Its been over a year and a half since we had a litter of puppies so when Alisha from Lockestar Cavaliers contacted me about socializing her recent litter, we jumped at the chance. These puppies’ mom is Arrow’s sister Penny.
Baylea, Kinzie and Dollar were a little timid at first but it didn’t take them long to get used to the “small humans” in our home 🙂
What fun to have these little puppies in our home for the week!
It is my first time being on the road and staying away from home during a dog show – the Portland Rose classic is a big 4 day All-breed show. Its fun to play around in the Best of Breed ring as we try to garner points towards our Grand CH title.
Over the weekend we got Select 2x and went Best of Opposite 2x which equates to 4 more points towards our title. Wahoo!
We like to take our dogs everywhere we go (if we can). On this gorgeous wintery day, we went hiking at the beautiful Snoqualmie Falls and Maddy and Arrow came with us 🙂
Getting Best of Breed is an honor. Once you are the best in your breed, you get to show against the best in breed in all the other breeds in your group.
For beagles, they are a hound and so go back into the ring with the best of breeds such as Afgans, Deerhounds, Bassets, Dachshunds, Whippets, Greyhounds….well you get the idea. 🙂 There are a lot of amazing dogs in the same ring.
Well today, Maddy got 4th place in Hound group – how exciting for us!! We are well on our way to our Canadian CH title.
I think Maddy quite likes the hotel life while showing in Canada. Ha!
Arrow and Maddy are besties and sleep like this every day. I cant help but think Arrow must think she is a beagle after all
This is little Stella – Jessie’s final puppy. With progesterone testing and perfect timing, she produced only one puppy, so we made the hard decision to spay her on delivery.
With breeding, we take our job very seriously – not just extensively health testing our dams – but also making hard decisions if we need to.
Unfortunately, Jessie had trouble getting pregnant and trouble whelping. It is no one’s fault – it is just the nature of nature. But we believe that its unfair to Jessie to make her go through this again and so spaying her means we can have her as our couch potato from now on.
Little Stella was 5 oz at birth and took about 30 minutes to breathe steadily. She is now nursing well and growing perfectly. We are in love.
After much deliberation, we talked to Sheri from Foxtail beagles about acquiring a puppy from her recent litter. Maddy is the half sister to Stella (both being sired by JJ – BIS BISS CH Foxtails Race for the Race) but Maddy is closer aligned to what I want in a show puppy (and ultimately to breed from).
So we welcome Madison (aka Foxtails Dreaming of the Race) to our family. <3
The puppies, now known affectionately as “Bella-Luna” and “Jedi” are a week old so we celebrated with some photos.
Aren’t beagle puppies just the cutest?
Hi – we are the Sweetman family. It is nice to meet you!
We are lucky enough to have a small, hobby kennel located approximately 15 miles North of Seattle in Woodinville, Washington.
Our goal is to produce quality beagles that not only look beautiful, are healthy, move soundly, but also have the temperament that will make them a life-long member of your family.
If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact me at sarah.sweetman@outlook.com