Puppies

(and sometimes young adults)

I've had occasional trouble getting email from this site.  If you have any trouble, please send email directly to rneumeie@gmail.com and that should work!

ALSO:  Want to see how puppies turn out as they grow up?  'Cause it's interesting to see how they grow and change.

PLUS:  Curious about what it's like to breed a litter?  Here's my take on the experience.

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If you are interested in an Anara puppy (or adult dog), then --

Please write a real email. Tell me your name, plus a little bit about yourself and your family and your past and current pets and why your family would be a good fit for a Cavalier -- just tell me something more than that you are looking for a puppy. Most Cavalier puppies are suitable for many, many homes, but they are not suitable for every single home! Besides that, every specific puppy is suitable only for some good homes. Tell me exactly what kind of temperament your ideal puppy would have and let me know if you plan hiking or Agility or walks in the park. I need to know enough about you to make sure that your home is actually a good fit for a puppy and also pick out an individual puppy that would be a good fit for you and for your home.

BTW, if you are looking for a quality, healthy, pretty Cavalier for a pet, I really urge you to think hard about whether you HAVE to have a female.  And I know everybody's got their color preferences, and yes of course you want a puppy you will enjoy looking at -- I don't personally like freckles, for example, so honestly I do understand preferences for color and markings.  But if you are flexible about color and sex, it is a LOT easier to get a really nice puppy. 

My bet is that if you buy a puppy, you will never regret making health and sound structure and a nice personality your priorities and letting color and sex come later in your list of criteria.  I promise you, no matter what color is your favorite, when a puppy of some other color crawls into your lap, you will be charmed by that puppy in nothing flat.

2023

IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR AN OLDER PUPPY OR ADULT:  

I may place my three-year-old Naamah as a pet. I'm in no hurry; she is available only to a home that truly suits her. Check out her description on The Gang's page and contact me if you think she sounds perfect for you.

IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR A PUPPY:  

I bred Morgan to my Ishmael on January 18, 2023. Puppies could be any color. They would be ready to go to new homes around the end of May 2023.

In late 2023 or 2024, I hope to breed Morgan to a fantastic ruby male. Puppies would probably be wholecolor.

I bred Leda, also to Ishmael, on January 30, 2023. Puppies would all be Blenheim. They would be available around the beginning of June.

Scroll down to read about the parents of all these potential litters. 

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Puppies due March 20 AND March 31 2023:

Morgan was bred January 18 2023.

Morgan is carrying TWO puppies. If all goes well, they will be due March 20 2023 and potentially ready for new homes in late May 2023.

Any color is equally likely. I will almost certainly keep any wholecolor female puppies and I'm pretty likely to keep any female puppies, any color, unless the puppy has some cosmetic fault that would keep her out of the show ring, such as lots of freckles. If puppies are male, they will almost certainly be available as pets.

Because my personal life was complicated in January, I wasn't able to breed Morgan to Closeburn Red Fox To THe Front. He's young, so hopefully next time. Scroll down a bit to take a look at him.

However, Ish was a good alternate choice. He's nine and heart-clear, and his previous litter with Morgan were very, very nice puppies.

Morgan -- Anara Morgan Le Fey Anara Kimberlyn Rose RN x AKC Grand Ch Snowbird Wicked Good Wizard	Ish -- Anara Call Me Ishmael RN RA RE Anara Give Me A Break x AKC and CKCSC Ch Jayba Easy Does It, JW

Morgan is a delightful young lady, born July 2019. She is heart and eye clear as of 2023. 

Morgan was a calm, thoughtful puppy and has matured into a calm, mellow adult.

Ishmael is a mature gentleman, nine years old, one of the most mellow Cavaliers I've ever met, and of course very beautiful.

These two produced a prior litter in 2021. Scroll down to see those puppies.

