We’ve moved!! We are now located in rural Clover, South Carolina, in the Piedmont just southwest of the Charlotte, NC metro area.
Please email bluestemkennels@gmail.com if you are interested in our future litters.
Bluestem Kennels has been producing quality hunting AKC/NAVHDA Wirehaired Pointing Griffons since 2010. We are lifetime members of the North American Versatile Hunting Dog Association (NAVHDA) http://www.navhda.org/ . If you are interested in the future of the versatile hunting dogs, we encourage you to join and get involved with this organization! We are dedicated to producing quality AKC and NAVHDA registered hunting Wirehaired Pointing Griffon puppies. We are also members of the AKC breed parent club: the American Wirehaired Pointing Griffon Association and I was the editor of the magazine the Griffonnier for four years, from 2014 to 2018. I currently serve on the national board of directors as secretary and am the 2024 National Specialty chairperson. My husband, Charles, is very active in training our dogs and helping others train their dogs through the Foothills Chapter, Carolinas Chapter, and the new Saluda River chapter of NAVHDA. He is the director of training for the Saluda River Chapter in South Carolina. Our kennel was located in Nebraska up until July 2021, therefore we are still members and help out where we can with the Heartland Chapter.
Please see our Puppies page for information regarding future litter plans and what one of our puppies receives during their time here with us. Please see the About Our Dogs page for pedigrees, hunt test results, health and genetic test results for our current and retired breeding stock of dogs. At the bottom of this page is the gallery of our hunting photos.
You can follow our puppies, training, testing and hunting here at bluestemkennels.com. We are also on Facebook as Bluestem Kennels~Wirehaired Pointing Griffons and Instagram @bluestemkennelswpg. You can also search Bluestem Kennels on YouTube for our videos.
The voice of Bluestem Kennels is Charity Upchurch. I consider myself a full-time mom of dogs and kids and a part-time hunter. I am also in charge of the kennel, so I raise and place the pups. My husband Charles is a serious hunter and NAVHDA trainer when he isn’t doing his upper management thing in financial services. Our primary hobbies are hunting and training dogs together. We have 3 kids: our twenty-two year-old daughter, Cordelia; our nineteen year-old son, Conrad; and our fourteen year-old son, Caleb.
When we aren’t hunting or dog training, we love to travel and have adventures.
I am in the process of retiring the below photo gallery and transitioning everything to the page “Hunting Wirehaired Pointing Griffon Photos” in the navigation bar above. It currently holds all of the photos from 2004 through Spring 2022, but there are no captions. This gallery below starts at 2007 at the top and goes down to 2020 at the bottom in all sorts of various shapes and sizes. My web host has changed formatting on me a few times since I started the blog, this old gallery is a bit of a mess. You can go month-by-month through the blog posts in the “Archives” dropdown on the right hand side of the page.
BB finds a downed snipe 09/14/2014Charity, Fire and a North Dakota rooster 2016Charity and Charles, Sandhills Duck Opener 10/04/2014 with BB, Sam and FireCharles releases Fire on the track at her NAVHDA Natural Ability Test 10/12/2014Charles, BB and Sam with a couple of Nebraska roosters 11/09/2014Charity, BB and Fire with quail 2015Charles, BB, and Fire with a mixed bag of teal, snipe and sora 09/14/2014Charles BB and Chief with sharptailed grouse Sandhills 2016Charles with Fire, BB and Chief with ducks and snipe, Sandhills 2016BB and Charles with some more Sandhills ducks and snipe 10/05/2014Charles takes the snipe from BB 09/14/2014Charles and Fire with Eastern Nebraska snipe 2016Charity with BB, Fire and a couple of Nebraska roosters 11/09/2014Charles, Fire, Chief and BB with ducks and snipe, Sandhills 2016Charles and the dogs, ND 2015Charles with a day’s limit of roosters in North Dakota 2016Charity, Early Teal 2015Charles, Early Teal and Snipe 2015BB retrieves a sora rail 09/14/2014Lou, Charles, Charity and the dogs with the first day’s birds, North Dakota 2016Lou, Aaron, Charity and Charles with the dogs and roosters in North Dakota 2016Charity, BB and a sora rail 2016Charles, the dogs and a rooster, North Dakota 2015Charity, North Dakota rooster 2015Charles and Matt quail hunting 2015BB with another retrieve 09/14/2014Charles and Fire, North Dakota 2015Charles and a wood duck, North Dakota 2015Charles taking a retrieve, North Dakota 2015The dogs and some roosters, North Dakota 2015Dogs and roosters, North Dakota 2015Fire, Charles and rooster, North Dakota 2015Charity, sharptailed grouse in North Dakota 2015Charles with a duck, North Dakota 2015Charity, Chief and BB with a Nebraska rooster and bobwhite quail, January 2018Charity with a teal and Charles with a mixed bag of ducks, snipe, sharptailed grouse and a prairie chicken, with Chief. September 2017Charity and Charles, duck opener 2017Charles, Fire and Ruth. Shaprtailed grouse opener 2017Charles and Fire, Nebraska snipe 2017Charles, Fire and Ruth with a limit of roosters. North Dakota 2017Charles, Chief, Fire and Ruth, roosters and sharptailed grouse. North Dakota 2017Matt, Fire and Charles with a quail. January 2018Fire with bobwhite quail and a rabbit with Charles. January 2018
Hi! My name is Max, I am in the market for a wirehaired griffon come December 2022. I am a hunting guide in Wyoming, so my pup must be able to be trained to follow horses, be around horses, follow trail, and suppress its prey drive as to not kill the hunt. Additionally, I am an Ultra marathon trail runner, and would love to have a companion on my runs! Must have a lot of energy and must be apt to life in the back country! Dog will have thousands of acres to roam, and a lot of love from me! Please email me with litter dates, & with price! I am very interested! I can also drive wherever necessary to pick my pup up!
Hi me and my family are looking for new pup to add to the house we are looking for female will be a house dog and also taken out to hunt birds we raise pheasant and there are good numbers of grouse were we live in northern Pennsylvania we live in the country and own our home we have 8yr old basset hound if you have available pup please contact us thank you
Hi Dustin, We currently don’t have any available pups. Our last litter of the year is going to their new homes this week. Check back later in the year if you are interested in getting a spring pup.
Maxwell Conway
Mar 07, 2022 @ 19:23:35
Hi! My name is Max, I am in the market for a wirehaired griffon come December 2022. I am a hunting guide in Wyoming, so my pup must be able to be trained to follow horses, be around horses, follow trail, and suppress its prey drive as to not kill the hunt. Additionally, I am an Ultra marathon trail runner, and would love to have a companion on my runs! Must have a lot of energy and must be apt to life in the back country! Dog will have thousands of acres to roam, and a lot of love from me! Please email me with litter dates, & with price! I am very interested! I can also drive wherever necessary to pick my pup up!
Dustin Beamer
May 19, 2018 @ 10:41:02
Hi me and my family are looking for new pup to add to the house we are looking for female will be a house dog and also taken out to hunt birds we raise pheasant and there are good numbers of grouse were we live in northern Pennsylvania we live in the country and own our home we have 8yr old basset hound if you have available pup please contact us thank you
Charity Upchurch
May 19, 2018 @ 11:27:26
Hi Dustin, We currently don’t have any available pups. Our last litter of the year is going to their new homes this week. Check back later in the year if you are interested in getting a spring pup.