Intervale Chinooks
Chinooks since 1995!
New England Chinook Breeder
Puppies! Jazzy and Otie's Chinook pups were born on 7.10.2017 - Three boys and four girls! Watch Jazzy's page for photos and updates on the pups.
Mom and Dad:
Dam: AKC CH Intervale Little Jazz CGC CA TKN, NO 1 AKC FAST Chinook
2016 AKC National Specialty Best of Breed, Judge James Moses.
Sire: UKC CH Intervale Coyote (Otie) CGC BN RE OJP OAP RATI
Photos from Beginning of Week 4 (28-30 days)
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Pups Practice Relaxation Techniques
Whelping Photos
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Jazzy goes into labor with the help of her nurse midwife Teddie Bear
Newborn Photos
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Jazzy is a super mom! Photos of pups at birth and day 2
Newborn Portraits
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Photos of each pup in the litter. Day 5: all pups are over one lb.
Chinooks!
Our Chinooks are our constant companions - creative and comical, easy keepers, and easy to love.
Jazzy's boys: First week photo
Stripes (Yellow), Black (now brown) and Red
Jazzy's girls: First week photo
Denim Blue, Mint Green, Lilac and Pink
Day 27 - Outdoor photos
Lots going on! Pups have started on goat milk, baby food, meat broth, yogurt, yum!
Field trips from whelping room to the kitchen and on to the great outdoors. Tails are up and wagging, Chinook features coming out!
Puppy Update - Beginning of Week 4 (28-30 days)
Each day the pups are learning new things. Their diet is evolving, their sense of smell improving, their ability to follow is getting better. Coordination and play are developing and new people visit and play with the pups each day. Their meals are a combination of goat milk, oatmeal, bone broth, baby food veggies, yogurt/cottage cheese, ground raw chicken, hard boiled egg. The pups have played with rib bones and have graduated to a water bowl (not as tasty as milk!).
Hand feeding is an important puppy skill and a first step for building food motivation for training. The pups have started being hand fed with tiny bits of kibble. In two days the litter has learned to play the "find it" game and the pups can smell out and track down the kibble pieces. We use the find-it game with the older dogs as a way to keep them busy and as training for nose work. The litter responds well to the whistle and come as a group when they hear this sound. They are outside a few times a day and run, play, fall down and wrestle. And snooze. The slight incline in the yard is sometimes a challenge to negotiate resulting is some comical rolling action!
Puppy Update - Beginning of Week 5 (35 - 38 days)
Pups are spending much of their day outside now. Our adult females have stepped up and help care for the pups. Grandma Belle gives Jazzy a break and tends to the litter while Great Aunt Claire keeps puppy watch during the day, lying under shady schrubs close to the puppy pen. The males will lie close to the puppy fence but if the pups approach them, Jazzy and Belle make a point to get between the males and the pups just so they all know who the bosses are.
Bone Appetite!
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Pups tackle raw chicken fingers and meaty beef neck bones
12 year old Claire plays with the pups
6 - 9 week photos
The Boys
7 week weights: Redford: 10.10oz, Bobby: 10.5oz, Stripes: 10.4oz.
8 week weights: Redford: 13.4, Bobby: 13.4, and Stripes: 13.2
The Girls
7 week weights: Rose: 10#.2oz, Violet: 9#12oz, Penny: 9#10oz, Peanut: 9#3oz
8 week weights: Rosie: 13.0, Violet: 12.2, Penny: 12.4 and Peanut: 11.6
Minty - Peanut II - Juneau
Snap Shot Slide Show from 6 weeks
An afternoon with Caden and Addison
Pups settle in for naps in their dorm room
Watch us Grow! Pups settle into their new homes.