Puppies
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ANOTHER UPDATE: Curious about what it's like to breed a litter? Here's my take on the experience.
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Stuff that automatically comes with an Anara puppy:
Dual registry with the CKCSC and AKC.
A microchip registration form -- Anara puppies are microchipped before they are sold.
Copies of relevant health certificates for the parents.
A statement from my vet that the puppy's patellas are sound at the time of sale, plus a shot record.
A guarantee covering the puppy's heart and hips.
A detailed handout on housetraining, plus a handout of general tips about Cavalier puppies.
A money-back return clause in case you find after purchase that the puppy isn't working out for you.
And an offer to reimburse you for heart and eye checks on your puppy, as long as I have related dogs in my breeding program -- I always want to know about health issues if any occur.
2012
Update! Kenya has been bred! Scroll down to read about Kenya and the fabulous boy to whom I bred her and what I expect in the litter.
Meanwhile! Adora's new babies! Born December 9th, 2011, so still brand-new. Only two, alas, but they do look like very promising, as far as one can tell at a month old. The little boy is available to the right pet home!
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Every puppy conceived had a 75% chance of being ruby and a 25% chance of being blenheim, but as you see, I managed to get one of each. The little ruby is (yay!) a girl! !!! Which is what I wanted from this litter. The blenheim is a boy. As you can see, he is very nicely marked. I hope he will be beautiful, but I do not want a boy from this litter, so he is available to a pet home. Or a show home, since there is every chance he will be beautiful! Scroll down to check out the parents.
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The little girl at five weeks. I've sent off the
registration papers! That means I had to officially name the babies,
since you can't register puppies with the CKCSC without naming them.
So this little girl is now Anara Frivolity, called Folly. I'm sure
she'll live up to that name from time to time, since after all, Cavalier
puppy! Folly is actually a little red spitfire who tackles all obstacles without the slightest doubt she'll overcome them. She's totally delightful. |
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And this little guy's official name is Anara Fiddlesticks.
Through a convoluted, eccentric train of thought, I've decided to call him
Tavi for now. Tavi is such a sweet guy! He's very attracted to people and other dogs and tries hard to climb into laps, though really he's too small to make it without help. |
Here are their parents:
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Grand Champion Closeburn Graham MacInnes |
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This is Adora, winning Best Ruby Bitch in Show at the July 2011 CKCSC specialty in St. Louis. She also finished her CKCSC Novice Rally title and earned her first CKCSC-CD leg -- she has all her AKC Rally titles already, but the CKCSC titles have to be earned separately.
Adora is a beautiful girl with the sweetest, most charming lapdog personality you can imagine. She converts everyone she meets to rubies, even if they thought they preferred other colors. Of course she is current on all health certifications, having cleared her heart and eyes again in July 2011. Her hips are OFA "Good" and her patellas are sound. Click on her name above her picture to see more pictures.
Graham is also current on all his health clearances, of course, or I wouldn't have bred Adora to him. He's a wonderful dog who has had a stellar show career and is a Canadian Champion as well as an AKC Champion and Grand Champion.
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COMING SOON
Kenya was bred to AKC and CKCSC Ch. Jayba Pucker up JW (Gene) on January 7th, with puppies expected to arrive about March 8th. Puppies would be ready to go to new homes sometime in May.
Kenya is a small, compact, pretty girl. She has excellent structure and movement, which she is showing off below -- for more pictures, click on her name. I have great hopes that Kenya will be able to give me lovely puppies to this truly outstanding Jayba dog. All the puppies from this litter will be blenheim.
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Following in the tradition of their amazing father, Gene and his full brother DJ started winning everything in sight as soon as they stepped into the ring -- plenty of details on the Jayba Cavaliers website. They are now the first and second highest-pointed dogs in the CKCSC. Gene is producing beautiful offspring with plush heads and great movement and should do well by Kenya. Gene and his wonderful father have got their health clearances in order, of course, because that's important to me, too.
Kenya has her heart, eye, hip and patella clearances, naturally. Even better, her daddy, CKCSC and AKC Ch Sanricko Enchanter at Heartsong, who was the top-pointed Cavalier in 1999, is 14 now and not just heart-clear, but a vibrant, vigorous, splendid dog. Her mother is eight and still heart clear also. I would obviously be amazed if Kenya doesn't follow in their footsteps!
Kenya won her Graduate Puppy class at the 2011 Indianapolis CKCSC specialty, from the renowned movement-and-structure judge Frank Kane, who said she was "the convincing winner" of the class. Kenya has finished her Rally Novice title.
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If you are interested in an Anara puppy, then --
Please write a real letter. Tell me your name, plus a little bit about yourself and your family and your current pets and why your family would be a good fit for a Cavalier -- just tell me something more than you are looking for a puppy. Cavalier puppies are suitable for many, many homes, but they are not suitable for every home! And besides that, every specific puppy is suitable only for some good homes. I need to know enough about you to make sure that your home is actually a good fit for a puppy and make a reasonable guess about which individual puppy would be a good fit for your home.
