The Bosun Dog Project

The Bosun Dog Project Our mission: friendly, healthy puppies for regular pet homes.

🐾 Welcome to the Bosun Dog Project!We’re reimagining what dog breeding can look like: focusing on health, temperament, a...
10/03/2025

🐾 Welcome to the Bosun Dog Project!

We’re reimagining what dog breeding can look like: focusing on health, temperament, and lifelong companionship.

Our puppies are raised in-home with science-based socialization and training, so they grow into confident, well-adjusted family dogs. And we’re just as committed to rescue, having fostered over 300 dogs in need.

Follow us for puppy raising tips, behind-the-scenes looks at our program, and updates on future Bosun litters. 💙

👉 Learn more here: https://bosundogproject.com/about-bosun-dogs/

09/30/2025

The bond between generations is something truly special 🥺💞

09/23/2025

Some more morning ruckus 🥰

09/17/2025

Just pulled out the puppy gym. Holy cow, they're having a BLAST!

09/11/2025

We have puppies available to go home on October 1st!!

If a fall puppy is on your to-do list, reach out! You can also submit an application at Bosudogproject.com/your-bosun-puppy

Puppies will be mostly house trained, started on crate training, have had their first vaccine and vet visit and be de-wormed. Contact us for more information and please share.

09/07/2025

It’s re-engineering day! About once a week we make changes to the puppies living arrangements to adapt to their changing needs. Today they get to have more access to the cool tile floor, and you get to see the then from the inside and the view of the living room and kitchen from the puppy pen. These pups aren’t as obsessed with sleeping on the tile floor as some of our previous litters, but the important thing is that they always have *choice*.

09/03/2025

The puppies had their first visitor this past weekend. How adorable are they?

These little ones are only four weeks old yesterday and they’ve already had little crates in their pen as sleeping optio...
09/01/2025

These little ones are only four weeks old yesterday and they’ve already had little crates in their pen as sleeping options. They started choosing the crates almost as soon as we added them, which is such a huge head start on later crate training.

You may also notice that two of the crates have pads and one does not. This lets them choose if they want to sleep on something soft and fluffy or if they want to sleep on a cooler surface. We give them these options as soon as they’re old enough to deliberately move around their space. 

08/23/2025

Puppies on Day 17. Eyes open and playing. We call this stage Slo-mo. They are super active but everything they do is in slow motion. 🤣

It’s transition week! Puppies are 2.5 weeks old and A LOT is happening. Their eyes and ears are opening and they are bec...
08/19/2025

It’s transition week! Puppies are 2.5 weeks old and A LOT is happening. Their eyes and ears are opening and they are becoming more aware of their environment. They start exploring and playing and become more independent. Their teeth are also coming in and we have started feeding them.

This is also when they become aware of us! We are super careful to introduce ourselves in a positive, cooperative way that gives the puppies choice. Because they can’t see well, I let them know I am there by putting my hand by their nose. They can then choose to interact or not. Just reaching in and touching them can be very startling and would mean their first interactions with us were negative.

Finally we have moved to whelping box configuration 2.0. We added a bumper bed and toys. Took off the “roof” and use it now as a shade cloth to protect their eyes. Really important we added p*e pads to help define the elimination zone. This is critical to our house training plan.

I’ll add photos and videos of all of these changes as we go along!

08/15/2025

Time flies and the puppies are 12 days old! They are all doing great.

Puppies are born with their eyes and ears still closed but they are not helpless. They can crawl, smell, and detect warmth and touch. This makes it easy for them to find their momma and siblings.

We left a bumper bed in the whelping box after weights and snuggles and this is what I found. They all crawled under, probably to protect their still developing eyes. We mostly keep the lights off and half of the whelping box has a cover.

The babies are 5 days old and everyone is doing great! They are starting to look fat and round which is always a good th...
08/08/2025

The babies are 5 days old and everyone is doing great! They are starting to look fat and round which is always a good thing.

We are exited to announce names this weekend. The litter theme is Sea Birds, to tag along with the Sea Creatures litter earlier this summer.

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