Petrichor Kennels

16/02/2025

Training is a family affair! Sonny with his kiddo, who has in turn training "Car Puppy"

12/02/2025

Fun in the snow with the boys! Boss and Bishop

04/02/2025

Snow day!

01/02/2025

Last chance to get those votes in! Please comment and share and like the original post!!

Dog Tag Giveaway 🤠

This is Hvitserk, Boss, Corsen, Sonny, and Bishop.
Collectively, we are Petrichor Kennels, raising Australian Shepherds and Beaucerons. Our dogs are faithful companions as well as working dogs, living on a hobby farm. Our passions include herding, cuddling on the couch, swimming in the river, and helping keep the farm moving

22/01/2025

Breeding is a labor of passion. It's hours of dedication, perseverance, and unwavering commitment to the breed!

22/01/2025

*que Sarah McLachlan*

21/01/2025

It's cold outside! Hope everyone is staying warm!

20/01/2025

Dog Tag Giveaway 🤠

This is Hvitserk, Boss, Corsen, Sonny, and Bishop.
Collectively, we are Petrichor Kennels, raising Australian Shepherds and Beaucerons. Our dogs are faithful companions as well as working dogs, living on a hobby farm. Our passions include herding, cuddling on the couch, swimming in the river, and helping keep the farm moving

19/01/2025

Bishop had fun at the Puyallup cluster last weekend!!

Wishing luck to all our friends at the Portland shows this weekend!

03/01/2025

Can you help us out by giving us a vote? Click the image below to "like" and comment!! We appreciate it!! 🙏🏼

Dog Tag Giveaway 🤠

This is Hvitserk, Boss, Corsen, Sonny, and Bishop.
Collectively, we are Petrichor Kennels, raising Australian Shepherds and Beaucerons. Our dogs are faithful companions as well as working dogs, living on a hobby farm. Our passions include herding, cuddling on the couch, swimming in the river, and helping keep the farm moving

31/12/2024

Happy birthday, Bishop!!

The blue devil is officially TWO!! What a journey it's been, and so much more to come! I can't wait for the next few months, we have so many goals and stuff planned!

Join me in wishing Bishop a happy second birthday below!!

Midnight Island's The Voodoo That U Do @ Petrichor
(Mardi x Heina)

26/12/2024

Yesterday I had someone preach "Adopt don't Shop" on my page and I immediately thought "what an interesting thing to say." 🤔
So your telling me that you'd be willing to go to a shelter and take home the dog that has been there the longest? Or the one with a bite history? One that doesn't get along with children or small animals? One that has lifelong medicals needs?
Funny enough adopting from a shelter IS shopping. You're viewing the eligible dogs and determining which is most suited for your lifestyle. Most require an "adoption fee" to help with the costs that the dog marked up during their stay at the shelter but here's the real kicker. All of those dogs were produced by irresponsible, and disreputable breeders who either wanted a puppy from dear Fluffy, thought they could make money, and/or didnt care and let their intact dog run amuck. Yes you heard me right, if you produce a litter, whether directly or by "accident", you are a breeder. Though for these shady, immoral people I prefer to refer to them as "greeders" due to the fact they don't deserve to be associated with those who spend months...years...decades learning about our beloved breed and attempting to master the craft.

ETHICAL breeders don't stop at just breeding purebreds, we breed to IMPROVE the longevity, health, temperament, structure, drive, coat type, movement, eye sight, and mental and physical stability. Each possible prospect under gos multiple health, genetic and disease tests to determine if they are even suitable. We spend hundreds testing for hip and elbow dysplasia through the Orthopedic Foundation for Animals and/or PennHip. We assess their temperament, ability to cope, improvements on their structure, their eyes are checked yearly for any abnormalities, we review their pedigree like a paleontologist discovering a new fossil, and then they must prove they are worth breeding. We become a team, competing along side one another for titles at local, National and International levels. Ethical breeders devote every fibre of their being to improve the breed and this doesnt stop with one litter. As long as we are planning a litter we are planning to IMPROVE the breed and to produce a dog that will have a long, fulfilling life alongside their owners, one that is full of joy, adventures and making their owners happy every second of every day.

That 8 week old puppy you see before you? That is a product of a dream that developed long ago. A dream that we spent hours, days, months, years, possibly decades researching, testing, showing and devoting our life too. We love our puppies from the second we see their little blobs dancing across the ultrasound screen. When the time comes we wait along side their dams during the whelping process. We do not sleep for the next 8 possibly 12 weeks, every second is dedicated to the puppies WE decided to bring into this world. They are raised in a home full of love, adoration and the opportunities to learn and grow in a safe, healthy environment. We vet all potential homes, checking refrences, phone calls and sometimes at home checks.
We become attached to the point our hearts break when we say "see you later" as you head off on adventures with your new family. We provided you with generations of health, testing and sound bodies and minds behind you. A promising start in lifelong skills, training and experiences... and a lifetime of adventures ahead of you.

We adore our dogs and our puppies, they will always have a life long home with their breeder if their new owner can no longer care for them. You will never see a wellbred purebred in the shelter. The second you get a puppy from an ethical breeder you have entered a lifelong relationship that is stronger than family itself. Ethical breeders will do anything for their dogs and puppies. So the next time you hear "Adopt don't Shop" remember ETHICAL breeders aren't like anything you've ever seen before.

Sincerely, a breeder that would do anything for their dogs and puppies.
SunSeeker Australian Shepherds
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Below is SunSeekers I'll Show You That Iam RNX RAX "Ferrero" who was born weighing just 6 oz, one third the size of his littermates. He slept in the crook of my arm for the first 4 weeks of life and though he was strong and healthy he never left. Today he is a beloved member of the family here at SunSeeker. 💙

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25/12/2024

Merry Christmas from our pack to yours!

14/12/2024

My sweet boys! Bishop and Sonny with Boss in the background

13/12/2024

We saw Santa! And apparently Sonny is daring the fat man to come down that chimney 🤣

06/12/2024

Sonny, fresh from a bath and groom! Just in time for the rain and to get all muddy again

15/11/2024

If we are quiet on here for a bit, it's because we've got our hands full with our newest family member

(Plus Corsen who decided now was the perfect time to come into heat!)

Hoping to be up and sharing more once I heal up a bit more.

04/11/2024

Some people have dogs that run from the vacuum... We have the opposite problem here!