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Adding a puppy to your life, and raising your very own companion is a momentous process you will value for years to come. To help you achieve your goal of a successful addition, our family has put together this thoroughly detailed website for you & our many followers to benefit from. Helpful Information is organized by Sections. Scroll Down to see our new website navigation and continue viewing (aweing!) & Learning! Watch our Current Litters
of beagle puppies as they are born, grow up here in our home, and join
their very own forever homes! We post updated Pictures & Info on each
litter our family is currently caring for here at home. We continually
update the website, so that everyone nationwide watching our babies grow
can stay updated together what's currently going on around here!
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View our Expectant Mommies as we await their Upcoming litters. We show pictures of some Expectant Mommies, & examples of their previous cuties! Also see more pics and updates from our recently adopted litters and their happy families! | ||
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Continue to learn more about us & our family raised Sunshine Acres Beagle Puppies via informative Topics provided on this extensive webpage for you! Adoption Process:
First take advanatage of our years put into developing this
website for you to learn about Sunshine Acres and our family-oriented
purebred Beagle lines. We are a small family and our beagles are our
priority. Making appropriate matches is important to us, which is why we
have gathered our knowledge into this freely accessible oasis of cuteness.
Topics include more pictures & comparisons of our different Colors,
Sizes, & their corresponding prices; What we need to know before
approving your household, and how we can help you find matching puppies
that you may choose to claim as your own. Considerations for Meeting us at
home or Shipping via PetSafe, suggested items, and all other adoption
process details needed to consider as a potential family for one of our
babies is covered here. This allows you unlimited learning, and allows us
to devote our time to our babies while matching our darlings to approved
sincere homes who are ready to make that commitment, and work together,
helping you find & raise just the right little companion pet beagle
for you! All the details about our beagle puppies and our unique adoption process is here for you to review. Take the time to first appreciate everything provided here, and then look into the possibility of joining our happy Sunshine Acres Beagle Family! Once you've explored our website, have learned about us, and are ready to proceed, feel free to submit an email to Miss Christina with your household details & desires for our consideration as a good pet-home for one of our babies! Please Note: We are just a small family, not a petstore- we take care of our babies ourselves as a family, that is where the majority of our time is devoted, and get to know people one by one before approving adoption. We ask that if some time goes by and you do not hear back and think we may have missed your previous email, to please check in so we can learn about your interested home. We receive many a day from new interests as well as those we have been corresponding with, have already joined our pre-approved waiting list committed to adopting from our family and working together, and from our happy families who have already adopted a baby and are sending us pictures and updates! If you do not receive a reply right away- please do not take it personally- we often have much going on in our own lives. Your email may have gone to spam as some often do, our reply may not have gone through, or it was missed amongst a flood. Please kindly resend your interest so that we can know you are patient and still interested in adopting and raising a puppy from us.
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Up-to-Date!
We constantly update our
Current Litters sections, & add new pictures
frequently! Follow along, and Continue enjoying this page by adding
it your Favorites. Check in for new faces & updates to find out
who has found a home, and who may be looking for the perfect match, (It
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Examples of our various Sunshine Acres Beagles:
You can be as specific or open as you wish about how you would like your lifelong companion pet to look! (Read More about our colors & sizes further below in Preferences & Prices section)
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Meet Sunshine Acres |
Examples of our Tri-Colors:
A Sunshine Acres tri mom "Lady"
visiting her gradually weaning pup in our meeting room/ Puppy
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Over 20+ years of experience has gone into developing our exclusive house pet variety beagle bloodline. We continue to develop our beagles' luxurious coats & stunning colors, and overall family-oriented wonderful companion pet traits in our pure bred beagle bloodline. Since our pets are not allowed to go into any breeding programs & are purely for those looking to raise up a companion beagle with exceptional traits to be just right for an indoor pet, only we have this unique and exquisite companion pet bred & raised bloodline. We are not breeding for hunting abilities & mindset, and rather than simply focusing on show worthy looks, we aim to improve our beloved beagles in all areas for the pet-home. Our beagles are a result of our over 20+ years experience selectively breeding for wonderful homebody & indoor housepet qualities, handpicking puppies that time after time we (Miss Christina, & kids: Christi & Cody) were impressed with, and just had to keep for ourselves to enjoy & reproduce for others to love! We start them off right, hand raising our babies from birth, and bringing our infants into the comforted and loving family atmosphere from the start. We tend to their needs with all our time, guidance, & the best we can offer, just as we expect from the devoted pet homes they go into, once they're ready to bond & begin learning their forever pack order & household rules. The nature of our homey, family raised puppies really makes a wonderful difference as they go into their responsible & approved pet homes. As an approved adoptee, you can learn from our years of experience, and then follow our Guidance as your take over raising your new family-oriented sunshine beagle baby, and shaping them into your very own unique Companion Pet! Young Couples, Singles, Empty Nesters, and Families from across America have become addicted to watching our beagles and babies, and tune in daily for their dose of cuteness, meanwhile expanding their knowledge about these special companion beagles! To begin the search for your very own beagle puppy, begin reviewing our sections for helpful info, & look at all our Current Pups shown on the Current Litters page further below. Also see our Upcoming Litters page for near future possibilities. | ||
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We love each one of our babies, and finding the right homes to properly guide their development into wonderful pets is important to us. Harmony is valuable for everyone. By first learning about the families who come to us, and the unique homes that they are offering for one of our babies, we can feel comfortable in moving forward and helping create balanced happy family matches for our beagles and customers. With the keys to success provided throughout our exclusive Guidance pages, the new puppy parents responsibly raise their very own learning puppy. By first establishing them as a part of the human pack order, and forming good indoor pet habits from the very start, they are able to reach their happy potential as the perfect match for their unique pet homes! You can directly raise your new attentive Baby Sunshine Acres Beagle into your harmonious & responsible family member, for years of enjoyment with the perfect companion pet for you! | ||
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We see a variety of desires from our potential families since our bloodline has so many unique & beautiful characteristics to love. Because of this diversity, we can often consider new interests as an appropriate match for one of our Available Puppies. If you're ready for a puppy and are smitten with an available baby you can ask us about approving your household as our baby's potential home, and if approved you may be able to claim him or her with your deposit to hold your baby off the market until you can either come out soon to meet with us and welcome home your new darling (Afternoons/evenings that week or a weekend trip for the fam!) or have your baby fly home via the PetSafe program. If you don't see an Available puppy in the color(s), size(s), gender or whatever really steals your heart, many of our families ask to get themselves pre-approved for a puppy from us so that they can have the choice to claim a matching baby whenver everything works out just right. Our Puppies are offered to pre-approved matches first before we can consider new inquiries as a current match- so holding your spot in he line of decisions is always a good idea! Learn all about our family & our beagles, and once you have decided you'd love to add one of our darlings to your household, you can then introduce yourself & household to us, and seek our help in finding & raising your very own companion pet, whether you're ready for a puppy as of now, will be soon, or are looking forward to sometime in your future. | ||
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Enjoy reviewing our educational & delightful Beagle Website. When you feel your search is over & you've found our family to be the home you'd like to adopt your lifelong companion pet from, the sure way to hold your position in the line of inquiries from our new possible sunshine beagle families, is to join the waiting list for our help matching you up with the puppies you're looking to find, so you can be on your way towards raising your own Sunshine Acres Companion Pet. Continue reading & scrolling down to see the Current Litters we're caring for, and the Upcoming litters we're looking forward to!
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Your Puppy's First Home and Family! Click here to see our virtual tour and family profile. | ||||
Miss Christina Miss Christina, (pictured with Baby, a now retired tri-color mini momma at the vet after her delivery. The next week consists of many sleepless nights for Miss C, & constant attention to the newborns, as well as care & devotion for everyone & everything here at Sunshine Acres.) |
Christi Christi, (Miss C's daughter) helps raise the puppies, guiding their development &tending to things around the house. Christi also maintains the details, such as the website, photography, and many of the incoming e-mails from our current & potential sunshine acres beagle puppy families! :) |
![]() Cody Cody (Ms. Christina's son) training another for the loving lap dog lifestyle! Puppies are comfy in his lap while he's doing homework on the couch, on the computer, or playing video games on the bed! |
Jake Jake, (Christi's boyfriend) often helps us out as at Sunshine Acres & makes puppy- courier trips to the airport, so that out of state families can receive their babies on Continental Pet First |
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Want to know More? Take advantage of years of experience and knowledge! Our
Website is here for the benefit of you We've developed an in-depth website over the years, for families across America to reference & learn from, taking the right steps towards a successful addition to their family, while we fulltime care for our babies here at home and work to make appropriate matches happen with those who are ready for the commitment! To be considered & approved for a Sunshine Acres Beagle puppy, we expect to see sincerity & commitment to successfully adding a puppy to your household. Demonstrate your patience and attention by first reading our informative website topics to learn about all of those important adoption details ahead of time, so we can successfully proceed in helping you find & raise the right beagle pet! We are a small family- a single Mom & her 2 kids caring for our beagles. We are not a pet store, so please be understanding that our beagles & pups are our priority, not sales. We take our time to know who we are talking to before feeling comfortable in moving forward, and we do not have a "customer service" phone line like some other websites, where their employees who answer the phone are not even at the kennel location, and do not personally know a thing about the puppies they sell . Instead we have taken the initiative as a family to compile all of our years experience, giving you an extensive website to take your time finding out all about us before telling us about you and moving forward! We choose to devote our time to our beagles and family, meanwhile offering the joy we've found in our rare companion pets to those families who understand our mission, where we are coming from, and appreciate our time that is given to our beagles and the many responsibilities around here as we raise family oriented beagle puppies the right way! These preferred customers care to seek out all those important details they desire via this website that we have put together for that purpose, and exhibit their patience, attentiveness & perseverance- qualities needed to succesffuly adapt a new puppy into the household! We keep this page & current puppies updated, because we realize we need to expect our most desirable customers to rely on this current & detailed information, rather than expect us to individually update each random emailer with those new pictures & what's going on, wasting precious energy repeating various info about our beagles. Please take advantage of our years of descriptions, before contacting us to avoid asking questions we've already answered in much more extensive detail and imagery, for ultimately better understanding. Miss Chritstina's
daughter Christi devotes hours upon hours to the puppies as well as
website updates & pictures for everyone to see, and whenever computer
time is appropriate, usually focuses on these updates for everyone to see
before moving on to individual emails. We can more easily converse with
those who have taken advantage of the time we've put into compiling this
website for their benefit & appreciation. We understand that a first temptation upon finding our beautiful babies may be to skip the details, and simply write asking questions such as "what puppies do you currently have available?" or "I'm interested- Can you send more info?". However we hope that everyone understand that these unsupported inquiries only delay the process. If we receive emails that seem to have missed out on the efforts put into our website topics, we may skip those during our precious computer time & allow others who have already researched & are making that commitment towards raising a Sunshine Acres Beagle into their very own Companion Pet to move forward first, and meanwhile the random inquirer can take that time to return to our website & begin learning more before making any decisions and proceeding with the adoption process! Note: If you've submitted
your details for pre-approval but we havent been able to respond, it may
have been lost in the shuffle that week, please be understanding and
patiently forward your email again so that we can see your sincereity and
help you move forward! This informative website has been created & written by Miss Christina and Chirsti, and 20+ years of observations, experiences, and overall understanding have gone into creating this site. Expansive informational topics & adorable pictures have been piling up, and it is all here at your fingertips, here for you to pursue & access freely through www.sunshinebeaglepups.com/sunshineacresbeagles.htm ! |
We hope everyone understands these are bred to be pampered pets & indoor family members only. Approved Pet-Homes Only Hunting, showing, &
Breeding our pets are Forbidden by the breeder and her kids who love 'um !
