Miniature Schnauzer companions
17 puppies are looking for their families right now. Every photograph below is that individual puppy, in the home where it was raised — no stock imagery, no cropping, no surprises at the end.
Ten weeks old, family raised
Current litterEvery litter is whelped and raised inside our home — never a kennel run, never a barn.
Every photograph on this site is that individual puppy, in the rooms it grew up in.
$600 for the puppy, with travel priced separately and shown before you decide.
The calculator on every relevant page shows the total, the reservation and the balance separately.
The purchase agreement and the health guarantee are shared in full before any money moves.
Both documents are published on this site and linked from every reservation step.
You have 72 hours to have your own veterinarian examine the puppy.
The window and the remedy are written into the health guarantee.
Every puppy goes home with its vaccination and deworming records to date.
Records are per-puppy and handed over at the same time as the signed documents.
Registration paperwork travels with your puppy.
Handed over at collection or delivery, alongside the veterinary records.
Potty routines and crate familiarity are well underway before a puppy goes home.
You are given the feeding and toileting routine in writing so your household can continue it unchanged.
Questions answered long after your puppy has settled in — at six months or six years.
The return and rehoming commitment lasts the dog's whole life, not the first month.
Every line above is something you can check — against the photographs on this site, against the documents published in full, or against your own veterinarian in the first three days.
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Showing 8 of 17. Coat descriptions come from the photograph itself, so they are accurate to what you can see.
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Liver and white parti — a dark chocolate cap and saddle over a white chest, legs and beard. Standing square in the grass on a bright afternoon, whole body in frame.
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Why families choose us
$600 for the puppy. Travel quoted separately and shown on the same screen. No handling fee that appears at the end, no crate charge, no paperwork surcharge.
Every image on this site is the individual puppy it is attached to, uncropped and shown whole. If a photo is not available for a detail, we say so rather than substituting one.
Read the purchase agreement and the health guarantee before you send anything. If a term does not sit right, that is a conversation, not a lost sale.
Seventy-two hours to get an independent opinion from a veterinarian you chose. The remedy if that exam finds something is written down, with a deadline attached.
Puppies leave at 10 weeks. It costs us two more weeks of feeding and cleaning, and it is measurably easier on the puppy.
Health history, the parents' temperament, how a previous litter turned out. We would rather over-share than leave you guessing, and no question is treated as an imposition.
Photographed at home, in the rooms the puppies actually live in.
Our philosophy
A puppy's first ten weeks decide an enormous amount about the dog it becomes. Not the pedigree, not the paperwork — the ordinary business of being handled, startled, comforted and included, over and over, by people who are paying attention.
So the litter lives where the noise is. Doors close. The kettle boils. A vacuum runs somewhere down the hall while a toddler drops a spoon. None of it is a training programme; all of it is exposure, and exposure at this age is the difference between a dog that recovers from a surprise in two seconds and one that takes twenty minutes.
Handling is deliberate and daily: paws, ears, mouth, tail, being picked up, being put down again. By the time a puppy meets its first veterinarian, none of that is novel. Feeding, sleeping and toileting run to a routine you will be given in writing, because the fastest way to a settled first week at your house is for your house to feel like a continuation rather than a rupture.
A puppy in detail
Every profile carries the same detail: the coat as photographed, what that photograph shows, the temperament we have watched develop over ten weeks, and the price with nothing hidden behind it.
Health & care
Vaccination and deworming records as they stand on the day of handoff, the current food and feeding routine, a comfort item that already smells like the litter, and both signed documents.
Records are per-puppy and handed to you at the same time as the signed documents.
Book the independent veterinary examination before the puppy arrives, not after. Keep the crate routine going for the first fortnight. Tell us if something is wrong early, while it is still small enough to fix together.
These are obligations in the agreement, not suggestions — buyer responsibilities in full.
Meet the parents
Temperament first
A nervous dog raises nervous puppies, however good its coat is. Both of ours are settled, sociable and completely unbothered by a busy household — which is exactly what we want the litter to learn from them.
Health screening
Eyes, heart and the metabolic and urinary concerns this breed is known for. We are happy to talk any of it through, and to introduce you to both parents when you visit.
Puppy development
Puppies are born deaf, blind and entirely dependent on temperature regulation from their mother. Our job in this window is quiet observation: weight gain every day, a clean whelping area, and as little interference as possible.
Eyes open around day ten to fourteen; hearing follows. This is when the world arrives all at once, and gentle, brief handling starts to matter — seconds at a time, several times a day.
Weaning begins and puppies start learning bite inhibition from each other, which is a lesson no human can teach as well as a sibling can. Household sounds are introduced deliberately.
First veterinary attention, first crate exposure, first surfaces underfoot that are not the same as the last ones. Puppies start showing distinguishable responses to novelty.
Confidence away from the litter grows quickly. Toileting routines firm up. This is the age most programmes send puppies home; we do not.
Two extra weeks of routine, handling and littermate correction. The puppy that travels at ten weeks handles the journey and the first night better than the one that travels at eight.
The dog you live with for fourteen years is shaped in the ten weeks before you meet it.
Customer stories
“We had been looking for four months and had walked away from two breeders over money that appeared late in the conversation. Here the whole thing was on one screen before we ever spoke: six …”
Dana & Marcus KesslerNaperville, IL·Puppy: Barney
“I wanted the quietest-looking one in the photographs. I got a long reply explaining why that puppy probably was not right for a first-floor apartment and a full-time job, and suggesting Rosi…”
Siobhan O'BrienPortland, OR·Puppy: Santay
“Anyone can be charming for a fortnight, so here is the update nobody asks for. Sam is eight months old. He sleeps through, he travels well, he tolerates two children who are not always gentl…”
The Ferreira FamilySan Antonio, TX·Puppy: Sam
Breed guide
Bright, sturdy, opinionated and genuinely funny — and a terrier, with everything that implies. The honest version, including the parts that put people off.
| Height | Roughly 12–14 inches at the shoulder |
|---|---|
| Weight | Roughly 11–20 pounds when grown |
| Life expectancy | Commonly 12–15 years |
| Coat | Double coat with beard and leg furnishings; needs regular professional grooming |
| Shedding | Low, when the coat is maintained |
| Barking | Alert and vocal — manageable with training, not eliminable |
How it works
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Browse what is actually available. Ask for more photographs of any puppy before you decide — that request is never a problem.
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The application is a conversation starter, not a credit check. It exists so both sides can tell whether this puppy suits this household.
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Airport at $200, home delivery at $250, or collect in person for nothing. Chosen before anything is signed, not after.
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One screen showing the puppy price, the travel fee, the total, the reservation and the balance. If those five numbers do not agree with what you expected, stop here.
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The $300 reservation follows the signed agreement, never precedes it. Payment instructions are issued privately at this stage and never published on the site.
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Written confirmation of the date, the method, the balance due and what to have ready. Then the part everyone has been waiting for.
Transportation & pricing
Figures come from one configuration file, so every page on this site shows the same numbers. The reservation is credited against the total rather than added to it.
An estimate for planning. The figures written into your signed agreement are the ones that apply.
Good to know
Take the time you need. Read the agreement, ask the awkward questions, and choose the puppy that fits the life you actually live — not the one in the nicest photograph.
