The Fifth Element Kennel

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The Fifth Element Kennel

Breeding sassy, well started AKC Chihuahuas. Reared in home with Avidog socialization and ENS. We had our first litter November 2021. We keep mostly females.

I've been owned by Chihuahuas for 18+ years but recently partnered with a kennel in Utah and have started to breed. All of our girls are a part of the family and kept in the house. Several of our girls are guardian dogs from our mentor in Utah and nearly all sires belong to them. Although our mentor shows and titles many of their dogs, we are focused on producing quality companions first and forem

ost. Health, temperament and longevity are our primary goals. We will need the active help of our puppy owners in continuing to improve on those goals, so owners eager and willing to stay in contact and keep us updated on our puppies is a priority in choosing homes.

01/10/2024

01/07/2024

The other boy foster puppy, Bennett. I'm starting to think he might actually keep those blue eyes?

01/07/2024

Lil Bit, the former runt foster pup.

01/07/2024

Handsome foster puppy Blake today.

01/07/2024

Foster puppy Bambi today.

01/07/2024

Foster puppy Berry post breakfast today.

01/07/2024

Raven! Although she's come a fair way in learning different, better reactions to triggers, for the most part.
And less things to be triggered by.

“If your dog was trained, you could just tell them to sit and be quiet!”

This is not how reactivity works. It’s a fundamental misconception that a well-trained dog is not a reactive dog … or that a reactive dog is not well-trained.

Whether or not a dog is reactive tells you nothing about the amount of skill training they have received. A dog can *both* be able to perform challenging and complex behaviors … and have intense responses towards certain triggers.

Skill training cannot always overwrite a dog’s emotional state. A dog may be able to “sit and be quiet” with food distractions, while you’re throwing a toy or even in the presence of wildlife … but not be able to do this at all in close proximity to a trigger.
This is really important to understand for both owners of reactive and non-reactive dogs:
If you own a reactive dog, your dog is not missing “obedience training”, as reactivity is not a lack of obedience … it’s a surplus of stress.
If you do not own a reactive dog and think that reactive dog owners just don’t know how to train their dogs to behave … that is also not true. The dogs are *not* poorly *trained*. The dogs are *feeling* poorly near triggers.
Reactivity (or lack thereof) and skills (or lack thereof) are not inherently linked.
There are …
💙 Reactive and very well-trained dogs
🩵 Non-reactive and very well-trained dogs
💚 Non-reactive and poorly trained dogs
💛 Reactive and poorly trained dogs

Don’t discount a reactive dog as one who just didn’t get trained … the topic is much more complex than this.

01/07/2024

Here's big pretty Brooke girl tonight. She's our only foster puppy that appears to be longhaired, kind of a surprise to me! She looks a bit like a Golden retriever pup right now, lol.

01/06/2024

Andy/Poppy and Chunk are off to their new homes today. Always bittersweet! I think they got great new families though.

01/06/2024

Quick, quick, look! One load of laundry finished and another started and the foster puppy pen is now about 80% freshly cleaned! For the next 3 minutes anyway, lol.

Don't mind Berry, she's claiming she's never eaten a day in her life but she did in fact just get fed. She's been doing fairly well with a mix of tube feeding, which has gotten to be a challenge, because she really wants to suck/chomp but a bottle goes up her nose. So for the last few days we've been adding some formula mixed thin gruel for her to eat straight up off a plate and she likes that but is a little too inefficient at it to get full without a tubed top up.

01/06/2024

Foster puppies today. Starting to walk around and play. They are now getting up to move to potty, so fingers crossed that they litter box train as easily as the Chi's!
Or even some part will make my life easier once the p**p apocalypse starts.

Pardon the messy pen, I had to do some creative reconfiguring with it to make it easy for mom to get in and out and to give them more room. But none of my floor pads are big enough to cover it well now.

The black ones are the only ones that momma Betty either can't or won't ball up and shove in a corner, ugh. Those are of course my best mats, most expensive and unfortunately the ones that I have the least of. I've been having to launder them half and half because I don't have enough to completely cover the floor space with spares left to wash and the p*e amounts are already epic. I just bought a couple more of that kind, extra big ones, so that problem should be fixed in another day or two once they arrive.
I really do like those mats, so it will be nice to have a few more on hand even once these guys are fostered/adopted out.

01/06/2024

Storri arrived at her new home safely and is already setting in. Blu is ready to play with her.

01/05/2024

Poor boy. What an upheaval he's had. Hoping he finds a great home!

Edited to add, good that was very quick. Hope his new home is awesome.

