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We will feature some of our pups that are being raised with foster families.  Our females are placed with Top Knotch Families when they are pups.  She lives with the family and is co-owned until she is finished having babies.  When she is ready to be bred, she has a "date"  with one of our studs and we take over all aspects of care of the Dam and the family fosters the pups.  The pups are ours and sometimes the family is financially compensated, depending on our agreement.   We whelp the pups, give them their vaccines, bring them to our vet and bring them to the farm when they are ready to join new families.  Foster families must meet specific criteria. We feature some of our families on this page

People sometimes question why we don't let "nature take it's course".  When nature takes its course, pups and their mothers sometimes die.  Animals have many more babies than humans because they don't raise them.   Pups die and sometimes the mom dies too.  It's amazing to observe a dam give birth and see how her instincts take over.  But many times it does not "click" in right away.  Often times a dam will simply observe a still baby lying in a sack.  It is not uncommon for a first time mom to simply look at the sack and ignore it.  She has no idea what it is.  When we break the sack and get the baby moving she begins to care for it.  Babies are easily chilled and often times the dam does not keep it warm while she is giving birth to the others.  "Nature" is a wonderful thing but since we  have taken these animals and socialized them, we owe them something better than simply what nature has to offer

We are expecting babies mid-June from Tink and Lion.  Lion lives with us and Tink lives with  and is loved by Tracey, Jay and Taylor and her littermate Daisy who is also in our breeding program.

PAST BABIES

Olivia lives with the Caldwell family in Philly.  She came to the farm for  whelping because she is very small.  Dude is one of our Top Knotch Yorkie Studs and he lives with Grant & Patrick in Philly.    Olivia weighs 4 lbs and Dude weighs 3 lbs 12 oz

Olivia had her babies on March 5th, 2009  Two girls and one boy.  Everyone is fine. She  has moved home with her foster family and above is a picture of her all settled in. The little boy is named Luca and the girls are Lissa and Lilah.  To the right is a picture of Lissa before she left us