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golden retrievers
No dog will ever be able to replace those from our original Ammo pack. But life is better with a house full of goldens, and we welcome the opportunity to celebrate all of the dogs that come into our lives!
Ammo Ain't Afraid To Stray Off Course MX MXJ
"Dawson"
(Named after musician Devin Dawson)
Date of Birth: 12/18/2020
Pedigree: https://www.k9data.com/pedigree.asp?ID=1166550
OFA Clearances: https://www.ofa.org/advanced-search?quicksearch=SS23768101
Ever since we were running master hunt tests with Amos, Brian has wanted a puppy sired by Ben (Sunfire's Long Hot Summer CDX RA MH69 VER CGC CCA WCX OS HTHF ** Can CDX). We were able to watch him work regularly, and were always impressed. So we made it happen! We cannot thank Ben's owners and breeders, Michael Book and Barbara Biewer of Sunfire Golden Retrievers, enough for letting us use their talented boy. We are excited to see how this little girl matures and where she takes us.
Ammo's Bad Habits Lead to You OA NAJ CCA
"Eddie"
(Named after musician Ed Sheeran)
Date of Birth: 11/1/2022
Pedigree: https://www.k9data.com/pedigree.asp?ID=1280618
OFA Clearances: https://ofa.org/advanced-search/?appnum=2501699
Yes, it's a girl named Eddie (we often call her "Edwina"). Eddie is from our "Day of the Dead" litter, and she stole Brian's heart from birth. It's not often that I say we don't need to keep a puppy, or that we can place a dog, and Brian argues that she has to stay! She is the clone of her mother, Pardi, and we have high hopes that she will be a crazy little agility dog.
Ammo's Owned Every Second
"Rye"
(Named after musician Ryan Tedder)
Date of Birth: 8/22/2024
Pedigree: https://www.k9data.com/pedigree.asp?ID=1357550
OFA Clearances: Too Young
When this litter was being whelped, the very first puppy was a boy and the stud dog owner wanted a boy. I looked at him seconds after birth and said, “Ok, you are Cindy’s puppy.” We were wanting to keep a girl, and the second puppy born was a girl. I looked at her and said, “Here is our girl. Doesn’t matter what the rest of the litter is now.” The rest of the litter ended up being all girls (!!!!), so while we had a lot to choose from, we ended up keeping that second puppy that felt like she was born to be ours.
There are so many albums and artists that, when I hear them, immediately take me back to pivotal moments in my life. Amos Lee’s “Mission Bell” album has me driving through the South African mountains, Ben Howard’s “Every Kingdom” and The Head and The Heart’s self-titled albums drop me on a highway in Italy with Audi cars speeding past. Ray LaMontagne’s “Gossip in the Grain” album takes me to that time I agreed to travel to Cleveland with Brian when we’d been dating less than a month to see Ray in concert. Kip Moore’s “Wild Ones” album has me sitting at a table at 3rd & Lindsley in Nashville deciding we were going to live there someday.
But there is one album that for years now has filled the space in between all of life’s big moments. An album I associate with everyday life. The album we’d put on when we didn’t know what else to listen to. Long roadtrip and the radio sucks? Happy and want something to dance and sing to? Sad and looking for comfort? In ALL of life’s moments, a consistent soundtrack has been One Republic’s “Native”.
Since 2013, I have probably listened to “Native” - from start to finish - thousands of times. There isn’t a song on it that I needed to skip. This album permanently held the number six CD slot in our 2011 Honda Pilot. When we traded in that Pilot, she had almost 300K miles on her, and “Native” still in the CD player.
And, it’s no secret, the 12 months prior to Rye being born just flat out sucked. It was filled with so much loss, both dog and human. Years like those are good reminders to live life to the fullest, and funnily, “Native” has a song for that.
"I did it all
I owned every second that this world could give
I saw so many places
The things that I did
Yeah, with every broken bone
I swear I lived"
For those that don’t know, Ryan Tedder is the lead singer of One Republic and an amazing song writer. Ryan = Rye. But also, those rough years call for a lot of whiskey. Granted, I prefer high corn where Brian likes high rye….. but whiskey = Rye.
To all those we’ve loved who lived life to the fullest and “owned ever second” - our newest addition is named for you.
