Misfire Kennel

16/06/2025

Goodness I am behind posting!
💛So far Cece came back to us and it's been nice getting her back into to training now that she has decompressed some.
🤍Jyn is getting used to the crazy Wyoming weather and is coming out of her shell so we are able to get some training on her.
🤎And a new face has joined the pack! Reign will now be hanging with us! We picked him up on his second birthday, after he finished his grand championship. He has now joined the ranks of the other pocket rockets and we can't wait to do things with him! Older photo of him, he is currently in cords and an absolute ham.

14/04/2025

In her happy place 🥰
She isn't keen on people and downtown life, which we are working on, but she is enjoying the start of Wyoming spring as we regularly go out in Medicine Bow.
Going to need a groom soon so we can show her off ! 🤍

13/03/2025

We had a quiet winter, doing some health testing and hanging out but now that spring is around the corner I guess it was time we take in another ✨️ to-be ✨️ rehomed. No fault of any one's, and there was even a plan she come stay before everything happened, but we have a little white girl here looking for her forever place in a few months 🥰 See you soon with updates!

16/09/2024

Trixie and I had our first AKC show last weekend, which also happened to be her last weekend with us. She has moved on to start a new life with her brother over at Jackalope Poodles as Summit! Climb great mountains girlie 🏔💜 I'm so glad I could be a part of your story 💜

16/09/2024

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14/08/2024

Some photos of our long weekend last week 🥰 Trixie came out for once (because we packed a big enough tent to keep her dry and brush her coat out 😆). Glad we got a hike in before she goes home in a few weeks! Follow her further at her at: https://www.tiktok.com/.poodles?_t=8orxweK8iMd&_r=1

Beautiful hikes and scenery around Medicine Bow National Forest. Of course the old men came too and showed the rest of them how we do it 💪

03/08/2024

Cece and I in one of the ringside shots 🥰 Not many to pick from so we both don't certainly look our best.

03/08/2024

Cece' s limiting factor is me 😅
We went chasing our grand championship last weekend for fun against some big competitive dogs and she kept us in the ribbons! Came back with at least 2 legs and one Group 1! Every judge commented on her structure, balance, and tempermant as "ideal". The only negative comment she received when we took reserve is she is too small 😂. She is a ✨️ pocket rocket ✨️. We will see how far we go showing, it isn't her favorite but she brings out the pizzazz for me 💛

16/06/2024

Happy birthday to my little pocket rocket Cece ✨️ UCH Misfire & Mount Zion's Call Your Bluff ✨️ This last year may have left you a little ignored but I am so happy I can pick you up right where we leave off anytime. Adaptable, sweet, with a heck of a nose stuck to the end of your little brain. Here's to many more years 💛

03/06/2024

Big congratulations to Cannoli, 🧁 Mount Zions C Icing on the Cake 🧁 for finishing his UKC championship with his mom 🥰 She did awesome learning how to handle him!
Cannoli is a Gus puppy and shows a lot of his dads character in him 💖

03/04/2024

People forget they're raising dogs, not just "prospects"

Dear future "working home,"

While I know you have dreams of podiums when you bring your little working line puppy home, you have a much bigger responsibility to this little puppy I'm trusting to you.

That's great that you've researched pedigrees, have a club and maybe even a solid mentor. That's amazing that you have all the latest tug toys and a custom wide agitation collar with his name embroidered on it. And I'm really stoked that you already have his instagram loaded with fire emoji's detailing his daily puppy training sessions.

But over and over, my puppies are FAILED by their working home owners. Owners who look amazing on paper. Owners who have all the goals and dreams for their little puppy. And it's not just MY working home owners. I know other breeders who feel this same pain as they send their little ones out into this world. Knowing that these puppies who could excel at so many things are going to be set up for failure by the first people who have their hands on them.

How are they being failed?

By s**t advice. S**t advice from the clubs that are mentoring them. S**t advice from the internet. S**t advice from those around them.

I'll scream it from the roof tops ....

Stop taking these working prospects and shoving them in crates, only to come out for "work" in the name of drive building. If they need full deprivation to "work" then the genetics aren't there in the first place.

Stop taking these working prospects and controlling every single morsel of food to the point of deprivation, over long periods of time. If the food drive is that bad, the genetics aren't there in the first place.

Stop taking these working prospects and never letting anyone touch your puppy. "He should treat people like furniture." Yeah ... solid advice for some puppies but I know when you wash this dog in 18 months, I now have a full size adult intact male Rottweiler who's never been handled by strangers. Great, thanks.

Stop taking these working prospects and never letting them interact with another dog or animal. "He should be neutral to dogs." Yeah ... great ... now you wash this dog in 12 months and I have a full size intact male Rottweiler who doesn't know how he feels about his own species.

Stop taking these working prospects and never telling them "no" because you want them to be strong on the field. Great....now when you return King Kong to me, he isn't really going to know what to do with those big feelings when that's not how the world works.

Stop depriving your working line puppies of a solid start in life ... because when you wash that dog from sport for an issue YOU created .... now I have to clean up the mess.

Raise your puppy for sport however you want, but at the end of the day if that dog doesn't pan out for sport you are giving them a death sentence if you haven't also raised them with a pet dog life in mind.

Sincerely,
A Working Dog Breeder

17/03/2024

Cece had the very important job the past few days helping us haul cattle. She doesn't get enough credit for being the absolute best truck dog and livestock savvy 🥰