PERHAPS NEXT FOR MORGAN -->

Morgan -- Anara Morgan Le Fey Anara Kimberlyn Rose RN x AKC Grand Ch Snowbird Wicked Good Wizard	Closeburn Red Fox to the Front Denham Moonstruck x AKC and CKCSC Ch Khatibi One in Vermillion, Eng JW
	Red Fox is about the same age as Morgan, and also heart and eye clear as of 2022. He is sweet and loving, but also vibrant and vivacious. He is an extremely glamorous young dog, with a lovely head, outstanding structure, excellent movement -- just a stunning dog. He's small, smaller than Morgan. I'm very hopeful that he might produce truly outstanding puppies.

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A Blenheim litter is expected to arrive March 31 2023

I bred Leda to Ish in 2022 and had a litter of four lovely male puppies. I would really like a puppy just as nice, bur a girl! Therefore I repeated this breeding.

Leda has been confirmed pregnant and is carrying a litter of at least FOUR puppies. Puppies are due March 31 and will all be Blenheim. I will almost certainly keep at least one girl from this litter, provided that this time there are girls!

Leda -- Anara Lavender Rose AKC Ch Anara Honeysuckle Rose RN RA x AKC and CKCSC Ch Fox Creek Hear Me Roar	Ish -- Anara Call Me Ishmael RN RA RE Anara Give Me A Break x AKC and CKCSC Ch Jayba Easy Does It, JW
Below are pictures of the previous litter and descriptions of the parents.
Four little boys

Leda is a beautiful young lady, four years old. She has her majors and just needs to knock off a few single points to finish her championship. She cleared her heart in 2022.

Scroll down to see her parents and read about them. Leda's mother was MRI'd for syringomyelia when she was five and was clear.

Leda is a sweet, gentle girl, attentive and affectionate, with low prey drive. She is compact and small, with excellent movement. Her full brother and sister are also beautiful and sound. There is every reason to expect nice puppies from Leda.

Bred to Leda, Ishmael will hopefully produce glamorous puppies that are sweet, sensitive, gentle, beautiful, with good hearts and all-around good health. He is heart-clear at nine, clear for eyes, fair hips, good patellas, MRI'd clear for SM. He is also outstandingly mellow and willing, gets along with all other dogs, cats, people, everybody. He's a lapdog, sweet clear through, moderate in drive. He's the easiest dog I've ever trained for Rally or other performance sports.

And, of course, he's extremely handsome.

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My 2021 Litter:

Morgan -- Anara Morgan Le Fey Anara Kimberlyn Rose RN x AKC Grand Ch Snowbird Wicked Good Wizard	Ish -- Anara Call Me Ishmael RN RA RE Anara Give Me A Break x AKC and CKCSC Ch Jayba Easy Does It, JW
Five beautiful puppies arrived May 26th -- Two tricolor girls One tricolor boy One ruby girl One black-and-tan boy The puppies all have homes waiting for them.

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Litters from 2019 and earlier -- keep scolling down if you would like to look back through the generations

Morgan, Anara Morgan Le Fey, one of my "sorceress" puppies. Morgan was the only puppy in this litter Her defining characteristic right from the beginning has been her utterly fearless personality. Morgan is, as you can see, black-and-tan. She is carrying both red and broken color from her mother, so she could have puppies of any color, depending on the male. She will be two years old in July 2021.
Naamah, Anara Nimue Du Lac, my other "sorceress." Naamah was also the only puppy in her litter. She is a fine youngster, with the excellent structure of both parents and a pretty head and expression. She will also be two in July 2021.

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Kimmie and Conner are littermates from a fantastic 2017 litter. Their mother, Honey, AKC Ch. Anara Honeysuckle Rose RN RA, was bred to CKCSC and AKC Ch. Fox Creek Hear Me Roar JW (Leo).  Take a look at their puppy pictures below.

