SunChime Skyes

05/11/2024

We decided to cancel our entry in the Elma show and just did one day at the dachshund speciality! It was so fun, a first for us!

Everyone there was a doxie hehe! Except the stewards who were dressed as Princess Leia and C-3PO!

Johanna did amazing! She was very nervous, lots of new smells and experiences but she handled it like a princess and got a blue ribbon 🫶🏼

Proud of you Jo!

04/14/2024

Okay we registered for the dachshund special and the Elma show lol, but it did say limits could be maxed already for the specialty! We have never been to a specialty, if I remember right lol, so it is exciting!!! -P

04/14/2024

Hi everyone. This is gonna be a bit of a long post but very revealing so please bear with us.

Last year, we had a Parvo outbreak, all our dogs were vaccinated by our vet except one, Valerian. He had been vaccinated by his breeder’s vet, we believe, and was two weeks away from his first annual shot with us when the outbreak happened.

He caught Parvo and passed away (we believe because of malpractice at the vet but what would you even do about that? We rushed him in and they said he had a low temperature and then sent a nurse in to give him fluids and she put nearly a pound of cold water in him via SubQ and we could never get him warm after that. He passed within 3 hours.)

One of our puppies said goodbye to his mom on the way out the door to his new home and he too caught it, but he lived!

About a month later, Poppy went in for her vaccine updates and they gave her a leptospirosis vaccine.

She died from it.

No bloody stool (so not Parvo), no signs of illness, she was just not moving when we called her name, she was laying outside on the dog bed in the shade a couple days after the vaccine, so we went to check on her and she was gone.

We rehomed everyone except Johanna, Chew (Vivienne’s puppy who is spayed) and Buster, our old neutered man.

We will be showing Johanna, and hope to have a litter with her later this year but we are still skeptical. Because of the green belt we live on, animals like Raccoons bring Parvo into our yard.

We are tired of losing family members, so it is very hard to know how to move forward.

Lots of other breeders had Parvo last year as well, and lots of people retired or downsized, so we know it is not necessarily something we did wrong, we are very clean, our dogs have their own hard no one is allowed in except them etc. but we canna control the wild life.

More personally, we have been diagnosed with Dissociative Identity Disorder by a doctor who specializes in it. If you would like to know more about it, you can read about it here: https://www.thecenterforgrowth.com/tips/what-is-dissociative-identity-disorder

It can make things complicated, as our different parts don always agree, and some parts view breeding dogs completely differently. We also have severe memory issues, and forget huge chunks of our life, people, and even familiar places because different parts of us hold different memories.

We also realized we are trans 🏳️‍⚧️ after 20 years of repressed feelings.

It took a very safe, comfortable environment for us to be able to realize this stuff and get the therapy we needed.

We want to thank all our friends and family for understanding and being there for us through these revelations.

These life events are not excuses for our disappearance from the breeding world, but explanations. For a large part of 2023 we hardly knew who we were, and were living two very different lives, switching between parts.

We are unsure if that will happen again but through therapy we are working on managing switches and communicating with each other so we can assess our needs and feelings.

We know this is all very personal. We usually keep our personal life separate from SunChime Skyes so as to be seen as some well put together and working engine but to be honest, that is a part of us that struggles heavily with trust issues, perfection and understanding the intentions of others, which is super critical in the dog breeding scene 😂 We are just gonna do our best to be us now and hopefully regain our memories of all our canine experiences.

We are sorry for being gone. We want to go to some spring and summer shows with Jo, and hopefully attend Dachsand this year lol for the first time 💀

We go by Edekial (rhymes with Medical) or Edek (Medic) now. Thank you!

In layman’s terms DID is mental health disorder in which a person experiences extreme dissociation to the point where they have different personalities known as alters or parts. First, a person must have at least two or more alters or different personality states. Sometimes the different alters an...

01/21/2024

Vivienne and PikaChewBacca 😊

07/01/2023

And then there were two! Monet and Cecil’s lil twins!!! Eevee on the left and Croissant in the right! Both have found homes but they were just too cute not to take a pic of!

06/29/2023

Today was vet visit day! Everyone got their vaccines, weight and temperature checked, and we did a group f***l, waiting on the results ♥️ thank you Dr Tegarden and the Dill Animal Hospital team!

06/21/2023

He also has very beautiful red eyelashes!!! He is such a sweet calm boy, he still loves b***y rubs!

06/21/2023

He made the PUPPY DOG FACE OMG

06/21/2023

And now for baby Elijah aka Croissant!

06/21/2023

Bruno has a very spunky personality, he was excited to take pictures and loves to explore!

06/21/2023

He looks like a baby Monet 🥹

06/21/2023

Mr Bruno, with his blue eye! The saturation is turned up a little haha

06/21/2023

I feel like the reds look a lot more like their daddy too! While the blacks look a lot like mama haha

06/21/2023

Princess Eevee with her prim proper paws ♥️

06/21/2023

Pretty Princess Eevee. I have noticed the two red babies are much more reserved than the two black ones, it is quite interesting! They are like night and day in personalities. I believe Eevee and Elijah need gentle love at first to warm up, while Bruno and Emilia are rowdy haha

06/21/2023

She still has little white hairs in some of her toes and her chin haha

06/21/2023

Happy National Dachshund Day!!!

06/21/2023

Pretty Emilia gets to go first this week! 7 weeks old already! I cannot believe they have their vet appt next weekend, it always feels like they were just born!

06/19/2023

The babies got their first bath today! I accidentally took TWO PICTURES OF BRUNO and totally missed Emilia 🥲 so sorry, but I swear she got a bath too lol

06/15/2023

06/08/2023

Dat teddibeow face 🥹

06/08/2023

I lied, Edward was actually born with a purple eye everyone. I have been color correcting it to blue.

06/08/2023

Edward, the beautiful blue eyed boy, is reserved, but man just look at his heterochromia iridum!

06/08/2023

Eevee is has found her home, she is a shaded red dapple longhair ♥️

06/08/2023

Eevee actually fell asleep right after her photo shoot, with her eyes open!

06/08/2023

Pretty princess Eevee! She is reserved! A lady always crosses her paws!

06/08/2023

Another teddy bear! But this one comes in a midnight edition hehe

06/08/2023

Absolutely beautiful girl! She is reserved ♥️

06/08/2023

Emilia at 5 weeks old, she has found her forever home! 🏡 she kind of looks like a little black Labrador in some of these pics, or like dark chocolate!