ADULTS AVAILABLE
REGRETFULLY WE ARE CLOSING OUR KENNEL, AND OUR LAST LITTER HAS NOW BEEN SOLD. However, we still have four small, adult females to place into good pet homes--two Mini-Cockers and two part Mini-Cockers--and all were bred from AKC purebreds. All four girls are up to date on their shots, and all have recently tested heartworm free. Ages are from one to four years old.
And we are being very selective about the homes where these four beautiful girls will eventually go, and there will be no registration papers available for any of them. So please, no breeding homes need apply--nor any rescues, nor any second hand dog re-sellers--as we are looking for pet homes only. And they are all free to qualified homes which must meet the folowing criteria: very experienced dog owners with vet references, and must be home owners with a fenced yard. And no young children or grandchildren constantly about, as none of these four girls has ever been around young children. And no other female dogs in the home, but males dogs are OK. And preference will be given to people who are home a lot of the time, either retired or working from home, and especially if they have dog training experience.
If interested please send a long e-mail that details your experience with dogs and the type of home that you can offer. And we will not consider a home that only phones from one of our ads and does not send a detailed email. And we will consider placing certain two girls together, but one girl must not go with any of the other three girls due to personality conflicts.
We are not in any hurry to place any of these girls and will take the time to find the right home for each girl, preferably after all of the Christmas activities are over. And for more detailed information and pictures we can be contacted about these four adult girls at:
jolie.chiens@gmail.com
ABOUT US
WE ARE A SMALL DESIGNER DOG BREEDING KENNEL located in rural Northcentral Florida, very near the Gulf of Mexico. And our aim in breeding is to produce healthy, happy, smaller sized dogs with superb temperament that can fit in with their new families and become beloved pets and companions.
"Jolie Chien" means "pretty dog" in French--and although "Americanized," this kennel name does reflect our Cajun French heritage. And this name also reflects our endeavors to produce the best looking dogs possible, with gorgeous colors and markings.
And although we only breed designer mixed dogs now, we have been involved with purebred dogs for many years, with several breeds, including Afghans, Salukis, Borzoi, Shelties, and American Cockers, but we no longer show as we are "retired." And we breed our dogs in order to have very special companion pets for ourselves, as well as to provide special companion pets to others.
For most of our breeding career we only bred purebred dogs. But over the past decade or so we have become very concerned about the health of purebred dogs due to recessive genetic disease, to the point that we are now involved in trying to design adorable, smaller pet and companion dogs with all of the predictable looks of the purebreds, but with much better health. And for a much longer explanation of our philosophy of breeding please go to our theory page. And closing that page will bring you right back to this spot on this page.
And in the past we have bred several different designer mixes--including Kobetans, Poovanese, and Havacos. And Luna, the champagne colored girl pictured across the top of this webpage--and Goobie, the cream boy pictured to the above left--are both examples of our past Bologco designer mix that is made up of half Bichon Bolognese and half small American Cocker Spaniel. And both of these cute little pale colored Bologcos live with their families here in Florida. And so far we have had more of the lighter colors of Bologcos and have put our photos of the lighter colored Bologcos all on one webpage. And we've put photos of our darker colored Bologcos all on their own webpage too.
And the the gorgeous little black merle and white girl shown above at seven weeks old is our little SunCatcher's Izabella de Zayas. And Izabella is a great example of our newest Havacobetan, three breed mix, which is half Havanese, 1/4 Mini-Cocker and 1/4 Tibetan Terrier, which gives this mix tremendous heterosis--also called "hybrid vigor"--while still maintining the adorable "Teddy Bear" look that is so popular with pet lovers today. We just adore this sweet little girl, and we couldn't resist keeping her here for ourselves. And she will grow up to have a longer body with shorter legs and a curled over tail, and continiously growing hair--not fur--so she does not shed and is thus somewhat hypoallergenic.
In the past we we bred three litters of a half Tibetan Terrier and half small Cocker mix called Kobetans. We no longer breed that mix, as our one Tibetan Terrier girl has been retired into a great pet home. But we kept three quite small Kobetan girls here for future three way breed mixes, and SunCatcher's Ritzi Mitzi--call name "Mitzi"--is our champagne colored Kobetan girl, shown above at five months old. And Mitzi is also a merle, and she has one gorgeous blue eye and one brown eye, both beautifully rimmed with her very striking looking, black colored "eyeliner" markings, called "Egyptian Eyes." And Mitzi is all grown up now and she is Izabella's dam.
ABOUT THIS WEBSITE
WE HAVE ORGANIZED THIS WEBSITE to make it very easy to navigate in all browsers, as long as your screen is at least 800 pixels wide. And across the top and the bottom of every webpage there is a navigation bar that leads to the eight main webpages of this website. And you are currently on the Home page, and just below are descriptons of the other seven main pages of this website, which pages can lead to other webpages under the same topic.
