Family-raised, always
Puppies are born and raised in our living room. No kennel building, no outdoor pen. They are handled daily from day one and grow up alongside our kids, our other animals, and the gentle chaos of an active household.
Our story
We're a family.
We're a family.
Not a kennel.
"Nolan and Abby, three Mastiffs, four kids, and a quiet acre outside Wausau."
our people
our girls
A dog named Liberty.
Phoenix, Arizona — the first Mastiff we raised as a family.
liberty ♡
Before Wausau, before Violet, there was Liberty.
Abby and Nolan both grew up in Wisconsin, but we spent fourteen years in Phoenix, Arizona — that's where our family started, and where we met our first English Mastiff. Liberty made herself the center of it. A hundred and eighty pounds of patience curled across doorways, letting toddlers climb on her like furniture. She walked the kids out to the pool and waited at the edge while they swam. She slept next to the crib.
Liberty taught us what this breed is. A lap dog by nature. Protective without being sharp. Gentle with strangers. Impossibly soft with kids. Everything we look for in Violet and Chief traces back to her.
christmas '15
phoenix summers
her toddler's banister
her chair, his throne
How we got here,
One dog at a time.
A few years later we came home to Wisconsin — to raise the kids near aunts, uncles, cousins, and newly found family. The Mastiff thing came with us.
We brought Violet and her sister Poppy home together in 2023. They were eight weeks old, and we couldn't choose between them — so we didn't. They comforted each other the whole drive home from the breeder, and they have kept each other in check ever since.
They grew into exactly the dogs we hoped for: calm enough that the little kids could nap on them, sturdy enough to follow Nolan around the yard, soft enough that the cats walk right up to them. Poppy is the goofy one, always nudging in for belly rubs while Violet plays the patient older sister. Stella and Stephen think Poppy is their personal pillow.
Chief joined us at the end of 2025. A young, goofy, brindle boy with the temperament we were looking for and a pedigree from a line of solid, family-bred Mastiffs we admired. He and Violet became fast friends — and now they're going to be parents.
This is our first litter. We're not interested in scaling. We don't have a kennel building. We have a house, a yard, four kids, three big dogs, and the privilege of bringing more into the world. Ten puppies will be born in our living room and raised there until they're ready for yours.
— Nolan & Abby ♡
How we raise good dogs.
Temperament over titles
We are not a show kennel. We breed because both our dogs have the temperament we believe is the soul of the English Mastiff — calm, patient, soft, and unbothered. That's what we want to pass on.
Small, careful, slow
One litter at a time. We screen every applicant ourselves. We will say no if it isn't a fit. We share weekly photos with everyone on the waitlist and stay in touch long after the puppy goes home.
Sounds like a fit?