Okay, so you have this cute fluff ball that you recently adopted and you want to socialize and take them everywhere and wait!  It's summer, right before the 4th of July where there are Fireworks.   What do loud booms to a new puppy mean?  The END of the world.   It is a fact that the day of the year that the most dogs panic and run off (and get hit or hurt) is July 4th.   

If you have a new puppy, please do the right thing and consider that they are still unsure about you and their new home.   Taking them out to meet new people during the day is fine, but taking them during fireworks is not going to build a POSITIVE ASSOCIATION with new people.   Think about it - imagine you are a young child, a toddler perhaps.   Your parents take you out to a really busy place, where there are a ton of people.   You've only met a few dozen people in your life.   You are small - these people are big - you can't see over them.   You are probably in a bag (and hopefully not on the germ filled ground when you have a stressed low immune system).   People are nice but your parents forgot to bring treats to give you when people pet you so you can associate good things when strangers come at you making loud noises and putting their stranger hands on top of your head (and effectively reinforcing dominant behavior).   THEN, the world starts to end.   You hear these loud BOOMS and you are freaked out and shaking - or if you feel the inside of them like some dogs do, you are having a serious panic attack.   You jump out of your bag, you pull so much you slip your collar, and you're off running because your new parents don't seem to understand the world is ending - and WHY doesn't that hurt their ears so much too?!   

Stay HOME!   Turn on a loud fan, turn the TV on....give your pups HIGH VALUE treats (this means meat or dried meat - see Plato Pet Treats small bites) while the fireworks are going off.   

Also, don't forget to do this during thunderstorms.  

We do not allow visitors to see the puppies that have not committed and shared sufficient identifying information with us -and even if so, not until the puppies are past time for their first set of shots to settle into their systems (so not until 7 or 8 weeks old).  

Why?   Summer of 2015, we allowed visitors when we had some young puppies - and 2 ended up getting very sick.   Over $5k in emergency vet and round the clock care, 1 died and 1 survived with long term kidney issues.   When new people or dogs come in, they bring in "new" germs.  Puppies basically have little to no immunity.   New germs can give them a cold or serious bacterial infection.   Your hands, shoes, feet, arms, everything, has germs on it - your own ecology.   

The 2nd reason is that our friend, a poodle breeder in another state, was recently robbed and murdered in her kennel.   

We have also received very shady inquiries - and several counterfeit checks.   

We know that our Instagram account makes this look like a puppy heaven and a place to come hang out at - but, it is not.   Our homes are our homes.  We take care of the puppies, and we have lives - we also value our safety and more than that, value that our puppies' health is going to be stable while with us.