Approving Homes - Sunshine Acres Beagle Puppies

We like to see all of our 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 match for one of our babies! 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 obtaining a lifelong companion, and 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.

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 with all the details about &/or pictures of our beagle puppies, prices, etc, show us that they have not spent enough time with this decision, and we often answer others while those folks revisit and refer back to our addictive website. All this information is already made available to the millions of viewers who adore our beagles!

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 see about our puppy's potential home...

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!
Families with Children often prove to be companions and caretakers for puppies as well. 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 very likely will be alone with him/her at times, we are not comfortable sending our baby home with the family. Some children have even been afraid of dogs, including newborn puppies, and this is not behavior we like to see either. If a child is afraid of the puppy before it even does anything wrong, how will you know in the future whether the child is serious or not?
Though teething is a natural thing that all puppies go through, it should not be allowed because it encourages loss of respect, biting, loss of obedience, and dominance later on. If a puppy nibbles on someone's finger, you need to know so that you can correct him/her, and not allow that to be an accepted behavior. How will you know? 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. 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 puppy from us mister!

Sleeping Quarters. Where would you like for your puppy/dog to sleep at night after the intial 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.
(Puppies can start out by staying in contained area when you are not right there with them watching the new puppy in your home. The bathtub setup with paper on one side and bed on the other is a great starting place, eventionally moving into a contained area, and so on as described on our tips page.)

Outside People Influences - Puppies learn from everyone they interact with, so its important that your attentive puppy is learning what should be learned. Its good to tell us about other people who may influence your puppy, and allow yourself to recognize these influences, and go over the ground rules on handling your new "baby" with newcomers.

They're around your puppy for a day while its all 'fun & games', but you will be around what he learns for a lifetime.

We can help you consider better matches when you share those details on 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 is an attitude from someone who was not patient in receiving a reply. I apologize ahead of time if I do not get back to you right away. But 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 answer emails, there are very likely others who did not get a reply yet, meaning you are not necessarily missing out. (one of the reasons we have even gone the extra mile to develop an extensive website, to share our immense knowledge gathered & repeated over the years we can help our earnest families help themselves make their best decisions, cutting down on the time required away from our sunshine acres family members.)

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

If someone has an attitude from the start, 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 kind to me, their 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 kind 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 potential new forever family.