As a teacher and children's therapist (Caroline now spends her time volunteering and being with the puppies), and Tom a Vietnam Veteran, our passion is preparing the puppies to serve. We offer discounts to families with special needs family members and military families --Thank you for serving.

We are dedicated to holding, loving, and playing with every puppy, every day and we are blessed with a fabulous socialization crew. It is an honor to us that many of our puppies have become therapy dogs; both Danes and Doodles. One Great Dane in particular is training for search and rescue in the mountains, and is a therapy companion for children who need to testify in court. We also have many other therapy dogs for visiting sick children in hospitals, companions for the elderly, therapy dogs for a psychologist's patients, and several that have been placed with military veterans as well as special needs children. Nana and Papa have even come to visit to help us with loving on the babies!

A very important part of preparing a puppy to be a companion, service or therapy dog is having the puppy accept us, the humans, as part of their pack. We teach them to trust and respect us by beginning their life by imprinting them. Within an hour of birth we touch every part of their body, inside their ears, mouth, toes, etc. Each day, we hold them on their backs and rub their tummies. Day 3-16 we use the  (click blue link) Super Dog Program They get to know our voices at a young age and by the time they are weaned, they will run to us (or you) when we make the kissing sound.  Being raised on the farm also reduces the prey drive that interferes with service work.