Dovehawk Australian Shepherds

03/19/2022

The stinker Tuna butt is back in Dovehawk hands! Now onward and downward back to Florida! Ty Kayen for picking him up and keeping him until I could get up to you to pick him up! 🐟💦🔥🎻

03/18/2022

Oofta lol fun times!

03/17/2022

Isla, Latte, and Dexter getting their health checks before heading off on their new adventures.

03/16/2022

Busy day for the pups! Vaccines, microchips, and nail trims!

03/15/2022

COVID, and covid quarantine put us quite behind! 🙄😷🤒
We are finally on the mend after 2 weeks (still recovering, fatigue is the worse) on top of that I got put in FB jail 😡. Please be patient with us as we working on getting caught up, cleaning, grooming, putting puppy folders together, puppy health checks, and setting Daisys up (shes due next week). We have pups going home this week and due to quarantine then the specialist think she was going to get 6 pups done in under 30min we were unable to make the eye appointment 🤬....these are booked months in advance.
Here is our new FabSystem whelping box! Daisy gets to be the first to try it out. She's a digger so since the system is a hammock she can't pull it away from the sides.

03/13/2022

She's finally over her come home weight and her peepers are peeping! 🥰

03/12/2022

In happier news Daisy IS pregnant!! Ultrasound confirmed, I'm going with 4+ but I just confirm I don't count with the Ultrasound at least not well 🤪🤣🤣 this is Daisy's final litter, a versatile pedigree, line bred on "Chip" HOF CH POINSETT SUNFIRE CHIPOTLE along with many other wonderful dogs in this older pedigree cross. Waiting list is tentively open ONLY Black & Red tris expected (no-merles).
https://www.instagram.com/p/Ca-8BjNsgTv/?utm_medium=share_sheet

03/11/2022

Sometimes even with the best planning, a litter won't happen. We will not have any Mint & Renegade puppies this year 😭😭😭

03/11/2022

Julia has found her home! Ty all to all that applied for her!

03/09/2022

Daisy has 2.5 more weeks until she presents us with the lil' peppers!

03/09/2022

The Daughter helping us feed the little Dean Bean ❤️

03/08/2022

Hard work being this cute!

03/08/2022

Dovehwak's Roundhouse-Kick "Norris" is 👁👁 4 a Competitive Intact Conformation/Performance titling home ONLY, we will keep him until we find the home we are wanting for him.
(Titles that qualify towards HOF/ROM)
Red Merle Male
Full Embark Panel
MDR1 M/n
Dilute Carrier
AKC & ASCA registered
Pictured at 7 weeks
DOB January 06, 2022
Navarre Florida
Refer to our WEBSITE for information, FILL out a questionnaire if interested.
http://dovehawkaustralianshepherds.weebly.com/

03/03/2022

Here are some Bean pictures from today, we have had to start supplementing her as she's not getting enough nursing alone, she gobbled down 20ml this morning and is a lot more feisty and vocal now ❤️

03/01/2022

Our little Bean is here! Born at 1lb 4oz via c-section today. Bean is very active and feisty, Sassy is starting to accept the Bean as hers.

02/24/2022

7 week photos of the Sig & Tyrande litter! ❤️❤️

02/23/2022

Long hot day, two shows today, 4 first places. Zhaan gotta try out Fastcat, she's definitely a fan. Tomorrow she's gonna try dock diving! Time to attempt to edit puppy photos.

02/22/2022

Bubble bath time!

02/20/2022

Dean, well he had a really good day to say the least!! He is now UKC Champion Dovehawk's Mark of Cain (ASCA Mjr pt'd) BCAT RAT1
AM Show 1/BM/BW/BOB and onto a group 2 out of 7!!!
PM Show 1/BM/BW/BOB and onto a group 3 out of 8!!!
(CH Pop x UCH Inrara)

02/20/2022

Miss Zhaan has been a cyclone this weekend but I got her just under control the last show so she could show the judge what a nice bitch she actually was. Zhaan won her class over competition AND then onto best female over some lovely bi***es taking her first competition win and her first points (25) at just under 11mths!!
(CH Jo x Tyrande)

02/19/2022

UKC Tifton GA 02/19/2022
Dean had a really good day! 1/BestMale am & 1/ReserveMale pm for 1 competition win and 25 points total today.
Daisy won her class each show for 10 points total today.

02/17/2022

How's that cute poodle pup that featured in our last litter? He is doing amazing!!! Here he is with his favorite toy he took from our home (we gave it to his owner, don't tell him that!) I love me a well bred and PUREBRED poodle pup!!

02/17/2022

Born January 6, 2022

02/17/2022

02/17/2022

02/16/2022

Set up and temp taking has started! Sassy & Dean beans coming in just over a week! Xray next Monday!

02/15/2022

First outing! Temporary outside set up until we finish the puppy yard.

02/15/2022

Due in a little over a week!

02/14/2022

5 weeks old!
First baths & blow drys received along with their nails dremmeled.

02/09/2022

PSA: Please, PLEASE teach your dog to be okay when alone.
Every day we work with many online dog training students for a variety of different reasons. Reactivity, leash pulling, puppy training … and one big, overarching theme is that for many dogs this work does not actually start with the reactivity/leash/puppy/etc. training.
It starts with the fact that one or more dogs of the household cannot stay alone.
It is so tempting to feed into a dog that can never be by himself.
Maybe you are retired or work from home and the dog never “has to” to be alone.
Or maybe you have two dogs that have been together a long time (littermates, anyone?) and they have become so bonded to each other that one leaving is a huge issue for the other.
From a human perspective, this can seem really flattering.
“My dog loves me so much he cannot be without me” or
“My two dogs love each other so much they only stay together”
But from a behavior-perspective, this is really not healthy or beneficial at all.
There will be a day at which your dog needs to be separated from you/your other dog. I guarantee it will come.
Perhaps for a vet visit, or a family emergency, or “just” for training.
Quite a few of the online students that come to us to work on e.g. reactivity cannot start out with counterconditioning sessions at all.
They need to first figure out the seemingly impossible task of having one dog stay behind while they train the other (and then switch it up). If dogs have truly never left each other, this will be a lot of hard work before ever starting the actual reactivity training.
Attachment to the point of not functioning without someone else is NOT healthy. It is NOT cute and it is NOT a sign of amazing love.
It is a problem that will become bigger and bigger the longer it goes on.
I promise you:
If you teach your dog to stay calm when separated from you/your other dog, he will love you just as much.
He will still be just as good of a friend and just as loyal.
You will only add to his happiness and the relationship if the dog does not feel intense anxiety when separated.
Of course this does not mean that if you e.g. work from home, your dog needs to be in a crate in a different room for 8 hours.
Even 30min, twice a day with you (or the other dog) not in view is a great start. Practice these separations before you NEED them.
Helping your dog feel comfortable alone should be a life skill that you teach them *from day 1*.
Treat it as important as going potty outside.
Your dog WILL be happier … and you as well :)

02/09/2022

Nighty night 🌙 😴

02/09/2022

So much was done today, ended the night deep cleaning the puppy pen which ended with bowling for puppies when they got to big for their britches and attacked the steam mop! Feet and back are done for the day, enjoy this "egg head" we woke up to this morning 🤪🤣🤣 Quail will always be cute and a little special. 😊 🐣🦤

02/07/2022

Dean beans due February 24th!! ❤️
Black tris only
No breeding rights if not actively competing towards HOF/ROM qualifying titles in AKC/ASCA (this goes for any puppy and All litters here at Dovehawk)
Dovehawk Australian Shepherds