Pride and Joy!

Meet The Gang

These beautiful dogs are the sires and dams for my puppies. I have chosen these particular dogs because they are all have very good tempers and wonderful coats.

Annie (D’Tresors Orphan Annie)

Annie is a small black and tan. She has a beautiful head and a long silky coat. I did not dock her tail as she was the only surviving pup from her litter. She was so small that I hand fed her for three days until Peaches had her pups. Even with 3 days of growth, she was only half the size of Peaches’ pups. I shouldn’t have been worried, Peaches grabbed her as if to say, “how did that one get out there?” Today, Annie is a happy-go-lucky, engaging little girl.

Bailey (Tri Bailey's Chocolate)

Bailey is the second male I got. He came to me as a proven breeder. I wanted a male that could pass on the parti genes and the chocolate coat color. He's very enthusiastic about breeding to the bewilderment of the neutered male my girlfriend Margie has. Unfortunately he's a half brother or uncle to all of my chocolate females, so I can only mate him with Maya, Sage or Dia. He does do stud service for other females that come to the kennel. I call him my big doufus because he loves sitting on top of the dog house and grinning up at me, just waiting to be given a pat on the head. He throws really excellent pups.

Dia (Cheyenne's Shadow Claudia)

Dia is the daughter of Cheyenne and Bismarck. She's named after my cousin Claudia who bats her eyelashes outrageously. Dia has amazingly long eye lashes and she gazes soulfully up to me whenever she's near me. She has dark brown eyes and a black coat that's very silky. She's a retiring dog and would prefer to have me all to herself. She has had two litters and is an excellent mama. It's also the only time I've ever seen her growl at another dog when she has pups.

Jimmy (James’ Last Standing)

Jimmy is a small miniature phantom poodle. I’m not sure he’ll ever get big enough to breed my girls, but he’ll always have a place here. His breeder James Faircloth died just a couple of months after shipping the pup to me. I still hadn’t decided on a name when I heard that James was dead. The military always takes care of their own and I would have been proud to fold your flag James. I know you’re partying hearty with the others that didn’t return from Nam, I’ll think of you every time I tip one myself.

Leopard Poosa (Poosa)

I picked up Poosa in Denver while I was there for my 30^th high school reunion (oh my!). Poosa is named after a rare appaloosa horse pattern called a leopard appaloosa. She loves running around on walks with the other dogs; but when we go alone, she'd rather stay right next to me. I save the beach walks for when I can take Poosa and a couple of older pups. She's sets a great example for them. She's developed wonderful spotting and has recently had her first litter of pups. She's a very attentive and careful mom.

Lina (D’Tresors Kohled Lina)

Lina is a red and white parti and is the daughter of Angel. She has very striking eyes, it looks like she’s wearing Egyptian kohl eyeliner. She still a teenager and it really shows. I need a lot of patience to work with her, but she’s coming along.

Peaches and Cream

Peaches n' Cream (Peaches) is an English cocker with a
strawberry parti coloration. I got her in Denver when
I went for my 30th high school reunion. It was peach season and her spotting reminded me of a peaches and cream desert I made. English cockers tend to have a longer snout and a longer body than American cockers and are heavier. They also tend to have a field coat versus a show coat(less feathering/grooming) and they tend to look more muscular. Peaches is extremely birdy and would make a great bird dog - if I could ever bring myself to go hunting. I stopped hunting when I made enough money to buy my meat in a pretty plastic packages!

Rosie

This is Rosie and Sandy at about 5 mos. They've just spent the last hour and a half walking the beach, chasing seagulls and carrying sticks. Rosie was even brave enough to get into the waves. They both got washed down with the hose (very traumatic!) when we got back and we're sitting in the sun, drying off and enjoying another lousy day in paradise.

Sadie (Maximus Fiery Sadie)

Sadie is a deep mahogany red sable. She is a littermate to Frankie, but she doesn’t carry the merle gene. She had a litter of black sable cockapoos with deep red highlights. She has a light coat with very straight and wiry hair.

Scooter (unregistered cocker)

Scooter is a large, buff, old style cocker. She’s the kind of dog you would have gone hunting with. She throws three different colors of buff cockers from a light champagne to red. Her pups can be large, but she also has had smaller pups too.