Our Beagle pets, exclusive
Bloodline: These puppies are intended for Pet Homes
Only, not for breeding, hunting, showing or resale. We provide a copy
of the parent's/ancestor's AKC papers to show that our pet-puppies are of
pure blood AKC Beagle origins. Litters are not individually registered to
prevent Breeding of our Sunshine Acres Beagles, which is prohibited.
If you currently have a beagle, we will
ask for their spay/neuter receipt prior to selling any of our puppies
to safeguard our many years of work developing our exclusive
bloodlines of Pet only pups. In other words this is the only
place to get
Keep Scrolling down to see all the Sections & Pictures. Don't miss these Important Topics found on this page for our helpful information & the already answered to questions covered thoroughly here. Gather up all the good details needed to make your informed new-puppy-search! |
![]() (our mini Cooper as a puppy) khaki beagles |
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Our Khaki, and our
Chocolate colored beagles most often tend to have the least shedding
hypo allergenic fur coat. (Typically followed by silvers & various
oranges, and special tricolors, ultimately varying by each litter.)
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| About Sunshine Acres | Adopting a Puppy! | Adult Adoption |
Sunshine Acres Beagle Boarding |
Happy Families' Testimonies |
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Miss Christina's Sunshine Acres Beagle Puppies Adding a puppy to your life, and raising your very own companion is a momentous process you will value for years to come. | |
| Our Current Litters & Available
Puppies
We are devoting all our attention to our babies, and frequently post updated Pictures of each litter we are currently caring for here at home, so all of our addicted followers can watch our babies grow & stay up-to-date on what's currently going on around Sunshine Acres! Click here to see our Current Litters & Available Puppies
(Our Announcements section has moved down into the Current Litters section) |
Upcoming
Litters
We are currently monitoring our expectant mommies! When we have time we like to post their pictures ahead of time and examples of their previous cuties if they've had any prior litters, to get an idea of what may arrive in the near future in our upcoming litters! Note: Gestation takes about 2 months, so these expectant mommies should be expecting their litters within the next month or so! |
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Start preparing for a successful addition by understanding your puppy's learning process and how to start developing lifelong habits on the right foot, raising you baby beagle into your very own indoor companion beagle! Click here to see some of our Advice (Our further Guidance is provided upon making that commitment to join our family, so you too can become one of our many Happy Sunshine Families!
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Available Adult Dogs, Retirees, and Rescue Beagles We do occasionally have adult beagles available for adoption- sometimes our retiring mommas who we would like to see go into a forever happy home and sometimes rescue beagles or beagles who's families' need to find a home for due to their situation, moving, etc. |
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Boarders hanging out in our office and on our back deck here at Sunshine Acres! |
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Check out our suggested items page as you put together your shopping list! Follow our links to petsmart and jeffers to see their offers- by using our affiliate links to place your order, we are given credit for referring you! |
Thinking about getting 2? As a pack animal, many folks find that getting 2 siblings works out beautifully so they always have someone to play with, snuggle with, and entertain eachother while the family is busy. Sometimes folks raise 2 together, and other come back for a second friend for their first to help raise! |
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Before contacting us about your new family member, first take time to get to know a little more about our family and our mission in raising puppies and making happy family matches. We are a Family, devoting our lives to
Raising Companion pets!
Learn more about how we choose to Hand-Raise Family oriented beagle puppies to grow up as beloved indoor companions and sidekicks, for our approved pet homes! Click here to see how Our Family Raises Puppies!
Then let us know more about yourself, your home, family, and lifestyle- knowing all these details helps us as a family feel more comfortable in allowing you to adopt one of our babies, and then we can move forwad in helping you find matching puppies of your preference to choose from & ultimately claim and raise as your very own companion pet! Click here to see what we want to know about you for Adoption Approval! Start planning for your addition by considering the extra details, such as when you'd be ready to add a puppy to your life, whether you'd be able to come meet with us at home or if you'd need to have your puppy fly home via PetSafe, what preferences you have or are open to, such as Colors, Sizes and their associated prices, and so on. We choose to work with patient and understanding families, because we know they make the best puppy parents and continued friends of our family! Sometimes we are just too busy taking care of our puppies and responsibilities here to get right back to potential customers, and we ask that folks appreciate our priorities, and simply remind us of your interest if a few days offline go by, so we can see your sincerity and focus on your interest when the time is right, in the meanwhile you can continue to watch our website for updates on the puppies, and explore our many pages to learn about Sunshine Acres Beagles and read all our happy stories!
Review all the details needed as a potential family for one of our babies, as we match our darlings to approved sincere homes, and work together to help you find & raise just the right little companion pet beagle for you! Click here to explore the Adoption Process topics! Continued pages offer even more specific topics,
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| About Sunshine Acres | Adopting a Puppy! | Adult Adoption |
Sunshine Acres Beagle Boarding |
Happy Families' Testimonies |
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Initial Tips & Advice | Homecoming- Road/Air |
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Our
family's Current Litters & Available Beagle Puppies ! Sunshine Acres Beagle Puppies for adoption in NC to approved pet homes. Shipping available via PetSafe or PetFirst. A courier trip may also be possible!
As a small family we care for all
of our beagle babies and where they go. We want to learn
about your home before considering moving forward
with adoption, and we want you to take your time to
read over all the information we have provided for
interested adoptees. People who have read over the site know the price of the puppies in the size and color they prefer, their emails tend to get our attention. Often folks tell us all about their home and family from the start and we so appreciate knowing where our little one is about to go , we know the dogs' personalities and how their offspring will tend to turn out pretty well after breeding beagles for over 20 years , we can help suggest a great match for your family if you haven't fallen for a specific puppy that is currently available. Subject lines with a certain puppy mentioned in them we love to answer first , if the family is an appropriate one for that puppy to join we dearly love letting them get the very one they asked for and it happens often here that way ! by reading over our provided information you show us you will take our advice and that's what we like to see in emails from folks trying to adopt a special furry child from our family. Please learn about our family by clicking on the links to see more pictures of our home where your puppy has grown up, as well as the logistics for adoption, before contacting us about puppies you're interested in. We spend our days family raising our beagles full-time here in our home, this has been our sole focus over the past 20 years. Miss Christina and daughter Christi have compiled our over 20 years of helpful & in-depth information and adorable beagle puppy pictures here on our website, allowing you and our many other followers across the nation the opportunity to learn all about our family, our beagles, and our adoption process ahead of time, meanwhile allowing us that precious time to devote to our babies! Continue to check in often to watch our updates below and get your puppy fix as our babies grow and we work to match each one up with the right forever homes! Our puppies are available to approved pet homes only and are intended to be indoor companion pets and outdoor sidekicks! |
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When
you're ready to contact us, we
also want to learn about you! Once you've taken time to learn
about our family's adoption process by appreciating our many
helpful topics, Email us to tell us about
yourself as a potential forever home, and how one of our
babies would fit in there with your household- then we can
include your interest as we match our puppies with their
forever homes! When we are in between responsibilities here,
we can take that time to update our website and then review emails and approve sincere
interests who have already done their research and are ready
for the commitment to adding a Sunshine Acres Beagle Puppy to
their home!
Please understand that we are a small family
working full time here with our beagles, and we
appreciate potential adoptee's patience and
understanding of the fact that our family, pups and
forever homes come first, not sales. We try to answer
everyone whenever possible, but if we missed your email
please do kindly remind us of your interest in adopting
a companion and how your new pup would fit in!
This way
our family can feel more comfortable in working
together with your family towards the adoption of one of our
babies, helping you find & raise just the right little
companion pet beagle for you! |
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Follow this page for updates, and if someone catches your eye, email us your household details and let us know you have a favorite you'd be interested in adding to your family- you may be just the right match we were waiting for! We are also pre-approving homes for the waiting list, folks have started to join for certain timeframes and preferences. (If you introduce yourself and don't receive a reply right away, please don't be offended! We are full time beagle parents, and sometimes we miss an interested email from new inquiries. Kindly resend your email if a week or so has gone by- as being on the world wide web we do get many visitors a day, but only approve homes one at a time, as we feel comfortable moving forward. We also get many emails from our happy families who we so enjoy hearing from, it's that lasting relationship that we love and want from forever homes. We're just a small family (Christina and kids Christi and Cody) who love our beagles, and also like working with patient families who understand the dedication it takes in raising a companion dog. We like working with homes who we feel will make great puppy parents, being consistent and committed to adjusting their new puppy to their home so every one can enjoy the happy years to come. |
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pictures of available puppies, and
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Grace is Miss Christina's very best friend and stays with her all day long wherever she goes, in the front yard loose off leash as she works in the garden , on her lap while she does emails , the couch watching a movie, and sleeps with her at night. We take her on vacations to the beach and everywhere we go. Our goal is to share this same companionship with deserving families across the US who likewise adore our beagles and are looking for a familiy member to enjoy in their home and life ! |
Our Available Beagle Puppies!
This page last updated: Scroll down to see current pictures of available puppies and click on their links to see more pictures!Our puppies are Available for sincere interests who share their household details for approval and are ready during that puppy's homecoming timeframe. Available Ready puppies for current timeframe! Available Younger puppies ready soon! Available Newborns ready for future timeframe! |
As they are claimed we announce that and remove the pic, but leave the link :) Christi updates this section on a regular basis as matches are found so everyone can find their favorites, email to let us know their interests, and watch for updates as we see to wonderful matches for each of our puppies and forever pet homes! ( send your family info to become approved to claim one of your own if your family is ready to adopt) Ready Now:
*Remember that your new puppy will start out in a confined area as they slowly learn about your home through your lead. Their safe-base can be the bathtub while still small, kitchen or laundry room floor with a childgate, or we especially recommend the easy to set up Pet Playpen from Petsmart, as seen on our suggested items page, with paper on one side and bedding on the other for whenever you are not right there supervising as they learn about and adapt to their new household there with you. Boundaries are good for puppies, so that as an intelligent pupil they can respect your leadership, learn, and gradually earn their household privileges. Through this process they will be able to be trusted and enjoy more freedoms when they grow up responsibly in your home! Get ready for Puppy Guidance by asking for our Guidance pages link from years of experience- available to approved pet homes wanting to successfully add one of our companion beagles to their life! Ready Soon (End of May):
If you want to get started with the process of adding a puppy to your family, before emailing please first take some time to read our webpages to learn about our family and our passion for developing companion beagles for adoption by approved pet homes only
Get a feel for our
Adoption Process so you can take an
informed approach in contacting us for adoption,
Then tell us about
your family and your
interest in an available puppy or to get pre-approved on the
waiting list if you do not see any current puppies matching your
preferences. If you are planning ahead that's great! We just liked
to ask that everyone be understanding that ultimately its up to
mother nature when a puppy matching your desires is born, so
patience is important, and flexibility always helps if timeframe is
more important than colors/sizes/genders :)
If you are indeed committed to successfully
making a lifelong addition to your forever home, First, Please
read about
our family here
so you know who you are contacting before asking to adopt
from our family,
and likewise please tell us about your family too! We like to know who
people are before
making any appointments for them to come out to our family's home or moving forward
with adoption! If you have favorites, also ask us about being
considered as a match!
