Congratulations to Thumbelina who whelped her first litter and has been an absolute wonderful mother so far! We have 8 girls, 4 boys in this litter. We are happy they’re here! We have some very limited availability for AKC conformation homes in this litter. The rest are spoken for at this point in time.
We are excited for 2025 to be here because we have puppies coming soon! Puppies are due at the end of this month. Both parents are OFA tested, all colors are expected. This is an incredibly special litter anticipated and we are thrilled it took. We have some availability if you are interested further, please fill out an online application from this website or email us.
Thumbelina was a bit confused why Michael would be in a pool in such cold temps in November! She didn’t know it was heated. 🙂
We had a fun set of visitors some see us! Tonka & Secret’s litter (co-bred with us but bred/whelped at Ironstride Hounds) came today for evaluation and some placement decisions! Puppy breath always makes us happy! There are still a couple puppies available from this litter. You can see the information on our litter pages.
Thumbelina attended our American Bloodhound Club’s National Specialty in Asheville, NC at the end of September and accomplished quite a bit! She mantrailed to her newest title – MTI (mantrailer intermediate), she passed the AKC ATT test which is their temperament test AND she accompanied Dyna Vestal to her Best Junior win!
We are so proud of this boy! At the Concord, NC shows this past weekend, Tonka had a huge win taking the Hound group which was filled with some of the nation’s top hounds! Tonka is 4.5yrs old and from our Bunny/Willie litter. The best part was afterwards we got to have an ‘M&M family’ cookout all together to celebrate him!
We did a breeding this spring and the result was a singleton! It happens, even in large breeds. In fact this is our fourth one in all these years. They’re a special bunch! We welcome to the world a new black/tan baby boy born via c-section May 23rd!
It’s so nice outside today! The girls are enjoying relaxing and hanging out!
Mrs. Pea on the left, Grace on the right
Thumbelina and Gaines are enjoying this afternoon just hanging out together and pondering life – or maybe pondering when they’ll play ball next?
On January 2, 2023 Gaines had a beautiful litter of 4 puppies born. The most amazing part about this litter is that their sire was born in 1993. The frozen semen we used was 26yrs old!