The Curly Oak Kennels Resilience Raising Method
The Curly Oak Kennels Resilience Raising Method is how all puppies here at Curly Oak Kennels, are raised. This development and conditioning protocol isn't a magic potion or a cult handshake. These are steps that we take with every litter here to raise Confident, physically robust, mentally balanced, and ready to do 'dog' things without spiraling when the first leaf falls. Read more below!
Have you ever brought a puppy home... breeder, rescue, shelter, doesn’t matter and everything’s fine until… it’s not? The car ride home they’re shaking and throwing up. A pan drops and they disappear. Or they come into a house like ours with four kids, noise, chaos, life happening… and the puppy just completely melts down.
That’s exactly why we use the Curly Oak Resilience Raising Method.
We didn’t invent the concept of resilience, and we’re not claiming to. What we did do was take science-based puppy development principles and build an intentional, structured program around them — because they work. And we’ve seen the difference over and over again in real puppies, real homes, real life.
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Let me break it down for ya!
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What that means in real life is we don’t raise puppies in a silent little bubble and then act shocked when the real world freaks them out. Life is noisy. Kids are loud. Stuff gets dropped. Doors slam. Chaos happens. So, instead of avoiding all of that, we intentionally introduce puppies to normal, everyday stress in small, controlled doses — at the right ages and in the right order. Not throwing them into the deep end, but also not wrapping them in bubble wrap.
How we do that: puppies are handled daily, experience new surfaces and environments, short periods of independence, crates, normal household noise, and gradually increasing challenges as they mature. None of it is random. None of it is forced. And we’re not just “seeing what happens.” There’s a plan. We also don’t expect every puppy to respond the same way — because, shocker, they’re individuals. Some need a little more time, some are ready to level up sooner. Confidence isn’t pushed here. It’s built. And when puppies learn they can handle something slightly uncomfortable and come out okay on the other side, that’s when things start to click. The goal isn’t to raise puppies that never get startled — that’s unrealistic. The goal is dogs that recover quickly, think through situations, and don’t completely unravel because someone dropped a pan or turned on a vacuum.
That’s resilience. And it doesn’t just magically happen. You either build it on purpose… or you deal with the fallout later.
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