FINDING THE RIGHT FIT
Choosing the Right Puppy
The relationship you have with your dog begins long before you bring them home. Here’s how we get to know every puppy and help you confidently choose the companion who is the best fit for your family.
The Right Puppy Changes Everything
Bringing home a puppy is exciting, and it’s easy to fall in love with an adorable face, beautiful markings, or your favorite color. While those things may catch your eye at first, they have very little impact on what life with your dog will actually be like.
Over the next 10 to 15 years, what you’ll remember isn’t the shape of the markings on your puppy’s face. You’ll remember the quiet evenings together, the adventures you shared, the way they greeted you at the door, and the relationship you built along the way.
One of the biggest influences on that relationship is your puppy’s natural temperament.
A puppy’s natural energy level, confidence, desire to be with people, willingness to learn, and response to the world around them all influence your everyday life together. When a puppy’s natural temperament matches your family’s lifestyle, life together is likely to be easier and more enjoyable for both you and your dog.
Our goal isn’t simply to help you choose a puppy.
Our goal is to help you choose the right puppy.
Every Puppy Is Unique
We often assume that puppies from the same litter are all alike. After all, they have the same parents, are raised in the same environment, and experience the same socialization and training.
But in reality, every puppy is an individual.
Within a litter, puppies can have very different energy levels, vary in confidence, desire to be with people, independence, motivation, and responses to new experiences. Some naturally seek out attention and constantly want to be with people, while others are more independent and can entertain themselves. Some confidently approach every new situation, while others take a little more time to observe before joining in.
None of these traits are right or wrong. They simply make each puppy better suited for certain families, lifestyles, and goals.
That’s why choosing a puppy based only on color, markings, or a favorite photo can be misleading. Those things tell you what a puppy looks like—but they don’t tell you what life with that puppy will be like.
Why We Wait to Choose Puppies
One of the biggest differences in our process is when families choose their puppy.
We don’t ask families to make their final selection when puppies are only a few weeks old. Instead, puppy selection takes place after the puppies have completed their veterinary examination and temperament evaluation at approximately seven to eight weeks of age.
The reason is simple.
Because at two to three weeks of age, puppies are still in the earliest stages of development. Their eyes and ears have recently opened, they’re just beginning to toddle, and they spend most of their time eating and sleeping. At this stage, puppies aren’t actively interacting with people, playing with their littermates, or exploring the world around them. Simply put, they haven’t had the opportunity to show us who they are yet.
As puppies become more mobile and socially engaged over the following weeks, their individual personalities begin to emerge. That’s when we start seeing meaningful differences in confidence, energy level, independence, curiosity, and the way each puppy responds to people and new experiences.
That’s why we spend the next several weeks carefully watching the puppies grow, learn, and interact with the world around them before families make their final decision.
Getting to Know the Puppies
By the time puppy selection arrives, we want you to feel like you already know the litter—not like you’re choosing a puppy from a photo.
Throughout the weeks leading up to selection, we share regular litter updates and videos so you can watch the puppies grow and begin to see their individual personalities emerge. You’ll see them interact with people, their littermates, our adult dogs, and even our barn cats, as well as experience new environments and age-appropriate challenges.
As the puppies develop, we point out the differences we’re seeing—who tends to seek out people, who is more independent, who approaches something new with confidence, and who may have a little more or less energy than their littermates.
These observations, combined with the puppies’ veterinary exam and temperament evaluation, give us a much more complete picture of each puppy before selection day.
By the time we meet with you to choose your puppy, you won’t simply be looking at a litter of adorable Corgis. You’ll already have a sense of who they are as individuals.
Choosing Your Puppy
Before puppy selection, you’ll receive each puppy’s Harman Corgis Puppy Profile along with our guide explaining what each temperament trait means and how it may influence everyday life or what steps that you may need to take with each puppy. This gives you the opportunity to become familiar with each puppy before we meet.
We’ll then schedule a private Zoom meeting. You will be able to watch the puppies interact with each other and us, and we will answer any questions that you might have. We can also talk about your family, lifestyle, and the qualities that are most important to you.
We’ll share our recommendations and explain why certain puppies may be especially good fits for your home. If we believe a particular puppy may be less suited to your family’s lifestyle or expectations, we’ll explain why and discuss what life with that puppy may realistically look like.
Ultimately, the decision is yours. Our role is to provide honest guidance, answer your questions, and help you choose with confidence.
Every family has a different lifestyle, different goals, and a different vision for life with their dog.
Our commitment is to help you make one of the most important decisions with confidence. We’ll spend the time getting to know every puppy, share what we’ve learned, answer your questions honestly, and provide thoughtful guidance throughout the selection process.
The final decision is always yours, and we’ll be there to help you understand which puppies may be the best fit for your family and why.
Because the best puppy isn’t the one with the highest scores.
It’s the one that’s the best fit for you.
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