We don’t sell our puppies we raise and train them to be service dogs. Many years ago we got our first puppy, Linus from the animal shelter. We found him by searching adoptable pets through petfinder.com. If you’re looking for a puppy, petfinder.com is a great place to start.

Yes! I love looking back at the pics of these little guys.

I accept your offer to clean up poop! The first 4 weeks are actually pretty easy since mama takes care of the mess, but after that it gets progressively worse each week. When I would come home it would look like a poop war broke out. Maybe I’ll take a picture of the disaster area next time with poop stuck to puppy fur and smeared on the whelping box walls. I guess without the smell a picture really wouldn’t do the scene justice. Is there a way to add smellivision to my blog?

Thanks @Mike! Even though it was a lot of work it was a ton of fun raising them. Look for our week 8 post tomorrow…

It seems like each week we saw exponential growth in their activity level and alertness. Escaping the whelping box would probably be a good trait for a search and rescue dog. Even though he was one of the smallest, Trooper was the first one to escape the whelping box. Today he’s in a prison program training to be a service dog.