And the adorable apricot colored puppy shown above is a Bologco girl named Arwen, and she lives with her family in the Tampa Bay area of Florida.
AVAILABLE PUPPIES
OUR PUPPY PAGE IS WHERE WE FEATURE ANY AVAILABLE PUPPIES. And as we have no interest in breeding purebred dogs anymore, we only breed designer mixed companion dogs that are meant to go into homes as beloved house pets. And in the past we tried to have litters available throughout the year. But with the recent recession we have reduced the number of dogs that we keep here, and thus only have a few litters a year now.
And by Florida law no puppy can leave our kennel until it is at least 8 weeks old, and has a health certificate issued by our vet. Our puppies also come with a worming and shot record, a five generation pedigree, and if the puppy is a two breed F1, first generation designer mix, registration papers issued by the American Canine Hybrid Club. However, no kennel club issues registration papers for a three breed, F1 designer mix.
We own a legal kennel here under all zoning, local, state, and national laws, and we have obtained all licenses, etc, that are required pertaining to our operation of the kennel. All of our dogs are regularly treated for all of the parasites that are so common here in Florida, and they receive all necessary shots and innoculations. And we do collect sales tax on all sales, as required by Florida law on all sales of pets.
The picture shown above left is of a litter of four Bologco puppies--all girls--whelped here in the Summer of 2008, and they all went to their new homes by the time that they were 9 weeks old.
And due to the time and expense involved, we can no longer ship puppies, and any puppy must be picked up here in our very rural area of Northcentral Florida, which is about an hour's drive due West from Gainesville, Florida, very near to the Gulf of Mexico. We also do not accept deposits, but will put a reservation on a puppy, and when it receives its health certificate from our vet the buyer will then have a few days to pick up the puppy before we begin advertising the puppy to the general public.
OUR KENNEL
OUR KENNEL PAGE SHOWS MANY PICTURES OF OUR FACILITIES, and discusses in depth the way that we raise our puppies. And as we live in a very mild climate, both we and our dogs are able to spend a lot of time outdoors. And we've gone to considerable expense to build open but paved and roofed over dog kennels, with rounded igloo shaped dog houses, as this is the best type of kennel for our rather hot and humid climate, that is often prone to storms--just 24 miles back from the Gulf of Mexico. And we have constructed four different dog yards so that we can keep dogs together that belong together--and those that do not, apart.
Our six acre property is very heavy wooded, under magnificent ancient live oaks that are dripping in Spanish moss, with ferns and endangered orchids growing in their branches. And we have oriented the kennels so that the dogs can be in deep shade in the Summer but have access to Winter sun.
And although both we and the dogs spend a lot of our time outdoors, all of our litters are born inside of our home, and our very young puppies spend all of their time indoors. But we also have separate puppy kennels where older puppies can get plenty or fresh air and lots of exercise, but are protected from the many wild life predators that live in this area.
PHOTO GALLERIES
OUR PHOTO GALLERIES PAGE CONTAINS LINKS to pictures of our past and present breeding dogs, plus pictures that our puppy buyers have send to us as their own dogs grow up. And eventually this section will be the largest part of this website.
But for now this section of this website is "under construction." It's not that we don't have a lot of pictures, as our first website for the kennel eventually had over 40 pages of pictures, and we now have well over 15,000 dog pictures taken over the years that we have owned dogs. But it will take us a good deal of time to edit and create these web pages--so for now we've left room for this section to grow. However, we do have a few pages of our Photo Galleries completed, so we invite you to check them out.
And the two cute little Bologco girls, shown with their owners to the above left, are black colored Cookie and merle and tan McKinley. And although these two Bolgoco girls live in two different states, they do get to visit with each other occasionally. And we do encourage puppy buyers to send us pictures, and we will include as many pictures as we can in this section of the website.
ARTICLES, CONTRACT, & DISCLAIMER
OUR ARTICLES PAGE ONLY CONTAINS LINKS TO TWO ARTICLE SO FAR. But we do have several articles that we have written over the years concerning dogs that we have not brought over yet from the old website--and again this section is a work in progress, and is designed to be added to over time. But there is one article completed about leaving tails and dewclaws intact on dogs, with some gorgeous pictures of a black and white Cocker boy named Jester that we bred who has the most gorgeous, plumed, intact tail. And the other article is about the theory behind breeding designer dogs.
And we ask that before contacting us about a puppy that you read our Contract Page and our Disclaimer Page so that if we are discussing the purchase of a puppy, then we are all thinking "on the same page."
And this cute little black Bologco puppy with four white feet and a curled over tail is from our first litter of Bologcos here, back in 2007.
CONTACT INFORMATION
WE ARE LOCATED IN THE NORTHCENTRAL FLORIDA AREA just a few miles from the Gulf of Mexico. We can be contacted by E-mail at:
jolie.chiens@gmail.com
"A dog wags his tail with his heart."
Martin Buxbaum