Care Package and tidbits

We updated this page to tell you about how our schnauzer puppies are born, raised and adopted and what you'll take home with you on July 13, 2015

You'll find our puppy's eyes are swallowing you up!  They love adults, children, cats and other dogs.

Puppies love to chew right so make sure you have plenty of play time.  In fact, they are absolutely puppy through and through.  They love to find something and chew it; then look at you with such an innocent and sweet expression.  We keep a sharp eye and a loving cuddle for these pups as they get older.

We do not train the dogs to be specialty service dogs. When we looked into it this is what we found:

We have had these puppies become service doges and we know the pup you pick will be an excellent companion, entertainer, and friend. It is about $30,000-40,000 to have a dog properly trained as a service dog; but all dogs do a service and these sweethearts are trained to love and play.

The puppy care package includes:

Puppy Care Package

• Be the Pack Leader by Cesar Milan (we send this via Amazon)
• Leash
• Collar
• Pick up bags
• Kennel (When you put in your deposit you may specify aeroplane or drive kennel)
• ProCare shampoo
• Food and water dish
• developmental toys
• Bag of nutrient dense puppy food
• Blanket with pack scent
• no hind dew claws
• Pedigree
• Birth certificate
• Five year health guarantee
• Easy adjustment and food information

Puppy Training includes

• Grooming training (baths, ear plucked, clipper grooming)
• Piddle pad training
• paper training
• Outdoor relief training
• Street smart training (beginnings of)
• Kennel/crate training
• Leash training (beginnings of)
• Commands such as “sit”, “come”, “go potty”, “no bite”, and “tsst” or “Ch!” to distract chewing or barking behavior.
• Socialized with babies, children, adults, dogs and a cat (at your request we can train them to be respectful of chickens)

If you put down your deposit at least a week early (Cash, venmo, paypal) then we'll get everything pictured (which is an extra $80 of fun stuff).

They also start learning to sit before eating and to not chew on books and toys (although I wouldn't leave them for the tasting!).

All of our puppies are groomed when they are one week old so they get used to the vibration while they are still blind and deaf. At two weeks we groom them again so they can see and hear the clippers. After that we groom them about every two to three weeks. They are bathed more often than that with special shampoo to hold onto the natural oils that are needed for their skin.

They are given their first shots at 11 week, dewormed with diotomaceous earth every other week after they get to go outside to go potty, and they are born without rear dew claws. We suggest you wait a long while (year) to get the booster shot. Rabies is required by law to get earlier. To have the health guarantee you must follow the specified timeframe in visiting the vet to keep it valid.

It's fun to compare puppies with their growth charts and the Sire and Dam that we currently bred are both toy sized Miniature Schnauzers.

Our puppies have fun coloring. This picture is of Daisy and she has one of the rarest colorings there is; so rare that some other breeders don't think it is possible!  Come and meet her because she is Dark Chocolate.  This is a combination of Black and Chocolate so seemlessly interspersed you don't know where one begins and one ends.  She also has tufts of white that complement her rich color and she carries parti.

They are absolute darlings and well trained with a lot of love.

Thanks for supporting a local breeder,
Brian & Kristy Burtenshaw

Note:
We deliberately keep that adorable tail intact.  Research indicates that the docking (when they take scissors and cut off the tail or take a band and cut it off through lost circulation) does cause the puppy pain due to afferent and efferent neurons.  It is a completely unnecessary surgery that is done for show in the US and is illilegal in the UK.

We have adopted a schnauzer out to a family that thought they could never love the tail.  Now their comment is that they just never had a tail on their schnauzers before to know how much they would love it!