Dunrovin Farm, LLC

My family recently purchased a puppy from Dunrovin Farm. We selected the puppy in February when she was about 10 weeks old and brought her home last week. We have been very pleased with the process and with our puppy.
I found the company’s website in February when searching on-​line and I set up an appointment to visit the farm. My family made the trip to the farm that weekend.
The farm is in Halifax, MA which is about 30 minutes off of Rt. 24. We went to the farm and met the breeders. We explained that we wanted a female yellow lab and that because we have young children, 5 & 7, we really wanted a well behaved dog that was socialized to be around unfamiliar people and animals. Basically, we didn’t want her charging at every other dog when we went for a walk or growling/​snipping at persons.
We explained our living conditions and the environment the dog would be coming home to. The breeders explained that there were two 10 week old female yellow labs available and that more yellow females would be available in a few weeks as they were only about 5.5 weeks old at the time and were not ready to be shown.
We were able to watch the two 10 week old female labs as they interacted with each other and with my family. We also met the puppies’ parents. My daughters then selected their new puppy. Because we were concerned about socialization, and because we thought it would not be a good idea for us to bring a new puppy home in February, we opted for the Started Puppy program. We were told that at the end of the Started Puppy program our dog would be leash trained, mostly crate trained (not fully potty trained) and understand basic commands.
We agreed on a date target date for bringing home the puppy, but also understood that if it turned out that a few additional weeks were necessary for the puppy’s development, we would wait those weeks. We picked a date that was about 10 weeks from the date we purchased the puppy.
We visited the puppy each weekend to establish familiarity and later on to participate in the training. Two of our puppy’s brothers were also in the Started Puppy program and we saw that their owners also visited the farm most weekend. The difference between the puppy’s development (and growth) was very noticeable each week. By about the 5^th week the puppy was able to walk on a slack leash and stay by mine or my wife’s side with little correcting. By the 8^th week there was no correcting needed. Though, like any puppy (or child) there were days when she just didn’t feel like obeying.
We brought our puppy home about 10 weeks after we selected her, at which point she was about 5 months of age. That night she slept in her crate after about 20 minutes of barking. The crate was clean the next morning and every morning since. She has not barked in her crate since and sometime she just goes to her crate to hang out. Our puppy has an amazing temperament. Two days after she came home I brought her to a playground. At one point she had about five kids under age 7 petting her while she lay down. It did not bother her. She can go for walks and not be bothered by other dogs that walk by. At home she likes to lay on her dog bed or on the floor by our side. She enjoys companionship and attention.
Our puppy understands basic commands (sit, heal, down, come) but like most puppies she is selective in when she wants to obey them. We are working with her a few times a day on this and she improves every day.
Overall I am very pleased with my experience with Dunrovin Farm and I have recommended the farm to friends and family. Also, we brought our new puppy to our local vet and we were happy to hear that the vet was familiar with Dunrovin Farm and had a favorable opinion of the dogs they had seen from there.