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How do puppies become
available?
Since everyone has different preferences and situations going on
in their lives, the waiting list during certain timeframes, or for colors,
sizes, and genders becomes satisfied. Then new folks can consider
those puppies as matches if they are ready and seek adoption approval,
otherwise, they may choose to join our waiting list, and at their
individual turn(s) during a timeframe that works for them, we offer
our pre-approved waiting list families the opportunity to claim or
pass on matching puppies until they decide to adopt just the one that
steals their heart! Joining the waiting list is done through a
nonrefundable $100 deposit, that represents an agreement/commitment on
both parties' parts to work together.
How do you find forever homes?
We are committed to our
puppies' care first and foremost, devoting our lives to properly
raising our babies for pet-homes. Therefore it is important to us to match them up with
the right families to
continue learning from and forever homes to thrive in. Our website has
proven crucial to finding sincere families who have taken their time
to read everything and get to know our family, and by the same token,
we want to learn all we can about the homes that come to us!
Your Emails to Miss C & Christi help us approve good forever homes for our babies!
Miss Christina & daughter Christi take time out of our
responsibilities to individually review emails from potential homes
together, so that we can first learn about adoptees, and if
comfortable with developing a relationship, compose an email during a
good time to approve patient and
sincere households who appreciate all that we're doing here and
likewise provide their details for us to see. We want to know that the
families who comes to us seeking adoption are indeed committed to the
decision, and that they have taken their time to review all the
helpful information we have already provided here online from our
years of experience, so that everyone involved has a successful
experience with the process of adding a new addition to the family.
Send us emails so that we can see your details & sincere interest in
moving forward with adopting a baby from our family for your family!
Since our website is viewable by the general public, emails work best for us- this not only protects our family from unknown callers/visitors, can you imagine getting phone calls day and night from thousands of viewers across the world... it allows us to take a moment of peace between responsibilities here at home to sit down and review/compose e-mails when the time is right. This is the only way we can truly devote our attention to our babies first and foremost, without interruption, and then to interests without feeling rushed, being able to get up if needed and return to finish an email.
Having all the details easily accessible together in an email for reference also really helps as we consider what's best for everyone. Once we've gotten a chance to see and discuss good potential homes with each other, we can feel comfortable with letting expectant pet-homes move forward in adopting of one of our babies, and take time when available to compose a letter back approving their home to join our extended sunshine family!
When we have spare time and are able to sit down at the computer for a coffee break, we do of course like to first update our website if possible, so that everyone can get an update at the same time, then move on to individual conversations. We often work offline to organize memory stick pictures into folders, thumbnail new pictures and make updates, then get online to publish web updates for all our puppy fans across the nation to watch and follow along in the process! We devote our days to hand-raising each of our puppies & caring for everyone, share all the cuteness via our website, and then work together to see they are matched up with the right forever homes!
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Note from Christi: Hey everyone!
Once it becomes your turn to make a choice about our Current
Puppies, I will email you so that you can claim your
matching sunshine acres beagle babies! I'll let you know what
puppies are available to you, and your name will also be listed in
this section to indicate its your turn for a particular type of
puppy. If your name is listed below, It's Your turn! to make a decision about claiming a match, or passing & waiting until everything works out better for you!
Let us know what you'd like to do. You can either:
If
your name is up please contact us right away to let us know you are
aware your family is up to make a choice! Sometimes folks' e-mail
addresses have changed and we aren't able to reach them, if this
happens we allow a few days and if we haven't heard from you after
e-mailing you and publishing the section with your name, we must move
on to let the next anxious family make their decision and plans, so
keep an eye out for your family to be contacted & listed here when its
your turn! If your family has joined our waiting list for this timeframe, or soon... please touch base and let us know your favorites, so we can help make your families perfect match !!
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Announcements: There's always something happening around Sunshine Acres, and this section is updated constantly with new info and pics! We can quickly let everyone see what's happened, even when we can't sit down to individually email yet. Keep scrolling down to see past events too, when we have a spare moment we update past stories with pictures to go along. So keep looking- you're likely to see the face that went with the story added in at some point !
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Are you ready to start raising your new puppy? Once you've learned about our family's mission in raising companion beagles for pet homes only, and are in agreement with our intention for our babies being solely companion pets, you can begin the adoption process by letting our family know about your situation; Share details on your household, lifestyle/ experience/ routines & tell us about any family members AKA interactive Pack Members our baby would grow up with! To see more about what we like to know about interested homes, click here. You've learned about us, Now We want to know about you, your household, and how one of our beagles would fit in! Let us know what timeframes you would be ready for new puppy Homecoming! Also, if you are considering available puppies, Let us know what afternoons/evenings would be good puppy homecoming days, then we can consider you as a match for one of our currently Available Puppies who are ready to get started with their forever home!
We like to meet with folks anytime
after 1pm, usually Saturdays are good but sometimes
other days work out just as good! If you are planning to have your puppy fly home (United/ Continental Petsafe or Delta PetFirst)- then often Fridays work best as a day for a trip to the airport, but other weekdays could work as well, and again, afternoons are better since we have lots to do in the morning! Review our shipping page here.
If you are indeed ready to raise a puppy
and everything works out beautifully, we can
then approve you to claim one of your matching favorites as your own,
and hold them off the market with your deposit until your appointment to welcome home
your new sunshine acres beagle puppy! If you're ready to come out this weekend/week, let us know and we may be able to meet with you immediately so you can see who is still available matching your preferences, and possibly take home your new baby! Ask about coming right out to meet us & see who is still available!
Get ready to make a
successful addition to your household by reviewing our exclusive Puppy
Guidance pages for our advice from years of experience, to help you be
consistent and successfully raise your very own learning puppy into
your lifelong indoor companion beagle and sidekick!
After taking the time to read our site and learn about us, If you are ready to move forward towards adding your very own sunshine acres beagle puppy to your home, send our family an email to tell us about yourself and how one of our babies would fit in there with you!
We do however try to pre-approve homes for future matches, therefore patience is appreciated, and kind persistence if we weren't able to get back to you (i.e. missed your email amongst a flood that day, it went to spam, a reply did not successfully go through etc.) Email definitely helps us keep up with everyone's details while taking care of our beagles first and foremost- can you imagine trying to take notes on a phone call from dozens of web-viewers whom we don't know, calling our home? We wouldn't get anything done here and would be constantly interrupted, so emails give us that ability to focus our attention as needed, and focus on reviewing your details together while we take a coffee break and can discuss amongst each other. This is a life-long commitment, the beginning takes dedication to a positive outcome- from the process of adopting, adjusting your puppy to your routines, to the consistency in knowing that being strong now will yield harmony later, as you successfully add a new addition to your life, to raise and enjoy for the many committed years to come.
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Who has the cutest beagle puppies? Sunshine Beagle Pups !
Orange Gerber
Daisies- This is a double daisy! in our front yard, and Orange beagle
puppy Bailey by the flowers.
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Puppy Health
Care- Shots and Dewormings are kept up to date! We keep all our puppies current on their shots and deworming's, and will send home their health folder with their new family so that when they go in for their booster (if needed) the vet can see exactly what they've had. After the puppy booster shots in the series of 4 are completed, your pup will just need their rabies shot done in your name when old enough and a yearly booster shot when they turn 1yr old. Since worms are a common
occurrence that can be picked up / sniffed up very easily by pets, new puppy
owners must be responsible for continuing the de-worming routine. This is a
routine done every 2 weeks for puppies and is easy for new puppy
parents to do until the vet puts them on a once a month pill. Simply
pick up your puppy's own bottle of dewormer from Petsmart - good
brands are Evict DS, Nemex II, Strongid or Safe-guard 4. You can
order Safe-guard Canine Dewormer
If you see what looks like spaghetti in their stools, don't worry- that means your dewormer worked and that's how they are passed!
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Currently Available Puppies!
(Ready Soon...)
Keep scrolling down to see Younger pups and Newborns
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Folasike
has claimed
Amy Lee's "Caillou" Silver Runtsize Boy! Like most silvers, Caillou's head is gradually lightening up to the more khaki/tan color, the dark around his face will fade, but usually leave behind pretty dark eyeliner, and the rest of his body will be more of a stainless steel color. ![]() ![]() available "Caillou" on left , khaki "Colin" on right) being an only child Caillou was raised by Addie as one of her own with her little litter, so the boys think they are brothers :) They are best buds. They hang out together all the time and are very comfortable with each other. The two chocolate boys in the litter have already gone home now so they are happy they still have one another to cuddle and play with here.... they are some of the best little pups as we go thru the office where they are in a puppy box set up with bed and toys and paper to go on... they watch as we go by toward the birthing room to check on expectant moms and newborns day and night, they jump up to come to the side if you have a minute to play , if not they will just quietly watch and wait their turn :) what good boys ~ Caillou as a newborn and growing up... newborn Caillou already responds to voice before his eyes even open, as he perks his ears up at us. ![]() ![]() ![]() at a very young age he was attentive and loving giving early kisses to daughter Christi as she held him soon after his eyes were open @ 2 wks. ![]() while christi stood in the driveway snapping pics of other puppies he came over to lay by her ... some dogs love human contact and he is off to a great start at a young age loving people so much already! sweet Caillou came and fell asleep on Christi's foot ![]() He is a very friendly and loving lil guy who loves to be held, cuddled, and follow us around the front yard. ![]() mini khaki Colin on left, runtsize silver Caillou, & small standard chocolates on right the size difference in Caillou's paw vs the week younger chocolate small standard next to him shows he should be more petite boned and have smaller paws. Like most silvers, Caillou's head is gradually lightening up to the more khaki/tan color, the dark around his face will fade, but usually leave behind pretty dark eyeliner, and the rest of his body will be more of a stainless steel color. Here are some pictures of some older silvers A silver pup with tan coming in
Silver adults - their heads lighten up but the body remains a sleek darker, steel color, usually with a nicer lesser shedding softer quality than is seen in tricolors ![]() ![]() ![]()
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Addie's "Colin" Khaki Mini Boy Colin- tiny Khaki on the left!