Shilo

This is Shilo and her sister, just a few days old. Half the fun of registering a dog is coming up with a really outrageous name (see Tivo’s – Tatiana Victoria J. So far I’m thinking of Cheyenne’s Spotted Shilo, or maybe Cheyenne’s Painted Shilo. Shilo will definitely be part of the name. Does anyone have any ideas?

Sweetie(Way to go Sweetie)

I had been wanting to get the Sable coloration into my lines for quite some time. When I was offered Sweetie, I jumped at the chance. She is a gorgeous black and brown tri-parti sable. You can just see a bit of her first litter of cockapoos in this picture (born May 2006). Several were sables. You can also see the wonderful sable coloration in her face, the chocolate is overlaid with darker hairs. Sweetie certainly lives up to her name, her favorite position is right at my feet (even when we're walking) or getting her tummy or ears rubbed. She's a little larger than most of my females, but I believe her coloring is worth the extra umph I have to put in when I lift her!

Taku (D'Tresors Taku Khan)

Taku came to me as a 3 month old puppy. She has perhaps the best colors of any of my chocolate tri parties. For Taku's first litter of puppies she was very attentive, but she sure was surprised when the first labor pains started. She only had three puppies and they grew very large. When she went into labor, I did my normal clean up, set up and wait. Six hours later, things weren't progressing. I knew if I waited until the morning, I might loose Taku, so I put on a pair of surgical gloves and did a little exploring. Sure enough, the first pup was stuck in her canal. Now, I've listened to my midwife best friend tell stories of delivering babies for years now, so I decided to have a go. I could just barely get my finger tips on the puppies front legs. Taku was not happy, believe me! A little judicious pressing down (like the doc does when you go in for a pap smear - sorry guys if this is TMI), a little bit of gentle pulling, a whole lot of howling from Taku and the first pup was delivered. I was sure he would be dead because of the length of time he was stuck, but he made it. Taku took over from then on and everything was fine.

Tivo (D'Tresors Tatiana Victoria)

Tivo (Tatiana Victoria) is my up and coming breeder. She was the last of a litter to go because of her off-side spot. Little did they know that her secondary spots (freckles) would make her a very striking dog. She is responding very well to training and shows a real aptitude for agility training. We'll see, I may actually enter her in an event someday. Of course, she can run circles around my puny efforts.

Washi (Whitefeathers Washi Joy)

Washi came to me when a girlfriend lost the lease on her property. Washi is an Indian word for white fat. You might have heard the term on Walker, Texas Ranger. She was the rolly-polly-ish puppy I think I've ever seen. She was out of the last litter of her dam and was going to be kept to continue the line. She's had one litter of puppies and did very well. I think she would have made a good sled dog. She loves going for walks in the morning, but I have to be very careful. She's one of four dogs that I have to keep on a leash; because, even though they all eventually come back, I don't have the gray hairs and the time to wait the 3-4 hours until they do. Anyway, she's so enthusiastic for the scent of things, she can almost pull me off my feet. If those four ever coordinated their efforts, I'd be pulled along like a downed log.

Poodles

Mickey

Mickey is a silver poodle who got too big for breeding miniature poodles. He is the father of most of my cockapoos. From test breedings, I’ve determined that the silver color is heterozygous, black and white. The black gene gives black puppies with white markings. If the white gene is passed to the pup, I get whatever colors the mom may have in her genetic makeup.So, for any litter, about 50% are going to be black and the rest will be split between mom’s possible colors.For instance, a chocolate tri may throw 50% black, 25% chocolates and25% buffs.

Sires and Dams in Retirement and those who have been in gone on to better kennels.

Cheyenne (Whitefeathers Cherokee Sadie)

Cheyenne is now retired, but her genes live on in Dia, Sage, and Shilo.

Lady (M'Lady Dede)

Lady was my first cocker. She was obviously a puppy mill dog and had some real personality problems. She was a fear biter and I was the only one she really got along with (with a few very patient exceptions). And yes, I had my share of her bites. She spent her entire life following me to every place I was stationed except England (where they have an very strict quarantine laws). She climbed mountains with me (sometimes she got higher than other climbers), went exploring on many, many back packing trips and produced six litters of standard cockapoos. Believe me! I had no idea that a standard poodle and a cocker spaniel could solve the logistics of getting together! They threw the best pups, and boy were they easy to train. I once trained her puppy to walk on a slack leash in about 50 feet. The picture you see was just before I decided her quality of life had deteriorated enough that she needed to take her last visit to the vet. She lived for 17 years and is buried on my property.