Puppies

Celestial Eclipse Litter: Summer 2024

Greta

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Bryson

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This litter was born June 6, 2024!

Greta and Bryson are a great match and we are expecting all tawny (include silver tawny) pups with black masking. Size should be average to above average for Chinooks. Being a 75% Chinook/25% Bernese Mountain Dog litter, we are expecting heads to more closely resemble Chinooks, but still retain some blockiness from the Berners. Temperaments are a standout for both dogs and we expect these pups to be great family dogs.

This will be a satellite litter for Desert Sol Chinooks with the puppies being raised outside Syracuse, New York with Greta's family and Desert Sol assisting Greta's family as much as possible, including the screening and supporting of the puppy’s new homes. Since this is a Chinook Breed Conservation Program, we'll be especially interested in homes willing to keep their dogs open for future breeding. If interested in a puppy from this litter please fill out a puppy application by clicking the button below.

Desert Sol Vitality Greta Nesyrn (Greta)

Birth Date: 10/25/2019

Pedigree: Click here to see Greta's Pedigree (sire information available to puppy owners)

Hips: OFA Good

Elbows: OFA Normal

Eyes: OFA Normal 1/25/2022

Stats: 78 pounds, 25 inches

Registration: COA CBCP - X20-0115-50%

Genetic Test Results: Dwarfism: Clear, MDR1: Clear

Other: Seizure & allergy free

Greta was born October 25, 2019 in Phoenix, Arizona as part of the Throne of Glass litter. We thought the name Greta was perfect for a mountain dog. Being 50/50 Bernese Mountain Dog/Chinook, Greta is a member of both the Chinook Breed Conservation Program and the Bernese Mountain Dog Vitality Project. Future Chinook and BMD litters will bring better health and diversity to both breeds. In August 2022, she had seven puppies as part of BMD Vitality project and currently shares our home with her almost 2 year old daughter, Hermione.

Greta is the queen of our house. She is smart and gentle and pretty quiet most of the time, unless there is a squirrel or some other invader in our yard or Jenn’s mom comes over (she loves her Grandma). From the beginning we stared into her big beautiful eyes and had lots of cuddles. She loves a belly rub! Greta is not one to hide her emotions so you know when she is bored, happy, annoyed, hungry, upset, excited, or content. She has many sound effects - and according to Jenn, even sounds like R2D2 sometimes.

Greta is a Canine Good Citizen (CGC) and can occasionally be found in Jenn’s Elementary school library as the reading dog, licking faces and making people smile. She enjoys training, especially if there are treats involved. She is also a good traveler, once she has settled, and has gone on several trips to Canada, Maine, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania on vacation to see family. Greta loves her people and we love her right back!

Bashaba Mackenzie Bryson (Bryson)

Birth Date: 3/2/2016

Pedigree: Click here to see Bryson's Pedigree

Hips: OFA Good, PennHIP 0.33/0.35

Eyes: OFA Normal 9/22/2022

Stats: 80 pounds, 27 inches

Registration: UKC - A874557

Genetic Test Results: Dwarfism: Clear, MDR1: Clear

Other: Seizure & allergy free

Bryson loves to be outside exploring new places and revisiting old favourites. Named for the author Bill Bryson, Bryson's human was reading the book A Walk in the Woods at the time Bryson came home to Canada from New Jersey. It's no wonder that he loves spending time on trails any time of year - though he's happy to enjoy a more relaxed place and plenty of ponds, rivers, and lakes in the hotter months. He's been a motivated puller in harness for skijoring and canicross, and while he'll win no races, he gets very excited when his harness comes out of the gear closet. He equally loves his backpack, and has done multiple overnight backpacking adventures. This fall, Bryson and his human will head out to the La Cloche Silhouette Trail in Killarney Provincial Park in Ontario. A full week of adventuring on rocks and in forests will be a highlight of the autumn. Were it not for his human's appalling inability to complete paperwork, Bryson would have completed a few of the Chinook Owner's Association Active Chinook Program achievements. While Bryson loves camping and is well-mannered in a tent, canoes are not his favourite, and he's happy to wade but doesn't love swimming.

When not exploring the wide world, Bryson loves meeting and playing with other dogs. He's good at matching their energy and has played very hard with his buddy Oliver, a stout black lab. He'll also lay down to be eye to eye with Tagg, a miniature Schauzer. Indoors, Bryson loves to compare soft surfaces, evaluating the comfort of the couch, his bed, his human's bed, and, when possible, a pile of laundry. He loves anything to do with fish and the sound of any can being opened is a cue that tuna or sardines will end up in his bowl. He has not yet figured out that other stuff also comes in cans. Although he has an independent streak, he does love a good morning cuddle and is not an early riser, but once he's up, he wants to be outside, and will tap dance in his excitement to get out and enjoy the day.

Birth

Birth - 6/6/2024

Before... The weekend of the solar eclipse, April 8th, 2024, was the magic moment for Bryson and Greta. Greta traveled 3 hours north over the Canadian/American border to Ottawa and rented a Vrbo for the weekend. It was a super “meet cute” and they both liked each other right away. After several attempts on April 7th, when we finally were not paying attention, they tied and a little cardinal in the tree above sang for them. That one time did the trick. Greta left the next day for home right as the totality of the eclipse happened and drove all the way through the band of totality home. Hence, their litter will have a Celestial theme to remember the lovely weekend.

The day of... Thursday June 6th Becky and I were going back and forth about going to work. In the middle of the night Becky came and said Greta’s temperature had dropped again and was now 98.6. I decided then that I was not going to school. At 6am Becky decided it was not happening and she was going to school and got in the shower. So I was on watch for about 5 minutes when I saw puppy #1 coming! Becky was in the shower and Jon was asleep when I ran upstairs. "Puppy!" "Puppy!!!" We were fairly prepared and then it all began. Greta had a great pace and is such a good girl (10 pups in 6 hours!). Her daughter Hermione was great, but we called grandma Barb to come get her so Jon, Becky and I could focus on the whelping. Everyone is Chinook tawny in color with dashes of white here and there.

This is Greta’s second litter and she seems in more solid shape throughout the process. After the first puppy we started giving her liquid Calcium, Oral Cal Plus as directed throughout the rest of the whelping and some Nutri-Stat towards the later puppies for quick energy

Introducing the Celestial Eclipse litter

...and a couple slices of liverwurst here and there. We think that really made a difference in Greta’s stamina. And then it was done. Puppies born. Greta kept having contractions and we thought maybe there was an 11th, but it was just her body ejecting all the other fun stuff.

Puppies

Celestial Eclipse Litter: Summer 2024

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Desert Sol Vitality Greta Nesyrn (Greta)

Bashaba Mackenzie Bryson (Bryson)

Birth

Birth - 6/6/2024

So now, the moment you've all been waiting for, we would like to introduce the puppies of the Celestial Eclipse litter, in order of appearance:

Desert Sol Andromeda

Desert Sol Nebula

Desert Sol Nova

Desert Sol Asterix

Desert Sol Artemis

Desert Sol Aurora

Desert Sol Venus

Desert Sol Luna

Desert Sol Celeste

Desert Sol Mars

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