Hard Frost Retrievers

08/08/2024

Post-dinner-walk naps just hit harder!

08/08/2024

Making friends with the spring kids! 🐐 🐶

07/08/2024

I'm so pleased with this litter being as bold and enthusiastic as they are. The walks are getting a little longer every day and they are exploring with confidence and gusto!

Here they are walking the fence line with me. (Yes, of course it's turned off)

I love this age. They learn so quickly. And short walks still tire them out. 😆🖤🐾

06/08/2024

Every day is a big learning day at this age. Today is our first bath! Which was directly after some stormy day puddle splashing. ☔

11/07/2024

They're on the move and telling me all about it.

Let the games begin. 😆🖤🐾 🐾 🐾

02/07/2024

Sweet, sleeping chonkers. Won't be long before those eyes open up. 🖤

26/06/2024

In the wee hours of Saturday morning, Jetta gave us six healthy pups! She is a doting mom to them, and they are growing at warp speed because of it. A huge thank you to Dan Biggert for getting us in for this Choke breeding on such short notice. These pups will be hammers in the field. 💪

20/04/2024

Sometimes plans change, and that's ok.

Due to a scheduling conflict, our chosen stud dog for Jetta was unavailable. I was torn between just letting it go until fall, or trying to stay on track with my plan for this year. Which is our first litter in two years. That meant finding a different stud on extremely short notice. Anyone who knows me knows that I agonize over finding better-than-good studs to use.

This is NOT a compromise.

🔥🔥 This cross will be fire 🔥🔥

Fingers crossed that today's breeding was successful!

This will be an all black litter from some of the best that American field trial lines have to offer over an outcrossed female line with ties to Ireland and Britain.

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5xGRHRCH Adam's Acres Fetchem Up Full Choke
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Hard Frost All Jacked Up

24/05/2023

It's a tough job, but somebody has to guard the pool 😎

Birdie (Pilot x Arya)

29/04/2023

Ready working hard and playing hard in Wyoming 😆

30/03/2023

Looks like Ready has quickly settled into life in Wyoming!

19/03/2023

I will be looking to place a couple of our "keeper" dogs aged 10 months to 4 years. I just have too many for it to be fair to them while in the middle of this big life shift. PM with serious inquiries for these athletic dogs.

24/11/2022

Great shot from the Gray family! She's a May pup from Henry x Jetta!

03/11/2022

I still have a couple 18 month old males that are searching for that perfect home. Too much on my plate to do them justice and all of my interested parties right now seem to want females. I'm very motivated to get them moved to good families!

09/09/2022

Brother Branson in his favorite shotgun spot!

13/08/2022

3yr old Angus has been back for a few months through no fault of his own. Recent checkup, neutered, current on vaccines and Bravecto. Needs to lose a few more pounds as he was way too heavy, but he'll make a great weekender for the right person.

04/08/2022

Our last gal just got her checkup to fly to her new home in Massachusetts. We'll miss you String Bean!

31/07/2022

Ride along with the two kiddos. Is it just me or is Branson's paw as big as his sister's head? 😬

29/07/2022

Out working on this bright July morning with 3 year old Hard Frost As The Crow Flies, aka Zip. Cannot say enough about this athletic young lady! This cross is proving to be golden.

And to put icing on the cake, her DNA results came back today. Clear for all tested diseases AND she carries that elusive (to us) yellow gene. We've had a lot of requests for yellow dogs, so this is promising for the future.

22/07/2022

A PSA for our clients and friends, especially our recent puppy pick ups; a situation has arisen that I should have seen coming with the food that we have been feeding. It's nothing immediately dangerous, but a nod to the current climate in the pet food industry and beyond.
After a label check, it was brought to my attention that the formula we were feeding has changed. The company has (at minimum) opted for cheaper forms of protein than they were previously including in what WAS a good food. After checking many, many labels I realized that this is what most of these companies are doing. After cutting bag sizes many years ago to avoid raising the cost, they are now also cutting corners on the ingredients even more with the rise of inflation. I had my suspicions when our dam did not keep weight on while nursing this current litter like previous dams did on the "same" food.
In the next few weeks I will be doing a feed trial on a new food that I think will meet our goals in a much more profound way. I will of course, discuss this more at length with anyone who has questions or needs a food recommendation.

18/07/2022

🐾 🐾 Puppy walks 🐾 🐾

17/07/2022

Through no fault of her own, this young lady is looking for a new situation! She's ready for you!

16/07/2022

A great update from the Geer family. Looks like "Conall" is in good company!!

30/06/2022

Congrats to Gavin and family on their little girl, tentatively named Rosie! It was a whirlwind trip to Florida and we were glad to hear of an uneventful flight for her first big adventure!

26/06/2022

We ended a great puppy visit by having to extract three puppies out from under a 200 year old maple. 🙈

A cool place to get out of the heat, but I did not have puppy tree removal on my schedule; and they were too sleepy to care. 😂

24/06/2022

Thanks to the Greenville Vet Clinic staff for getting our kiddos checked out and ready for their new homes! The countdown has begun!

Can you think of a better way to end a Friday, I don't think so! 💕🐾

20/06/2022

Another groggy dog, another milestone passed. Rocket is our last older gal to get spayed. It's astonishing how quickly these 8 years have passed. Wasn't it just yesterday that I picked up that wiggly, screeching puppy?? She's still a whole lot of dog, and not ready for the rocking chair. Through circumstances, I only got two pups out of her, but they are both here with me and everything I could have hoped for.

08/06/2022

Some dogs don't like the vet. And then there's Rocket. If she could will someone to come through that door, she would!

05/06/2022

It's a perfect day for a nap in the grass.

03/06/2022

Just a quick opportunistic pic of our black female pup showing me the food art that she smeared all over my pant legs. This precocious girl is being anxiously awaited by the Gray family! She has a great future and a lot of hunting in the states and Canada waiting for her!