Usually, when a family or an individual makes the decision to purchase a puppy, they have a reasonable expectation of having the puppy in their home within a few days or weeks. Sometimes, it maybe necessary to wait as much as a month or two before the right puppy is available. But, what happens when the wait is longer? Say, several months? Should you look elsewhere? Rocky Mountain Rawhide American Bulldogs usually has a waiting list for available puppies. Sometimes, in order to get a high pick (first or second pick) of the desired gender, a family may have to wait for 6 months or longer because the waiting list for the current available puppies is already long and full. What should they do? There are a lot of American Bulldog breeders out there. Should they just buy another puppy from somewhere else? Or, should they wait for a Rocky Mountain Rawhide puppy?

I believe you will not find a better quality, easier to raise puppy than what we offer here at Rocky Mountain Rawhide. I believe if you do your homework, make sure that the sire and the dam of your puppy purchased elsewhere are both certified healthy and clear of genetic problems, free of inheritable personality disorders, and properly socialized before leaving,  that you can get a good, reasonably priced and healthy American Bulldog puppy. However, if you wait for that Rocky Mountain Rawhide puppy to become available, I sincerely believe that you will be even happier.

Why Our Puppies Are Superior
  
Health

All of our puppies are guaranteed healthy upon their arrival to your home. They will be clean, they will have been vaccinated, vet checked for heart, structural, and dentation problems, and wormed.

Socialization

Our puppies are born in the house, not in a kennel. Our dogs live in the house, not in a kennel. Our dogs and puppies interact on a daily basis with all types of creatures, farm machinery, and people. They live with horses, cows, sheep, goats, cats, llamas, chickens and pigs. They live on a working ranch with strangers and customers coming and going on a regular basis all day long. Our dogs need to have excellent judgement in who to greet with wagging tail and who to greet with hackles up. It is a judgement that could mean the end of my business if they make poor choices, but, they don't. They are real working dogs on a working ranch and they take their jobs seriously but they don't make stupid decisions. They are neither chained nor kenneled. The Fed Ex, UPS, and postal carrier guys don't think twice about delivering, wading through those big, muscular bodies as they make their way to the front door. But, would someone ever consider breaking into our house?  Not on their life.

Proper socialization teaches dogs that different people, unusual animals, and interesting things are a normal part of everyday life. A young puppy's brain actually grows when properly stimulated by these activities. The more socialized, properly stimulated brain on these tiny puppies creates an adult dog with a much better tolerance of new, unusual, or potentially frightening encounters with the unknown. Whether the unknown is the mail carrier, the poodle next door, the umbrella in your mother-in-law's hand, or the next-door-neighbor's little boy in his new Spider Man suit. He knows that there's a difference between a little boy in a costume and suspicious-looking stranger lurking in the shadows and he'll react according. An improperly socialized dog tends to clump all things not in his immediate frame of reference in the "DO NOT TRUST" category. They can become dangerous, unpredictable, and unreliable.

Because our dogs are working dogs in a real working environment, it gives us the advantage of really learning about our individual dogs and their abilities and natural tendencies. This knowledge, combined with our socialization practices, gives us a real good look into our breeding stock's genetic potential. In other words, we know how good our dogs can be because we see it every day as we live with them, work with them and play with them.

Environment

Probably the most obvious advantage of acquiring a Rocky Mountain Rawhide puppy is the ease in which they housebreak. Our puppy people are always amazed at how fast their new puppies become housebroken.  There is a definite advantage to buying a puppy from an Animal Behaviorist. We know how to steer that puppy towards cleanliness. From the time he's 3 weeks old and his self awareness is starting to blossom, he's given a choice. He can move a little bit away from his sleeping area and relieve himself in a special area reserved for that purpose, or, he can "go" in his blanket and have to live in it for a few hours.

When puppies are consistently given a choice they tend to learn to use it. By the time our puppies are eight weeks old, if they can, they will remove themselves from a living area and relieve themselves outside. This is a major step toward the puppy becoming housebroken as soon as they are physically capable. Our puppies want to go out side to relive themselves. They already know how to use a dog door to go outside. They know how to go up and down steps to accomplish these tasks. When you think about it, dog doors, steps, going from hot to cold, light to dark, these are all potentially scarey things for a new puppy to get used to along with the whole concept of being housebroken. By giving the puppy a head start on these things from day one, by the time the new owner gets the new puppy home, walking from the cool house, through the doggie door, into the hot, bright, light and down the steps to "potty" outside, and then reversing everything to come back in is old hat. This is why our puppies are so much easier to housebreak than puppies coming from an environment where having unclean puppies is thought of as normal. It isn't. Puppies raised on dirt, or newspapers and not kept clean will simply become accustomed to living in filth. Can they be housebroken at a later age? Yes, usually. But, it's sure faster, easier, and cleaner, to start that process from day one.

Training/Problem Solving and Support

Most reputable breeders are going to do everything in their power to help the new owner with questions, concerns, and problems. But most breeders are limited to their layman's knowledge of dogs. Frequently sufficient, but sometimes not. Rocky Mountain Rawhide is owned by Terry Jester, an internationally recognized expert in the behavior of animals. She is also endorsed by The Humane Society of the United States as being "Effective and Humane" in her work as a behaviorist and trainer. So, when someone has questions regarding their new puppy from Rocky Mountain Rawhide, the answers are going to be backed by 30 years of critically acclaimed, proven, professional experience.
Our advise isn't based on guesswork, it's backed by many years of good, solid, been there– done that and this is what you do – knowledge.