Taking It To The Max!

The Force-Elite Edge

A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel. (Proverbs 12:10)

We know that a lot of people are breeding and selling American Staffordshire Terrier  puppies, and some are selling them for much less. But don’t let dollar signs blind you to the facts. “You get what you pay for” applies to puppies too!

Our dogs are bred 100% on the highly sought after AKC champion Edelhaus bloodline (Edelhaus X Edelhaus), and a quick look at our dog's pedigrees will quickly demonstrate a very special lineage for these spectacular puppies! You'll find not only Edelhaus' prized blood in these pups, but Gaff's, Benmar, Nobel, and more!

Because we don't show our dogs in the ring, we sell them for a somewhat lower price than those who do, but make no mistake: these are AmStaffs of the highest quality, and were we to enter our dogs in AKC show competition, they would quickly earn their championship titles. Of that we have absolutely no doubt, and you won't either once you've had a look at them!

One thing we want you to know: We are hobbyist breeders. We don't do this for a living, we don't do it to earn a little extra money. What you see happening here is truly and purely a labor of love.

The singular reason puppy mill operators own dogs is to produce and sell more dogs. Volume sales are key to profits. Diets, veterinary care, whelping environment and a dozen other costs are minimized in order to keep the price of puppies low. Yes, the minimal requirements for producing sellable puppies are met, but these pups’ potentials are not being realized. Generally speaking they are smaller, weaker, less healthy and less intelligent than they had the potential to be when they were born.

Not so at Force-Elite. For us, breeding is a labor of love, for our own dogs and for this noble breed as a whole. After over 25 years of owning and loving these noble creatures, the litter of puppies born to us on Dec 5 2011 is the very first we’ve ever produced. It will also be the last for at least 2 years, and quite possibly the one and only litter of puppies that will ever be born to either Colonel Klink or Crimson Kinetica. We will preserve the exclusivity of the genetic material that made these pups, both for our own sakes and for yours! There is nothing common about our dogs, and we want to keep it that way.

Unlike puppy mill breeders, who despite even the best intentions are unable to approach this level of nurturing, we put our wallets and our hands & backs where our hearts are. No expense has been spared in the care and nurturing of your Force-Elite puppy, nor has any amount of effort!

Your puppy’s diet has been supplemented with expensive colostrum containing milk replacements from week one. Colostrum is a special milk product that mama only produces right after the litter is born. By the 3^rd or 4^th feeding, it is no longer present in mama’s milk at any appreciable level. It is crucial to your puppy’s well-being for many reasons, including your puppy’s first immunity boost. It also signals all your puppy’s organs that it has in fact been born and jump starts them for proper functioning outside the womb, while triggering the explosive muscular and skeletal growth seen in the first weeks of life. Your Force-Elite puppy received twice daily supplements for the first 4 weeks and was fed this formula exclusively from 4-6 weeks. One look at our pups and you’ll see the difference! Average cost: $30/day.

Now that your puppy has been weaned, he or she is feasting on some of the very best premium puppy food in the world, namely Blue Buffalo puppy food. You won’t find it in the pet food aisle at Wal-Mart or your local grocery store, and you definitely won’t find it in most breeders’ pantries, but it’s worth every penny for the results we’ve gotten with it. We’ve used it exclusively for our adult dogs for years, and people are still stopping their cars in the middle of the street to snap pictures and ask about them. It happens all the time! And by the way, that means that your Force-Elite puppy has been “eating” the same stuff since he or she was conceived! The results in healthy, fit, awesome looking dogs and puppies speak for themselves. Cost: about $50 per bag.

Diet isn’t the only difference in your Force-Elite puppy’s favor though. Your dog’s intelligence is greatly impacted during the first few weeks and months of life, and we’ve spared no expense, effort or inconvenience to make sure that you and your new puppy will hit the ground running!

Like human babies, baby dogs need an enriched environment and lots of room to run and play in order for their brains and bodies to develop to their full potential. This is not possible in a small whelping box like the ones commonly found at breeder facilities and for sale at pet supply stores. Not only has your Force-Elite puppy been raised in our home with our family (two and four-legged alike)... They’ve actually been raised right in our living room, with running room to spare, constant contact with humans and other dogs, and surrounded by lots of novel sensory input of every kind.  This allows and encourages your puppy’s brain to develop to its full potential, creating and pruning synapses and synaptic pathways, and laying a solid groundwork for his or her continued training and socialization after going home with you..

That’s in stark contrast with mass-puppy-producers and even most small-scale quality breeders. Because they have so many dogs, even those with the best intentions are unable to devote this kind of effort and attention or these kinds of resources to each puppy. Because they need to sell a lot of puppies to earn a living, they simply must keep their costs down in order to keep prices low enough to sell every pup quickly, and they need to spread their resources and attention much thinner. Unfortunately, the dietary and environmental compromises required to stay profitable come at a cost to the puppy and its future owner. Puppies bred and whelped in merely adequate conditions will never fulfill their full physical or cognitive potential.