Puppies

Valentine Litter: Winter 2023

Zia

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Miles

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Zia and Miles are quite the pair! Both dogs are very confident, friendly, easy going, outgoing and very people (and animal) oriented! Miles is in love with ALL humans and adapts very well in all situations. Zia has a bunch of animal friends at home (horses, goats, chickens and cats) and loves being with them as much as her people. Both dogs get to travel a lot with their families and have seen many scenic places. Miles has been all over CO and beyond. His favorite places to visit include the Colorado National Monument, Pikes Peak, and Crazy Horse Memorial. He even has ridden in a gondola! Zia has been all over AZ and beyond, and many of her destinations include camping, hiking or trail riding with their horses, or visiting rodeos. Their puppies should be very athletic, outgoing, social dogs!

This is a satellite litter for Desert Sol Chinooks with the puppies being raised in Globe, Arizona with Zia's family and Desert Sol assisting Zia's family as much as possible, including the screening and supporting of the puppy’s new homes.

'PR' Desert Sol Zia Joy (Zia)

Birth Date: 12/26/2017

Pedigree: Click here to see Zia's Pedigree

Hips: OFA Good

Eyes: OFA Normal 9/8/2021

Stats: 60 pounds, 23 inches

Registration: UKC - B148976; AKC - WS60474502

Genetic Test Results: Dwarfism, MDR1: Clear, IVDD: Carrier

Other: Seizure & allergy free

Zia is good-natured with people and animals, has a strong athletic build, and is very intelligent. She is warm and affectionate with other animals as her family has horses, chickens, a goat, and three cats (one of which - Irish - is her favorite and Zia grooms him each day). Her family is athletic and enjoys outdoor activities like horseback riding, hiking, hunting, fishing, rock climbing and in true Chinook nature Zia is up for it all! Being very athletic, she keeps up easily with these activities. Since she lives in Arizona it gets warm at times and when this is the case her people go to the high country and find shady trails while she'll take the opportunity to jump into a cattle tank or water trough to cool off.

Her people often encounter other dogs, hikers, other riders, etc. and Zia relates easily with everyone. She is easy going and sociable, which makes her the perfectly mannered dog at rodeos. Last year alone, she traveled to Prescott, Holbrook, Taylor, Camp Verde, Tucson, Sonoita, Safford and Willcox, where she camped out with her people while their teenage daughter competed in high school rodeos. She got to interact with literally endless other rodeo dogs, people, horses, and cattle, all in new environments.

'PR' Ferncroft Blue Bird Day (Miles)

Birth Date: 7/1/2020

Pedigree: Click here to see Mile's Pedigree

Hips: OFA Excellent

Eyes: OFA Normal 7/18/2022

Stats: 68 pounds, 24.5 inches

Registration: UKC - B374672; AKC - WS68762208

Genetic Test Results: Dwarfism, MDR1: Clear, IVDD: Carrier

Other: Seizure & allergy free

Miles lives by the morale code of all Chinooks - “Do no harm, Love People”. He is confident, friendly, outgoing, and very people-oriented and most people describe him as "very well mannered/chill". As most Chinooks do, he enjoys being around his people and interacting with them as much as possible. He does well with strangers and is great with kids and other dogs. He is easily motivated by food and high praise and learns quickly. His people describe him as athletic, fit, energetic and always happy. He loves a good howl with his humans who call them the "Chinook blues" (but only does this when initiated by his people). Miles is confident and astute and is able to adjust easily to most situations.

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Week 8+ - 4/2/2023

We can’t thank John and Tiina enough for raising these sweet, fun and well-adjusted Valentine pups! They have been exposed to so many unique things and experiences from the horses at the barn to eating every kind of meat imaginable! (We got to witness the jackrabbit meal one visit.) These pups got the usual desensitization to objects, people and sounds as well and all seem to be the bullet proof pups we like to send home to their new families. I’m sure John and Tiina can’t wait to get back to their outdoor activities, but it seems like raising these pups was a fun and enjoyable experience to do as well! And there’s nothing extra special than keeping a pup you raised from the second it was born. Amor will have a fun-filled and adventurous life with his mom Zia with lots of rodeos, hiking and trail rides with the horses.

And lucky for us, it was a satellite litter that was just over an hour away so we could visit often and get our puppy fix in between our own litters. Three of the pups, all the boys actually, stopped by our house on their trips home so we could spend an hour or so we got to meet their new owners and say goodbye to the pups! This litter also had a special milestone with Brisa (now Hailey) and Eros (now Yoshi) as being the first ALL black pups to be born in a very long time (and at the time of writing this, the only ones alive that we know of)!!! At Desert Sol, we love our multi colored Chinooks (a buff one will be added to our kennel soon too from another litter!).

Hailey (fka Brisa) mesmerizing you with her eyes

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Destination:

Yoshi got to hang out with his brother Amor and momma Zia for a while longer as his new family was on a family cruise when it was time to go home! He now lives in CA with Derrick and Jennifer and their two girls. They were having a hard time finding a cool name for their pup that they all loved. Jennifer took Japanese in college and even lived there after graduation, so they started looking at Japanese names. Yoshi means “good luck, good, righteous” in Japanese. The family instantly liked it and thought it was cute as it also referred to Yoshi the dinosaur in the Super Mario games. He even has a new movie coming out too, so Yoshi will be famous among the neighborhood kids!