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Salt Water Swissys, located in Utah Valley, is a small hobby kennel breeding and loving GSMDs.
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12/11/2024

“Roads? Where we’re going, we don’t need roads.” -Doc Brown

4 weeks down. 💪 Our time travelers have graduated into their much larger box. There’s a learning curve, but so far they are *mostly* using their potty area for just that, leaning to separate their beds and play areas for those intended purposes. Baby steps towards long term house breaking success in their future homes.

Brutus n Burton

12/05/2024

Back To The Future puppies are 3 weeks (annnnd a couple bonus days) old. Forgive me for the delay. We were out of town for a couple of days so we could visit family. (Our toddler has a favorite uncle and a cousin, only a couple months older than her, that don’t live nearly close enough.) Getting settled back home has bogged up my to do list, weekly photos included. HUGE shout out to our Blue Hill friends for allowing us to take the time away, while trusting that Lucy and her kids were in wonderful hands!!!

If you’ve never been around baby puppies, trust me, this is the *best* age! They don’t have a full mouth of needle teeth yet. So full piranha mode hasn’t begun yet, but they are marching about, responding when we call, and beginning to play with each other and their mama. ❤️ The kids got their first bed this week and 100% understood the assignment.

❤️ Brutus n Burton Blue Hill Swissys

11/26/2024

Back To The Future puppies are ✌️ weeks old. Fun updates from the last few days: everyone’s eyes have opened up and with their new found (albeit limited at this age) vision, the baby dogs are up on all fours toddling around their box like the cutest little drunks you ever did see.

Brutus n Burton

11/25/2024

Happy3️⃣rd Birthday to our Dundies ( ) litter from Mama Hwin, Phyllis and Maedli! Special shoutout to the rest of The Office: Cosmo, Wylie, Cedar, Brandt, and Ronuk. 🎉 🎂 I have to also give an even more special shoutout to our puppies’ families. (Not just for this litter, but for all of our puppy homes.) We adore our dogs. We put all kinds of bloody sweat, tears, sleepless nights, worries and love into each puppy. It makes my breeder heart happier than I have words to express when I get to see these little souls grow in their new homes and get to be so very loved and equally adored by their forever families. You guys are the best! Thank you so very much for loving these puppies that I sent home with you. To send a puppy from my home to yours is to near literally share a piece of my heart with each of you. Thank you for caring for them and loving them so well. You all rock!

11/20/2024

First week of life has come and gone for our Back To The Future puppies. They came into the world as giants and haven’t slowed their growth since! Everyone is over two pounds already!!! Crème de la Lucy is doing the trick!

Brutus n Burton

11/15/2024

📣📣📣📣 A big Happy Birthday and welcome to the world to our Back To The Future litter! These puppies joined us on Monday and have been thriving under their wonderful mother’s care. ❤️ Lucy was given a due date a couple days earlier, by our vet, but, as requested, she held out to grant puppy daddy his birthday wish. Brutus now gets to share his birthday with his first litter of puppies! 🎂 🥳 Lucy is the best mama. It’s already been a pleasure to help raise this litter with her. So excited to see these kids grow up. Brutus n Burton

10/15/2024

Exciting things coming our way in a few weeks!
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In the spirit of Halloween, our wonderful vet caught a snapshot of these tiny puppies in their perfectly spooky group costume! 💀🇨🇭🐾🎃

10/15/2024

When you’ve got mountain dogs and live in the shadow of gorgeous mountains, fall hikes are obligatory. 🍁💛🍂🧡Hot springs and waterfalls are an added bonus. Shout out to my husband for packing our toddler up the mountain while Phyllis and Maedli packed everything else.

09/24/2024

Phoenix was my very first Swissy. She made me fall head over heels in love with the breed and all things dog sports. She has always been willing to try any competition I’ve asked of her. However, being a show dog is her very favorite game. Having turned 7 in June, she qualifies as a veteran now. So back into the show ring she went last weekend. And she ROCKED it! This beauty came home with big fancy 🙌Group One!🙌 So so proud of her and so grateful she got to come run around the ring with me again.❤️ (As a fun side note, the veteran group judge taught Phoenix’s grandpa’s obedience class. Made for a fun “full circle” moment.)

