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The Perfect Stunning
Family Companion
Keeping Our Puppies
Happy & Healthy
We love & cherish our dogs and the joy that they have brought into our lives! We look forward to helping bring that same joy and love into your home!
We are committed to our puppies’ health and development, which is why we prioritize early, age-appropriate puppy socialization and enrichment along with Early Neurological Stimulation (ENS) exercises, Early Scent Introduction (ESI), and music therapy. We follow the Puppy Culture 12 Week Program and recommend that you purchase the program so that you can continue the program and finish it at home. Click the link above to read our blog about Puppy Culture and find out where to order it!
We raise and train our puppies in our home, socializing them with people and adult dogs. We also ensure that crate training and basic manners are taught from an early age. Additionally, we provide early house training with the use of potty bells to help our puppies transition to your home.
We follow veterinarian recommendations to ensure that our puppies are healthy when in our care. Additionally we provide a health guarantee as follows: One year guarantee on life threatening congenital birth defects and a lifetime on JHC, HUU, DM, CDPA, CDDY with IVDD.
Screening Our Dogs
For Health Conditions
What is Hemivertebra?
Hemivertebra is unfortunately a condition that can be common in breeds that have been bred to have "screw tails" like Boston Terriers, French Bulldogs, English Bulldogs, and Pugs which is why is is so important to ask your breeder about it and what they are doing to prevent hemivertabra in their puppies. At Davis Farm Boston Terriers we strive to prevent this condition by only breeding dogs with sound spines. This condition can only be found via x-ray so it is important that you choose a breeder that x-rays and screens their breeding dogs for this condition.
"Hemivertebra in dogs is a congenital condition where your dog has one or more vertebrae that are deformed; the vertebra may be fused or wedge-shaped leading to twisting in the spine. While each vertebra will usually look like a spool when looked at from the side, when a dog has a hemivertebra it will look like a wedge or a triangle.
The condition may or may not cause issues for the dog; it will depend upon the part of the spinal column that is impacted, whether the spinal cord is being compressed or if the condition causes a weak place in the spinal column. Should your dog experience compression on his spinal cord, he may experience pain, weakness, or be unable to walk. In these cases, surgery will likely be necessary.
If your dog is experiencing hemivertebra of the tail it will not be an issue. Should it be present in other parts of his spine it can lead to your dog experiencing significant problems.
A congenital condition, hemivertebra leads to a fusing or twisting in the dog’s spine. While some may not experience symptoms as a result, others may experience pain, weakness, neurological issues, or the inability to walk." - Read More Here Source: WagWalking.com
Caring For Your Boston Terrier
Boston Terriers are relatively healthy dogs, but they do require regular grooming and exercise to stay healthy. It is important to brush your Boston Terrier's teeth often and brush their coat to spread their natural skin oils to keep their coat shiny. Bath them as necessary. Wipe their eyes daily to avoid tear build up. Keeping their nails trimmed is also important to prevent any discomfort or injury.
Regular walks and playtime are also important for their physical and mental health. Additionally, feeding a well-balanced diet with the right amount of nutrients is essential for your Boston Terrier's overall well-being along with regular check ups from your veterinarian. Read more on our blog here.
Like all flat-faced breeds, Bostons can experience difficulty breathing when not given adequate shelter from excessive heat or humidity. They are bred to be companions and should not be left outside by themselves.
Like all dogs they require proper training and socialization early so we recommend taking a puppy training class to help you ensure that your dog learns manners as they are an energetic and playful breed.
We have several blog articles devoted to caring for your Boston Terrier so please check them out and please support us by buying from our Amazon links in this blog article about our favorite Amazon products to care for your dog, all commissions go to caring for our dogs at Davis Farm Boston Terriers; thank you for your support!
History
In Liverpool, sometime in the late 1860s, a cross between a bulldog and the now-extinct white English Terrier resulted in a tough, muscular dog named Judge. Judge’s owner sold him to an American named William O’Brien, who brought his new dog home to Boston. In 1870, O’Brien sold Judge to a fellow Bostonian, Robert C. Hooper. Judge, from then on known in breed histories as “Hooper’s Judge,” became the patriarch of the Boston Terrier breed and the common ancestor of almost all true Bostons.
Hooper bred Judge to a small white female named Burnett’s Gyp, owned by Edward Burnett, of Southboro, Massachusetts. During the breed’s formative decades, selective breeding transformed the bulky fighter of Judge’s time into a smaller, sweeter, and more attractive companion dog.
In honor of the city where these happy-go-lucky dogs were so painstakingly developed, the breed name became Boston Terrier. The Boston Terrier Club of America was formed in 1891, and two years later the AKC registered its first dog of the breed.
To this day, Boston Terriers are a point of hometown pride. The Boston Terrier has been the official mascot of Boston University for nearly 100 years, and in 1979 the state legislature named the “American Gentleman” the official dog of Massachusetts.
Source: AKC Boston Terrier Breed Information