1/23/2023

1\. Pregnancy care has been optimized in every way we can including premium nutrition for the mother dog while carrying her pups, natural goat milk from our own farm for the pups, providing an holistic organic transition to puppy food, daily weight-gain management for the first several weeks, and most importantly heavy doses of love, play, and a safe, f...

1/23/2023

Graduate of our Super Puppy Program: Yukon, a Candle Hill Shepherd pup from our dogs, Cardinal and Chinook, born 2012. Methods of Stimulation The U.S. Military in their canine program developed a method that still serves as a guide to what works. In an effort to improve the performance of dogs used for military purposes, a program called “Bio Sens...

1/23/2023

Graduate of our Super Puppy Program:   Yukon, a Candle Hill Shepherd pup from our dogs, Cardinal and Chinook, born 2012. Methods of Stimulation The U.S. Military in their canine program developed a method that still serves as a guide to what works. In an effort to improve the performance of dogs used for military purposes, a program called “Bio Senso...

1/31/2018

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7/15/2016

This is Tula, the puppy we decided to keep from the Sunny and Cassie litter, now ten weeks old.  Tula can be very persuasive. Here she is encouraging our visiting son to stay around. Tula takes her training times very seriously, especially when food is involved! Some dogs are just a delight to work...

7/12/2014

Puppy Enrichment 101 at Candle Hill ...

12/31/2013

Tag training her puppies Some irrefutable rules of puppy socialization by Helen Dorrance   One doesn’t have to be in the sport of dogs for very long before one’s canine population starts to multiply. Almost everyone starts out with just one dog that frequently gets relegated to “beloved pet” status in the endless quest for super performer, fabulo...

8/12/2013

Our Puppy Room set up is another key to what makes a Candle Hill Shepherd special. A clean puppy becomes a clean adult dog. New studies indicate that a puppy’s freedom to walk about from early ages is one major factor in preventing hip dysplasia. During the daytime in good weather the puppies go outside where the same good habits of cleanliness are ...