This summer is a summer of puppies! Some of you might be thinking- but wait, it’s a global pandemic! Shouldn’t you be hunkering down due to the uncertainty of the future. And you’re probably right. But I try to live optimistically, and in order to keep diversity of ages and upcoming youth in the kennel, it was time we had a bigger puppy year. The last two summers, we welcomed four puppies each year to the kennel, but we didn’t have any litters ourselves. It was time to have another large class of pups born here at Ryno Kennel. I was planning for the 7-10 puppies range… but you know how that goes…

So there are the three from the Fire litter:

Spitfire, Foxfire, and Firefly

Whitney McLaren came out to the kennel last week and took photos of the puppies. Updated photos of the Fires will be here soon!

Then there were TEN from Dracula’s litter:

We’re working on names and leaning towards a cheese theme! Some of our favorites so far are Mozzarella (Mozzie), Feta, Cheddar, Swiss, Havarti, Halloumi, Gouda, Muenster, Colby, Monterey Jack, Curd, Goat, Pepper, Stinky Bishop, or Whizz. Since Dracula had such a big litter, we will be sharing the love with other kennels and friends. We plan on keeping four puppies (two boys and two girls) from Dracula’s litter. They’re now four weeks old and starting to eat soaked kibble and venture out of their house.

And finally we have one more litter! What?! Yeah!

Maple joined our kennel from Jason Campeau this year. She has very similar genetics to our retired all-star Jana and basically resembles a taller Jana! Maple recently had five beautiful puppies- three boys and two girls. We will be keeping this entire litter, bringing the total puppy class to twelve. It’s the largest puppy class we’ve ever had, and we are SO excited about the potential. Many of our main competitors are getting closer to retirement age (or have already retired by choice), so these pups will be the future core of the kennel!