( available khaki "Colin" on left and "Caillou"
on right , )being an only child Caillou was raised by Addie as one of her own with her little litter, so the boys think they are brothers :) They are best buds. They hang out together all the time and are very comfortable with each other. The two chocolate boys in the litter have already gone home now so they are happy they still have one another to cuddle and play with here.... they are some of the best little pups as we go thru the office where they are in a puppy box set up with bed and toys and paper to go on... they watch as we go by toward the birthing room to check on expectant moms and newborns day and night, they jump up to come to the side if you have a minute to play , if not they will just quietly watch and wait their turn :) what good boys ~ Colin as a newborn and growing up Colin's eyes starting to open- ![]() ![]() Michelle's daughter (Lilah) holds sweet little Colin! He is very friendly and would be good with children! ![]()
Mini Khaki Colin on left is slightly older than the tri standard on right |
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We like to review emails together when time is available and pre-approve sincere interests who have done their research, appreciate the time we spend caring for the babies & our efforts to provide and update all the helpful information found in our website, and are patiently committed to successfully adding one of our babies to their home as a lifelong companion beagle. Emailing helps us keep up with the details and allows us the ability to focus our attention on our babies at all times without interruption. We can get on emails when it is a good time, and when needed can easily get up to take care of things and return to emails later as appropriate. When we are able to find a stopping point in between caring for all of our beagle babies we sit down to consider the details and compose an email back to our many excited families. Please be understanding that this month we had the largest volume of viewers ever. we try our best to read and respond to each and all but it takes lots of time on our parts so we look for loving understanding families to work with . We are a small family, not a pet store, and the care of our babies is our first and foremost priority, not sales, so please be patient and understanding of our values. Those sincere homes who understand this and wouldn't want it any other way are the families that we want to join our sunshine acres family ! |
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Younger Litters
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Getting Ready to Raise a new Puppy? Consider claiming one of our Younger Puppies Ready SOON!
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Each of these growing litters of puppies will be available to come home in the near future! If you will be ready for a puppy in the next couple weeks, consider our current Younger Litters that are still maturing and will be ready soon! Depending on that litter we will plan homecomings for after their mommy weans them- spending less and less time in with them (as their teeth grow in and they begin eating dry food). They begin getting over seeing her, and instead focus on people and their littermates. We like to have our babies already matched up so that once ready they can go right into their forever home and begin learning how to fit in with their human pack for the years to come.
Ask us for pre-approval to be included in the claiming process and start reviewing puppy tips to be all set for a successful addition! To hold your spot in the claiming process, ask us about holding your spot in our pre-approved waiting list with your $100 deposit, so that you get offered the chance to claim puppies at your turn with that deposit, before they become available to the public! The $100 deposit is included in the purchase price, and is non-refundable, as it represents a commitment to working together. We reserve the right to not accept a deposit/ approve homes if we do not feel everyone is in agreement as a potential forever home or we don't feel comfortable with a continued relationship over the years. We like to make matches with people we'd enjoy staying in touch with, as our baby grows and matures in their responsible home. This is one of the reasons we don't have information for sending a deposit available on the website- we can send this after learning about you & approving you for adoption once we all feel comfortable. Some websites offer a "click to pay" option, or a customer service rep possibly in another state who doesn't have any personal experience with that individual puppy. We are a small family and handle everything ourselves, it can be slower, because we dedicate ourselves to our babies first and foremost, and we apologize, that's why we provide so much extensive information that you can look up the answers to most questions typically asked, such as price for the various size and color combinations, and keeping an eye on the puppies currently available- our website is updated with announcements first for everyone, before moving on to individual emails. We know that the serious people are patient and persistent, who read through the website and kindly check in, and those are the folks we feel most comfortable working with and forming a lasting relationship with as the forever family for a Sunshine Acres Beagle baby! We are currently making matches and approving homes for adoption one by one so that once these babies are ready to begin bonding they can go ahead and enter their forever homes to start forming lifelong routines! After you've taken your time to learn about our family and our mission in developing companion pet beagle lines for pet-homes only, and appreciate our devotion to hand-raising little house pets & sidekicks, you can begin the process by please sharing details about your lifestyle and your goals. We provide in-depth details on our family, so please by the same token let us know about yours in order for us to feel comfortable moving forward with allowing your household to adopt one of our babies. Adoption is a life-long commitment, and we want to know that you are committed to your adoption before moving forward and spending time helping you individually find your preferences and add a new addition to your life for the years to come. |
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Let us know ...
If one of these babies has caught your eye, and you are almost ready, let us know you have matching favorites, and then we can consider your sincere interest as we match our babies to their forever homes!
If you are still getting things together and would like to plan ahead,
Once you've joined our waiting list or claim your new baby, you can start reviewing our guidance pages to be all set for Homecoming Day! |
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Why is Puppy Guidance so important?
As your puppy enters their new home, they will begin forming
their lifelong habits in their new household by seeking out boundaries
and learning from pack leaders- aka humans (and existing pets). This
first week home is the best
time to establish life lessons & human pack order so that they can
understand you will always be their
strong, wise pack leader, who will always
make the best decisions in the long run and do what is best for the pack.
Your attentive beagle puppy will observe your interactions, and directly
learn from each of your responses- learning how you view each behavior and
whether its acceptable within your pack. From Day 1: Your Indoor Beagle is learning! Instructing, Training and Nurturing the right state of mind from the very start is the most logical & easiest time to make lifelong impressions, so that can begin adapting and developing their responsible Lifestyle with your human pack for the wonderful years to come! By establishing yourself as a strong, dependable pack leader, they will respect your wisdom over them, and therefore follow your guidance in developing an adaptation to your unique Household & pack, to fit in and thrive in for the years to come. The first step towards being a responsible pet parent & leader is to Understand your puppy's learning process, and What To Do (and what NOT to do) in order to successfully develop healthy habits and raise your lifelong companion pet. You can be prepared to be a good consistent leader by reading our advice from our years of experience, available to committed sunshine acres families on our exclusive Guidance pages.
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Miss Christina watches over newborns in our home whelping area for birthing new litters . |
When newborns
arrive, Miss Christina endlessly
watches over
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Christi as a young kid snuggling up with a newborn beagle puppy. |
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Once you've taken your time to learn about our family and agree with our mission in developing companion beagle lines for pet homes only, you can take the next step in the process by telling us about your potential home for one of our babies, so that we too can learn about you, and move forward in forming a lasting relationship with your forever home. Ask us about pre-approval for adoption & hold your spot in the claiming process! We like to know how one of our babies would fit in there with you because seeing a successful addition is our goal. We have taken the initiative in sharing years worth of photos and information about our family and our passion for raising companions via our ever growing website, and by the same token we want to learn about the potential homes that come to us. Whether you're ready now, or plan to be in the future, getting yourself pre-approved on the waiting list helps the process go smoothly, so that we can better focus on your details and desires, and help make that wonderful match happen for the happy years to come! As a pre-approved sunshine expectant parent, you may hold your spot on our Waiting List so that we can offer you your own turn(s) to choose to claim your very own puppy during a good timeframe for you, so that everything works out just right for everyone involved. When we know everything beforehand, we can better understand your situation and help you find appropriate matches to choose from when the time is right. If planning ahead, by the time you are ready, you will have held your spot in line ahead of others who come to us after you, so that you can be one of the first in line for that timeframe. If you are ready, you can jump on the waiting list to hold your spot, as we work together to help you claim your new beagle puppy! A nonrefundable $100 deposit represents a commitment and agreement to the process of adding a sunshine acres beagle puppy to your life. We only accept deposits from serious inquiries who know they want to get a sunshine beagle and will wait patiently for the right match, and only after we all feel comfortable. You are
welcome to be as specific or as open as you wish when picking out your
preferences on colors , sizes, genders and potential timeframes, depending on what
really matters to you. Of course, the more options you are open to loving
in your new family memeber, the more choices we would have to offer you
sooner at your turn for different color/size/gender combos. If you're very
specific on those preferences, you may have to wait for that match to be
born, which is fine. Patience is a must- flexibility helps :) and its what
we look for in good adoptive families for our babies, when choosing who
gets to claim one of our loved ones. We are considering matches for each of our babies as we peice the puzzle together! Upon approval, you could be next for a darling in matching colors/sizes and gender- of course the more characterisitics you are open to, the more babies we can offer you at your turn for each. If you currently have favorites, feel free to let us know. We enjoy matching our babies up ahead of time so that everyone can begin making plans and discussing puppy homecoming dates. Your family can begin preparing for a responsible addition to your home, and once your puppy is ready to begin bonding, everyone can be all set for the new puppy to start learning how to best fit in their forever home!
If you're ready to get started with a new puppy now,
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Adopting your Beagle!
Follow these links to go directly to the Ready & Available Puppies you just saw previews of above! Available Puppies (and ready soon)
Buffy's Tricolor Boy with a solid head-
Buffy's Tricolor Runt Female
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Buffy's Tricolor Girl Retiring, Rehoming, and Rescues khaki mini fixed
female:
...................... orange and white petite long legged young fixed female: ........................... Tri colored female: ............................. Orange and white female: ..................................... Tri colored medium sized boy: If you are not ready for a puppy, take some time to consider your options. We do have Younger Litters, and well as Upcoming Litters that would allow you more time to prepare. Our Upcoming page shows our expectant mommies and their past puppies for an idea of what babies could arrive in the near future! If you don't feel you'd would be able to train a young puppy (going through the nibbling/biting phase and establishing yourself as leader) we do also have Adult Beagles for adoption (retiring, relocating) who have already established personalities, and often we may have Rescue Beagles looking for the right suit. Like with any new dog, you would simply need to ensure your beagle is taken outside regularly during their first week in the new home in order to establish a routine there in your home as a pack.
We like to pre-approve
families one by one, You are welcome to hold your spot in the claiming
process for whatever timeframe and preferences you'd like, or you can
ask about adopting an available baby now!
