Five Pines Miniature American Shepherds

16/11/2025

Spending the evening decorating the whelping room in anticipation of our littles due Nov. 29!

01/11/2025

Long-awaited arrivals are coming! 🐾❤️

We're thrilled to announce our highly anticipated litter of Miniature American Shepherd puppies out of AKC Champion parents with numerous Grand Champions behind them and a pedigree centred around the 2018 Best of Breed winner at the prestigious Westminster Dog Show. 🐶🏆

These puppies are bred to perfection and are sure to impress. We'll be retaining one or two to further our breeding and showing program, but we're accepting applications for the remainder to join their forever families as beloved pets. 📆

Don’t miss this opportunity - we don't expect to have another litter until Summer 2027. 🐾💕

A huge thank you to Melissa Zobell at Moonbaby AKC MAS for her exceptional breeding program, guidance and collaboration. We are also grateful for the support of our friends at South Mountain Canine Reproduction, Alma Street Animal Hospital and Fenelon Animal Clinic, without whom this litter would not have been possible.🙏

Please share to your friends and loved ones and get in touch with us to reserve your next best friend!

24/10/2025

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01/09/2025

What a privilege.

29/08/2025

26/08/2025

11/08/2025

We appreciate all our friends and clients who have reached out to make sure we’re okay. We are approximately 10km from HAL019 and monitoring the situation closely. While we did experience ash falling like snow when the fire first started, since then crews have been working diligently to contain it and the air has been no hazier this weekend than it has all summer.

This is our new normal. Consider an evacuation plan that includes your pets and if you ever do have to leave in a hurry, don’t forget pet food and any medications!

Our crews are actively responding to wildland fires in the Haliburton Fire Management Area. Thanks to their hard work and quick response, wildland fires Haliburton 16 and 17 are now under control.

FireRangers and aircraft are actively responding to the other fires in the area, notably:
- Haliburton 18 (HAL018) is 12.8 hectares and not under control. Three crews are assigned to this fire, using various suppression tactics, including ground and air attack.
- Haliburton 19 (HAL019) is 27 hectares and is not under control. Seven crews are assigned to this fire on the ground, being supported by air attack.

With waterbombers active in the region, please stay close to shore when on the water to allow firefighting crews to operate safely and effectively. We would like to remind the public not to fly drones within 9 km of any wildland fire.

27/07/2025

EYE CLINIC WITH DR. NICK WHALEN

Date: August 16th, 2025

Location: Ontario Canine Wellness Centre 1108 Payne Line Rd. Douro Dummer, ON

Start time: 8:30am

Cost: $70

REGISTRATION: https://forms.gle/mBTwL57QgfmvbpfT7

Offering OFA Eye Screening Exams only. NO PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS will be assessed, no medications dispensed or prescribed.

Handlers/owners will NOT be permitted inside the building with their dog for the exam.

Appointments and Pre-Payment required

E-transfers to be sent to [email protected]

Registration is completed once payment has been received.

Please note: we will try our best to accommodate your time preference of AM or PM but time slots are first come first served.

26/07/2025

We are so fortunate to have KVEC in this community. Please remember to be kind.

🛑 A Reminder from Your 24-Hour Emergency Vet Team 🛑

Our team works around the clock 365 days a year to provide urgent care to pets in life-threatening situations. Like any emergency room, we triage based on medical need — not arrival time. That means critical patients are seen first, and stable patients may need to wait. We are seeing an increase in emergent patients requiring immediate and intensive care.

⏳ Yes, sometimes wait times are long.
❤️ But every patient is being monitored.
👩‍⚕️ And every person here is doing their best.

We greatly appreciate your patience and understanding. We’re here because we care deeply about every single pet that walks through our doors.