Norwegian Elkhound

Puppy Breeder

We are a small-farm family that lives a humble, rural life a few miles outside of the central Illinois town of Nokomis.  We greatly admire the Norwegian Elkhound breed and have chosen to raise them exclusively -- we have no other dog breed on our farm.  We are hobby breeders that produce only a few litters of puppies a year.  We cherish our integrity and simply desire to fill the need of other hearts/homes that seek an Elkhound puppy to love.     

 

We believe Elkhounds to be the best all-around 

breed for our family & farm.  We do all we can to maintain or even improve the standard quality of our dogs as we have pups to share.  We don't breed for show quality, but merely to provide other families with what we believe to be ideal pets and companions.  Some of our pups, however, do tend to look very close in comparison to those seen in books as champions.  We have no restrictions on showing the pups we sell that do prove to have potential and would be thrilled to know how they do in the ring if their new owner chooses to participate in competitions.

 

We give great effort to prolong the health of our dogs & their offspring by feeding high quality food as well as keeping worming current monthly with Intreceptor and shots up to date.  

We only breed our dogs every other cycle (usually once a year). We strive to be able to provide the pups with plenty of care and socialization (usually not too hard to accomplish with five kids helping us do that :).  We train our dogs to behave appropriately and enjoy their company everyday.  They are raised free-roaming outdoors but have kennels attached to outbuildings when they do need to be contained (for example: when we are working our ground, have an outdoor gathering or they are whelping).  With our set up, pups naturally learn to go outside for their "business" from an early age.  Our dogs are also raised around cats, they like to play with (and tease) them, but are never aggressive enough to hurt them and stops once the cat says "that's enough" (hiss-meow). 

Although not the purpose in getting the new animals, we are curious if they can be a tool in training our dogs with herding skills.  It definately has taught them to keep some distance in their technique LOL!  Here is a picture of our newest donkey addition born on October 31, 2009 --- Benji.

Unfortunately, we do not have any puppies