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Contacting Our Family about Adoption: We choose to devote our time to our beagles, which is why we have gathered detailed information from our 20+ years of experience here for our interested families to take their time learning about our family, our mission in hand raising companion beagles for approved homes, and all the helpful details about our beagles, colors, sizes, happy families stories, and more, to help families fully understand the time and devotion that has been put into their new family member from day1. We likewise want to learn about the families who come to us in hopes of adding one of our babies to their lives. Emailing is our preferred method of communication, as this allow us the ability to better focus on our babies and responsibilities around sunshine acres, and also allows us the ability to keep track of families' details and preferences in order to further help make the right matches happen! Phone Calls from interested customers across the nation would interrupt our work here too much for us to truly devote ourselves to our beagles. When time is available, we can choose to sit down and review potential families' details together, discussing possibilities, and replying when time allows- if something comes up we can easily get up and take care of whatever is needed here, and return to writing back when time is appropriate. Being in the middle of a phone call would hinder our awareness & ability to respond to what is going on around Sunshine Acres, so as a family we have chosen not to provide our phone number to the public so as to not only have a private family life, but to be able to devote ourselves to the care of the newborns and other responsibilities that we have here at home. Emailing is our
preferred communication, Please review our website information before contacting us about adoption- this lets customers learn all the helpful details before making that decision to move forward and meanwhile we use that time to devote to our babies. Once you've taken time to read, then contact us telling us about yourself so that we can tell you are sincere about adoption and we can feel comfortable in moving forward with helping you adopt one of our babies! We put the care of our babies first and foremost, meanwhile offering the joy we have found in our unique companion pets to sincere, patient, and understanding families across America who truly appreciate our values and where we are coming from as a family- those who would want us to devote our time & attention to our babies first, are the families we would want to adopt our babies to responsibly raise and enjoy for the years to come, sending updates and pictures as they become a part of our Happy Sunshine Acres Family! |
You can let us
know if you are ready and have favorite available puppies! You may ask for adoption approval to join our Pre-Approved Waiting List, and start holding your spot for just the right match when everything works out just right for everyone! The different puppy preferences you may favor are pictured & detailed here: Colors, Sizes & Prices . If there is anyone in line ready for this current timeframe, we will first offer our puppies to those matching pre-approved folks. They can choose to claim a matching puppy, or pass & continue waiting for a future match or timeframes. We announce & begin approving new homes for available puppies after we know the Waiting List's status. Different preference lines often become satisfied, as everyone has their own unique preferences! So if you are open to more colors/sizes or either gender it can be your turn to claim or pass on matches sooner! Our Waiting List Lines can change quickly, as pre-approved families may choose to:
To hold a spot in the claiming process, most folks like to go ahead & get themselves pre-approved & join the Waiting List to hold their spot with their deposit. The $100 deposit counts towards the purchase price, is non refundable deposit, and will hold your place in line / will hold your puppy off the market as your own so others will know that puppy has been officially claimed! You can place a deposit on a specific puppy once approved to hold them off the market until your appointment to come out or until homecoming time, or you can place it ahead of time and then apply that deposit towards the puppy you claim when the time comes. Often folks like to get preapproved and join now, and then they claim their very own darling to bring home soon, depending on the options they were open to! If you are planning ahead, you are always welcome to seek pre-approval ahead of time to help ensure everything works out perfectly when the time comes to find, claim, and raise your new baby beagle puppy! People are always welcome to stay on the waiting list for as long as they wish, until everything works out perfectly! Let us know if you'd like to get yourself (& any human or pet family members!) pre-approved to choose & adopt your own matching sunshine acres baby. Tell us about our baby's potential homelife there with you so we can feel comfortable in considering you as a good pet-home & Approving your household for the adoption of one of our babies! Also let us know what characteristics you'd love in your very own companion beagle, and If you are ready and smitten with an Available puppy, feel free to also ask about placing a deposit in order to claim one of your favorites to hold off the market till homecoming day! Review our details so that once you are ready to take the next step you can sincerely tell us about yourself and desire for one of our babies! , Also see more about the Deposit to join the Waiting List & to Claim your own Sunshine Acres Beagle Puppy! |
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Keep an eye on our
Current
Litters and
Upcoming Litters to see who is here
and an idea of who is expecting in the near future.
We continually update with new litters' arrivals and new expectant
mommies as time goes on. Ask about being pre-approved by our family
for a puppy and join our waiting list to hold your spot in the process
for when everything works out perfectly!
Its works out beautifully when folks are able to plan ahead and seek our pre-approval to adopt one of our babies. When the time is right we then begin offering their preferred matches as it becomes their turn for different preference lines. By joining ahead of time, they held their spot in line ahead of time and are ahead of others in the claiming process. Sometimes people pass due to timeframes or specific desires, so the line is open to change at any time, making it possible for folks to join and be offered a chance to claim right away, or pass and continue waiting for a future turn to claim their very own matching Sunshine Acres Babies! It's perfectly fine to hold your spot in line for the future! If you'll need to wait a couple weeks, months, or more for a puppy to enter your home, ask about getting pre-approved for the waiting list. Often folks like to join the waiting list ahead of time to hold their position in the claiming process. They can then wait as long as desired, and may look forward to current or younger babies, expected litters, &/ Or future puppies. They can choose to claim a puppy at their turn(s) if everything works out, or pass & continue waiting for any reason. Tell us a about your preferred timeframe and more about yourself & one of our babies' potential home life there in your household, so that we can consider you as a good puppy home, and begin an adoptive relationship, working with you to successfully find and add the right match for your approved companion pet home!
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Once on the Waiting List- what's the next step? Once you've made the commitment to join our sunshine acres beagle family, feel free to explore our exclusive pages for extra details and advice as your prepare for your new family member! Everyone in the family can start reviewing our puppy Guidance pages so you will know how to be consistent leaders from Day 1 for a successful puppy addition & adaptation. Keeping an eye on this page and what's going on around here is a great idea since things can change quickly, and this is how we as a family choose to update all of our addicted puppy followers together and more thoroughly, vs writing info to each and every viewer individually. The website allows us to go in much more detail for everyone's benefit, in between focusing our time on our babies!
You are always welcome to
chime in if one of our cuties has caught your eye, and you would be
ready for their homecoming timeframe! Even if they didn't
match the original preferences you had expressed an interest in, we
understand that with all the unique and beautiful characteristics our
babies have, folks may always discover their admiration of an
additional option! Let us know if another preference option would be
equally loved by you! Then when we see a possibility for you to claim
that puppy, we know you'd be interested! If you find that any of your preferences expand or change, you can always email me with an update so I can continue to offer good matches for you to consider! We love seeing everything work out for everyone, & we like to consider the best possible matches for each of our babies. This is why we have developed our unique waiting list process for families Pre-Approved. Planning Ahead & Keeping up with your matches helps! Consider whether your preferred timing for a puppy to come home matches the best time frame/week stated for each litter to enter their new homes. Then if a puppy becomes available as a good match for you, you're family would have already thought about whether you'd be ready for them and who you would be interested in adding to your household! Thinking ahead & letting us know helps move along the claiming process. If you're not Ready for a Puppy During these babies' Homecoming Timeframe, Let us know about your future plans for a Beagle Puppy! Feel free to send us timeframe updates, and continue checking out our Upcoming Mommies to get an idea of near future possibilities. Don't forget our Puppy Guidance Pages as you prepare for your new addition to your life! |
Super Puppy!
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Your New Puppy
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Beagle Puppy Care What do I feed?
We start with canned Iams and Eukanuba Puppy and transition them to
Dry Eukanuba Small Breed (which is the smallest kibble) and dry Iams
Puppy.
Click here to order Eukanuba Small Breed Puppy
Over Feeding? Sometimes we get frantic calls from customers who fed more than we reccommended, saying "my puppy's tummy looks bloated" We say "cut back on the amount of food you feed tomorrow in order to feed appropriately to your little baby's size". Remember the food also expands when the puppy drinks water, so don't be surprised if their tummy looks large. A stretched tummy simply means their body was not meant to require that amount of food, and you simply need to cut back next time until their tummy is back to an appropriate size. Usually 1/4 a cup twice a day is the right amount for a new puppy, sometimes less for the smaller sized babies which again, you can always cut back its you see that it was too much. Its been shown that overfeeding a smaller size dog can lead to a larger one , just feed twice daily and carefully to keep a mini mini !!
Beagle Puppy Training
The first step to housetraining,
is setting up a confined area your bathtub for the new puppy to stay in when you aren't
able to take him outside. Puppies can sleep in your bath tub at night
, with paper on one end and a doggie bed, and toys, on the other so they can use
the paper when you are busy and aren't right with them in their new house, or
cant take them outside.
Crate training can come later at around 14 -15 weeks old, and you
can follow our advice on doing this easily from our tips page!
By starting them from the time they can walk our puppies are way ahead of
the game on housetraining and using paper !
Beagle Puppy Training
Begin taking your puppy outside to a preferred spot in the
yard starting their first day home. With any new dog, you will need to take them out often to begin
forming a routine in your home of what door to go to and where
to go in the yard.
When you get a puppy they can start
out in a confined safe-area with newspaper and bedding and toys
for them to go in whenever you are not supervising them in the
new house. This can be a pet playpen, a kitchen, or a
laundry area.
Take them out as
often as possible, and begin developing a routine recording how many
times they went, and around what time.
Keep in mind that they will need to "HurryUp" as we call it everytime
they eat, drink, wake up from a nap, or play.
Avoiding accidents that first week learning about the new home
is very helpful in housetraining. In order to help avoid accidents, only have your puppy out on the floor
when supervised, and if he or she seems to start losing interest in you and
begin searching/ sniffing around, they are probably looking for a spot to go, usually by
finding the scent of a spot that has already been marked as a
If accidents
happen, be sure to use a good product that is meant for cleaning up
pet accidents, so that the scent is completely removed from their
mind!
When you aren't able to supervise your puppy in their new household put them back in their contained safe-area
so
that they will be able to confidently choose paper rather than bed if they need to go.
With your supervision and leadership your beagle can earn house priveleges
for safe and more harmonious years to come.
Crate Training is good for everyone involved, whether you plan to use one regularly in the future or
just when needed. Getting your pet comfortable
with his or her own crate there in your home ahead of time helps give them a good
option in the future when you need to go out, have someone new over, or need to
travel.
You can see older puppies like Cinder who have already started
learning about sleeping the crate on our Older pups page here or
have been using a doggie door to go out and are past the paper
training stage,
Whenever you see your puppy walk
into the open crate on their own, reinforce that decision with a
"good in your bed" in a good job tone. We gave Cinder a treat in the
crate, and she liked the experience of being in there! Teaching your
dog a key command is good- our Grace knows "Get in your bed" and
will happily go get in her crate whenever we need her to. She was
taught this with a positive reinforcement as a growing pup-
everytime she came in from outside we would toss a treat into the
crate or have one waiting for her and tell her get in your bed, she
would get in and be rewarded with a treat, as well as a Good
get in your bed! to reinforce she did good by going into the crate,
and would close the door and let her spend a little time in there to
dry her feet after coming in the house. Its helpful to start out in a designated area,
with the option of paper down, and then put an open crate
in their area. They can begin going into the crate to lay down and
relax, and if they still need to use the paper they can go out onto
it in case you aren't able to take them
out when they need to go- this can help your adjusting puppy learn to
gradually sleep in their own crate, but still use the paper outside
of the crate if
needed. When the paper is dry a few mornings in a row, then you know
your puppy can hold his or her bladder through the night and can
begin closing the door, and getting up early the next morning to
take them out. Always take them out the same
door, so they associate that door with going outside to hurry up,
and to the same spot in the yard so they can pick up the scent of
where they've gone before, and know what their outside to do! Dogs
like to re-mark where they have gone before, so starting a routine
of where to go from the beginning is always helpful in building
those associations for them to remember for the years to come! When
your new dog goes outside to 'hurry up', let them know they did a
good hurry up so they will want to repeat that behavior, even on
command, in the future- making for a much easier housebreaking and
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New Puppy Training Tip:
All puppies go through learning
stages as they develop. Your new sunshine acres beagle
puppy will be joining your home attentive to you, his or her human
caregiver, and will be ready to begin
learning the best way to fit in with your pack for the most
fulfilling future. Take advantage of this special adapting time by
helping them understand what habits & behaviors within this pack
will be most beneficial so that everyone can be happy.
