6/6/2015

Announcing, proudly I might add, three new titles! Sunny, Keeper, and Magnum each earned new Rally Titles at the Coeur D’Alene Dog Show. It was the busiest weekend ever with family coming home, puppies getting ready to go home, and then a dog show. But the dogs performed nobly. The young and the old, Keeper and Magnum, both earned their Rally Novice Ti...

5/2/2015

So many thanks to our Puppy Families and to the vast number of you wonderful people who have been referring our Breeding Program.  We appreciate each one of you so much as you join us in our endeavor to produce real quality German Shepherd Dogs and unite them with the best of possible homes. The puppies from our Winter/Spring litters have been going h...

4/18/2015

One of our primary goals at Candle Hill Shepherds is to provide the sort of dog to families,  that a burglar will run from but a child can hug. Having six children of our own, we consider the safety and protection of children to be of utmost concern.  There is great comfort as parents, knowing that someone will think twice before climbing into a chil...

4/18/2015

These are Bristol and Sunny’s Puppies Five and a Half Weeks Old, their first outdoor adventure. ...

4/18/2015

“Hero”  One of the things that has motivated us to breed fine dogs is our work in Search and Rescue.  The simple fact is, not every dog is suitable to be a Search Dog.  Therefore, early on, we sought to breed in order to produce dogs we could train as the best for Search and Rescue work. The following is the story of our first Search and Rescue Do...

4/18/2015

 Therapy Pets Unlimited (therapypetsunlimited.org) states on their web page: “According to the National Center for Health Statistics, more then 50% of nursing home residents have no close relatives, and 46% have no living children. These two facts are a major reason why an estimated 85% of nursing home residents never have visitors. If you find these...

4/18/2015

One of the things our dogs enjoy is tracking.  It is innate to dogs to be able to follow a scent all the way to it’s source. The dog’s ability to smell is said to be anywhere from 10,000 times to 100,000 times better than a humans.   There is great comfort in knowing that your dog will be able to find a missing family member.  We use this ability of...

4/11/2015

We are always trying something new.  Every now and then we hit on something so wonderful we want to tell everyone about it. For some time we have had a big puppy room where the puppies have room to run around indoors, enough room that they learn to keep clean and to potty in one area only.  Now we have expanded on this idea, such that the one potty ar...

4/11/2015

Their parents are: Sunny von Hoffnung BH, RN, RA, CD and Bristol von Hoffnung, one of Cardinal‘s beautiful daughters, proudly announce their new litter.  Here we have some of our favorite bloodlines combined in this breeding with Bristol taking us back to Max, Int’l CH Argus Maximus  von Hoffnung, Search and Rescue Dog, and Sunny to his sire, Jake...

3/31/2015

Here are some more pics of a day at Candle Hill.  These are Cardinal and Kindra puppies, 6 weeks old September 26th 2014.  With eyes now wide open, the world is before them; Wonder, Excitement, Nap time.  We hope you can feel some of their puppy pleasure.   Enjoy! Ready Guys?  Let’s Go The Lion King Sees his prey He crouches! He charges! ...