TIC TOC & SONNY'S PUPS
INTRODUCTION AND EXPLANATION:
We're going to try something new and different here, folks. This litter is NOT at Flickennel in Colorado, but is located in lovely UPSTATE NEW YORK! (This picture is looking out one of my east windows.) DO NOT CALL JANET ABOUT THESE PUPS!!! Their mama and their "aunties" and "uncle" came from Flickennel, but their daddy is a New Yorker, and so are the puppies. We're just going to advertise them here and see if we get any takers from "out East." We get a lot of inquiries and sell a good number of pups to folks out that direction, so hey - we'll save them the time and expense of flying the pups a couple thousand miles across the country! These will be sold locally only, in New York - I'm not flying them anywhere.
This four-pup litter was born December 10, 2011 and are ready to go to their new homes. Waiting until now to advertise them, I'm able to tell you exactly what their personalities are, and how they are developing. (April 1, 16 weeks old - we're only gettin' better and better!
Okay, here's their story, written by Becky Sewell, who worked at Flickennel until September 2010, and now I maintain Flickennel.com from my new home in central New York State... This is my first litter of dachshund pups born and raised in MY home. I named them shortly after birth, and they've been coming to their names since they could first walk. Now they're working on house-training - they use the doggy-door and go up and down the outside steps by themselves. They loved the snow, but are really loving spring, green grass and WARMTH! They are quite alert to the rabbits and squirrels running around the fenced back yard, and irritated that the pesky things won't come inside the fence to be pounced on! Somebody dumped a friendly little kitten near here March 2 (same size as the pups), and we've adopted him, so everybody is getting socialized together, with very careful supervision.
MOTHER: Tic Toc is a red brindle wirehair who looks like she's carved from richly-colored mahogany wood, except she never stays that still! Wires are wired, but they're the clowns of the dachshund clan, and they keep us in stitches with their goofy hijinks and tomfoolery. This is Tic Toc's first litter, with which she has done admirably - she's been a great little mom. She weighs between 9 and 10 lbs, having gotten a little "meatier" since she weaned her pups!
FATHER: Sonny is a cream & white piebald-carrying longhair, who put a little spot of white on the throat of each of his sons and daughters, and gave them one dilute gene - one pup was born cream-colored, and all but one show some cream tendency. Being reds, they may do a complete switch to cream, or not.... only time will tell! They'll keep their black brindle stripes, however. Sonny is about the same size as Tic Toc.
You can find the parents' photographs and more info about them, below the pups' descriptions.
I AM SELLING THESE PUPS DIRECTLY, MYSELF - NOT THROUGH JANET. PLEASE CALL ME FOR MORE INFORMATION, AT 315-889-5203, OR EMAIL ME AT oldmilkmaid@msn.com. I LIVE ABOUT 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF AUBURN, NY. CALL ME FOR DRIVING DIRECTIONS!
We're going to try something new and different here, folks. This litter is NOT at Flickennel in Colorado, but is located in lovely UPSTATE NEW YORK! (This picture is looking out one of my east windows.) DO NOT CALL JANET ABOUT THESE PUPS!!! Their mama and their "aunties" and "uncle" came from Flickennel, but their daddy is a New Yorker, and so are the puppies. We're just going to advertise them here and see if we get any takers from "out East." We get a lot of inquiries and sell a good number of pups to folks out that direction, so hey - we'll save them the time and expense of flying the pups a couple thousand miles across the country! These will be sold locally only, in New York - I'm not flying them anywhere.
This four-pup litter was born December 10, 2011 and are ready to go to their new homes. Waiting until now to advertise them, I'm able to tell you exactly what their personalities are, and how they are developing. (April 1, 16 weeks old - we're only gettin' better and better!
Okay, here's their story, written by Becky Sewell, who worked at Flickennel until September 2010, and now I maintain Flickennel.com from my new home in central New York State... This is my first litter of dachshund pups born and raised in MY home. I named them shortly after birth, and they've been coming to their names since they could first walk. Now they're working on house-training - they use the doggy-door and go up and down the outside steps by themselves. They loved the snow, but are really loving spring, green grass and WARMTH! They are quite alert to the rabbits and squirrels running around the fenced back yard, and irritated that the pesky things won't come inside the fence to be pounced on! Somebody dumped a friendly little kitten near here March 2 (same size as the pups), and we've adopted him, so everybody is getting socialized together, with very careful supervision.
MOTHER: Tic Toc is a red brindle wirehair who looks like she's carved from richly-colored mahogany wood, except she never stays that still! Wires are wired, but they're the clowns of the dachshund clan, and they keep us in stitches with their goofy hijinks and tomfoolery. This is Tic Toc's first litter, with which she has done admirably - she's been a great little mom. She weighs between 9 and 10 lbs, having gotten a little "meatier" since she weaned her pups!
FATHER: Sonny is a cream & white piebald-carrying longhair, who put a little spot of white on the throat of each of his sons and daughters, and gave them one dilute gene - one pup was born cream-colored, and all but one show some cream tendency. Being reds, they may do a complete switch to cream, or not.... only time will tell! They'll keep their black brindle stripes, however. Sonny is about the same size as Tic Toc.
You can find the parents' photographs and more info about them, below the pups' descriptions.
I AM SELLING THESE PUPS DIRECTLY, MYSELF - NOT THROUGH JANET. PLEASE CALL ME FOR MORE INFORMATION, AT 315-889-5203, OR EMAIL ME AT oldmilkmaid@msn.com. I LIVE ABOUT 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF AUBURN, NY. CALL ME FOR DRIVING DIRECTIONS!
