FancyWood Farms
My husband Ben Ball and myself - Tammy Ball have been raising dogs for over 27 years now. Specializing in Brussels Griffon only.
Fancy was the name of my first dog; and Woody was the name of my second. Therefore we are now and will always be - FANCYWOODFARMS.
I worked at a vet's office for over 10 years learning the skills I needed to raise puppies correctly. Now I take care of our puppies 24/7. Should I have an issue arrise with one of the puppies; it is off to the vet he goes. My husband Ben Ball works on the maintenance of the farm, continues to take care of our breeding dogs to keep them at top shape, and helps me make the breeding decisions that make our dogs and puppies desirable life companions. Our goal is to raise quality, healthy, happy, outstanding companions for many long years and to help improve the bloodlines and genetics of our choice breed - Brussels Griffon. My dogs health and Kennel practices are all overseen by Dr. Kevin and Mia Meenen.
We are an American Kennel Club (AKC) compliant kennel which basically means our kennel is inspected, our records are inspected, our dogs are inspected, and our pups are DNA'd at the inspectors choice yearly. We always pass our kennel inspection with flying colors and are told that we do it right. When the inspector was last here I asked if she saw anything she would like changed since she sees such a variety of kennels in his line of business.........I was told to keep doing what we were doing as everything looked great!
Our Brussels Griffons ears are are left natural as this breed does not handle anesthesia well. Should the pup require additional surgery such as an umbilical hernia repair then the ears are cropped at that time since they are already under anesthesia. Please browse through our available pups for your favorite color, personality, and ear set of these wonderful gentle dogs.
Buying a dog from a reputable breeder is essential. Bad breeding leads to genetic health issues, attitude problems, and size and breed characteristic difficulties. Does your Chihuahua look like a Beagle? The size of a Beagle? Attitude of a Rottweiler? Good breeding is the answer. As a reputable breeder I work hard to work on these issues. I willingly spay an animal that is not producing the type and kind of healthy dog that is a good representative of its breed. We genetic test out breeding dogs for any known health issues for that breed. Using VetGen genetic testing just makes us one step closer to controlling deadly genetic diseases. A reputable breeder will genetic test - we do.
I have been raising Brussels Griffon dogs since 1995; and have made wonderful strives to continue great health, personality and size conformity of this wonderful companion breed. We have recently imported a new boys here from Lithuania and another from Russia to improve our genetic lines and add a new color and continue working on size conformity. Look for their puppies very soon! Just recently we imported another bloodline from Poland & Russia. She has just had her first litter here and her pups are lovely. We work hard on this breed to improve some of the faults I have been seeing in the US dogs. Short noses, strong under jaws and lovely big eyes are needed here to produce the lovely Griff frown.
If you do not see available puppies you are looking for - just email me. I do not put my puppies on the website until they are ready for sale. That doesn't mean I do not have any pups growing and ready soon.
DO NOT BE SCAMMED!!!'s If you are interested in purchasing a puppy off the internet from ANY breeder - use some common sense. If the deal sounds too good to be true.....it is. As for fraud control please ask your prospective breeder for SOMETHING. A video call is best - you can see the puppy live and almost all breeders now have that technology with FB Messenger, Google Duo or Skype. If they do not then I recommend a picture of your name on a piece of paper with the date with the puppy standing next to that picture. If a scammer has stolen a picture he/she will not be able to do that for you because they do not have the puppy. Or references - a legitimate breeder will always be able to provide a reference from another buyer. There are just as many scammers stealing my photos to scam individuals as there are scammers taking innocent client's money. I don't mean to scare anyone. Everyone needs to protect themselves when purchasing anything through the internet.
