tom’s website www.lockednloadedlabs.com . Price will be about $800  and reservations are now being accepted. Maggie’s three previous litters out of GMHR HRCH Mountains Top Wooden Nickel MH and GRHRCH UH Dakota’s Cajun Roux MH have been uniformly beautiful and are doing well as gundogs, hunt test dogs and companions. We will gladly furnish references. For a number of reasons, not related to ability, Maggie did not run anything beyond Junior but she does handle and is a very nice gundog and she has a very nice pedigree. She is one of those dogs that throws her good looks and trainability. Her pups have a 100% success rate at doing what they were purchased to do. I’m sure that if you talk to past buyers you will find that a chocolate pup out of Maggie will be a good investment.

STUD SERVICE PUPPIES

Here are some contacts for pups out of our males. If you are interested in discussing these females/breedings just give us a call( 217-247-2754).

1. Dane Maltsberger ( In), 765-294-0026, all yellow litter( Morgan) born May 15.

2. Dan Tyner (In.), 260-327-3310, all yellow litter( Morgan) born June 22.

3. Dean Kadenhead (In.), 812-457-8464, Blk/Ylw litter( Morgan) due July 26.

4. Bill McGinnis( Il.), 217-849-2239, Blk/Ylw litter( Pic) due July 3.

5. Darrel Frichtl ( Il.), 309-928-0367, Blk/Ylw litter( Linc) planned mid summer.