Tell us about yourself!

We like to see all of our family raised puppies reach their full potential as wonderful companions for the families that raise them.

Therefore, we like to know all we can about your household in order to consider you as a good matching home for one of our babies to grow up in!   Our beagle puppies enter their forever homes ready to begin learning from their surroundings, and adapting to the family's responsible lifestyle. Like a toddler, puppies need a responsible structured learning environment with consistent reactions from their caregivers, so that they can most efficiently learn, respect, and excell towards being your unique companion pet.

 

Show that you are serious about your pursuit of a lifelong companion, and are sincerely committed to successfully adding a sunshine acres beagle puppy to your pack. Take advantage of our experienced help provided throughout this website, and remember to share your household details that help us to better match our babies to the appropriate households, and you to the appropriate type of puppy! The more you share with us upfront, the more comfortable we can feel and easily we can move ahead.  Tell us about your home for one of our pups,
so that we can know you would be a great forever home!

 

Consequently, Folks that provide no insight into who they are to spark our interest as a potential member of our family, and those who simply ask us to write them back about information we have already covered for everyone's benefiit, show us that they have not spent enough time with this decision, and we often choose to answer others who are ready to move forward, while those new folks take the time to continue learning from our website to further appreciate the adoption process.  All of the important details are already described thoroughly here, and made available to the millions of viewers who adore our beagles and are making the right decision for the wellfare of their pack for the years to come ! Without your details, we can't move forward in the adoption of one of our babies!

 

 Demonstrate your diligence by taking advantage of our website's wealth of information that we have put together for you to learn all about us & our beagles at your leisure. Separate yourself from the faceless inquiries so that we can get back to you, by  finding out how to become one of the approved homes & providing us with the details we are looking for.  We want our babies to find appropriate matches, and we wouldn't have so many return customers if they weren't worth it! (as seen on our "Got Two" happy family pages.)

 

 What we like to know
 about our puppy's potential home...

• Do you have a fence, invisible fence, or will the puppy be walked?
  A fenced yard or invisible fencing is a plus, though we understand in some areas this is not always possible. If you do not have a fenced yard, or invisible fence, then walking your dog becomes a big responsibility. Someone will need to be home periodically to let the dog out. If you work all day, and there is no way to let the dog out every so many hours, perhaps consider fencing your yard, invisible fencing, or some alternative that allows him/her to get out and releive themselves.
   (If you are considering an invisible fence, yes it works great for our smart lil Sunshine Acres beagles - even if you've heard otherwise about most other beagle bloodlines! We do have a big invisible fenced area, and our sunshine acres beagles were trained in only 2-4 days, 2 for a khaki one, and at the most 4 for our others (and a male we had purchased was trained in 7 days). Many of our sunshine acres families use it too with great success!)
  Please let us know which type of yard the puppy would have- it all helps when matching!

Our puppies fit into a variety of different Households!
Singles, pre-parent Couples to Empty Nesters, all looking for a baby beagle to raise and enjoy!
Tell us about your puppy's potential pack.

• Singles make great one on one leaders for their pups- since the future of their puppy is entirely in their hands, it is simple to stay consistent during the learning process, as your puppy learns directly from everything you say and do!

• Couples are also wonderful parents for our babies, and its so great when they can start their family with a puppy to raise together, its a great experience as they work together towards ensuring a wonderful future for their baby, and can have their beagle all trained before possibly kids come into the picture in the future! Couples have often told us it was a great learning experience and they loved being able to raise their baby beagle together first, guiding him or her through life together.

• Families with Teenagers are also fun packs for a puppy to grow up in. Teens must remember that the beginning of the puppy's life there in your home is an introduction to the rules of the pack, so that the rest of their life can be spent enjoying your pack responsibly.
  Starting off calm is the best way to introduce your puppy to the pack, so that he or she can focus on the rules before roughhousing, so that playing isnt their only focus. You can always add playing to their lifestyle later, but don't corrupt them while they are learning! lol

• Families with Children often prove to be a responsible homes for our puppies as well, as long as the family remembers that they are making this decision as a pack, and that puppies learn from the entire pack.  Our puppies have made wonderful buddies for kids to grow up with, an enriching experience which helps expand a child's understanding of life, including action and consequence, growth and reward, for an ultimately healthy lifestyle.

  •     However, we have had to turn away families before whose children we could tell were not ready for a puppy. 
    If a child is rough with the puppy, and especially if likely to be alone with him/her at times, we are not comfortable sending our baby into that environment.

  • Some children have also even been afraid of dogs, including newborn puppies, and this is also not a behavior we like to see either. If a child is afraid of the puppy before the learning pup has even done anything wrong, how will the parent & the puppy alike know in the future whether the child is serious about a problem or not, and whether the puppy needs to be corrected in order to move forward and ensure a healthy, working pack for the years to come?
    Teething is a natural thing that all puppies go through, but a puppy should not be allowed to think biting Flesh is a possibly acceptable outlet. Evening though a biting puppy may not hurt yet, it will in the future, and allowing the biting of flesh will cause a loss of respect for your flesh & your authority. A big dog who thinks he can bite DOES hurt, and one who has been allowed to think he can overrule you is a problem. Biting leads to a loss of respect, loss of obedience, and possibly problematic dominance later on. If a puppy nibbles on someone's finger, you need to be able to react & correct him/her, and not allow that to be an accepted behavior. If your child is unwarrantly afraid of dogs or inconsistent in behavor, how will you know about the puppy's behaviors & developing habits?
    We have also seen children scream around newborns, and when a puppy is brought into your home, this behavior can scare and startle the puppy, and lead to confusion, therefore a harder time learning from you when you actually do mean it.
     So we encourage good behavior from children- its like Santa Clause as some have mentioned- you better be good or you won't be getting a family raised puppy from us!

