About
Est. 2024
A small kennel that has stayed small on purpose
We are a family, on a hill farm, with a handful of dogs that live in our house. That sentence contains the entire business model, and every decision on this site follows from it.
The place
Ninety acres of hill pasture and hardwood, most of it too steep to do anything useful with, which is exactly what makes it good for dogs. There is a pond they swim in from April, a stretch of rough cover we train in, and a kitchen with an unreasonable number of beds in it.
The dogs are not kennelled. There is a whelping room off the sitting room and a boot room with a door to the field, and that is the extent of the facility — everything else is just our house. You are welcome to come and see it, and we would encourage you to ask any breeder for the same.
Why we stay small
Two or three litters a year is not a limitation we are apologising for
It is the reason we can tell you what every dog we have bred is doing now. It is the reason somebody sleeps next to the whelping box for ten nights instead of watching a camera. It is the reason we can afford to skip a season when an eye examination comes back looking slightly wrong, and it is the reason we can promise to take any dog back at any age — a promise that is easy to make and expensive to keep, and only possible at this scale.
It also means we say no often, and sometimes to people who would have been fine. If that happens to you, ask us for two other names. We will have them.
Who you will deal with
The whole team is the family
- Breeding, health testing, and every phone call
- PLACEHOLDER — the client to supply names, and one honest sentence each about what they actually do. Written as a person, not a bio.
- Whelping and the first eight weeks
- PLACEHOLDER — client to supply.
- Gundog training and the field work
- PLACEHOLDER — client to supply.
- Veterinary care
- PLACEHOLDER — practice name and town. Naming your vet is a small thing that separates you from a puppy mill.