The rest of the weekend, Lucy and Maedli showed off their dog show skills, both taking home major wins. Along with some other fantastic wins for Blue Hill and Alpenblick, this show was a great success all around.

07/19/2024

(Summer update continued. 2 of 2)

After a busy couple of weeks, we hustled up to Blackfoot Idaho 🥔 for one of our favorite shows, made even better with the addition of the Cascade Great Swiss Mountain Dog Club sponsored specialty. The *great* turn out of wonderful dogs made it all the more thrilling to have Phyllis earn Winners Bitch and Best of Winners 2 of the 4 days, finishing her championship with a bang!!! 🏆 As an extra sweet bonus, Phyllis’ win was the icing on the cake that earned her dad, Ranger, his ROM! To have Robbie and Phyllis finish back to back like that made my heart so proud of these beautiful girls! ❤️ Robbie tagged along to add three more Fast CAT runs towards her DCAT. If I wasn’t already proud to bursting for my girls, the Eagle Rock Kennel Club hosted the cutest “air buddy” event, allowing any little kids that wanted to participate to strut their stuff around the ring with their balloon show dogs. 😍

So grateful for these wonderful dogs, for my husband holding down the fort while we’re away, my parents for their excellent toddler handling skills (my daughter *lives* for her grandpa!), and all our amazing swissy friends and community for all their support and guidance that has gotten us this far! It takes a village and boy did I ever luck into a good one.

07/19/2024

Our summer shows are over for the moment. After a very hectic start to the summer in our family, it’s about time I post an update on the recent exciting events! This will have to be a two parter - a lot has happened. Here’s part 1 of 2.

Phyllis picked up a nice major at the Utah Valley Kennel Club in May. 🥇

Two weeks later, Phyllis picked up a BOS the day before Robbie earned her last needed win, going Best of Breed 💜💛, to finish her championship at the Mt Ogden Kennel Club show!🏆 She got to play her favorite sport, Fast CAT, a couple of times earning points towards her DCAT. 🏁 At the same show, Phyllis got her first shot at Barn Hunt and was awarded her instinct (RATI) title.

Phoenix and Maedli got out of the house over Memorial Day to help showcase our dogs’ abilities to pack, draft, and weight pull at the Soldier Hollow Sheepdog Classic (Phoenix and Maedli were pack demo dogs that day.) Little Miss Adi even participated as Doune’s drafting passenger! 🛷 Seriously, how cute are they?! 😍
(To be continued…)

06/29/2024

Happy 7th Birthday to our OG girl! 🥳 Can’t believe that Phoenix is a veteran now! 🤯 Still as wonderful and gorgeous as ever, I am so excited to get to take her back into the show ring again soon. Since day one, she has always been game to try whatever sport or activity I tossed her way, but conformation was always a favorite of hers. So while I hate to see her get any older, grateful for this milestone because I always swore to her that she could show again when she “grew up.” Happy Birthday beauty, and to all of your Blue Hill trekkie littermates as well! 🎂 A special shoutout to Megan at Blue Hill for being willing to send this special lady home with me and completely changing my life for nothing but the better! ❤️

01/25/2024

👅 out snowy Thursday. ❄️

01/11/2024

7️⃣ weeks today for the boys. They got their clean bills of health and their first shots last week. (Though if you look at Fred’s face, you’d think he was worried the teacher found him cheating on the test rather than acing with flying colors 🤣) It’s time to really get busy socializing the boys. So if you, your family, your friends, your date that you don’t know what to plan for, co-workers, neighbors, etc need puppy snuggles, DM me! Our family is getting over a bug. So we’ll probably be waiting a few more days to have people over, but we can at least work out a schedule with you!

01/02/2024

Early crate training part 2: the aftermath. 💤

Fred has taken to crate training like he was born for it. Ricky…has other opinions on this “torture.” (check the previous post) 🤣 And yet, even when time is up, they can come out, and I open the doors for them, they don’t budge. Not so bad after all, eh kids?

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