Visitation Policy
Initial visit
While we LOVE to show off our wonderful Euro and American Boxers we must maintain our beloved dogs and puppies safety and health and therefore we adhere to strict visitation policies.
Our visiting policy allows for families with a deposit to visit that particular litter once the puppies are 5 weeks of age.
We also only allow 2 adults at these visits, no children, no exceptions. Visits are limited to 30 minutes for each family.
NO visiting any other pet traffic area such at pet stores, vet offices, grooming shops and such 24 hours before your visit.
Only wear freshly washed clothing that your personal pets have not came into contact with since washing.
Wear sneakers or something easy to remove as you will be required to remove your shoes or wear covers over them when visiting.
Why do we have such a strict visitation policy?
Safety of the Puppies
1. Immature immune systems. Puppies are not protected against disease that can be brought in on shoes or clothing. Many breeders have lost entire litters of puppies due to disease being brought into the breeder’s home. You don’t have to touch a puppy to transfer disease to them. Your shoes and clothing can bring it in and leave it on the floor or furniture, only to be transferred to the paws of the mama dog, who then transfers it to her babies.
2. New mama dogs are extremely protective of their babies. When strangers enter the home, even if mama is in another part of the house, she hears their voices and kicks into a highly emotionally charged state. This stress causes her body to create cortisol, which enters her milk. When the puppies consume the milk the cortisol then causes them to become stressed as well. A stressed puppy is more likely to succumb to illness and fail to thrive.
3. Stressed mama dogs will panic. They jump up and away from their puppies to assess what they think is a threat, and many times unintentionally step on or crush a puppy. The mere sound of a stranger’s voice in another room will cause them to panic and can result in an injured puppy, or even death.
4. The puppies are reserved by purchasing families. Would you want to have a puppy reserved and know that a lot of other families were being allowed to come and hold or play with them and put them at risk? We’d like to raise and socialize our puppies in such a way that their risk to disease and/or injury is as low as possible so that we can deliver healthy puppies to the families who are waiting for them.
5. No children allowed at visits. Children get very excited around puppies and we’ve seen more than our share of accidents or injuries as a result. Experience has taught us that it’s simply better to require children to be left at home and to let parent’s introduce their children to their new puppy after the puppy has left our care. That eliminates risk to our puppies and financial responsibility should a child injure a puppy while visiting.
6. ONLY 2 ADULTS we only allow 2 adults for the visit, NO EXCEPTIONS so please do not ask. Having more than 2 adults leads to us not being able to focus directly upon your questions and your puppy which is the reason for the visit.
7. NO PETS I cannot stress enough the importance of leaving your pets at home. If you bring Fido with you I will send you home without your visit. I do not allow other animals onto our property and it would be unfair to your Fido to be locked in the vehicle during your visit so for everyone's happiness leave Fido at home.
8. Puppies parents will be in the house or in their respective kennels, however you will not be allowed contact with any of our adults or other puppies. This is done for our dogs safety as well as other families puppies safety.
Schedules, Personal Safety
1. We have a normal life that includes jobs/personal business, home and property needs and other responsibilities in addition to caring for our puppies and dogs. Our daily lives are very busy and accommodating the many requests we receive from strangers to come by and visit just isn’t possible. This is why visiting is reserved only for those who have deposits on a particular litter and only after puppies are 5 weeks of age and the risk or illness or injury greatly decreased.
2. Inviting perfect strangers into our home is a risk. We enjoy meeting the families who have reserved a puppy, once the puppies are old enough to safely be visited. It’s a totally different situation to receive an email from a random stranger who is passing through asking to come by and see our dogs. Not only is this a risk to personal safety, but it would also compromise our home environment, which we appreciate and love and want to protect.
Our home is not a store front open to strangers. It is a home. We realize many families want reassurance that we are what we say we are. There are many ways for this to happen before you are able to come personally visit the litter you are receiving a puppy from.
We have previous puppies posted on our website as well as testimonials from previous puppy families.
We update our Facebook page as much as possible and you are free to view videos of the puppies and adult dogs on their while waiting for your scheduled visit.
Other boxer families/owners are also connected to our Facebook page as well that know us either through owning a pup of ours, a rescue we re-homed or even from some shows/events we attended.
Our veterinarian knows us well and you can contact them for a reference. Hopefully our policy is one you will view as being responsible and a reflection of being a quality breeder who cares about our puppies and our purchasing families.
3. Time spent with visitors is time not spent with my pups and dogs. Raising puppies and dogs is a very demanding 24/7 job. Every minute I spend with visitors is time not spent working with and caring for your pup so that you have the best pup possible or enjoying and caring for my own dogs, which is why I breed to begin with.
4. We are not a petting zoo. Some people think visiting pups is a fun way to spend a Saturday afternoon. I will not compromise the health and safety of my pups, my dogs and my family so someone can snuggle with pups. We adore both our Euro and American Boxers and strive to keep them safe and healthy, these policies help us with that.
PICKUP DAY
Once the pups have reached 8 weeks of age they will be allowed to go to their new families. (Some pups/litters may require staying until a later age for various reasons)
Please remember to follow our pickup day guidelines as follows:
NO CHILDREN, there will be a lot of commotion on pickup day and it is stressful enough for all involved, especially the puppies.
NO PETS! Please do not bring any other pets with you as they will not be allowed out of your vehicle, it is not fair to your pet to be forced to sit in the vehicle so please leave them at home, there is NO EXCEPTIONS to this at all.
Please refrain from visiting other pet areas such as pet parks, pet shops, groomers or any other pet traffic areas the day of your scheduled pickup. You will have plenty of time to get your puppy's essential shopping done in the weeks prior to pickup. Although pups will have first vaccinations they are not 100% immunized and may still be susceptible to certain viruses as well as we do not want families carrying anything onto our property.
Puppies parents will be in the house, however you will not be allowed contact with any of our adults or other puppies aside from your own. This is done for our dogs safety as well as other families puppies safety. Pickup day will have a lot of people in and out as well as a lot of commotion which creates stress on all the dogs and puppies in the household.
Please be considerate of our other dogs and puppies and keep the visit calm and stress free as much as possible. Please remember this policy is in place for the health and safety of our dogs and puppies.
Please remember to follow our pickup day guidelines as follows:
NO CHILDREN, there will be a lot of commotion on pickup day and it is stressful enough for all involved, especially the puppies.
NO PETS! Please do not bring any other pets with you as they will not be allowed out of your vehicle, it is not fair to your pet to be forced to sit in the vehicle so please leave them at home, there is NO EXCEPTIONS to this at all.
Please refrain from visiting other pet areas such as pet parks, pet shops, groomers or any other pet traffic areas the day of your scheduled pickup. You will have plenty of time to get your puppy's essential shopping done in the weeks prior to pickup. Although pups will have first vaccinations they are not 100% immunized and may still be susceptible to certain viruses as well as we do not want families carrying anything onto our property.
Puppies parents will be in the house, however you will not be allowed contact with any of our adults or other puppies aside from your own. This is done for our dogs safety as well as other families puppies safety. Pickup day will have a lot of people in and out as well as a lot of commotion which creates stress on all the dogs and puppies in the household.
Please be considerate of our other dogs and puppies and keep the visit calm and stress free as much as possible. Please remember this policy is in place for the health and safety of our dogs and puppies.