 

• Sleeping Quarters. Where would you like for your puppy/dog to sleep at night after the intial adjustment stages? In a crate, in bed with you, a doggie bed next to yours or somewhere in the house, or outside in a dog house?
  All of our beagles prefer to be in the house or with you, but some are okay with being outside in a nice dog house. We greatly prefer for certain lines, such as the minis, and others, to be inside companions, since that is where they are absolutly the most happiest.
  (Puppies start out by staying in a safe contained area for whenever you are not right there with them guiding your new puppy in their new home there with you. The bathtub setup with paper on one side and bed on the other is a great starting place, so that they can confidently make the right decision in choosing paper for hurryup instead of bedding, and play with their designated toys. As they progress, eventually moving into a bigger contained area, such as a childgate across the kitchen, etc is the next step, and is further described on our guidance page once approved as a sincere & committed sunshine acres beagle family!)

 

• Outside People Influences - Puppies learn the rules of life from everyone they interact with, so its important that your attentive puppy is learning what should be learned to be a responsible member of your household and pack. Its good to tell us about other people who may influence your puppy, and allow yourself to recognize these influences so that you can cover all your bases and go over the ground rules on handling your new "baby" with newcomers. If someone thinks a puppy is just there to look cute, its important to remember that they will only be around your  puppy for a day, and while it may be all 'fun & games' to them,  you will be the one around your puppy for their lifetime, living with whatever habits he has been allowed to learn.

  It is important for their future of a healthy lifestyle, and important for your future of happiness. 

   

We can help you consider better matches when you share those details on what the homelife will be like and who will be around the puppy, since we know it's ancestor's personalities so well. While the majority of our beagles are very well rounded, there are sometimes slight differences between the lines. Some puppies come from a mother who is extremely playful and more active, like Daisy, and Punkin. Others are from a more sedate, calm, &/or laid back couch potato personality etc, like Lillie, and Silvia. Some from a more curious, explorative mommy like Electra. Many times the moms exhibit the capacity for all these qualities, like Bonnie, & Maisy... They are all pretty well-rounded, and able to adapt to your lifestyle, however in order to help find the best possible match for the harmonious & long-term fit, we do consider their background, as well as the puppies from that mother's previous litters, and how they tended to turn out. After all, our ultimate goal is for you to be happy, and tell everyone you know about us, so they can one day enjoy the love of their perfect companion just as you have!

Knowing your situation & what would suit you best, we can steer you towards one that would fit you & your home life the best. (This is where using a waiting list is especially handy, so we have the benefit of our little cliff notes, and can be considering your desires ahead of time, so that when the right one comes along, we just know it & personally offer the baby to you & you alone, helping you find just the right one that fits you to a T !

 

Breeder/Customer Relationship

One advantage to my job is that we have the say on who gets one of our puppies.

After staying up for hours with newborns & neglecting emails, because our family-raised beagle pups take obvious priority over communication, when I do finally get to find a break from all the other primary & sometimes difficult responsibilities, grab a cup of coffee, and sit down and reply to inquiries, please do consider my side of the computer screen at that time, and what type of character I would most want to begin communication with...

 

The last thing I hope to see after devoting hours to our babies' care is an attitude from someone who was not patient in receiving a reply.
If someone has an attitude about starting the adoption process, and does not demonstrate patience, understanding, compassion, kindness, as well as willingness to follow our advice, and sincerly utilize all the helpful info already available to them, then I do not have to agree to start a breeder-owner, mother-adoptee relationship with them. Why would I want my little 4 legged babies who I have raised and cared for to go to someone who is not patient, and understanding towards me, their first mother? These puppies are our babies, and when faced with an email from a sweet & caring family, versus an impatient and negative one, we will go with the considerate family for our beagle baby. In this line- playing the hardball 'you better or I'll go somewhere else' game does not work with us. We are not out for a sale. We are looking for our puppy's new forever family, for a positive relationship for the years to come.

 

 

I apologize ahead of time if I do not get back to you right away, please do not take it personally; we get many emails a day, not just a few,  so if we just haven't gotten the chance to sit down and review the details and answer emails,  its very likely that others did not get a reply yet either, meaning you are not necessarily missing out on a spot in the claiming process. If a few days have gone by- feel free to forward your message again so we see your sincere interest!

One of the reasons we have even gone the extra mile to develop an extensive website, is to share our immense knowledge that has been gathered & repeated over the years so that sincere families can learn about it all ahead of time before making the next step, helping our committed families help themselves make the best decision, and cutting down on the time answering repeat questions that take away from our time given to each of our sunshine acres family members.)

 

Families who are cheery and excited about getting a puppy often get their replies first!