Visitors

Safety First

We do not allow visits to our home when we have young pups, we do realize this may be disappointing but we have to take into consideration the risks as explained below. We don't mind doing facetime and we do have vet references and personal references available.

**Safety of the Puppies
1. Puppies have Immature immune systems. Puppies are not protected against disease that can be brought in on shoes or clothing. Many breeders have lost entire litters of puppies due to a viral disease being brought into the breeder’s home. You don’t have to touch a puppy to transfer disease to them. Your shoes and clothing can bring it in and leave it on the floor or furniture, only to be transferred to the paws of the mama dog, who then transfers it to her babies.

2. New mama dogs are extremely protective of their babies. When strangers enter the home, even if mama is in another part of the house, she hears their voices and kicks into a highly emotionally charged state. This stress causes her body to create cortisol, which enters her milk. When the puppies consume the milk the cortisol then causes them to become stressed as well. A stressed puppy is more likely to succumb to illness and fail to thrive.

3. Stressed mama dogs will panic. They jump up and away from their puppies to assess what they think is a threat, and may unintentionally step on or crush a puppy. The mere sound of a stranger’s voice in another room can potentially cause them to panic and can result in an injured puppy, or even death.

4. The puppies are reserved by purchasing families. We’d like to raise
and socialize our puppies in such a way that their risk to disease and/or injury is as low as possible so that we can deliver healthy puppies to the families who are waiting for them.

**Schedules, Personal Safety

Inviting strangers into our home is a risk. We enjoy meeting the families who have reserved a puppy, once the puppies are old enough to safely be visited. It’s a totally different situation to receive an email from a stranger who is passing through asking to come by and see our dogs. Not only is this a risk to personal safety, but it would also compromise our home environment, which we appreciate and love and want to protect.