Family Companions
What Families Need: A dog that is gentle with children, adaptable to different energy levels, easy to train, and calm in the home.
How We Prepare Them: From birth, our puppies are raised with early neurological stimulation and daily handling that fosters confidence and emotional resilience. They’re exposed to common household sounds, people of all ages, crate training, and gentle structure. Temperament testing helps us match families with a puppy that has just the right energy level that they are looking for. In addition to assessing energy level, we prepare our puppies to be:
• Calm, affectionate and playful
• Sociable with confident personalities
• Adaptable to new situations
By the time they go home, they’ve been nurtured to be able to settle easily, are responsive to interaction, and ready to join family life - whether it’s a quiet household or a bustling home with children.
Comfort Companions
What Comfort Homes Need: A dog with a soothing presence - emotionally in tune, gentle, and low-stress for quiet companionship.
How We Prepare Them: We focus on emotional stability early on. Our socialization methods introduce a range of experiences - but always at the puppy’s pace. This cultivates emotional balance and easygoing personalities. Temperament testing helps us match comfort homes with puppies that:
• Have calm, observant personalities
• Show low reactivity and high human bonding
•Self-soothe and prefer human contact
Many of our comfort companions go to homes with adults living alone, retirees, or those recovering from loss or stress.
Diabetic & Seizure Alert
What Medical Alert Homes Need: A dog with strong focus, a steady temperament, and the sensitivity to detect changes in scent or behavior - often before a medical episode occurs.
How We Prepare Them: We pay close attention to scent sensitivity, focus, and resilience from an early age. Puppies are gently exposed to new environments, people, and situations to build confidence and stability. Our early neurological stimulation and socialization methods help develop sensory awareness, while ongoing training builds obedience, impulse control, and scent work potential. Through temperament testing and observation, we identify puppies that:
• Are highly attuned to people and surroundings
• Show excellent scent ability and curiosity
• Demonstrate calm focus under distraction
Many of our alert dogs are placed in homes where they assist with detecting changes in blood sugar levels, oncoming seizures, or fainting episodes, offering life-changing support to both adults and children.
Service Dogs
What Service Homes Need: A dog that is intelligent, dependable, and capable of learning advanced tasks to assist with mobility, emotional regulation, or physical challenges.
How We Prepare Them: From the beginning, our puppies experience structured routines, clear expectations, and purposeful socialization. We introduce problem-solving activities, reinforce impulse control, and build strong handler engagement. Puppies with service potential undergo temperament testing to reveal ability to focus, display confidence and a willingness to work. The most promising candidates typically:
• Show strong focus on people
• Maintain emotional steadiness in public settings
• Bond deeply with one handler while remaining socially neutral
Service dog candidates from our program have gone on to support veterans, children with autism, and wheel chair bound individuals, offering both freedom and companionship.
