About our Puppies & Placement

Last Revision of this page – 4/15/ 2020

Our puppies come from great lines, with Champions and Grand-Champions in the background.

We have tried to answer all your questions here but if you still have questions we invite you to contact us at 601-392-0229! 

Advance Reserve Service – How it works

RESERVE FEE: We are willing to take advance reserve fees to be guaranteed a puppy from upcoming litters. The advance reserve fee is valid for one year and according to the number order your reserve fee is on the list is when you are to choose your puppy. Other words if there are 2 people already on the list wanting a female puppy, then you would become #3 on the list. 

The reserve fees are fees that are paid to guarantee a person gets a puppy. They are told in conversation that they are non-refundable as well as being noted here. The only way we refund a reserve fee if there is something wrong with the puppy the person chose. At that time we offer refund or to allow them to become first on the list for next litter to choose from. 

While the reserve fees are payment for a service, we will complimentary deduct that amount from total of puppy when payment is due. 

We ask persons to be committed to one of our puppies before they submit a reserve fee to us. We do not want to accept your reserve fee payments if you are continuing to shop for a puppy elsewhere. 

CHOOSING PUPPY: I give an idea of when puppies are expecting to be born and there is no exact date but generally within a week of as each dog is different. We post the photos of the litter when they are 3-4 weeks of age and eyes are fully open and notify the persons on the list that they are ready to see and commit to. 

If you have paid a reserve fee and you wish to opt out of choosing a puppy from current new born litters, we will be more than happy to allow you to roll your reserve fee over to a future litter. We will work with new puppy families to ensure all goes smoothly as possible bringing new puppy home to settle in. NOTE: A reserve fee is valid for one year from date of payment. If a puppy has not been chosen it may expire if the costs of raising puppies has substantial increase. That is not always the case but allowing you to consider in advance. 

Food & Other

We feed our puppies Science Diet Puppies Small Bite dry kibble and canned for puppies. In addition to this we give them yogurt or a little goats milk for treats as it helps their gut and get the ears up. 

Puppy Nursery 

Our puppies are raised in our home. They are the same as family members. We assist the mom and puppies as needed. I strive to take photos of each puppy, each week of growth and share notes about individual development to each new reserved puppy owner. These updates are communicated via email and we try to keep the Available Puppy page updated weekly as well but not always on time so please personally contact us regarding a puppy of interest to ensure he/she is available or not. On occasions we may skip a week if our own personal life events or weather does not permit photos. As a rule most of my photos are taken outdoors in daylight so there is no mistaking color or markings, etc.

Our puppies and mommy stay in the safety of a whelping box with cloth blankets and pads. All inside a large puppy play pen which is lined with soft puppy pads and equipped with food and water constantly for the mom’s as needed. We provide a warm lamp above the whelp box in the beginning to help the mommy keep puppies warm. Blankets, pads, food/water bowls are changed daily or as needed. Even though we put the mommies outside to go potty, we keep paper pads in the puppy play pen at all times just in case of emergency and also for the puppies to use themselves when they are old enough to move about and begin routine. Fresh food and water are kept available at all times for the mommy’s. We also invite children in our family to play with the puppies to help better socialize them during development.

NOTE: We no longer allow new puppy owners into our home exposing themselves to our puppies. Virus and bacteria and parasites which are not visible to the human eye can easily be transported and transferred to our puppies by handling or lingering near them. This decision is made from the advise of our puppy’s vet that derived from a very tragic incident. With this, we ask the new puppy owner to put confidence in the weekly updates with photos we provide. In addition due to the COVID pandemic.

SKYPE – We can also provide an online Skype meeting so you may see your puppy live in the screen and talk to it through the computer screen. An appointment must be set up in advance for these sessions and appointment request should be sent through the contact page. 

Docked Tails and Dew Claws – We rarely have the need to dock a tail, but if we do it is noted with the sale of the puppy. We have owned dogs all our lives and never had issue with a dew claw other than one time and we do not remove dew claws. To better understand why we do not you may read this article >> Do the Dew(claws)? – M. Christine Zink DVM, PhD, DACVSMR

General Routine – During first 8 weeks of growing and development of puppies are outlined here merely for your information so you understand what is happening along the way.

First Two Weeks – Puppies are closely watched. Eyes, weight gain and general growth and development and are kept under a heat lamp to add needed warmth as they grow. Puppy nails trimmed and Mommy bathed. Puppies get Panacur liquid wormer.

Third & Fourth Weeks – Eyes begin to open and puppies begin to walk about the whelping box exploring. Food and water is introduced. Generally the puppies learn to eat and drink by watching the mommy. Puppy nails trimmed and Mommy bathed. Puppies get SafeGuard liquid wormer.

Fifth to Eighth Weeks – Whelping box is replaced with a soft plush doggie bed. Puppies are put outdoors for couple hours during the day in special grass covered puppy play yard to get indirect sunlight and room to run and play. Mommy gets a break from the puppies during the day as this is the time she’s beginning to wean them but goes back into the puppy play pen with puppies over night. Puppy nails trimmed and Mommy bathed. At six and 8 weeks age the puppies get first vaccine of Nobivac Canine 1-DAPPv. They are also removed from the litter and put into a puppy crate just for the sake of them becoming familiar with it. Puppies and mommy’s bathed and nails trimmed. Add toys to play yard. We also try to take snapshots of your puppy while visiting their vet office.

Puppy Growing Updates – Are generally communicated via email and may not be communicated during a vacation or holiday week. We do not have a scheduled communication time, so please respect our time. We will take photos of the puppies along their growing time and share, but again, this is done as time on our end permits, but we promise not to let your puppy grow up without seeing some changes along the way as they grow. 

Puppy’s General Health & Guarantee

The parents of our puppies are all JHC, patella and cardio clear. NOTE: We make random unexpected noises from various direction to check hearing responses to ensure our puppies can hear. We can provide BAER (hearing) testing for puppies if requested, but there is an additional $175 advance non-refundable charge as it will involve an entire day of travel and exam.

Our puppies arrive to their new homes in good health and vet approved. We give our new puppy owners up to 72 hours to take your new puppy to your personal vet for general check up after puppy arrives home to verify. If a puppy should develop a life threatening congenital condition within the first year of life, we will replace the puppy. Veterinary communications and reports will be required before replacement is approved.

Wormers and Vaccines are up to date when you receive your puppy and a health report documenting previous treatments will be provided in order for the new puppy owner to continue treatments as needed.

Puppy’s Going Home

Our puppies are generally ready to go home beginning a day after the 8 week mark. They will be vet checked and Health Certificates required for those traveling out of state to new home. This is the best age for rehoming as it has given the puppies the opportunity to socialize within their own litter group, with their mom and other pets and family people. We will hold puppies up to 10 weeks for new puppy owners. We can hold longer, but there is a $10 daily fee for puppy sitting due to the extra work of having to spend more time with lonesome puppy.

We prefer new puppy families to pick up their new puppy in person. We do not allow the public into our home for this and we will meet our new puppy owners in person with the puppy in a convenient location. We are willing to drive up to 1 hour any direction from Moselle MS to help reduce travel for new puppy owners.

If personal pick up is not an option, we offer alternatives in suggesting a door to door puppy nanny who can deliver directly to you in person. The cost of sending a puppy to you generally costs around $375.

We try to send food sampler, toys and blankets for those who travel, but cannot always guarantee it will arrive to them.

I hope we covered most of your questions and concerns here on this page, but if not feel free to contact me for anything further you may wish to know.

Thank you for making our puppy a family member!

Rhonda