As a pack animal, puppies are
seeking out that crucial pack order and strong pack leaders to
follow, which will keep them safe throughout whatever comes in the
future. Dogs thrive within a pack when the proper protocol is
established upfront, by confident, calm and assertive leaders to
follow for the years to come. Demonstrate your leadership skills to
your new baby Beagle by establishing the ground rules from day
one, and being consistent so that he can fully learn from each
experience and move forward.
That assertive communication will bond you and your new k9 addition
closer together as they will develop a deep respect for you.
Communicate to your new puppy what behaviors are good and
beneficial, and what behaviors are bad and will not be acceptable as a lifelong
habit.
By understanding the pack boundaries, they can more easily begin
adapting to your household in order live the most harmonious & happy
life to their wonderful full potential as your own perfect companion
pet for the many years to enjoy together !
After the ground rules are
established, your beagle will have the pridlege of enjoying fewer
restrictions in the future and be given the opportunity to live an
ultimately much happier life in harmony with your pack.
Be sure to Review our New
Puppy Advice Pages
(Ask for the link if you've been approved)
When deciding to get a puppy for the
family- go over all the
responsibilities that will be
involved, ie, feeding, water, exercise, responsible play &
consistent training. Discuss how each of these responsibilities
will lead to a well-mannered dog. Also talk to each other about
how as they get older you all will be taking the pup outside
often, they usually need to go any time they eat, drink or wake
up from a nap. While still small enough to use paper, a young
puppy goes in his confined safe area, and you don't have to
worry about peeing and pooping in the house because they don't
have free-reign until they have learned from you and shown they
are responsible in your home.
No Biting allowed.
Our Number One Rule in training, Is NEVER ALLOW YOUR NEW PUPPY TO NIBBLE OR
BITE ANY FLESH, even what appears to be innocent teething on your finger!
It may not hurt now, but it will later if that experimental behavior is
allowed to develop into habit!
When new families come to meet our pups,
We ask that No one scrath or tickle the puppies since boundaries are still
being established and Do not allow the puppies they hold to nibble or bite
their fingers and hands.
Roughousing at a young age encourages biting as an automatic response to
the roughhands, and that type of energy can cause the wrong state of mind to
develop during such a crucial learning & bonding time. Once your puppy is an
established, responsible member of the pack, playing is fine because he
already knows the boundaries- its simply important to first guide your young
one through puppyhood maintaing a calm state of mind so that they can feel
comfortable in being calm whenever appropriate in the future, and you will
have a much easier time training, and developing obediance & trust, before the
time comes to begin exploring life's adventures with your very own sidekick!
Establishing Respect from day one is important while the new
addition is observing
the pack order, figuring out the boundaries and how to begin
adapting to the new household pack. Help your puppy understand and
learn the rules, so that they can move forward in the right
direction towards a healthy relationship with your pack and bonding
with lifelong masters, so that down
the road your canine addition will be a responsible member of the
family. By
allowing a puppy to teeth on you and bite your fingers- that acceptance of his
potential dominance will result in a loss of respect for you by the new k-9
addition to your home. Respecting you as the top dog in the family pack is
important, so that they will
be more confident in your ability to be a stonger leader for the
good of the pack and they can trust your wise discernment therefore minding whatever you
-their
calm Assertive leader- has to say !
Read about Puppy Guidance, for more about this Puppy Rule on our tips page. If you are a Sunshine Acres Beagle family
or on the waiting list, ask for this page for our personal advice! |
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Be the Pack Leader As puppies develop, they seek strong masters who are responsible and will show them the best way to live a long healthy & happy lifestyle within the pack. They follow those masters who make the best decisions for the pack as a whole, by being upfront, firm, and consistent on establishing the boundaries and ground rule that will make for a stronger pack down the road. From their first day home they will begin learning what behaviors seem the most beneficial to their future with your pack, and can adapt to any lifestyle that they begin learning from. This is the time to guide their adaptation so that they can learn the best way to begin fitting in with your unique pack; Be a responsible master for your learning and growing puppy by being in tune with your puppy's state of mind, understanding each situation, responding correctly so that your puppy understands the pack lesson, and can move forward in the right state of mind. The whole family must commit to a responsible instruction plan so that everyone sends the same message and is consistent in the learning process. It is important for forever families to guide their puppy's adaptation to their unique home & lifestyle, so the puppy can more easily understand that what boundaries this human pack has and that they are firm in those rules for the good of the pack, so now its time for puppy to learn what they need to do to fit in with this strong pack & start living in harmony! We start them off right, and now its up to you to continue raising your new baby beagle into your lifelong sidekick. You can lead the way with the benefit of our years of experience raising companion beagle pets. As an approved pet home who has made that sincere commitment to becoming a sunshine acres family for the years to come, you will have access to our years of experience and accumulated advice, and follow our Guidance in taking over the wonderful responsibility of raising your new hand raised family-oriented sunshine beagle baby, and helping them blossom into your very own unique Companion Pet for years of enjoyable harmony!
Upon making the family commitment, prepare for the momentous process by Reviewing our experienced Advice throughout our Guidance pages As a pack, everyone is the new puppy's pack leaders. By incorporating the wisdom of dog psychology and in-tune commuinication, you can start things off on the right foot from the beginning, when it’s the easiest to establish lifelong habits in your forever pack |
Recently claimed puppies !
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Preparing for the New Puppy! Hint: If you are saving up newspapers for when you bring your new puppy home, toss out all the slick ones they are not absorbent and pups slip and slide in the tub vs. the white pages which work real well during the still goin on paper phase, right after bringing the puppy home.. Over the next few weeks they can begin going outdoors too, then it wont be long till they are used to your home & being crated at night (we advise you how to go about this when you pick up your puppy & you can also learn about this process by following our Tips pages!) , but at first it is great to have a few stacks of papers on hand ! ( we also love it when folks think to bring some to us.. we are always appreciative of those ! You can only imagine how much paper we go through each day as our little ones learn to go over on the paper.) One gal brought a box with some wee wee pads when she came to board her Sunshine beagle with us .. boy did we appreciate those to hand to each person who was driving home far away with a little pup in the car..(makes it easier to have those on the floorboard than having to pit stop the minute the puppy wines to get out to go..) LOL ! we ran out, but sure would love more if anyone has some left their pet no longer uses !
When picking up your puppy by car its
suggested to bring a cardboard box with papers in it or wee wee pads for
the floorboards work well when and if needed . Also Clorox wipes are handy if needed too-
we have some if need one !! Some folks
start out with their new puppy on their lap , or in a crate with plenty
of toys and chew toys or treats to play with .
We also advise folks to go directly to the spot in their yard where they want the puppy to "Go Hurry UP" right when you get home, put your puppy from the car on the grass or ground there.. let him or her sniff around and walk around so they dont just stand on your feet wanting to be picked up lol... soon enough your puppy will decide to go since they were cooped up in the car and likely hasn't gone yet.. and you make a big deal out of saying good hurry up in a praise voice !! and give them kisses ! before long learning puppy will be thinking "they must like it when i go here... I want to go back to the same spot and remark it again ... and get all that praise again!" .. we give plenty of tips on this and all the phases involved in taking home a new puppy from us so it is a wonderful and easy transition for all members of the family as you bring in one of our babies to your home. Be sure to read through our guidance pages, follow our advice/guidelines/tips, and follow-up on any of the pointers for having one of our intelligent little sunshine acres beagles join your family as a companion for the next 15 years! |
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Buffy's Orange Boy with a solid head has been claimed by The Kendrigan family! ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() With solid head in middle ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Addie's "Fletcher" aka "Dover" Chocolate Boy has been
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![]() ![]() Luci Lu came with the Rhodes to pick up their new addition and see us again. She is such a beautiful gal we loved seeing how sweet she is too ! the family told us when they joined the waiting list for their second sunshine beagle they began saving up old kids blankets and sheets, towels and even a baggie full of Eukanuba and Iams UPC symbols knowing that as breeders we can trade those in on coupons we use to buy the 40 plus pounds of food we use here daily :) we love it when folks save those up for us and send some along here and there it really helps us afford to feed the best food so we have the cuties with gorgeous shiney healthy coats like Fletcher and Lucy above.... ![]() off they head back to the Mountains with their new little guy ! |
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Recently adopted Puppies!
If you are the happy family of one of these cuties, remember that we love to receive updates and/or pictures whenever you can pass those along! We enjoy seeing how our puppies are fitting in & growing up in their forever homes!
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Kiki's "Xerxes" aka "Cruise" Khaki Mini Boy
has been claimed by Ashley and Dave! They already have a sunshine beagle from our family, "Lutzie" and are looking forward to adding another to their pack! ~~~~~~~~~~ Xerxes shares his new raccoon toy that his mommy Ashley sent for him and his litter mates! Click here to see Lutzie and read his happy family story with the Mitchells! ![]() ![]() ( Miss C. has on her favorite Jamaica t-shirt Ashley brought us when they went on their annual trip there this year. We held onto her Lutzie till she returned and she showered us with beagle and Jamaica tee's for the kids and Miss christina to wear while we work :) !! we always love getting new t's around here Miss C. joked once and said we have to just live vicariously thru other folks travels to fun places since its realllly hard for us to get away much less have a day off from our responsiblities to the babies we care for here for eveyone !
I thank you for all that you do to raise the best little puppies
ever!!! My dog behavior specialist consistently says that Lutzie is
the best puppy that comes to daycare:) She says he is so confident and
well behaved. I will be going out there next
Wednesday, during spring break to observe and help her during
daycare. Maybe I will have some more first hand experience to share
after then. I know everyone in our neighborhood thinks he is the
cutest thing they have ever laid eyes on:) We think so too!
We appreciate all that you do!!!
