Puppies

At this moment we don't have any puppies. We hope to have our Grace bred her next heat. We don't know her mate yet... Otherwise we'll just wait until Jake is old enough to breed her.

Very exciting litter born on the 20th of March 2008: Our lovely girl Spice and I flew all the way to Seattle, United States to have her bred to the gorgeous Int'l CH, CKC Ch. Mistretta's Bear Named Balou STDs STDsc DNA-VP. 10 puppies were born:

9.20 black tri male, Olympic Bear (Bear), after his father Bear, and Olympia and of course the gorgeous Olympic mountains.
11.30 black tri male, Action Jackson (Jackson)
0.15 black tri male, Rough Eagle (Eagle)
0.20 blue merle male, River Wild (River). He is a copy of my own Blues, Spices litter brother. Soooo cute.
1.10 blue merle bitch, Little Miss Suzy (Suzy)
3.10 ........ a very dark red tri bitch, Hot & Spicy (Julie). Later on she appeared to be a dilute.
4.30 black tri male, Rio Grande (Rio)
5.35 black tri male, Simply Huey (Huey). Huey died at the age of one week...
6.00 blue merle bitch, Amazing Grace (Grace). She has stunning colours.
6.30 black tri male, The Jackpot! (Jack), Spices last puppy and I found it the Jackpot and Jack is after her grandfather War Drum of Imagineer, a.k.a. Jack.

You can find more information about their gorgeous father on the following webpage:
http://www.gearhartaussies.com/bear.html. And more info about our Spicy girl you can find on her own webpage.

The lovely couple in the States...

Very pregnant...

And our Easter present!

What did we do with our pups? They are used to a crate, they are potty trained, they did hikes in the forest together with all our other dogs, they joined me to the dog training school everyday, they've seen at least 300 people and lots of children, they met our sheep, ducks, chicken, rabbits, cats, played with children, joined me to the youth jail three days and played with the children in the jail, went through the agility tunnel, played with a bunch of little puppies in our puppy classes, met our little tractor, our mower, heard a lot of noises, heard motor cycles, cars, saw bikes, strollers, wheel chairs, etc. They are a gorgeous and very open bunch of puppies. The Australian shepherd club was here to take a look at the litter, they were chipped, dewormed, they were frontlined against ticks and fleas, we went to the vet and they made a complete mess of his room. They were tested on temperaments and their eyes were checked. They all left us, except for our own Grace and Jackson came back to us at the age of 1 year. Rio is living in far away Finland on a gorgeous farm, a bunch stayed close by and Amazing Grace will stay with us. I will miss them very much.... and I extremely enjoyed this wonderful litter.

8 weeks

River Wild. He lives with the Butcher family in Goor

Olympic Bear, he lives with the Janssen family in Limburg

Action Jackson. This stunning male is living with my aunt. With his wonderful bloodlines and character he is our male hope for the future.

Rough Eagle. He lives with the Oosterhuis family in Zeist.

Rio Grande. He lives with Taina in Finland...

The Jackpot. He lives with Marga and Rudi in Vorden.

Hot & Spicy. She lives with Marjolein and her aussie Sanne in Vriezenveen.

Little Miss Suzy. She lives with Rosemarijn in Dalen.

Amazing Grace. This pretty girl stays with us!

7 weeks

and it's hard to count; this time we're missing Bear in the pics!

Jackpot

4 generations! with great grandpa Jack

Julie

Jackson & Jackpot

River

Eagle

Eagle

Jackpot

Jackpot

Grace (feeling hot hot hot)

Grace

Julie

Jackson

Rio

Suzy

These pics were made during a little hike in the forest with the Oosterhuis family.

5,5 weeks

River Wild

River Wild

Olympic Bear

Olympic Bear

Action Jackson (his standing pic is missing)

Rough Eagle

Rough Eagle

Rio Grande

Rio Grande

The Jackpot

The Jackpot

Hot & Spicy (Julie) (Her standing pic is missing).

Little Miss Suzy.

Little Miss Suzy

Amazing Grace

Amazing Grace

The first outside pics (4,5 weeks)

Spice and her cutie pies, enjoying the nice spring sun

Our daughter Amy hugging the pups

Julie exploring...

