Westie Whispers Comfortable Facility

Comfortable Facility

While operating out of Denver, Westie Whispers is nestled just over the Nebraska state line on a spacious farm surrounded by open skies, fresh air, and natural country landscapes.

Our dogs are housed in a large kennel building. We have house dogs that sleep in bed with us, but obviously our kennel is large enough we cannot do this with all our dogs! Each dog has its own indoor living area (large bed & eating area) and outdoor run and exercise area with a magnetic dog door built into the wall. Their inside quarters consist of a 4' x 6' sleeping area that is carpeted and a 2'x4' eating area. The run attached to their room is either 4' X 40'. With heating and air conditioning the inside temperature is a constant 72 degrees.

Left: This is the area where puppies are born, and cared for until they reach 8 week of age.

Right: This is the front of our kennel and some of the adults in their outside runs.

Soft music is played in the background and other than a mandatory trip to the vet clinic for thier PuppyDay health check, our dogs never leave the premises. We prefer to have our vets make "house calls" to eliminate the possible chance of disease transmission. Of course, that is not always possible, so when we visit our clinic we are careful to avoid exposure to strange dogs. Outside dogs are not allowed to visit our kennel for this same reason. Actually, we no longer accept visitors other than staff, veterinarians, and inspectors. This policy helps us to maintain a disease-free kennel. We closed our kennel to outside visitors several year ago after two exposure incidents. A visiting family unknowingly passed a skin mite to one of the parents and it spread through much of the kennel and only after two years were we able to be completely clean again. We also experienced a client's visiting dog who exposed a litter of puppies to kennel cough. This episode was quite eye opening and made us agree with the advice our vets gave us years earlier to close the kennel to visitors.

Right: This is one of the adult indoor living areas. A 4'x6' bedroom area with a 2'x4' feeding area that also has the magnetic door to their outside run which is of course long enough to run as much as they want! These two boys are five months old and will join our program after they are much older if their conformation meets our requirements.

Our kennel is licensed and approved by the state and the AKC; we have surprise inspections multiple times a year. We are sincerely dedicated to the physical and emotional health of our dogs and we are constantly making upgrades to improve the kennel and keep our dogs healty and happy.

Seven week old puppies doing what they love.