Ashley Mitchell
Sunshine Acres thanks the Mitchell's for their continued support of our efforts to raise beagles as companion pets for all who love the breed for family members :) ! Ashley sends us things we can use daily here with the babies we care for, she has sent wormer medicines, frontline plus for the mom's , food and treats for the mommies who are pregnant to raise the healthiest and cutest beagle puppies !! She has our deepest gratitude for all her help here. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Miss Christina and Michelle send their thanks for the perfume and moisturizing spray that arrived after Ashley read that Miss C loves Citrus scents she thought of her favorite perfume by Clinique for Miss C to enjoy and Michelle thought the moisturizer would be neat to try so we shared it with her! ![]() |
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Ruby's Jared Silver Male with a
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Ruby's Bleu Silver Boy was adopted by return family the Strattons
who already have 2 of our sunshine acres beagles! Here's D-bo and Rusty, The Stratton's first two Sunshine Beagles, snuggled up together. Bill Stratton's mom Bette Jean had adoppted her Sunshine beagle Pepper from us a few years back and her son Bill and wife Corynn came to us to adopted their own furry child D-bo then they added their second, Rusty to their pack. Now they have added their third child Bleu! Click here to see D-Bo and Rusty growing up here and the Stratton's story Bleu as a newborn and growing up ![]() Pepper loves him! Delta did a great job and the first thing the agent said was what a beautiful color! Everything went perfectly. Thanks to you and the kids. Love, Bette Jean and Pepper Thanks so much! Lots of pictures to come. Miss Pepper is going to love sharing me with a baby tonight. xoxo Bette Jean Bette Jean watches her son and daughter in laws pup till they arrive from Mali where his current Foreign Diplomat position is so he gets to see the Fla. sun and water on their boat ! Our Beagles love the water ! |
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"Lutzie", Skylar's Khaki Mini Male has been
adopted by Ashley & Dave Mitchell! They have also now claimed their second sunshine beagle, Xerxes! Ashley & Dave live in AL where Dave is starting a new business and Ashley is a student who will be home a lot! They have a fenced in yard with a doggy door, and are looking forward to having their older beagle Winston pass on his experience to their newest addition! "How it all started I have been following your site for a couple of months now. My husband and I were looking for a puppy for my grandmother, who had to put her dog to sleep in mid August. This made me realize that it might be time for us to invest in a puppy of our own. We already have an 11 year old beagle that has been with me since he was 4 weeks old. He has always been around other dogs. We also had a black lab that we had to put to sleep in January at 14 years old. So, my beagle had been an only dog for a while. I decided to look for a puppy to adopt from a shelter for her, instead of getting one from a breeder. I wanted to do the noble thing and try to rescue a dog that might otherwise not have a chance for a good life. In my search, I found a puppy for her and an older dog (about 5 years old) that captured our hearts. On August 17th we set off to pick both dogs up. My grandmother is very active for her age, so we were sure she could handle a new dog. We turned out to be incorrect and the dog was jumping out of her fence and she was not able to continue to chase it around the neighborhood. So, unfortunately she had to return the dog we adopted on her behalf. Since we had paid the adoption fee and to have him tested at the vet, he already had all medicine he needed paid for and they were able to offer him at a much reduced price. He was adopted shortly after the return, so all worked out well in the end for him.
About our dogs SARGE The 5 year old neutered male beagle (Sergeant or “Sarge” as we call him) that we adopted is still with us. After adopting him, we took him to the vet and found he had heartworms. This was only after a negative test and us not believing that everything was okay with him. We took him to the emergency clinic for a second opinion, where he tested positive for heartworms. I took him back to our vet the next week and they confirmed the positive test. The next week we began treatment. He got his last two shots at the beginning of October and goes back tomorrow for them to listen to his heart and make sure he can be released for exercise, since they have to rest for the entire time they are undergoing the heartworm treatment to prevent any further harm. This is only one the problems we are facing with him. Often times the beagle rescue has told us that they sadly end up with dogs who have health issues such as heartworm, becuase the previous owner didn't invest the time of money to properly care for their beagle. We admire people like Ashley who go the extra mile for rehabilitating a dog from an unknown background. They have been working with a dog trainer to help Sarge become better integrated with their existing dog and comfortable in their home, "WINSTON My 11 year old neutered male beagle (Winston) was purchased at pet store when he was just 4 weeks old. I was younger then and did not know of the problems associated with buying from pet stores. He is like my child. He has slept in the bed with me and now us for his entire life. The trainer says he is very well balanced. He had a senior work up back in March and had some abnormally high blood test results for liver and kidney values. I took him to Memphis to see the specialists and he is now on blood pressure medicine. He kidney values have come down to normal and we are monitoring the liver values. He was very overweight back when he was 5 and tore ligaments in both his knees. We took him to Memphis then to have the surgery and he has been as good as new since. He gets walked about 2 miles every day. When it too hot or cold, I have taught him to walk on the treadmill with no leash. He would like to be able to play with another dog some, but Sarge doesn’t understand how to play with other dogs yet. Since Winston is such a good dog, and so well trained (the trainer was surprised when she kept him for two days on her 13 acre property and could walk him off leash) I would like for him to be able to pass some of his good behavior on to a puppy. I don’t want something to happen to Winston before he can pass some of wisdom on to another dog. Although, Sarge is taking some cues from Winston. A few times that Winston has seen something in the backyard and gone out the dog door to howl about it, Sarge has followed and howled with him. I also feel that maybe if Sarge saw how Winston interacted with another dog, he would learn more quickly what he is supposed to do. I feel like it is not fair to Winston, having been around other dogs his entire life, not to have another stable dog that he can be friends with. For all these reasons and that I think it is the right time in our life, I believe one of your puppies would be a great addition to our household.
About us My name is Ashley. My husband is David (Dave). He is 35 years old and I will be 31 years old in one month. We currently live in Muscle Shoals, AL. Until about a month ago, he was the president of a large glass company in Memphis, TN. He is now working on starting a business with his best friend, while doing some consulting work. He is very much a business minded guy. I was laid off a couple of years ago. I am currently going back to school for electrical engineering. Who knows, I might get my masters and teach college for the excellent hours and flexibility they have. I am currently only taking 2 classes because of all the time needed to try and rehabilitate our recently adopted dog. My schedule is currently adaptable to the needs of our animals. We have been married for 6 years and together for 8 years. We have no plans to have children. Our beagles are our children. We like the freedom of being able to travel and do things just the two of us.
Taking care of the new puppy YARD We have a fenced in back with a dog door leading to a covered patio in the fence. We will probably initially try the bathtub thing you suggest with the bed at one end and newspaper at the other. If we ever moved, a fence and dog door would be a requirement before the dogs and I would join Dave at a new house. I can’t believe we ever lived without the dog door, now that we have one." We also love doggy doors and think it is great for a pethome to have! "HOUSE We have dog steps leading to both couches in the living room, the bed in our room, and the ottoman upstairs in front of the window, where Winston often goes to look out and make sure nothing funny is going on the neighborhood. We have a dog bed for each dog in the living room. HEALTHCARE We take Winston to an internal medicine specialist at Memphis Veterinary Specialists. We will take Sarge to the dentist there, as they can do root canals and crowns and lots more than a regular vet can do. If the puppy ever needed special medical care, we already have a relationship established with several specialists at this great facility. OUTSIDE INFLUENCES As mentioned earlier, my schedule is flexible for the dog’s needs. Right now I am only gone for about 4 hours 2 days a week. My husband is also home a lot now, since he is working on starting a business and not having to travel back and forth to Memphis every week. When we do go on vacation, we board the dogs with our trainer, Jane. Winston has never boarded at the vet, unless he was there for a medical procedure. Jane is a Certified Professional Dog Trainer-Knowledge Assessed (CPDT-KA). She has traveled all over the world rehabilitating different kinds of animals. We are very fortunate to have someone like her in our area. She doesn’t use kennels. She keeps the dogs in her house and takes them on two walks around her 13 acre property a day. After the first of the year, we will probably be taking the dogs out to her property at least once a month to help Sarge get more socialized and hopefully over his fear of everything."
We thought it was neat to hear about their local in-home boarding. We also do that here for our beagles only, they stay in our home and have a big fenced in backyard to romp and play with the other sunshine beagles! Our customers feel this is much better than going into cement floor chainlink kennels We joke with folks its like they get to have their own vacation too, with their first family and we love seeing how our babies have grown up ! :)
" If the perfect puppy came along, the earliest we can take one is January. If you had a puppy come along that captured our hearts or one that you knew would match my preferences, we would definitely not want to pass him up as long as it is January before he needed to come home. We will be going on a cruise the last week in November. Next, we go to Jamaica every year for 10 days in December. We get back the day before Christmas Eve. Have all the family stuff for two days, and then we go stay with my mom until after the 1st of the year. She has dogs and we can bring ours, but I feel we need more time before taking a puppy with us to someone else’s house.
Color, Gender, and Marking preferences COLOR and GENDER We would like Khaki male. I am just partial to the guys, I guess. MARKINGS and NOSE COLOR
I would like for him to have a blaze, as both of
my current beagles do. I don’t want open
markings. I would really love it if his nose
would stay more to the pink side. Both the
beagles I have now have the pinkish or liver
(whatever they call it) colored noses. I am
including pictures of them so you can see a
little about our house, us, and our dogs. I am
not sure if most khaki color beagles have this
kind of nose or not. In some of the pictures on
your site, the older khaki beagles look to have
darker noses. This could just be a result of the
lighting. I am not sure that you can predict the
coloring of the nose overtime. I thought that
maybe since you had been doing this for so long,
you would know what traits in the parents would
lend themselves to the puppy having this
characteristic. Winston Relaxing on the couch ![]() Sarge After using the doggie stairs to get on the
couch .
Where Sarge sleeps, at the foot of our bed. ![]() Even though there is bed for each of them, both
boys sharing a bed. " thanks so much for taking the time to read my “book” that I have sent you. I wanted to be sure to include all the information you were looking to find out. I apologize if it has taken up your entire morning or afternoon to get through my email. Please let me know if you need any other info. If not, and you believe we would be a good match for one of your puppies, let me know how to proceed with the deposit.
Hope to hear from you soon. Ashley " Thank you the Ashley for the personalized MM's, we had never seen those before but they are so neat! There are two different Grace beagle faces and a "Sunshine Acres" M&M's in there :) Ashley has been sending along wonderful care for us and our beagles here at Sunshine Acres- one day a big bed and 6 big boxes of Iams Biscuits arrived, a nice container for dog food and a big 40 lbs bag of Eukanuba Small Breed Puppy food!!!!
Hi Christi! Ashley has sent another care package, and it truly feels like Christmas around here! ![]() Ashley and her hubby had us hold onto her baby a bit longer while they went on their annual vacation to Jamaica Couples Resort Lutzie loves his new mommy! The Mitchells bring more gifts for Sunshine Acres!! Bunches of big beds for the doggies, a hide the treat game, and clothes from Jamaica!! Coffee from Jamaica too! Grace modeling again :)
I also attached a pic of his cage area and him lounging on Winston,
our 11 year old.
Sarge (the rescue) is in memphis waiting to have surgery monday, but
Lutzie and Sarge were getting to be good friends before we took
sarge to memphis. Lutzie went with us to memphis and slept the whole
way and then even slept while we were in the surgeon's office
talking. Everyone thought he was just adorable. I forgot to bring
your cards with me, but i will when we pick sarge up next
friday.
Lutzie is such a good puppy. He even went out in the rain tonight to
use the yard! Earlier today he was in his cage eating a bone and
started whining. I picked him up and took him outside. He peed and
came back in the dog door and then went to his cage and started
whining and scratching at it. I put him back in it and he went right
back to eating his bone..
He would much rather go outside than on the pee pee pads in his
cage. He just uses the pads once at night and goes outside the rest
of the time.
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"Couldn't have asked for a better baby. He loves to sleep with our
other boys. He wakes up from a nap, goes hurry up outside, plays for
45 minutes or so, and then wants to nap again. I have already taught
him to sit. Incredibly smart little guy!
Hopefully everything is going well for you guys. Hope the Jamaica
stuff fit everyone. I sent a bag of puppy food for you guys as a
thank you for giving us such a great little baby :) it should arrive
on wednesday. Do you need puppy or adult food more? What kind of
adult food do you feed your doggies?