Honey		Leo
		From left to right, Girl 1, Girl 2 and Boy. Girl 1has nicely symmetrical facial markings, always preferable in the show ring. Girl 2 has somewhat asymmetrical facial markings, with the color coming down farther toward her mouth on the left side of her face. Boy has a "mustache" mark on the left side of his face, right down by his mouth -- no doubt he got that from Honey, who has a similar face marking.
		Boy, now named Conner, shown here at five weeks and at nine weeks. An extremely good looking puppy, with a beautiful head and plenty of bone. That mustache mark has not slowed Conner down much in the show ring. He did very well in the puppy classes and I hope and expect to finish his championshp soon.
		Girl 1, now Kimmie, captured first in a (brief) pensive mood at five weeks and then in a somewhat blurry picture at nine weeks. Her structure is very good. Her face is lovely, her head beautiful. Kimmie matured beautifully and won Winners Bitch in her first nine straight shows, picking up all her single points easily. Now she needs majors to finish. I hope to finish her shortly.
		Girl 2, now Livvie, went to a great pet home where she is the pride and joy of a wonderful eight-year-old boy. She is pictured here at five weeks and then nine weeks. She is a very nice puppy and most likely could have finished her championship despite her asymmetrical face markings, but keeping all three puppies seemed a bit much. Her head is quite pretty; her eyes are beautiful. She is cobbier and heavier than Kimmie, almost as big as her brother, with plenty of bone. Her front is probably better than Kimmie's, though she does fall off a bit in the croup. It was tough deciding which girl to keep, but Kimmie's lovely head and superior facial markings make her a superior show prospect.
		Here are Conner and Kimmie, showing off their ribbons after their first AKC show as junior puppies. The only class entries in this small show, I did not expect them to earn championship points, especially at their age. However, Kimmie beat out two Grand Champion bitches for Best of Opposite Sex, thus earning her first point; and then Conner beat Kimmie for Best of Winners, thus also earning his first point. It was a great beginning to their show careers! They are nearly eight months old in this picture.

In late 2015, I bred Honey's mother, Ch. Roycroft Kenya Cameroon RN RA, to my glamorous young boy Anara Call Me Ishmael RN RA.  Kenya has been a terrible producer, with very serious premature labor issues.  This was my final attempt to get a really beautiful male puppy from her, and I did get a single living puppy, a male.

However, at just over a year old, it was clear that Jos was not likely to have his father's glamour. Jos moved to a pet home in the summer of 2017.

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2013's Single Puppy

Kenya's puppy from 2013's litter, Honey

Honey at four weeks	Honey at eight weeks

Honey was the only surviving puppy from Kenya's litter with Ch Truluv Kiss N Tell at Jayba. 

Kenya won her Graduate Puppy class at the 2011 Indianapolis CKCSC specialty, from the renowned movement-and-structure judge Frank Kane, who said she was "the convincing winner" of the class. She recently won her second AKC major over a large entry of top-quality bitches.  Kenya has finished her Rally Advanced title.

Teddy is the incomparable AKC and CKCSC Ch Truluv Kiss N Tell of Jayba.  Teddy, Gene, Gene's brother DJ, and other Jayba dogs are some of the most beautiful Cavaliers in the country today -- there are plenty of details on the Jayba Cavaliers website.  It just kills me that I only got one puppy from this breeding.

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2012's Puppies

Puppy "G" -- Kenya's only puppy by Gene:

The "F" litter -- Adora's puppies by Graham:

Every puppy conceived had a 75% chance of being ruby and a 25% chance of being blenheim, but as you see, I managed to get one of each.  The little ruby is (yay!) a girl!  !!!   Which is what I wanted from this litter.  The blenheim is a boy.

	Anara Fiddlesticks, now Benji, has gone to his new home, where I am assured he is doted on by all who see him.
	Anara Frivolity, called Folly for short, is a wonderful little spitfire . . . can't wait till she's old enough to hit the puppy classes!

2010's litter

Bree had three puppies May 5th, one tri boy, one tri girl, and one blenheim girl.

