We want you to enjoy many happy years with your new companion.

 

With that goal in mind,

we’ve done everything we can to get you started by giving your puppy the best start physically and emotionally. 

 

 

 

SOCIALIZATION: Parents on-site as they are our pets. As such, they live and work side by side with us on our farm. And the puppies do the same. Born in a whelping pen next to our kitchen, they're used to being around people.

 

They are with us all day, everyday, and get lots of play, attention, love, and

interaction with the five of us.

 

We start taking them outside for exercise and potty breaks when they started weaning. They love following each other out to explore for short breaks, and then, when we call, to come running back pell mell back in

for treats and inside playtime.

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They hang out with all our dogs and have some experience with cats.

They're well on their way to being well-socialized. 

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DIET:

We follow a species appropriate Rotational Monofeeding Diet for all our dogs, including the puppies. It essentially involves feeding raw meat and bones on some days and plant-based meals (some cooked, some raw) on other days based on the way canines have evolved to eat.

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Although pups are fed only raw meat for their first year to year and a half. Meat can include chicken, turkey, duck, beef, rabbit, venison.

 

We do this to avoid burdening a dog’s body with foods it cannot cleanly digest, which in turn causes waste to accumulate in the system. Since this accumulation of waste causes all dog disease, addressing the diet is disease prevention. 

 

Since we switched our dogs’ diet, they glow with health. Their coats are softer and shinier than ever before, their teeth are whiter and the little plaque that was at the top of their back teeth is gone, they are full of energy, and the seizures our middle-aged Aussie (not related to these pups) was having every couple of months have disappeared.  

 

While there are no guarantees in life, we feel prevention through a natural healthy diet brings the promise of a longer lived, healthier dog.

 

Of course, it will be your choice of what you feed your puppy. You have to decide what will work best for you. If you decide to continue feeding as we do, we have resources and information to help you! 

 

And if you decide to feed a conventional kibble diet or something other than what we’re feeding, there shouldn’t be any problem to change your pup over. Just realize it will be a brand-new experience for your pup, and there may be a few days of adjustment.

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Since we grow pastured raised, organic-fed beef and chicken on our farm, that's what Mom "io" ate throughout her pregnancy and while she was nursing. It's also what we wean the pups on.

 

Ground chicken and turkey at first and then transitioning to bigger pieces.

 

By the time Mom naturally and fully weans them from her milk, at approximately 6 1/2 weeks, they're eating pieces of chicken with the bone in but skin removed (wings, drumsticks, breast, thighs. etc.).

 

They have all the natural instincts and ability to tear the meat off and chew the bones. A side benefit = lots of chewing time on the appropriate-sized bones means less chewing on us and our furniture!

 

However you decide to feed your new puppy, you can be secure knowing he or she had the best beginning diet possible!