ADOPTED
Mickey....Neutered Male Chihuahua Dachshund mix 4 years 9 months old

Hi Guys,
My name is Mickey and my mom passed away last night. Her next of kin were unable to keep me because their dogs did not like me. I am now in need of a new home to love me to the end of time! I am potty trained as an added bonus.

Available: NOW
Animal ID: 12408

01/05/2024

Mikey and Irene have been dropped off to their new home in Utah and Stef, now Storri, has been given over to her flight nanny for her trip to Maryland. Her journey will continue for a few more hours. She will be joining her older cousin Aster, now Blu, and a much older and unrelated new brother.

Pictured are updated Blu pictures that her awesome mom sends me.

01/05/2024

Foster puppies have escaped the pool and upgraded to an x-pen. Momma Betty is appreciating the extra room.

Everyone except Birdie, the originally second smallest and now runt, is doing very well.
We will be seeking some diagnostics for Birdie, as something is just not quite right with her. She's eating well and gaining very slowly but has more or less stopped growing in the past week-ish.
Fingers crossed for her!

Berry, our cleftie, is the most advanced in walking, etc. She has a lot of opinions and enjoys telling everyone all about them. She's a big talker. I've tried a few times to get video but she's not been cooperative so far.

12/29/2023

Foster puppies are starting to play.

12/28/2023

Foster Berry getting a rocking. She's a sweetheart. I just noticed that she's got a kink in her tail, near the tip.

12/28/2023

Foster puppies just got a full box clean and clean bedding (so much laundry!) and they could use a pit bath themselves but momma is happy to have them back where they belong at the moment.

12/25/2023

Berry the cleftie foster puppy has eyes open!

12/25/2023

Lil Bit foster runt has eyes open! And got a nail trim tonight.

12/24/2023

RECALL ALERT - Blue Ridge Beef is voluntarily recalling all lot numbers and used by dates between N24 1124 to N24 1224 of their 2 lb log of Kitten Grind UPC 8 54298 00101 6; 2lb log of Kitten Mix UPC 8 54298 00143 6; and their 2lb log of Puppy Mix UPC 8 54298 00169 6; due to contamination of Salmonella and Listeria monocytogenes. More info: https://bit.ly/4aAeZJp

12/24/2023

I forgot to get pictures of Bambi, the second cream girl, yesterday. Here she is tonight. Our second with full eyes open!

12/23/2023

First born foster puppy Bonnie, she's also the first to have eyes!

12/23/2023

Second boy foster puppy, Blake.

12/23/2023

Massive Bennett, one of the male foster puppies. The blue sable.

12/23/2023

On to the huge foster puppies, here is Brooke, one of the cream girls.

12/23/2023

Foster pup cleftie girl Berry. She's doing very well and has doubled in weight since tube feeding started.

12/23/2023

Tiny foster puppy Birdie. She's been gaining pretty decently but has slipped behind a bit, so I have started supplementing her yesterday.

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Pocatello, ID
83204

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https://www.the5thelementkennel.com/

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Quick, quick, look! One load of laundry finished and another started and the foster puppy pen is now about 80% freshly cleaned! For the next 3 minutes anyway, lol. Don't mind Berry, she's claiming she's never eaten a day in her life but she did in fact just get fed. She's been doing fairly well with a mix of tube feeding, which has gotten to be a challenge, because she really wants to suck/chomp but a bottle goes up her nose. So for the last few days we've been adding some formula mixed thin gruel for her to eat straight up off a plate and she likes that but is a little too inefficient at it to get full without a tubed top up.

Foster puppies today. Starting to walk around and play. They are now getting up to move to potty, so fingers crossed that they litter box train as easily as the Chi's! Or even some part will make my life easier once the poop apocalypse starts. Pardon the messy pen, I had to do some creative reconfiguring with it to make it easy for mom to get in and out and to give them more room. But none of my floor pads are big enough to cover it well now. The black ones are the only ones that momma Betty either can't or won't ball up and shove in a corner, ugh. Those are of course my best mats, most expensive and unfortunately the ones that I have the least of. I've been having to launder them half and half because I don't have enough to completely cover the floor space with spares left to wash and the pee amounts are already epic. I just bought a couple more of that kind, extra big ones, so that problem should be fixed in another day or two once they arrive. I really do like those mats, so it will be nice to have a few more on hand even once these guys are fostered/adopted out.

Foster puppies are starting to play.

Foster Berry getting a rocking. She's a sweetheart. I just noticed that she's got a kink in her tail, near the tip.

Foster puppies just got a full box clean and clean bedding (so much laundry!) and they could use a pit bath themselves but momma is happy to have them back where they belong at the moment.