BTW, if you are looking for a quality, healthy, pretty Cavalier for a pet, I really urge you to think hard about whether you HAVE to have a female. And I know everybody's got their color preferences, and yes of course you want a puppy you will enjoy looking at -- I don't personally like freckles, for example, so honestly I do understand preferences for color and markings. But if you are flexible about color and sex, it is a LOT easier to get a really nice puppy. This is because breeders keep the nicest girls themselves, so there are always more really nice boys available than girls.
My bet is that if you buy a puppy, you will never regret making health and sound structure and a nice personality your priorities and letting color and sex come later in your list of criteria. I promise you, no matter what color is your favorite, when a puppy of some other color crawls into your lap, you will be charmed by that puppy in nothing flat.
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2010's litter
Bree had three puppies May 5th, one tri boy, one tri girl, and one blenheim girl.
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This is Myrddin Emrys (Merlin to his friends). Merlin got his mother's wonderful temperament, excellent structure, and great movement. It's hard not to sound like a used-car salesman when I talk about Merlin. He has just about the most perfect personality imaginable -- laid back but playful, a lap dog but not too demanding, moderate in energy level, accepting of virtually everything, not a trace of shyness or nervousness. Merlin's only fault, if you can even call it that, is uneven markings on his body - as you can see, though, the markings on his head are beautifully symmetrical. He's in a fabulous pet home now, and no doubt still charming everybody he meets.
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Here is Eilionoir -- Elli for short. Elli is the smallest of the puppies, very feminine and sweet. I really wanted a beautifully marked tri girl from this litter, and look! Here she is! Her markings are lovely and symmetrical. But those freckles on her face are definitely not desirable for a show dog, even though many people personally appreciate freckles on a Cavalier. And freckles on a tricolor show up so clearly! So Elli went to a great pet home, where she will be beautiful, sweet, and elegant and no one will mind her freckles.
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This is Eibhlin -- Eve for short. She is only seven weeks here, but this picture shows exactly the body you look for in a show puppy. A bit long in the body, yes, but angulation to die for, fantastic neck and shoulder, tremendous bone, wonderful topline and tail set. Just an amazing puppy! Eve is incredibly active and outgoing. All three of Bree's puppies were 'born socialized', but Eve takes it a whole order of magnitude farther than her siblings. Her attitude just screams that SHE is the WINNER. She doesn't live with me anymore, but she is still being shown -- and winning very nicely, thank you!
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The father of this litter is such a great dog! Take a look at Guy and then scroll down to read all about him.
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Now, Guy is a pretty special dog, which is the only reason I'd consider driving all the way to Minneapolis to breed Bree to him, believe me! He's from Scotland. His show name is Kinvaar Obsession. Guy is seven years old and heart clear, but the thing about Guy (besides his beauty!) is the back of his skull. He's one of the go-to dogs if you're really *serious* about trying to avoid syringomyelia. He's racking up an impressive record as a producer -- that is, his offspring tend to look really good as far as avoiding SM goes, way better than average. And he's siring really beautiful offspring, definitely a plus.
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2009's single puppy:
Eff's puppy, the sole Anara puppy born in 2009! This puppy's sire was Sanicro Enchanter at Heartsong, a fabulous dog -- you can scroll down to read about him -- but unfortuantely, Eff only had the one puppy. I named her Daireann, which means 'fertile' -- a hope and suggestion for the future! Maybe she'll manage to actually have an average-sized litter when it's her turn.
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Born 9-22-09, Dara was 11 oz at birth, which I thought was huge until Bree's 12 oz tri girl beat her. Here she is three and a half weeks -- with her 'siblings'! Because she was a single puppy, she needed substitutes to take the place of her littermates. She still loves her bear! |
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Dara at three months old. |
Dara's daddy --
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Timmy. 'Timmy' is CKCSC and AKC Ch Sanickro Enchanter at Heartsong. He is twelve!!! and still heart clear! He's just as good as it gets as far as heart quality goes. He's clear for everything, and not only that, he was the top CKCSC dog in 1999! Timmy won all kinds of Best in Shows at Cavalier specialties under any number of top breeder-judges. He is a totally fantastic dog. It is just luck that I saw Linda Dupuy's ad in the 2009 CKCSC yearbook, because I assumed he was long retired as a stud dog. But far from being retired, he his still siring puppies just as well as any two-year-old. Plus because he has offspring that are eight and nine years old, we can also see that his puppies tend to get his outstanding heart quality, too! As far as Linda knows, he's never sired a puppy with SM -- and since she never sells puppies out of state, she would probably know.
See Previous Litters here