PUPPY #1 is the only girl I have - her sister went to live with the folks who own her daddy. DOLLY is a real doll - VERY affectionate (the first to give me kisses!), the calmest of these three, although she knows how to whup on her brothers, too! She's the most precocious, the first to learn to do everything, and the most intrepid explorer - she ventured out of the kitchen (where their crate and pen are) a full week before anyone else did. She's colored exactly like her red brindle mother, but has the white throat-splotch to set her apart from Mom. Like Tic Toc, Dolly's hair is long and shaggy, but a little softer wirehair, thanks to her dad's longhair influence. Tic Toc has a thin shaggy coat without any soft, fuzzy undercoat, but Dolly does have some, thanks to her dad. Dolly is very petite, much like her mother was as a pup, so I'm pretty confident she'll top out at around 8-9 lbs, too. She's my personal favorite, the "breeder's pick of the litter." I'd keep her in a heartbeat, but......
PUPPY #2 is DUKE, who was born as a light-yellow cream brindle, but quickly darkened to light-red brindle.... Go figure - I WANTED the yellow "wheaten"! Duke was also the biggest of the pups at birth, but has since been outgrown by his brother. Duke has very short hair, and so far has only a scattering of wire hairs on his chest and throat - other than that, he looks like a regular smoothcoat. His face is precious - the stripes and his long, droopy ears make him look like a wrinkly-faced old hound-dog trying to puzzle out a cold trail! He's a very happy boy, playful and affectionate, too - I've worked hard at socializing these guys, but it has been a labor of love! They are regularly loved on by my husband and everyone else who comes in the house. ... Duke's price is $500, as a companion - he is being sold without registration papers, as a non-breeder: he has only one testicle descended, an inherited fault. He's still a great pal, though, and loves everybody!
PUPPY #3 is FREDDY, although I thought about changing his name to Lefty Frizzle (a play on Lefty Frizzell, the country singer's name) because he's so fuzzy. He's a true wirehair, but he got the largest measure of Dad's longhair, with a THICK undercoat and longer guard-hairs that stick up on his head in a punk-rocker's hairdo of cream hair-shafts with red tips! He's the only one in the litter that does NOT have brindle tiger-stripes on his light-red coat, but he does have a slight black overlay, and he seems to be turning to the creamy-gold shade called "wheaten," when it adorns a wirehair. When I roll him over and rub his tummy (which he loves), he's golden underneath. He has the cute black whisker-tufts on his mouth that first showed he was wiry, the creamy wire guard-hairs on his back and sides, and his feet look like he's wearing fuzzy slippers. He's built like his grandpa Stripe - a solid chunk - not fat, but meaty. He's a sweetie with a lot of love to give! I'm asking $600 for him, including his AKC registration - he should make a good breeder.
Left to right: Freddy, Dolly and Duke, February 21 2012.
They all have dark-brown eyes, not blue (that's just camera-flash), and all carry piebald and cream.
They all have dark-brown eyes, not blue (that's just camera-flash), and all carry piebald and cream.
MOTHER:
Janet gave me Tic Toc as my "gold watch" when I 'retired' from the kennel to move to NY (to be near my elderly parents), hence her funny name. She's a real sweetie, an eager hunter, and a great little mother. Her dad is a wheaten brindle who looks gray, her mom's a red - both proud Flickennel wirehairs.
Janet gave me Tic Toc as my "gold watch" when I 'retired' from the kennel to move to NY (to be near my elderly parents), hence her funny name. She's a real sweetie, an eager hunter, and a great little mother. Her dad is a wheaten brindle who looks gray, her mom's a red - both proud Flickennel wirehairs.
FATHER:
Littleland's Lord Sundance, or Sonny, is from Littleland Kennels of Cato, NY, but his paternal pedigree is replete with champions going straight back to the earliest roots of the English cream dachshunds. There's a lot of quality cream in this dog, and I'm proud to have his genes in my babies!
Littleland's Lord Sundance, or Sonny, is from Littleland Kennels of Cato, NY, but his paternal pedigree is replete with champions going straight back to the earliest roots of the English cream dachshunds. There's a lot of quality cream in this dog, and I'm proud to have his genes in my babies!
The last photo of all four pups together with their mother and "Auntie Sugar," 2-3-12. Twinkletoes, lying across Freddy's tummy, went to Littleland Kennels the next day. The doxies love the wood-stove's heat!
Below: I had to take Freddy out in the bright sunshine to show the pale guard-hairs and fringes on his cheeks - he's a neat-looking pup, and I believe he's going wheaten!
Can you see the funky, punky red tips on his hairdo? They only show when I fluff up his hair and get it in contrast to something.
DOLLY IS GOING TO A VERY SPECIAL HOME WITH A VERY SPECIAL PERSON, WHO RETIRED FROM THE US NAVY AFTER 20 YEARS - THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE, BOSUN'S MATE!!!
FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED -
YOU SNOOZE, YOU LOSE!
YOUR DEPOSIT OR PAYMENT IN FULL WILL HOLD YOUR PUP FOR YOU.
YOU SNOOZE, YOU LOSE!
YOUR DEPOSIT OR PAYMENT IN FULL WILL HOLD YOUR PUP FOR YOU.
Just call me "MISTER PERSONALITY"!!!