15/10/2024
We raise a variety of animals and poultry including our beloved Basset Hounds!
My love of Basset Hounds began in the early 1980’s with my first basset, Duchess. Anyone who has any experience with bassets knows that once you love a basset there is no going back! Your dog is a part of your family — your daily companion, your child’s best friend and confidant. We view it as an honor and privilege to breed the best companions for your family.
All of our dogs are AKC registered and health tested.
Our hounds are part of our family. They live in our home and spend their days lounging and enjoying the great outdoors with a menagerie of other farm animals. Mostly they lounge…
We would LOVE to help you add a Basset Hound to your family. We only breed a few litters a year, so joining our waiting list is your best bet for securing a place in line.
Our puppies are sold with a limited AKC registration. Breeding rights are available to select homes upon approval and at an additional cost.
All puppies are fully vetted, microchipped, and are current on their shots and worming schedule when they are ready to go to their new homes. We do require you to have your puppy seen by your local veterinarian within 48-72 hours. Your puppy comes with a one year limited health guarantee. All of our hounds are health tested to assure that they are free of the diseases and complications that can arise in the Basset Hound breed. While this does not guarantee that your puppy will never develop any health conditions, it certainly gives them the best chance at a long and healthy life.
Frequently Asked Questions
What do you feed your dogs? All of our bassets eat Purina Pro Plan. Your puppy will be eating Purina Pro Plan for puppies when they come home with you. All of our dogs receive NuVet supplements daily and we require our puppy buyers to continue this to maintain a health guarantee. We feel that strongly about the benefits of NuVet supplements!http://www.nuvetlabs.com/536889
Does my puppy come with a health guarantee? Yes! We do extensive health testing on our dogs. While this does not guarantee that your puppy will never have any health issues, it does give them the best start to a healthy life. We guarantee your puppy to be free of any life-threatening congenital issues for the first year of life.
Can I bring my puppy home before the 8 week pick up date? Absolutely not. No puppy will be released before they have reached eight weeks of age. . Also, many important milestones are met in the final weeks of weaning that are important to your puppy’s development and social wellbeing. We work with your puppy from its first days of life. We do early neurological stimulation beginning from day three. Studies have shown this to strengthen body systems, allow puppies to develop greater tolerance to stress, and stronger immune systems. Your puppy will come home to you used to being touched, handled, and groomed and accustomed to the daily sounds and commotions of family life!
What criteria do you use when determining who to breed? The breed standard for the Basset Hound should always be a starting point when choosing dogs to pair for a potential mating. In a perfect world, all dogs would be perfect examples of the breed standard. We know this is not the case so we carefully evaluate our dogs for their strengths and their faults. A basset with long, velvet like ears, abundant wrinkles and pretty coloring is a wonderful thing! It’s not such a wonderful thing if mom and dad are carriers for glaucoma or produce puppies with extreme joint deformities! The Basset Hound Club of America recommends that all breeding dogs be tested for the following: Primary Open Angle Glaucoma (POAG), Thrombopathia, a genetically inherited bleeding disorder, and Mucopolysaccharidiosis (MPS1). We test all of our breeding bassets for these disorders to insure that we never breed two animals together that could pass on these issues to your puppies.
May I come visit your farm and play with my puppy before the eight week pick up date? Unfortunately, no. This may seem harsh, rude, or like something an internet scammer would do. It is not. It is to keep your puppy and all of our other puppies healthy. We take biosecurity on our farm very seriously. Parvovirus is highly contagious and can spread through direct or indirect contact. It can live indoors for up to a month and outdoors for many months given the right circumstances. People handling puppies can unknowingly spread the virus to puppies with their hands or clothing. Puppies are most susceptible to parvo from six weeks to six months of age. Puppy picking will be done from photos, videos, and Face time chats. When it is time for you to pick up your puppy you can be assured that we have done everything possible to give your puppy its best, healthiest start in life. We will be more than happy to share our veterinarian’s contact info as a reference!
What will my puppy bring home ?
Your puppy will be ready to head to its new home at eight weeks. At this point in time it will be up to date on all shots and worming and you will be provided with these records. We will send you home with a goodie bag complete with the food your puppy is used to eating and a blanket that smells like its mom and siblings to help with the transition. Your puppy will be microchipped. You will be given the paperwork to complete your puppy’s AKC limited registration at this time and a contract of sale.
Why are you breeding dogs when there are so many dogs in shelters and rescues? This is a great question! We agree that there is an abundance of dogs and puppies in shelters. (One of the best dogs we ever had was a chocolate lab that was turned in by family members when his owner had to go to a nursing home.) Shelter dogs are not for everyone though. When there is no idea of parentage it is hard to predict the size and temperament of a dog. Rescue dogs sometimes have been surrendered due to ongoing behavioral issues. These issues may or not be disclosed and though with the proper attention and training can most likely be worked through, not everyone is willing or able to handle the task. All of our puppies are sold with a spay/neuter contract and limited AKC registration. IF FOR ANY REASON DURING THE LIFE OF YOUR BASSET YOU DECIDE THAT YOU CAN NO LONGER KEEP HIM OR HER WE WILL TAKE YOUR DOG BACK. We do not want our dogs adding to the burden of rescues or shelters. We will do all we can to find a loving, appropriate home for all of our bassets at any age.
Do you deliver puppies? This depends on your location. At this point in time with Covid restrictions, we are not comfortable shipping puppies by air cargo. We are more than happy to meet you at the airport and give you your puppy to fly home in the cabin with you. Please contact us if you have questions about travel and shipping and the costs associated with this service.
Are Basset Hounds easy to train? Well, no. They are not the easiest dogs to housebreak and train. They are certainly not the hardest either! The key to working with bassets is patience and consistency. Bringing a puppy into your family is much like bringing a human baby home. Raising a puppy requires puppy proofing, patience, encouragement, time, love, more patience, knowledge of the stages of puppy growth and development, and a nice sense of humor. Every good dog is the product of good breeding, proper health care and nutrition, and appropriate training and guidance.
