Welcome to wendy old english sheep dogs
where our passion for old english sheep dogs goes through everything we do. We are committed to raising well-bred, healthy, and loving dogs who embody the intelligence, loyalty, and spirited nature of the breed.
Our Breeding Philosophy
Our family and farm:
Our family of 6 live on a 50 acre farm with other farm ground not attached to the home farm. All OES parents are beloved pets, not caged animals. They are raised in the home, not in Kennels. It is our personal philosophy that this type of life is best for the OES breed. They thrive off of human love, and interaction!
We started our breeding program about 6 years ago, and we have puppies living in 42 states across the USA currently (or soon to be going to those states to puppy homes). We have 8 different delivery, and pick up options to get the puppies home to their new family safely, and quickly. After they are ready to depart for their new family.
Our Mentor Breeders taught us that once you place a puppy in a home, you are a support to them for the rest of that dogs life, if they ever need you. So we go by that philosophy. We maintain Littermate Text groups for each litter. This gives puppy homes a built in support system, a place to ask questions on behaviors, grooming, health ect. It is also a great way for families to be able to share updates, and keep up with the littermates too.
Building long lasting close relationships with our puppy families is our favorite part of breeding, and very important to us.
Our 4 Children own part of the business, they each bought their dogs using profits from their 4H, and FFA livestock projects. This allows them to save for college, and have the funds to donate, or help train therapy, and service dogs. For those in great need of them, ect..
On our farm puppies are exposed to Cats, other Dogs, Sheep, Goats, Various types of big birds, young calf’s, rabbits, and various wild life. They are exposed to being in a barn, and farm buildings, seeing the creek that runs through the property, the farm fields, and the woods.
Health Testing
We believe that no dog should be bred, until they have passed all health testing for their breed. As specified by the national OFA Foundation.
For OES these required tests are:
DNA / Genetics
Hips
Eyes
Thyroids
Recommended tests:
Hearts
Hearing
also vet evaluated and passed.
OFA recently eliminated the requirement for knees, and elbows, to be tested on OES as only 1% of tested OES have had any issues with knees and elbows in the last 15 to 20 years. So we do not test for this either.
Littermate Text Groups
In order to best get info out to our littermate groups, and for them to have a support group to ask any questions of both us, and their littermates after they are home. We start the littermate text groups about a week prior to birth of the litter. Then each week we send out a document in the text groups that contains all of the information that you would wan to know and we know that you need to know about an OES subject. This allows you to learn everything you could possibly need to learn prior to your puppy coming home. Examples of weekly topics:
-The 13 most important training video’s that we feel really prepare you to know exactly how to train your puppy in their first few months home. These will allow you to continue on with the training that we have started here, and helps you create the most well behaved puppy, and one who is very smart, confident, and so well trained.
-All of the important information on what to feed your puppy once they get home and for the 1st two years. Plus suggestions for products to have on hand before they arrive home.
-All of the important information on grooming your OES now and years into the future
-Detailed training on all known OES health issues and inherited diseases some OES have or carry
-12 page go home puppy packet to really get you ready to welcome and be the very best puppy home that you can be.
ect….
Our Commitment to Excellence:
Our OES Pack
We have seven OES currently in our program
They are showcased in a few places on the web site for you to learn about them.
New OES Coming Soon –
-New male stud arriving late spring of 2024
-New female arriving early summer of 2024
-Female from a litter of ours in 2024
Our OES all came from great breeders who believe in all the things we do, with running their program. They arrived to us from all across the country – Virginia to Oregon, and Ohio to Florida.
Service and Therapy Dog donations
Each litter we either donate 1-2 puppies, or the funds of a puppy to a program who are training service, and therapy dogs to those in need of them
Our Therapy Dogs
It is a mission and goal of our program for each of our parents to go through the training, and then the testing to become Certified Therapy dogs. We take our litters, and our big dogs, into nursing homes, schools, hospitals, and churches. In order to provide loving dog therapy, to the residents, and students of those facilities.
Temperament and Personality testing:
All puppies go through temperament and personality testing at 7 weeks old. After testing is complete we write up evaluations, and provide them to the puppy litter families. Then puppy picking happens after that testing is complete. Our puppy families pick their own puppies, we just want them to have as much information as possible about the pups, before choosing their new long term family member.
Puppy raising protocols:
We use two puppy raising protocols to raise the litters using daily training including
ENS – {early neurological training},
ESI – {early scent introduction}, and daily
{exposure and socialization training}.
They participate in these training protocols from 3 days old, until the day they go home. This helps us to make sure all of the puppies that we create are well prepared for life in their new home. These training protocols help create the most well behaved, well balanced, healthy, and happy Old English Sheepdog puppies.
If at anytime a puppy needs to be re homed:
They will come back to us, so that we can evaluate health, and temperament. Then find them the perfect new puppy / dog home. Up to this point we have only needed to do that two times, both times being due to family issues or family changes. We will always take responsibility for any puppy we create. We will always make sure they have the perfect home for them, if their 1st home would not end up being their FUREVER home.
How can you know what people think about their pups and working with us:
We have puppy homes from every past litter, that are happy to talk to any perspective new puppy homes. They are happy to share about their experience getting their puppy, and how it has gone since then.
OES Tails Docking options:
We believe that puppy families should be able to choose if they want their OES to be docked tail, or fully tailed. Our puppy picking process allows for everyone who has reserved prior to birth to get the tail choice they desire. We then try to keep some pups with tails, and some docked tails. So people joining the litter after 3 days old to be able to eventually pick from, if enough pups are born to do this.
Current states that Heavinly Blessings Farm OES Puppies live in
- Washington State
- Oregon
- California
- New Mexico
- Nevada
- Utah
- Arizona
- Idaho
- Wyoming
- Montana
- Colorado
- Nebraska
- N. Dakota
- S. Dakota
- Kansas
- Oklahoma
- Texas
- Minnesota
- Iowa
- Missouri
- Arkansas
- Louisiana
- Wisconsin
- Illinois
- Michigan
- Indiana
- Tennessee
- Ohio
- Virginia
- West Virginia
- North Carolina
- South Carolina
- Georgia
- Florida
- Pennsylvania
- New York
- Washington D.C.
- Maryland
- New Jersey
- Massachusetts
- Connecticut
- Rhode Island
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