The baby loving our Brittanys:)

 Evelyn is in love with our Brittanys. Occasionally we take photos of the perfect moments she finds herself in. She is never allowed to torment the dogs, though I know she'd prefer to! We love the look in Calli's eyes in the second photo:)

Lilly and Evie

Calli and Evie

Calli x Quinn Breeding Announcement

Caliah Brittanys is pleased to announce a successful breeding between our Calli (Ch. Sanbar Caliah's Floating River) and Quinn (BIS BISS GCH RJ's Sierra Edition MH). Calli is a young girl that we kept from River's first litter with the West's Amber. She has been a delight to our family, is field pointed, won the 2015 CBC Juvenile Field Dog Award, the 2016 Dual Futurity Award, has her show championship, her JH and most of all, rights to the boy's bed at night!
Quinn's accomplishments are many, here is his info. SR32131807, OFA Good, DNA #V520232, Best In Show, Mult Best in Specialty, #1 Breed and All Breed 2008, BOS at the 2008 Nationals, AOM at the SS Nationals in 2009, 182 BOB's during his 18 month Specials' campaign, #1 Breed Brittany and #2 All-Breed Brittany in 2009, Master Hunter awarded August 2011, 3 Field trial Placements in 2012. Quinn is owned and bred by Joyce and Robert Wire.

Callim Ch. Sanbar Caliah's Floating River

Quinn, BIS BISS GCH RJ'S Sierra Edition

Quinn

Quinn's Pedigree

Calli's Sidegait

Quinn Sidegait

Cricket Finishes!

We got three girls kind of in a row. Calli from River's first litter, Cricket, a River niece (Mimi x Chance) and then Lilly.

Cricket is a special girl. She's a thinker, she's quiet, ridiculously tolerant of anything the kids do to her and she comes alive only in the field! She loves the field so much! She could do without the show ring, so long as she can hunt. She finished with 4 majors and a few spare points. She is just gorgeous and we love her! She is hanging with Paul Doiron right now, getting broke and enjoying life. Paul loves her for her easy-going nature and intensity in the field. She can be a bit hit and miss, but when she is on, she's on! She placed 4th in the futurity in March.

Lilly Finishes!

Lilly is another River baby girl that we got right after River passed away, one short week to be precise. It was terribly painful to be without him and though we didn't want to make any rash decisions by getting a puppy, we were open to the idea of co-owning one of them with Kristina Rickard, who was promised the pick puppy. We went up to evaluate the litter and could not leave without this little Scarlet puppy. She was just perfect. Just perfect.

She didn't start to show until she was 8 months old, at the National Specialty. She won the little puppy match to start with, which was full of gorgeous puppies. She then went on to win Winners Bitch, Best of Winners and Best Puppy at the Brittany National. She didn't get shown again until the weekend of the Summer Specialty in Vallejo, Ca, with Kristina Rickard. She got RWB the first day, Best of Winners (5 points) the 2nd day at the NorCal Brittany Specialty, Winners Bitch the 3rd day for the Summer Specialty (final 5 points) and Select Bitch on the final day of the weekend for her first 5 Grand champion points. A few weekends later, she got another 6 grand points at a smaller show in California.

She is amazing, we are thankful every day for her as we miss our boy. She takes the edge off the pain a little bit. We are looking forward to a wonderful show and field career for her.

Calli Finishes!!

Calli has been a field dog, a pet dog and occasionally a show dog. She was awarded the 2016 Futurity Dual Dog Award in March and now, in May, she finishes her show championship. We love our Calli-girl so much! She is such a good girl, she really is. She listens super well, she is super entitled - expecting nothing  but the best, she's very petite and she ADORES my children. I can't ask for anything more, oh, but the fact that she doesn't dig is a huge plus!

Calli is a River daughter, bred to Amber, GCH. Sanbar's Evening Shades.

The First Caliah Show Champion - PENNY BLOSSOM!!

Announcing the very first show Champion of Caliah Brittanys.... CH. Caliah's Lotus Blossom Falls. She is owned by David Webb, Robyn Maynard and Shellie Sytsma. She was handled to her championship by Shellie Sytsma and Carrie Racey. She is a lovely little girl and some of her highlights include her first major at the San Diego Supported Entry show out of the bred-by class as a 9 month old puppy, another would be a Best of Opposite over Specials. She is already well on her way to attaining her Grand Championship title, with ten points already.

Missing Peyton

There is more than one side to every story, but I'm going to tell my side of this story. There are abundant details that I will recount if requested, but here is the story of Peyton. River's last litter, the one he sired just 7 weeks before he tragically got killed by a car, was with Brian Riggio and Lynn Riggio,'s GCh Elkhorn Jack's Misdemeanor , "Misty." I had her at my house for a few weeks while we bred her. She was a sweet girl, very attached to her Dad, but once he left, she eventually attached herself to me. She had 8 puppies from that breeding, 7 girls and 1 lone boy.
We forced ourselves to go evaluate the litter, as River had just passed away that week. We went through all the puppies along with Michelle Millette, Coppers T Gage and Shawna Wullenwaber. It was hard to evaluate them in front of the great Michelle (she has been breeding dogs for her whole life with her parents, who bred some beautiful Brittanys and even wrote a book about the breed). I learned many things from Michelle that day. Michelle was to get the boy. She took him happily home that day and we took home Lilly, the pick bitch. Brian and Lynn kept Brooke. The rest were settled nicely into other show/pet homes. Michelle's boy was eventually named Peyton.
We didn't get to see many photos of him or hear much about him, but looked forward to seeing him in the ring someday and seeing what he produced in his future breedings in Michelle's kennel. When the pup was about 4-5 months old, on August 21, she posted on Misty's page that Peyton was attacked by her older dogs. They tried to kill him. She later messaged Lynn saying that he had bit her in the incident and this wasn't the first time she had been bitten by him. She later mentioned that he responded to being corrected by attacking her. This is horrible that anyone would ever get bitten by a Brittany. If you have ever been around them, you must know that there had to be a reason. I didn't learn of any of this until Nationals, the week before Thanksgiving. I talked to Michelle while I was there. She told me her side of the story. Told me that she didn't really like how he was turning out and was going to try some obedience and get his temperment in shape if possible and then re-home him. I got right on the phone with Brian, encouraged him to offer to take the dog back. First Option Back is what he was claiming. In the dog show world, among reputable breeders, we always ask to be the first ones to be offered a dog back if it isn't working for you. We never want our dogs to turn up in a shelter. We are a safe place and will re-home the dog ourselves. She agreed to this pretty easily, but then another fight occurred and she got bitten again. She demanded her purchase price back for the dog and a release of liability and sounded very ready to put the dog down immediately. Oh, but then he was put on quarantine. Negotiations occurred and it was agreed upon for Brian to buy the dog back and sign this release (against all normal contract stipulations), he would go up with his son in law tomorrow. The quarantine ended yesterday. Peyton was put down yesterday by Michelle Millette. He was eight months old. He only ever knew the life of a kennel and this person who he knew as "his" person. My heart is grieved. I am so so sorry Peyton, you deserved more. We tried so hard to save you and try to give you a second chance at being happy and not scared for your life.

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