	This is Myrddin Emrys (Merlin to his friends).  Merlin got his mother's wonderful temperament, excellent structure, and great movement.  It's hard not to sound like a used-car salesman when I talk about Merlin.  He has just about the most perfect personality imaginable -- laid back but playful, a lap dog but not too demanding, moderate in energy level, accepting of virtually everything, not a trace of shyness or nervousness. Merlin's only fault, if you can even call it that, is uneven markings on his body - as you can see, though, the markings on his head are beautifully symmetrical.  He's in a fabulous pet home now, and no doubt still charming everybody he meets.
	Here is Eilionoir -- Elli for short. Elli is the smallest of the puppies, very feminine and sweet. I really wanted a beautifully marked tri girl from this litter, and look!  Here she is!  Her markings are lovely and symmetrical.  But those freckles on her face are definitely not desirable for a show dog, even though many people personally appreciate freckles on a Cavalier.  And freckles on a tricolor show up so clearly! So Elli went to a great pet home, where she will be beautiful, sweet, and elegant and no one will mind her freckles.
	This is Eibhlin -- Eve for short.  She is only seven weeks here, but this picture shows exactly the body you look for in a show puppy.  A bit long in the body, yes, but angulation to die for, fantastic neck and shoulder, tremendous bone, wonderful topline and tail set.  Just an amazing puppy! Eve is incredibly active and outgoing.  All three of Bree's puppies were 'born socialized', but Eve takes it a whole order of magnitude farther than her siblings.  Her attitude just screams that SHE is the WINNER.  She doesn't live with me anymore, but she was shown to her International Championship by her new owners!

The father of this litter is such a great dog!  Take a look at Guy and then scroll down to read all about him.

Now, Guy is a pretty special dog, which is the only reason I'd have considered driving all the way to Minneapolis to breed Bree to him, believe me!  He's from Scotland.  His show name is Kinvaar Obsession.  Guy is seven years old and heart clear, but the thing about Guy (besides his beauty!) is the back of his skull.  He's one of the go-to dogs if you're really *serious* about trying to avoid syringomyelia.  He's racking up an impressive record as a producer -- that is, his offspring tend to look really good as far as avoiding SM goes, way better than average.  And he's siring really beautiful offspring, definitely a plus.

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2009's single puppy:

Eff's puppy, the sole Anara puppy born in 2009.   This puppy's sire was Sanicro Enchanter at Heartsong, a fabulous dog (Kenya's father, too) but unfortunately, Eff only had the one puppy.

	Born 9-22-09, Dara was 11 oz at birth, which I thought was huge until Bree's 12 oz tri girl beat her.  Here she is three and a half weeks -- with her 'siblings'!  Because she was a single puppy, she needed substitutes to take the place of her littermates.  She still loves her bear!
	Dara at three months old.  She turned out to have great structure, but a rather "old-fashioned" style of head -- and freckles, alas.  I finally placed her in a great pet home when she was three, where she now divides her time between sleeping upside down on laps and eradicating the neighborhood chipmunk population.

Dara's daddy --

Timmy.  'Timmy' is CKCSC and AKC Ch Sanickro Enchanter at Heartsong.  (Also Kenya's father, if you recall -- Kenya and Dara are half-sisters through this dog.)   He's just as good as it gets as far as heart quality goes.  Timmy won all kinds of Best in Shows at Cavalier specialties under any number of top breeder-judges.  He is a totally fantastic dog.  He was the top Cavalier in the country in 1999.  It is just luck that I saw Linda Dupuy's ad in the 2009 CKCSC yearbook, because I assumed he was long retired as a stud dog.  But far from being retired, he his still siring puppies just as well as any two-year-old.  Plus because he has offspring that are eight and nine years old, we can also see that his puppies tend to get his outstanding heart quality, too!  As far as Linda knows, he's never sired a puppy with SM -- and since she never sells puppies out of state, she would probably know.

Update:  as of 2014, Timmy is pushing 18 and still going strong.  He is losing strength in the rear, but he is still a cheerful and vigorous old man.  This is the longevity and vigor I am trying to capture in my breeding program.