​​​​We take pride in the quality and temperament of our dogs, ensuring that each puppy is a wonderful family companion. Our breeding dogs undergo appropriate health testing, and our puppies are raised in our home using proven methods like ENS, Puppy Culture, and Avidog. With vaccinations, deworming, health checks, and a health warranty included, you can trust that a GN puppy is the perfect addition to your family. 
Puppies are matched to families based on many factors, complete an application to begin the process. 

-------------------------------------- **Puppy selection, how does it work? First, the reasons we believe it is important for us to choose puppies for our families. 1. We have decades of first-hand experience with the breeds in our home, many of our dogs we raised from puppies themselves. This means we understand the traits present in our dogs, and what traits to be expected in a particular litter. 2. We have decades of experience working with puppy owners and their puppies. 3. We have spent hours and hours of time working with our puppies. This means we know each puppy and have lot of observations about their behavior and personality. 4. Ultimately, we are responsible for our puppies for LIFE, while puppy owners may relinquish responsibility and return the puppy to us, the buck stops with us, and so in the end we are responsible for the choices we make, or allow to be made, for our puppies. This means that there is just no comparison between our methodical and information based system of puppy placement and the emotion driven choices made by well meaning puppy seekers flush with puppy fever, but very little experience or knowledge. Second, the system we use to make selections. 1. Screening at the website level. We have designed and written our website to act as our first level of filtering. We provide an abundance of information about all facets of our program and we place responsibility for exploring that information on the puppy seeker. This weeds out impulsive puppy seekers, and those who have little interest in investing their time and effort into their puppy. 2. Screening at the contact level. We have designed our contact flow system to answer common questions, provide links to necessary information, and again, to discourage impulse puppy seekers and those who think puppies are easy. 3. We know that each breed has specific health and training requirements. Puppies in specific, require a considerable commitment from their owners, so each step of our selection process is designed to filter out those who are unlikely to “put in the work” with their puppy. This means even before we send out the application response we are thinking about how to encourage good prospects while discouraging high risk prospects. 4. Program Level Screening. Once we have the application in hand, we immediately screen out those who are just not right for our program. This doesn’t usually mean they are not right for the breed, just that our program doesn’t best meet their, and our, goals. Finally, as we are raising the puppies we are making the final puppy placement decisions. This is never done impulsively, or carelessly, but instead is done using our decades of experience with our breed and our new knowledge of the needs of our families. Here are a few of the things we consider. 1. Gender: Gender is a very important consideration, especially if there are dogs in the home, as most dogs do best in opposite gender pairs. 2. Prey Drive: Some puppies have more, or less, “chase and bite” instinct, and while it’s true that the puppy biting stage only lasts a few months, these puppies will chase and bite more and so again, we need to be sure we find committed owners for these high prey drive puppies because we know those types of owners do best with enthusiastic chaser biters. 4. Structure: Structure is most important for puppies who will be living a physically demanding lifestyle. Adventure buddies, sport dogs, service dogs, and farm dogs, often move the most and from an early age and traits such as flat feet, short underlines, imbalanced degree of angulation front to back, while harmless and unnoticed in a typical companion dog can make for long term soundness problems for working or performance dogs. 5. Color and Coat: While these traits are purely cosmetic, they are occasionally important to our puppy owners, and we want to respect that. So these are traits we also have to consider as we make placements. Now, to the things we rarely if ever consider, because while these things may be present in puppies, they are transitory and NOT a good way to predict which puppy will flourish in which home. 1. High Drive/Low Drive: These labels are just not real, they don’t describe real traits we can identify in a puppy. 2. High Energy/Low Energy: Again, while a puppy may be busier or more laid back, this type of behavior is transitory and often the “laziest” puppy in a litter will mature out to be just as busy as it’s siblings and the reverse is just as true. 3. Dominate/Bossy or Submissive/Shy: Again, while a puppy may be quite a bully within the litter, be quite bold, and another may be picked on, or slow to explore, these traits are common and often a single puppy will exhibit ALL of these behaviors during the first 8 weeks. Our years of experience and knowledge also allows us to recognize if a puppy is not behaviorally typical, we do not place puppies that we do not consider behaviorally normal and typical in our experience. 4. Larger/smaller: Within the bell curve of normal size for a puppy there is considerable variation. A puppy may be larger or smaller due to the quality of its placental attachment, crowding within a uterine horn, or a slow to come along suckle reflex but these sizes rarely hold true. Generally, puppies within a litter will mature out within a few pounds of their same sex siblings. 5. Puppy Aptitude tests: Yes, there are lots of Puppy Aptitude Tests that breeders love to use, but the research on such tests (which is extensive) proves that there is NO Puppy Aptitude test that accurately predicts adult behavior. We have placed lots of show and performance titles on our home breds, and none of those showed any special shiny label that guaranteed their talent, we chose them based on our particular knowledge and experience within the breed. So, to sum up, we choose puppies for our families because we are responsible for each puppy we produce, and nobody is better qualified than we are to choose a puppy for your family. Not only do we have the experience and skill to do this work, we value each and every family that chooses to get a puppy from our program and it is our sincere effort to do our best by our puppy and our client. The Nuts and Bolts 1. We will select the puppy for each family, with input from the family taken fully into consideration, and on our observations and skill. 3. Puppies are selected between the age of 7 and 8 weeks. We usually know by the 7 week mark who is going where. 4. Do NOT get attached to certain puppies simply because they are more photogenic than other puppies. Try to observe all the puppies as we post about the litter. Remember to keep your mind open to all the puppies and not to get fixated on a particular one. 5. Placement decisions are announced as soon as finalized. In the end, the dog your puppy grows into depends far less on which puppy from the litter you bring home, and more on the breeder you choose, and your own hard work, care, love, attention, and commitment as you raise your puppy. Breeders supply the mold, your commitment and dedication shapes and forms the mold into the adult dog in the end.