Our mission

At Strandholm Havanese we strive to provide the best companion dogs available. It is our mission to bring joy to the world through a carefully developed breeding program, connecting loving dogs with loving owners.

We are breeders of integrity specializing in the Havanese breed. Strandholm Havanese dogs are raised in a home setting, loved as a pets, experiencing life to the fullest. We work on training and socialization so that you can be assured the puppies they produce are from both healthy and well-adjusted parents. No puppy is perfect, just as no person born  is perfect, but we have done our best to breed healthy and loving dogs and we trust God for the rest. 

Although Strandholm Havanese cannot create best friend for you, we can work toward the next best thing – a little puppy – specifically bred for one job, becoming your best friend.

Dogs have always been around mankind from the earliest accounts of history. They are willing to fill in the gap and help with whatever job you need them to do. Dogs truly love humans!  

  • Today most people don’t need hunting, herding, plowing or transportation-through-the-snow assistance. But we do need dogs for companionship, detective work, protection, therapy and service assistance. Dogs are still willing and eager to help us in whatever we need.

The gift of companionship

It is the breeder’s job to guide the process and develop healthy devoted dogs who can shine at the jobs they are gifted to do. Here at Strandholm Havanese, we start with a breed whose gift of companionship is inborn, discovered centuries ago.

We are taking the baton from the faithful of breeders of old who knew the little Havanese dogs possess a valuable gift the world needs.   

We then focus on health, temperament, beauty and socialization to provide a future best friend for you. What we do is a huge but it is not everything. Just as parents raise their children, “training them in the way they should go” so that “in the end they won’t depart from it,” YOU must take over, training them in the way they should go in order for them to become that future best friend that they long to be.

Did you know that the number one reason dogs end up in shelters is that their owners failed in teaching them to be housetrained? Good breeding is only ½ of the job. Proper training and ongoing love and care is the other half. But no worries. At Strandholm Havanese we provide suggestions and tools for you at home to help continue the process.

Why Strandholm Havanese?

  • AKC registered purebred Havanese with parentage pedigrees mostly from the United States and Canada but also Germany, Romania, Hungary and Poland
  • Health tested
  • Recognized by the Good Dog Responsible Breeding Program
  • Bred for health, companionship and temperament
  • Beloved pets in our home and treated as members of the family
  • Given the best veterinarian care, nutrition, exercise and stimulation for health, balance and well-being
  • Given week by week neurological stimulation and socialization as puppies and raised in a calm, loving environment. Their mothers are sound, sweet, calm and very good caregivers.
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