River

Bear

Jackson

Spice & Eagle

Eagle

Amy & Julie

Jack

Julie with the gorgeous blue eyes and the blue violets

Julie

Amy & River

Amazing Grace with the blue eyes and the blue violets...

Grace

Rio Grande (he's the smallest one with a big name)

Little Miss Suzy (she's the biggest one with a small name)

Pics of week 4!

Pffff, 9 pups to feed....

River Wild

Olympic Bear

Rough Eagle

Rough Eagle

Amazing Grace

Amazing Grace again

The Jackpot!

Rio Grande

Little Miss Suzy

Hot & Spicy (Julie)

Action Jackson

Pictures of week 3

Pictures of week 2

Action Jackson

Below pictures of the first week

Gorgeous tan on Rio Grande...

River Wild

Olympic Bear

Spice's first born pup of her last litter, named after his dad Mistretta's Bear Named Ballou a.k.a. Bear and after the capital city of the State of Washington, Olympia, where they mated. Of course also after the gorgeous Olympic mountains where Spice and I drove through during our trip to the US.

Action Jackson

Action Jackson

Rough Eagle

Rio Grande

Simply Huey

Simply Huey unfortunately died on Friday, a week old, biggest one of all the pups. We buried him together with our other passed best friends...

The last born puppy of Spice: The Jackpot! a.k.a. Jack

Hot & Spicy (Julie)

Little Miss Suzy

Amazing Grace

Spice x Burning Bonfire pups were born on the 29th of November 2006! (all puppies have new owners).

Spice had her second litter on the 29th of November 2006. She delivered 10 puppies, but unfortunately one puppy was not alive when he was born. However, the other 9 are doing fine. We have 6 blue merles (3 males and 3 females) and 3 black tris (2 males and 1 female). The father of the puppies is BISS VDH CH. Burning Bonfire BH. More information about him and his pedigree you can find on the following website: http://www.rafter-creek.de. Mommy Spice and the pups are doing great. Please find hereunder some pictures of our cute little puppies!

This is our song title nest. We have:

Boogie Wonderland (Boogie), black tri male

Instant Replay (Replay), black tri male

Do You Wanna Funk, (Funky), blue merle male

In the Stone (Stone), blue merle male

Hey Joe (Joe), blue merle male

Let's Go Crazy (Crazy), black tri female

Sweet Sassy Lady (Sassy), blue merle female

Gettin' Jiggy (Jiggy), blue merle female

Juicy Fruit (Juicy), blue merle female

Juicy (under) & Stone

Sassy's little ...

Stone & Karen

Boogie & Karen

Boogie Wonderland

Boogie Wonderland

Instant Replay

Instant Replay

Do You Wanna Funk

Do You Wanna Funk

In the Stone

In the Stone

Hey Joe

Let's go Crazy

Let's go Crazy

Juicy Fruit

Sweet Sassy Lady

Gettin' Jiggy

And some pictures with all my other dogs in the woods

Our puppies grow up on our farm in Beerzerveld. All our Aussies live in the house and of course we have the whelping box in the living room. The pups sleep in the living room until they leave us at the age of 8 weeks. We have a dog training school at our farm, so from the age of 4 weeks the pups are in the coffee room at the dog training school whenever I am working. They see at least 200 people and 200 dogs a week, we socialize them with our own sheep, chickens and ducks, the pups join me in my car everyday, I take them to the forest for small walks, they live in my pack of dogs, they are bench trained and house trained when they leave us. I take them to the shopping centre one by one, etc. etc. Because the Aussie is pretty sensitive for noises, I do a lot of efforts to socialize them with noises and also with strange objects. Socialization in general is very, very important from the age of 4 weeks for Aussies!

At the age of 7 weeks we do a puppytest. With this puppytest, what we see in the litter ourselves and what the puppy buyer wants we make the final decision which pup goes where. We do not work with a waiting list: our pups go to the best people and it's definitely not first come first serve... or "I want an Aussie with two blue eyes". If you are seriously interested in an Aussie puppy from Somethin' Spicy, just let us know and come visit us, call or mail us!