NALC Registered Breeder Since 1996

Specializing In Natural Bobtail Catahoulas

As a naturally rearing breeder all our dogs are fed a SARF diet- Species Appropriate Raw Food. Food that was designed and made available in nature and which the species has thrived on since their beginnings.
All our pups are weaned onto a SARF diet.

Dams are allowed to raise and wean their young on their own schedule, without the intervention of removing pups from their mother’s care to "artificially wean" them. Most mother’s will start the weaning process at approx 7 weeks of age and the pups are totally weaned at 8 weeks.

Pups interact on a daily bases with all older dogs in the house and learn good canine communication skills.

All of our dogs are on a minimal vaccine schedule and all pups are raised on a special vaccine protocol.
Mack will be our first dog raised totally vaccine free, something I am very excited about. He will be allowed to build his immunities naturally.

Our pups are not routinely wormed. A pup raised on a raw meat diet, rarely, if ever has problems with worms. We have fecals done at 3, 5, 7 & 8 weeks old. They are always negative. While most pups may have worms from birth, a healthy, strong immune system can deal with them on it’s own - its the perfect way to teach a pups system how to heal itself. And even though wormer meds are fairly mild on the system, worming very young pups who have such immature immune systems on the schedule most breeders use - 2, 4, 6, & 8 weeks old - can cause undue stress. Most pups who contract parvo at a very young age, have a very slim chance of surviving if they have been on a heavy worming schedule. (Their chances decreases again dramatically if they have been
vaccinated.)

We do not use chemical products on our dogs. No flea sprays or topical flea treatment. Dogs that are fed a SARF diet and have a strong immune system very rarely have a problem with fleas. Fleas do not reproduce well on a truly healthy dog.
If fleas ever are a problem there are many natural remedies available to rid dogs of fleas that do not include harmful chemicals.

We do not give our dogs Heartworm medications. These also are full of harmful chemicals. There are also natural methods of heartworm prevention that do not stress the system. For more info please see our Heartworm page.

Some thing to think on -

By the time the average dog is 2 years old it has gone through the following schedule -

- Wormed at 2, 4, 6 & 8 weeks of age

- Vaccines approx 3 times before the age of 16 weeks, often times including up to
  7 different live modified viruses.

- Rabies vaccine at 16 weeks old.

- Topical flea treatments monthly during the warmer weather.

- Second rabies vaccine at 1 year old

- 5 or 7-way booster vaccines at 1 & 2 years old

- Heartworm meds monthly during the warmer season.

While on their own, some of these things may be “minimal”, (except for vaccines, they are a huge assault on the system) when they are put together they are a constant barrage on your dog’s immune system - month after month and year after year.

It is no wonder that today’s canine suffers from so many autoimmune diseases.

We prefer to raise our dogs and pups in a natural method - to let the immune system
work as nature has designed it to. When the immune system is strong it can, in most cases, take care of it’s self - rid itself of fleas and worms (even heartworm), fight off viral infections such as Parvo with little, if no outward signs of sickness....but when the immune systems is constantly weakened by the use of chemical substances then it can no longer care for itself.