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Unfortunately Lucy has failed to take to a breeding for the third time, which means we have made the decision to officially retire her from our program.

Although we had every hope to produce a single litter from her to help retain her incredible one in a million temperament, she appears to be infertile despite having seasons.

Whilst we could invest thousands in invasive operations and investigations, providing excessive supplements and injections just to see a litter through, we feel such tactics begin to blur an ethical line and can have long term impacts on the reproductive success of a program.

Things like falling pregnant, retaining pregnancy, whelping naturally and maternal instinct (caring for and nursing puppies etc) are all very genetic. Whilst it may be theoretically possible to produce a litter from Lucy, it would likely be an issue continued down the line at every generation. The long term health of my dogs and my program has always been at the forefront of my ethos, and that includes reproductive health.

Thats right, folks. We finally broke out 2025 curse and have confirmed our next litter via ultrasound.

Valkyrie and Kado will bring in a beautiful litter of puppies in January 2026. See our new “Fate” litter page now active to get more info!

Valkyrie has finally come into season, so we are now beginning the process for hopefully have our next litter.

Valkyrie is booked in for her first progesterone test next week, and as she climbs in progesterone level we will head to Sydney to meet Sires on Ice Richmond for the frozen AI. As Kado is now desexed, his swimmers were put on ice and this is how we will complete this litter.

I am so looking forward to a truly exceptional litter from Valkyrie and Kado, and I really do expect them to set the bar so high for our future litters! This is a pairing I have been dreaming of for years.

Unfortunately whilst Lucy was successfully bred, she has resorbed the litter just before 4 weeks gestation.

As such, we will be moving forward with our plans to breed Valkyrie to Kado in spring for a summer litter.

We will attempt to breed Lucy one last time in 2026 knowing what we know now, we will provide her with more management and observation during her pregnancy in an attempt to ensure she carries the litter to full term.

She will be desexed by the end of 2026 regardless of producing a litter or not, and retired from our program.

Here we are again, Lucy started her season last week and we are going to attempt to mate her again. We will be mating her to Aust. Ch. Saffioraire Reverberation “Gus” for a truly striking litter of long coat puppies.

We believe Gus can provide excellent improvement to Lucy in the form of rear strength, front angulation and improved proportions (Lucy is a bit too tall for her length, Gus is perfect in his 12:10 proportion!), bring down ear size whilst maintaining a beautiful head and expression with her perfect almond shaped, obliquely set eyes. We expect correct dark pigment and moderately dark eyes.

All of this whilst maintaining a beautiful and sociable temperament, with calm but self confident dogs. We believe these puppies will make exceptional pets, with the potential for some amazing therapy or assistance dog prospects.

This waitlist is currently full with the exception of a potential show home male puppy.

As we have some buyers for this litter seeking out therapy and assistance dog roles, we will not be assigning puppies to homes until 8 weeks of age. The correct temperament for these roles is very important, and we would hate to send a puppy to a pet home that has the perfect temperament to save lives and bring joy to those in need.

Yes folks, you read that right! Lucy is finally in heat!

We have sent out a dozen follow up emails as well as a handful of text messages out to those on her waitlist this afternoon, so make sure you check for an email (incl. in junk folder if you haven’t seen it in your inbox!) and get back to us to confirm your interest in this litter!

We will be making the trek up to the Gold Coast this weekend / early next week to ensure we are local to stud dog when Lucy is ready, and we can make the final trek up to him quickly!

Good evening everyone!

Following the increased restrictions on Facebook for the sale of animals and AI flagging non-sales posts leading to our FB page being restricted and “at risk” of being removed, I have elected to create a News section on our website to filter through all the updates and news not only of puppies, but of all the important happenings with Royalemerald – show updates, trial updates etc.
Doing this, I hope to reduce the warnings my facebook page is receiving for anything animal or puppy related.

Thank you for your patience as we work things out!