Ashley"
![]() "Miss C, Since Bethany is Lutzie's sister and she has not been claimed yet, I thought I would sent some of the things that are Lutzie's favorite toys and chew things for her to enjoy. I guess if she wants to share with Tinsel or another puppy, she is welcome to spread the fun around. If someone claims her and takes her home before the package arrives, you can just pass it along to next puppy that needs some fun things to play with. Should be delivered on Tuesday. I will send you the shipment confirmation with the exact delivery date as soon as Amazon sends it to me. These are the items I ordered for her: Delivery Estimate: Tuesday February 5, 2013 by 8:00pm ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]()
Hope this helps!
Ashley Mitchell"
![]() Here at Sunshine Acres, Bethany receives her goodies from her brother's family and shows off her new sweater! and plays with her toys! "Miss Christina, Here are a few pics of Lutzie. The last 4 show him looking at your website, his sister Bethany specifically. I think in the last one he was trying to share his bone with her! Ashley Mitchell" "Miss Christina, I just sent you 3 emails with pics of Lutzie. The last one has some of him in a blue sweater like the pink one I ordered for Bethany, his sister. His is an X-small. I got her a small because his is getting to be a little short now that he is growing so fast! Please let me know if you don't receive all the pics and I will try to resend. I tried to not make the emails too big to go through. I just got your email on my phone. I am sooo glad you liked the pics. I thought it was really cute too! It was right before I decided to order those things for Bethany. I was looking at your site and Lutzie just would not leave the computer alone with his sister on it. Maybe Bethany should thank him a little too for reinforcing my decision to send her a few things :)" Miss Christina, Here are a few pics that I had on my phone and haven't sent to you guys yet. The last one is Lutzie sleeping with my 11 year old, 15 inch beagle, Winston. I could barely get Lutzie in the picture with Winston taking up so much of it! Lutzie is doing great. He is a very smart puppy. He goes to daycare with dog trainer every Wednesday for socialization. She always says she is amazed at how confident he is. This has to come from the great way you raised him, exposing him to more than just a pen in a backyard. She says that everyone that comes out to pick their dog want to take him home with them. I saw it one day when I was there to pick him up... A mom with 2 kids were picking up their 8 month old puppy(some kind of terrier). The kids wanted nothing to do with their dog and just wanted to pet Lutzie. Saying "Our dog is not this calm. She just runs around and jumps all the time." The mom asked where I got him. I told her I did a lot of research to find the right place to get a puppy. She said that she wished she had done that also. I am sure they love their puppy, but she is not a Sunshine Acres puppy, and that makes all the difference... He is pretty much housebroken now, at 16 weeks :), unless it is raining out. He loves the dog door. Every day that it is nice outside, he goes out and plays in the backyard, taking a few breaks to come inside, crawl in my lap, and take a little nap. He knows sit, down, stay, come, shake, high five, and we are currently working on wave. ![]() ![]() "Just wanted to send you an update before you got too busy with the new springtime babies arriving. Hopefully our next little baby will arrive soon, if he hasn't already :) I know Lutzie will be sooooo excited when our next baby gets to come home, as the older dogs don't want to play quite as much he does. I hope the email I sent you Thursday morning about our timeframe and preferences did come through to you. I sent it from my cell phone while at school, so let me know if you didn't get it and I will resend. Keep up the great work raising those special little cuties for all of us to enjoy!!! Ashley Mitchell" ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() March3rd: "Sometimes, something just speaks to you, like our adopted baby, Sarge (the rescue beagle). Lord, if I had known all that we would go through with him, well I probably would have adopted him anyway, but it has not been easy. So many health issues, it has been hard for us to deal with the behavior issues, which is really only that he is scared of soooooooo many things. I just can't understand how anyone can treat a dog, especially a beagle that way to make him so scared of everything. Not to discourage anyone from adopting, but this is what we have gone through with Sarge: August - adopted him, found out he had heartworms and whipworms September - started treatment for heartworms, he had to be on crate rest and was so anxious we couldn't put him in a crate without him breaking out, contacted behavior specialist October- second round of heartworm treatment, should have been continued crate rest, but he would stay in crate, so we had to be home to watch him. November - heartworm treatment over, yea!!!! Took to a doggie dentist, had to have 8 teeth removed from all the abscesses he had. Dentist said he probably was in pain 24 hours a day before this happened. December - We were out of town/country, torn ACL. January - Took to specialist, fixed knee. Found out he is actually, 7-8 years old instead of 4-5 years old based on eye aging of specialist instead of teeth aging by regular vet. February - recovery from knee surgery. Took to internal medicine specialist, because of consistent cough. She thinks it is from heartworms, but not sure yet without more tests. March - recovery from knee surgery; bone is healing well, but not completely healed yet. Have to go in 9 weeks for more x-rays. I know that you always say on your website that people don't know what there getting into when they get a dog with an unknown background. I will say that doing the "noble thing" has cost us a lot of money so far, at least $7,000. When you look at that amount compared to what you charge for a puppy, it is hardly a decision at all. Of course, we would not trade Sarge for anything at this point. We are committed to giving him at least a few good years of life. Just thought you might be able to pass this insight to some other people. I would not want to discourage anyone from adopting, but they need to know what they might be getting into when they do adopt. I am very happy to be dealing with someone that i know cares about their dogs. So, I know I would absolutely love any puppy you would bless us with. I just know with you I can specify color/markings and all of your puppies personalities are miles ahead of anyone else who ever thought about breeding beagles :) You definitely do the breed justice." ![]() ![]() "Just wanted to send you these pics that my husband had sent to me. 1st and 2nd pics are of our three boys sleeping on the couch together. Winston, is suppose to be lemon, who knows that is what he was registered as though. Winston is 11 years old, 15 inches and 32 lbs. Sarge, our adoptee, I think is chocolate. He is between 7 and 8 years old, 13 inches, and 24 lbs. And last but, definitely not least, Lutzie. Lutzie is a little over 8 lbs now at 4 months old. I thought maybe seeing them all together would give you a better idea of what we already have. And maybe a clue as to why I am a little more drawn to the easier to spot unique colors. It is pretty easy to notice all the ones we have are unique colors. Lutzie is the first one that I looked for a unique color on. I just lucked into the other two. The 3rd pic is of Lutzie's little play area, so you can see where he is in the 4th one. He is not spoiled at all :) The 4 pic is when Lutzie fell asleep in his toy box. My husband said he got out of the shower, and knew he had put Lutzie in his cage area. He kept looking for him, but said that when Lutzie's head was down he was flush with the toy box and just looked like a toy. When Lutzie finally woke up and lifted his head, my husband said he just had to get a pic to send to me. We still keep the pee pee pad in his cage area, but he has not used it in weeks. He goes outside. I think it time we take it out. We definitely will not need to buy and more pee pee pads for the new puppy, as Lutzie has so many left over. He did so much better than I ever thought a puppy could with housebreaking! I don't know how you do it :) I will be sending you something soon for March for the puppies. I am working on getting a care package put together for when we claim our new little one. I just had midterms last week, so everything has kind of been on hold. Just now trying to get caught up with everything not school related. Take care :) Ashley Mitchell" ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "Last group of pics. I was doing school work the other night. I knew both the dogs were next to me on the couch, but I didn't realize how they were sleeping. Sarge had laid his head on Lutzie. They were both snoring and loving their nap buddy. I thought they were just so cute! You can kind of see Sarge's messed up ear in the pic. The vet says it looks like someone glued it together where it looks bent. Must have happened when he was pretty young because it wound up growing together like that :( Don't know if you would have noticed or not, but wanted to explain incase you did. People can be so cruel. He is a really sweet dog. I am done bothering you with pics for today :) Tell me if I am sending too many. Hope our new baby arrives soon :) Ashley Mitchell" ![]() ![]() ![]() "Miss C, I ordered you some small breed Eukanuba food and more bully sticks. They should ship on Monday and deliver to you on Wednesday this week. Just a heads up, so you can be looking out for it. Ashley Mitchell"
I sent my puppy care package today:) Looks like it will be delivered
on Wednesday. I was trying to get it sent out last week, but had to
wait on everything I ordered to arrive. I would've just sent it
straight to you, but didn't want you to have to receive several
little packages. Most of it arrived on different days and in
different packages. I included the link for you to track if
needed. I just a sent a bed, some toys, and a few teething treats
for our whoever our new little guy turns out to be:)
Lutzie is still doing wonderfully. I think he wants us to claim
Kiki's baby. The quicker he can have a friend closer to his age to
play with, the happier he will be:) He was not thrilled today, as it
rained most of the day and he had to play inside. He just loves
playing in the backyard on pretty days. I have two dog cots outside
in the backyard and he will take breaks and nap on them in the sun
looking adorable:) His eyes are just the most gorgeous things in the
sun!!!
Hope to claim a little guy soon and start anticipating the
homecoming day:)
Ashley Mitchell"
"Lutzie
went to daycare today. When he got home, we gave him a bath and fed him.
I also put a new handwarmer in his dog and changed the batteries out the
beating heart in his dog. He got up once to go outside and pee, but has
been napping in his crate ever since. Such a little sweetie pie!!!Ashley Mitchell" The Mitchells have now claimed their second sunshine beagle, Xerxes by Kiki!
"I thank you for all that you do to raise the best little puppies
ever!!! My dog behavior specialist consistently says that Lutzie is
the best puppy that comes to daycare:) She says he is so confident
and well behaved. I will be going out there next
Wednesday, during spring break to observe and help her during
daycare. Maybe I will have some more first hand experience to share
after then. I know everyone in our neighborhood thinks he is the
cutest thing they have ever laid eyes on:) We think so too!
We appreciate all that you do!!!
Ashley Mitchell"
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such a sweet little gal :) she is a very sweet little lady and we know the Yarter family will enjoy her ! ![]() Ms. C Destiny is home now and we can not even begin to say how PERFECT she is!!!! The boys adore her and she has displayed the spunk we wanted but also the genuine affection and tenderness! WE LOVE HER!!!! Thank you for everything! We will send more pics tomorrow!! With love Yarter family This is me and our second son Prestan with her! |
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Lacy's "Carson" Silver Boy
has been claimed by the Anderson family, who already has sunshine beagle
"Allie" daughter of Lady- Lacy's mom!
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Thanks for giving us such an amazing puppy! He is a great addition to our family (definately like our little baby since we don't have any kids yet). I have also attached Wrigley's graduation picture from tonight. He is such a cutie!!! We love him SO much!!! ~Leah Morehouse (and Jonny and Wrigley too!)
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She sleeps with Katelyn and with me! She is the exactly the same as
when she was a puppy! We love her! She loves us too! We have this
old recliner that she use to love to sleep in when she was a
puppy...and it is like she remembers it! She thinks it is hers!
Thank you so much for letting us have her back, Katelyn couldn't be
happier!
Kim "
![]() ![]() Tootsie was fixed after the emergency c-section she needed. she lost her litter , but raised one for another mom who didnt have experience or milk .. such a sweetheart ! our retiring adult mini chocolate mom Tootsie finds her forever family !
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