Winding Creek Papillons
Quality AKC Papillon Puppies Home Raised with Love!
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About Winding Creek Papillons

  Welcome to Winding Creek Papillons cared for by Larry and Nancy Turner

 

We are hobby breeders of Papillons.  We fell in love with papillons from the first time we met a little fellow name Tux.   We started researching the breed and realized that they were what we wanted.  We drove down to Kansas in the early spring of 2001 and brought home Shadow.  

Winding CreekWe are located in north central Iowa in a town of 2500 called Belmond.  We live on the edge of town on a small 32 acre farm with a winding creek through it.   We also operate a garden center on the farm and have a large pumpkin patch (3000 plants in 2008), have a 'pick your own' raspberry patch and will be adding strawberries in 2009.  We also will be putting in an acre of aronia berries in 2009.

We have a small kennel with radiant heat and air conditioning that some of the dogs stay in.  They have the run of the place being in large pens rather than gages.   We also have several dogs that stay in the house.  Usually about 7 of them (they are like potato chips, can't have just one!)    When the moms in the kennel are ready to have pups, they are brought into the house for whelping (usually in our bedroom since they seem to perfer to have their pups in the middle of the night).  The moms and pups then stay in the house for at least the next 8 weeks and then the pups are ready to go out and become loving members of their new families.

 

Our Furry Kids

We have shipped pups to many states including Washington, California, Utah, Texas, Florida, Pennsylvania, New York and others and have had no issues.  We take the pups to Minneapolis, MN International Airport so that we can get the pups on direct flights to lessen the stress on both the pups, us, and the new parents awaiting their arrival.  We have thankfully never had an issue with shipping.  We have also made arrangements to drive and meet the new parents in some situations.

All our dogs are AKC registered and the pups are sold with full AKC registration rights unless we feel that a particular pup is unsuitable for breeding.    Our goal is to raise and sell the best quality AKC papillon pups that we can.

There are many sites you can go to find out about the breed such as www.AKC.org where you can check out breed standards and other facts.