Collection day. The puppy goes home with its written health record and enough of its current food to change over gradually.
Families
Families and Their Puppies
Pictures from real handover days. A wall of typed-up testimonials is the one thing I don’t have, and I would sooner admit that than make them up.
What you see below are photographs taken on genuine collection days, put up with the buyers’ say-so. I keep written testimonials off this site on purpose. A glowing line typed onto a breeder’s own page tells you almost nothing, because you have no way to know I did not write it myself. The things you can actually test are my veterinarian, whose name and number sit on every page here, and my Google Business Profile, where the words are left by people and I cannot touch them.
Collection days
Every puppy is handed over in person or by a courier who carries it in the cabin. Never a cargo hold and never a freight depot.
Delivered out of state. Florida is the hardest climate I send a dog into and I talk that through properly before anyone commits.
How to vet a breeder, me included
A testimonial is the flimsiest thing a kennel can wave at you, costing nothing to write and impossible to confirm. The checks below carry real weight, and every one of them points at me exactly as it would at anyone else on your shortlist.
- Get on a live video call with the puppy and its dam. Not a still, a call, at whatever hour works for you. The dam is right here.
- Ask who signs off the health work. For me that is Bell Rock Veterinary Clinic in Sedona, and no puppy travels before it has been examined there.
- Ask how many litters go out in a year. You will get a figure from me. A volume operation will steer the conversation elsewhere.
- Ask what happens if the dog does not work out. I’ll take back any dog I’ve bred, at any point in its life, with no time limit and no questions asked.
- Read the reviews a breeder cannot curate. A Google Business Profile, where nothing inconvenient can be quietly deleted, outweighs any page like this one.
You will see there is no star rating anywhere on this page, and that is a choice. Google does not surface rich-result stars for reviews a business gathers about itself, self-serving ratings are shut out by its policy, and a number I made up would be dishonest no matter what Google chose to do with it. Real ratings live on the Google profile, not here.
If you have already taken a puppy home
A few words on my Google Business Profile help a future buyer far more than anything you could hand me to post on this site, precisely because they can see it is out of my reach to edit. And if you would rather send a photo of your dog all grown up, I would like that more still, and I will always ask you first before it goes anywhere.
If something went sideways, come to me before anyone else. Every trouble this kennel has run into could be put right, and the few that were not were the ones nobody raised with me until it was too late.
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Ring the vet, then ring me. That order if it suits you.