20 reasons we are the best dog breeding program in the world!

20 Reasons the Dire Wolf Project is the best

dog breeding program in the world

1. We DNA test every single dog born into the project.
2. We publicly track every reported health issue in the breed since the beginning in 1988.
3. We work to root out and eradicate all genetic health issues in our breed, publicly sharing plans and results in order to remain accountable.
4. We provide a LIFETIME genetic health guarantee; the most comprehensive genetic health guarantee on the planet.
5. We perform two standardized formal temperament tests on every puppy born into the project, sharing results publicly.
6. We observe and record each puppy’s consistent behavior that wasn’t caught on the formal temperament test.
7. While growing up at Dire Wolf Project headquarters, each puppy receives initial training in lap therapy, beginning manners, stress tolerance, and delayed gratification.
8. We perfectly match puppy temperaments with owner personalities.
9. We personally travel our puppies to their new homes.
10. No American Dirus dog every lingers in a shelter. We achieve 100% retrieval rates for all of our dogs in need.
11. We openly oppose the outdated eugenics ideals of purebred dog breeding.
12. We also openly oppose breed mixing without conforming to breed-wide standards.
13. The Dire Wolf Project developed a 2-year comprehensive breeder certification program. It includes an on-site internship requirement in order to maintain the highest dog breeding standards in the world. Before becoming certified, each breeder must pass a comprehensive breeder’s test including genetics, medical, and behavioral science information. He/she must also renew a breeder license each year and remain in good standing with the breed club to remain eligible.
14. No certified Dire Wolf Project breeder is ever in competition with another. Instead, each breeder works together for the benefit of the dogs within the entire breed and the families who love them.
15. We invented a completely different category of dog breed: the STRONGBRED dog, unifying standard predictability with breed-wide genetic diversity.
16. The Dire Wolf Project was the first to trademark a breed name, branding an entire breed of dog. This was done in order to maintain a unified breeding program, never allowing backyard or trend breeding.
17. Over the course of a lifetime, our founder, Lois Schwarz, painstakingly created the world’s first large breed companion dog without inherited working dog temperament extremes.
18. We maintain a thriving online community of thousands of dedicated owners who share stories about the good and the challenging.
19. We regularly support our owners and enthusiasts with the latest information on dog health, training and care at no cost.
20. We combine the badass giant dire wolf look without its wild, destructive predatory carnivore nature… literally a lamb in wolf’s clothing.

If you want to get started on the journey toward American Dirus ownership, the first step is to complete the puppy adoption questionnaire so that we can get to know you better.

Click the link below to begin:

https://direwolfdogs.com/puppy-application/

Jennifer Stoeckl is the co-founder of the Dire Wolf Project, founder of the DireWolf Guardians American Dirus Dog Training Program, and owner/operator of DireWolf Dogs of Vallecito. She lives in the beautiful inland northwest among the Ponderosa pine forests with her pack of American Dirus dogs