The puppies are born in Carlene White’s home and are under 24 hour watch for the first 3 days.  At 3 days, each pup is fed a very small quantity of goat’s milk with a bottle, along with all of the mother’s milk they can manage.  In the course of bottle feeding the pups are handled and usually weighed daily.  Once they start solid food, each pup is given their own dish and are NEVER allowed to push and shove for food.  Food aggression is not allowed!

Once the pups can get over a 12” high barrier they are moved to the heated puppy house where they have access to the outdoors.  Once they can climb over an 18” high barrier, they can come and go from the puppy pasture which is a wooded 1/4 acre on a hillside.

Volunteer “puppy sitters” haul the pups daily to various areas of the farm in a specially built “puppy school bus.”  Volunteers also take the puppies on walks with their mother.  Any discipline of the puppies is usually left up to the mother dog.