The Philosophy.

We breed two to three litters a year. We could do more. We choose not to.

The math on more is easy. The math on better is harder. Every litter we add doubles the amount of attention each puppy doesn't get — from us, from each other, from the dog they will turn into. We are not in this to scale.

The point of breeding is the dog. Not the puppy. The dog the puppy becomes.

We optimize for three things, in order. Temperament, structure, health. If a dog is sound but unstable, we don't breed it. If a dog is stable but unsound, we don't breed it. If a dog is both but the health panel comes back wrong, we don't breed it. Every cull is hard. Every cull is correct.

Jon Jon, Avon, and Halsey are the program. They live in the house with us. They eat in the kitchen. They sleep on couches they aren't supposed to be on. They are not assets, and they are not kennel dogs.

We chose them because they are the dogs we would want at the end of every long day. Then we worked backwards. If these are the dogs we want, what's the program that produces more of them.

We do not pick the puppy. We pick the home. Then we match. Last year we received roughly three hundred consultations. We placed nine puppies. That ratio is not a marketing flex. It is how a rottweiler program should work when you treat the dog as the customer.

The right home for a rottweiler is not a house. It is a household. Schedule. Other animals. Children. Travel. Whether the dog is going to be alone for nine hours on a weekday. We ask all of it on the consultation call, and the answers determine everything.

If you are reading this and any of it landed, write to us. If you are reading this and none of it landed, we are probably not the program for you, and that is also a useful answer.