Welcome to Bridgeview Cavaliers!
Breeders of Cavalier King Charles Spaniels
Bridgeview Cavaliers raises top quality, health certified and guaranteed, American Kennel Club registered Cavalier King Charles Spaniels. Our area of expertise is showing, breeding and raising top notch dogs and placing them into loving homes.
The health of our dogs is our most important concern. Our Girls and Boys have their hearts and eyes certified on an annual basis. Our puppies are whelped inside of our home where they remain with their mothers until they are 6 weeks old. At that age, they go to our “Pooch Palace” where they learn to use a doggy door and start on the road to becoming housebroken... not to mention having a large play area where they can romp and play all they want! See our Royal Dog House.
At three days old the puppies have their first veterinarian check and dew claw removal (mom also gets a postpartum health check). At six weeks of age, the puppies go back to the veterinarian for a 6-week "wellness check-up". This includes, but is not limited to, a heart check, alertness/responsiveness test, hernia check and overall health evaluation.
At eight weeks our puppies begin a series of three shots for distemper, parvo virus, influenza and other ailments. At this same time, we use Revolution brand flea and de-wormer (read about it).
Our facilities are flea free and it is a very rare occasion to see one of our dogs scratching (unless it is at the door). The puppies stay with their mothers as long as possible. Some mothers start to wean their puppies as early as six weeks, and others will continue to let them nurse for 12 -14 weeks. We generally will not let a puppy leave our care until a minimum of 12 weeks old. We have kept many puppies much longer.
As people's temperaments are different, so are those of our best little friends, the Cavaliers. We try to match our puppies into appropriate new homes----some people want the rambunctious, "get into everything" type puppy, while others prefer the puppy that sits back and watches what is happening before getting into it! See Happy Owners.
We often have older puppies, 6-18 months old, that of course are much better trained than a younger ones. There are many people that prefer to bypass the pleasure of house training a puppy.
Our most rewarding endeavor is that both Pattie and Roy are registered with one of our girls, Tianna, as teams with the Delta Society "Pet Partners Program" (Team Tianna).
