How We Raise Our Puppies

Eight weeks of work happens before you ever meet your puppy. Here's all of it, in order, so you can compare us to anyone else you're talking to.

Health Testing

Both parents get tested before we breed them. If a result comes back wrong, that pairing is off — no matter how badly the timing hurts. You get copies of every one of these, and you get them without having to ask twice.

OFA Hip & Elbow Evaluations
OFA Eye Certification (Annual)
OFA Cardiac Evaluation
Full DNA Health Panel (PRA, vWD, DM, NE)
Embark Full Breed + Health Panel
A puppy being handled on a blanket during a temperament evaluation

Our Socialization Curriculum

Nobody skips a week. The same program runs for every litter, from day three to the morning they load into your car. Most of what people call a "good temperament" is really just work someone did early.

Days 3–16

Three minutes a day of Early Neurological Stimulation. Tiny bits of handled stress, on purpose, so that later on a vacuum or a thunderstorm is a non-event.

Weeks 3–5

Tile, carpet, gravel, stairs. Doorbell, blender, dropped pan — quiet at first, then normal volume. By the end of this they barely look up.

Weeks 5–7

Kids, grandparents, strangers in the kitchen. First collar, first leash, first car ride — all of it while it's still easy.

Week 7

The big one. Each puppy gets pulled aside and scored on five traits. Those numbers go straight into the Puppy Proof Pack™, good or bad.

What's Included With Every Puppy

Microchipping

Already implanted and already registered to you. If they slip a gate at six months, the scan comes back with your phone number.

First Vaccines

Done by our vet, on schedule, with the records in your hand. Your own vet can pick up right where we left off.

Dewormings

The full protocol, from two weeks until the day they go home. Nothing left for you to sort out in week one.

Puppy Starter Pack

The food they are already eating, a couple of toys, and a blanket that smells like their littermates. That blanket buys you a quieter first night.

2-Year Health Guarantee

Two years on genetic conditions, in writing, handed to you with the puppy. Read it before you pay us anything.

Lifetime Breeder Support

Call us at 11pm in year six because something seems off. We still answer. That is not a marketing line, it is just how this works.

Spay/Neuter Agreement

Every pet puppy goes home on one. We are not building a backyard breeding pipeline, and neither is anyone who buys from us.

Temperament Report

The five trait scores for your specific puppy, plus the one thing we would work on first if this were our dog. Written down, not guessed at over the phone.

Transport Options

Come get them, or we drive them to your door. We will never put a puppy in a cargo hold, no matter how far you are.

Pricing

Puppies are $3,000, and that covers every single thing on this page. No surprise add-ons at pickup. Ask what's available and we'll tell you what's genuinely left — not what we're hoping to have.