For the last 10 years we adopted a natural life style as much as possible. This includes feeding a raw prey model diet to the dogs, limited vaccinations, no pesticide/flea/tick poisons on the dogs or in their vicinity and as always lots of healthy exercise for mind and body, which includes outings by themselves, with other dogs, training, socializing and more.
Puppies are weaned onto raw food and are born inside my home and will grow up with lots of handling and will be exposed to daily activities in and around the house. We put up a large play yard with lots of toys, obstacles and tunnels to crawl around. By the time they leave here they are mostly house trained. I also will take them individual out to different places by the age of 7 weeks.
Allessa von Kressbach BH, SCH3, FH2 was my foundation bitch for breeding and she lived to 14 1/2 years  Allessa almost 14 years old. She still went on good one hour walks with no problems. But about 10 month later she started to be in lots of pain from osteo sarcoma in her front leg and I had to let her go. |
Anjo von den Duenen Flitzern AD, BH, SCH3, FH2, SAR was my first male dog and he was used as stud for my A-litter. He is now 13 1/2 years old. Age is catching up with him faster than I can stand and he has difficulty moving. He is my biggest love.  Finder 13 years plus - still smiling - June 2009 |
