Creekbend Kennels

07/07/2024

Dove and Haze are out with big dogs today. Running, mudding, and learning.

06/28/2024

Zoe on her way to her new Michigan home.

06/28/2024

Zoe off to her new home in Michigan

06/28/2024

06/28/2024

06/28/2024

This is Haze and Dove. Haze is a liver and white male, Dove is a black and white female.
They are learning all kinds of new things. They think finding treats in the crate is really fun, the leash is annoying, they get petted when they Hup, and they LOVE to bring back stuff that gets thrown.

06/23/2024

Up for consideration is my 26-month-old dog Ref. He is AKC Registered and up to do date on vaccinations and vet checked. The plan was for Ref to be my next trial dog because he has a similar breeding to my dog Hawk. However, I can't train to the level needed to make a consistent trial dog due to my job.

I say well started because he knows to hup after he flushes, but has not had enough birds shot over him to be consistent. When bracemates birds fall near him, he takes them.

He is collar conditioned because I hunt with e collars due to safety fear of busy roads at the end of ditches. Training is not done with an ecollar.

He has hunted wild pheasants his first two seasons and gets better with each contact, but is sometimes outsmarted by a cagey rooster.

He lives in the house and is a good house dog. He is crate-trained and housebroken.

Training:
He has obedience training, leash, heel, hup, and recall. He is crate-trained and housebroken. He is gunproofed, and can be steady to wing, sometimes.

He has a soft mouth. He is a good marker, his pick-up is quick, his delivery is sloppy, will bring it to you but he lays down at your feet, he is still a bit of a puppy.

He has been socialized but needs to warm up to people and other dogs. He is Not aggressive he simply needs time to know they aren't going to hurt him, as a pup he was chased by a stranger's dog and he did not like that. It was totally the other person's fault, he just let his dog out of the truck and he was chased.

You will need to be vetted. He is a turn-key hunting dog.

06/16/2024

These two puppies are available. Both are females, OFA eyes Normal, shots, socialized. Currently being crate trained and housebroken. Parents have health certs hips and eyes.

05/27/2024

She is so much fun !

Don’t own copy rights to music -

05/23/2024

4 Females available and ready to spend the summer with their new family.

04/27/2024

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04/24/2024

This traditional Irish dish of Dublin can be adapted to upland game bird meat for a delicious American twist.

04/24/2024

Ran into Scully and her owner Greg in Minnesota. She looks a lot like her mom Luna and her sister Zee. Love knowing puppies are in wonderful homes. Thanks Greg for letting me see her.

04/24/2024

Hawk is all smiles after finishing a competitive St. Croix Trial. We finished but not good enough to be in the placements.

04/24/2024

04/10/2024

Puppy pics before compared to now.

04/09/2024

Puppies are doing puppy things.

03/28/2024

Zee x Hawk litter is going to be six weeks old this weekend.

03/28/2024

Every litter of pups has its characteristics and quirks, this one is no different. Normally when they play they drop where they finish. This group goes back into the pen and onto the beds.

01/01/2024

Took Zee and Hawk hunting today. The weather was going to make hunting a challenge, the winds were strong from the west. Pheasants are on high alert on windy days.
Right away a few skittish birds ran to the edges and flushed wild. Then Zee went to work. Zee is 6 and is a fine hunting dog. Today she took a step towards being an excellent hunting dog. She worked methodically and with me in heavy cover, producing several hens. She worked a few runners really well, unfortunately all hens.
In that cover only one rooster was produced for the gun and he had the benefit of a wicked tail wind and flushed wild. I felt bad that there were no roosters for Zee. I decided to stop at another cover.
This cover has a small waterway with wide borders. Unfortunately the borders were mowed but the water way was typical thick mixed cover of grass, canary grass and cattails. Zee worked a hen out of some gnarly cover. I was losing hope of producing any more birds we were running out of cover. Zee went down into the creek worked up the bank into some grass and brambles. I was in a bad position because there were a couple small trees in my way if the bird flushed right. Zee’s ears twitched up, she went into a tangle, a rooster came out with those trees in between me and him, didn’t matter, folded him on the first shot and Zee brought him to hand