Our purpose for breeding the American Staffordshire Terrier is to bring the natural qualities of the breed to perfection in accordance with the AKC approved breed standard. Only physically, mentally and temperamentally sound specimens are chosen to be part of our breeding program. The main focus of our breeding program is to produce dogs suitable for the breed ring (for show), working venues (agility, obedience, weight-pull etc.), service and therapy animal work, and family companions (pets). Both our stud dogs and bitches are selected for health, disposition, trainability, conformational excellence, pedigree, and production history if proven. We often bring in offspring from our own breeding program that we feel will improve upon what our goals are and make a positive contribution to the breed as a whole. We look at this as a great asset to our breeding program as we have seen what the parents (and possibly even the grandparents and great grandparents - if we owned them) produce along with having worked and trained with them -- we know the history of our dogs and those behind them. We provide all puppies and adults we sell with proper veterinary and home care, which includes: 1. A properly balanced, high quality, nutritional diet. (Chicken Soup For The Dog Lover's Soul) 2. Proper and safe worming procedures for internal and external parasites so that all puppies and adult dogs remain free of parasites. 3. Proper inoculation protocols to insure the health of the puppy or adult dog (see our vaccination protocol here). 4. Extensive socialization to humans (adults & children), other dogs, as well as cats. 5. Aptitude testing at 7-8 weeks of age 6. Hands on structural evaluation. The happiest dogs are those that have been made a part of the family as a pet first and foremost. In making breeding decisions, we first look for the qualities that will make our puppies excellent companions as well as show and/or working dogs. This means choosing AmStaffs who are rock solid in temperament, character, have solid nerves, and have strong balanced drives. We believe all well-bred AmStaff's should have courage, stamina, and great enthusiasm in everything that they do. They are friendly, outgoing, attentive and good natured with people and most especially with children. Our puppies are handled and observed on a daily basis, we get to know each individual puppy -- by 8 weeks of age we have a clear understanding of where each individual pup's temperament and drives are well before placement. They are well socialized from day one with adults as well as children, other adults dogs, other puppies, and even cats. While we hope some of our new owners will show our puppies, or work with them in agility, rally, weight-pull, tracking, obedience, flyball, and so many more venues, we place puppies only in homes where they'll be pets first and foremost. To assure sound temperament of our American Staffordshire Terriers, we have started doing the ATTS temperament test on all of our dogs - so far 4 of them now have their TT temperament titles. All adults in our breeding program are health tested with the OFA for hips, elbows and heart (with a board certified cardiologist), and all puppies come with a lifetime health and temperament guarantee on contract!