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  • Looking for a poodle puppy ?

    ⚠️ WARNING: You probably shouldn’t buy one of my Poodles. That may sound like an unusual thing for a breeder to say, especially when I have a puppy available, but experience has taught me that finding homes is the easy part. Finding the right homes is something entirely different. If your goal is simply to…

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  • A Bigger World, One Step at a Time 🌎🐩 (Chianti & Dante litter)

    Today we set up the puppy play area so they could begin exploring new textures, toys, and a completely new environment. The play area is in my living room, where my adult dogs spend their days, giving the puppies their first glimpse into the rhythm of everyday life. Their world is gradually getting bigger, but…

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  • LONG BEFORE A PUPPY IS BORN

    People often ask what makes my puppies different. I don’t believe the answer begins with a puppy. I believe it begins with the person raising it. The honest answer is that it is thousands of decisions made long before a puppy ever opens its eyes. A puppy is never where my work begins. By the…

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  • Tiny Teeth, Big Opinions: The Chaos Stage Begins

    The puppies are officially entering their “high activity, low respect for personal space” phase 🐾😄 Everything is becoming a game now, especially for those who are convinced that life is best experienced at full speed and with teeth involved 🐶💨 They are getting very active, tumbling over each other, testing balance, and discovering that the…

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  • The Gold Standard

    One of the most beautiful sights inside the puppy room is not the puppies. It is their mother. Long before I introduce the first bowl of food, she remains their lifeline. Her milk continues nourishing their growing bodies, but motherhood extends far beyond nutrition alone. Every nursing session offers warmth, reassurance, comfort, and quiet lessons…

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  • WHY MY PUPPIES DON’T WEAR COLORED COLLARS

    Every litter brings the same question. “Which one is the blue collar?” “Which puppy is mine?” Sometimes the question comes from families waiting patiently for updates. Other times it comes from people following along on social media. They simply want to recognize one puppy from the next. It seems like a perfectly reasonable request, and…

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  • Four weeks old today. 🖤

    Every day their world becomes a little bigger. A new scent to discover. A new texture beneath their tiny paws. The warmth of the sun. The comfort of a gentle touch. A sibling to follow on the next little adventure. At four weeks of age, they’re experiencing the world the way nature intended: through curiosity,…

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  • COLOSTRUM SAVED MY CHIANTI

    Every litter is different, and every mother is different. I have used colostrum with many of my dogs over the years, but I do not think I have ever gone through as much colostrum with a nursing mother as I have with Chianti. Looking back, I am incredibly grateful that I had it on hand.…

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  • The Road Less Traveled

    There were moments when I wondered whether I was walking in the wrong direction simply because so few people seemed to be walking with me. Choosing natural rearing. Preserving reproductive hormones. Feeding raw diets. Questioning routine practices. Focusing on preservation breeding in a world increasingly captivated by trends and marketing. None of those choices came…

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  • CALCIUM IS NOT CALCIUM

    Most breeders know how much calcium they are giving. Far fewer know whether all calcium sources deserve to be treated as nutritionally equivalent. That question changed the way I think about reproduction, growth, recovery, raw feeding, and supplementation as a whole. Key Takeaways: CALCIUM IS NOT CALCIUM A few years ago I was sitting beside…

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