Co-Owned Dogs
Ammo's Mr. Misunderstood AX AXJ
"Church"
(Resides with co-owner Lynde Mann; Named after musician Eric Church)
Date of Birth: 8/26/2021
Pedigree: https://www.k9data.com/pedigree.asp?ID=1199764
OFA Clearances: https://www.ofa.org/advanced-search?quicksearch=SS29320601
*Church has all of his OFA clearances and is available at stud (natural, fresh chilled, or frozen). He has been collected and had semen frozen; collection report available. Frozen semen is available.*
I first reached out to Kathy (the owner of Church's sire Chase) to chat about Chase in January 2015 (I never delete an email, so I still have that first inquiry!). At the time I was considering a Chase puppy from a planned breeding that didn’t ultimately happen, but we stayed in touch over the years. Chase has the same grandsire as our Mosby: Fireside Top Dollar ** - Cash. Brian and I met Cash when he was 12 years old and completely fell in love with him. He was running around Pat and Susan’s yard with the young dogs, and you’d have never guessed his age! In more recent years, I talked to Kathy a lot about my desire to breed to Chase, but the timing never worked out. After Mo passed away in 2020, I knew I needed to get serious if I wanted another Cash progeny in my home, and Kathy very graciously allowed me to purchase the last straw she owned of frozen Chase semen.
Of course when we went to use the frozen Chase semen, nothing went as planned - a stalled heat cycle (costing us $$$ in progesterone tests), we weren’t able to catch the LH surge, the semen numbers were lower than our repro vet liked to see for frozen breedings, we had to do the surgical insemination on a Saturday when I think Sunday would have been better timing... we still tried everything we could to get her pregnant! Needless to say, when the ultrasound showed just ONE puppy, I was so grateful she was actually pregnant; I would finally have my Chase puppy!
I like to think Church was a singleton because he was meant to be ours, and the universe wanted to make sure we kept the correct puppy. This little man has big shoes to fill!
Ammo On The No Fly List at Rifka RA MX MXJ MXF T2B CA BCAT ADHF CCA
"Kiwi"
(Resides with co-owner Alyssia Black)
Date of Birth: 12/27/2021
Pedigree: https://www.k9data.com/pedigree.asp?ID=1249226
OFA Clearances: https://ofa.org/advanced-search/?appnum=2511315
Back when we first started getting involved in dog sports, a golden retriever breeder told us "you can't keep them all" in response to why she wasn't keeping a puppy from her current litter. We would eventually come to learn the truth behind those words. As hard as it sometimes is, and as much as we may want to, we just can't keep them all. So when Edwina Ryska graciously allowed us to use her beautiful and talented boy, Punch, we knew we were in trouble. This pedigree combo fit perfectly into our long-term plans for our line, and when those puppies were about four weeks old that little purple girl really started to stand out... we knew she had to "stay" even though we weren't in a place to raise a puppy. We are extremely thankful for our friend, Alyssia Black, who agreed to co-own this awesome little girl with us. We know she will go on to do great things!
Old Oak's Mountain Music at Ammo CCA
"Vail"
(Resides with co-owner Christine "Demi" Osborn)
Date of Birth: 8/17/2022
Pedigree: https://www.k9data.com/pedigree.asp?ID=1275353
OFA Clearances: https://ofa.org/advanced-search/?appnum=2517939
Vail's pedigree has everything I'd been looking for - some Bart, some Rooster, and Clyde (a Denmark field trial dog that is also Amos's great-grandsire). She is turning out to be everything we had hoped - wild and naughty, but oh so sweet. Thanks Demi for co-owning her!
Ammo's Inevitable Fate NA NF CGC TKN
"Kismet"
(Resides with co-owner Julianna Lobosky)
Date of Birth: 4/19/2023
Pedigree: https://www.k9data.com/pedigree.asp?ID=1308882
OFA Clearances: https://ofa.org/advanced-search/?appnum=2570330
Sometimes things are just meant to be. The stud dog I had initially planned on breeding Dawson to ended up having some fertility problems, so I reached out to Blitz's owner, Susan. Blitz had been on my potential stud dog list for years, as I loved watching his kids work. Susan very graciously allowed us to use the frozen semen she had from her handsome and talented boy! Since this was such a special, frozen litter, we hoped to find an agility home with an interest in getting more involved in goldens and breeding to co-own a puppy from this pairing. When the litter was born on the birthday of one of Julianna's previous goldens, it seemed like a sign from the universe. Thank you, Julianna, for co-owning this special girl!