San Diego Great Pyrenees Puppies, Babydoll Sheep and Katahdin Sheep

We are a small scale ranchette in San Diego County. We believe in responsible breeding, ensuring the health of our dogs and sheep. Our dogs, while they spend a good amount of time with our family as we work outside, do live full time with their sheep herd. They have proven themselves through the years through puppy training until true adulthood, to be reliable and maintained a zero loss. We have actively witnessed them deter groups of coyotes, bobcats, snakes, hawks, other dogs. We have not witnessed, but have had eyewitness accounts of a mountain lion coming through property as well. 

We show our dogs because we are passionate about the breed and desire to prove structure and conformation in the show ring. A dog whos structure has been proven is ideally more balanced. For example, a dog with too long of a back, poor shoulder or hip balance, is at a higher risk of failing health wise when joints are strained. Part of responsible breeding is ensuring long term health is considered. You can learn more about the Great Pyrenees "standard" here at the Great Pyrenees Club of America.

A livestock guardian dog should not be expected to reliably protect without protection itself (either with predator proof shelter or an older proven working dog) until 18 months-24 months of age. 

Things we are passionate about with our Great Pyrenees dogs: 

• DNA testing: tests dogs for genetic diseases and genetic diversity

• OFA CHIC Certification (highest health certification from the OFA): completed Hip, Elbow/DM/CMR, Patella testing to maintain the orthopedic and genetic health

• Quality conformation matching with breeding pairs

• Good temperament, Volhard temperament testing of puppies prior to home placement. 

• Part of the Great Pyrenees Club of America and strive to contribute.

We do not have a first come/first choice puppy program. If we mutually agree to placing a Pyrenees puppy in your home, we will do temperament testing and ask questions about your lifestyle and needs before confirming which puppy will be matched.

Things we are passionate about with our Katahdin and Babydoll sheep: 

• With our breeding rams for sale, we prioritize Biosecurity tested negative parents, Scrapies resistance (Codon 171 testing in all rams), and breed standards for quality.

• Breeding Babydolls for: friendliness, quality conformation, mothering and lambing abilities, overall health. We maintain registry with all four registries and work to ensure breed standards with all: NABSSAR, BSSBA, BSRA and OEBMSSR. 

• Breeding Katadhins for: Parasite resistance, hardiness, heat tolerance, early shedding, little to no hoof trimming needs, OPP Resistance, mothering and lambing abilities, early muscling.

• We do biosecurity testing with Veterinary laboratories for OPP/CAE, CL, Q-Fever, Brucellosis, Johnes and more if appropriate. This practice is becoming more common in the sheep industry, and is generally well practiced in the goat industry. These diseases cause losses every year across the States and we are passionate about prevention.