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March 23, 2008  -  Bridghid and Victor's 4 Puppies born 12-17-07 were announced on March 8, 2008 and as of March 23, 2008 they are all home with their new owners! 
 
It was great to see all of you and we are very happy with the good homes we found for all 4 puppies!
 
We are expecting more puppies soon and happy to get new Puppy Applications for our 2008 Puppy Waiting List.  Thank You!
 
 

CLICK ON THE BELOW PICTURE OF BRIDGHID AND VICTOR'S 12-17-07 PUPPIES TO SEE MORE PICTURES AND INFORMATION

Bridghid and Victor's Puppies of 12-17-07
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CLICK ON THE ABOVE PICTURE OF BRIDGHID AND VICTOR'S 12-17-07 PUPPIES TO SEE MORE PICTURES AND INFORMATION

"We Hand-Deliver Puppies Nationwide"

Our puppies travel to their new homes on our laps not in a crate on a plane!  Our Delivery Charge is Very reasonable.

 
SATURDAY-MARCH 8, 2008 
 Puppies Offered

 

Thursday - March 13, 2008

We are evaluating Applications received and answering emails.  We are still accepting applications for these puppies. 

 
Sunday MARCH 16, 2008
 
Astrid and Victor expecting puppies in 60 days
 
STATUS REPORT ON CURRENT OFFERED PUPPIES
 
BOY#2 (BLUE COLLAR)  "IVAN"-    SOLD
DEPOSIT PAID -
 Duffey family - Daveport, Iowa
 
 
GIRL #1 (GREEN COLLAR)   "ELSIE" SOLD
   DUTTON FAMILY - Illinois
 
 
GIRL #3 (YELLOW COLLAR)    SOLD
DEPOSIT PAID    
ANDRUSKA FAMILY - Chicago, IL area
 
GIRL #4 (Black Collar)  "BELLA"     SOLD
DEPOSIT PAID    
MILLER FAMILY - Decatur, IL area
 
 
 

March 8, 2008 NEWS

 

We have FOUR (4) PUPPIES AVAILABLE NOW!  There are 3 Girls and 1 Boy.

 

These babies are from Bridghid and Victor and were born 12-17-08 .   They are priced at $800.

 

Pictures are being posted now and Puppy Applications are welcomed.

 

We want to extend our sincere apologies to everyone who has written the past few months.  We could not keep up this Web Site or answer emails for the past several months because we were overwhelmed caring for our 92 year-old father in his final days and weeks. His declining health has been going on for a couple of years and has taken up a lot of our time.   Dad finally passed in February 2008.  Now we are dealing with his estate but that takes much less time and energy.  As an only child, caring for his needs and keeping him in his own home to the end took enormous amounts of time and energy.

 

With all that and many other things going on in our lives we just did not have adequate time to breed any puppies and to give them all the time and attention they deserve.  Bridghid and Victor’s breeding was a surprise since we missed breeding all our other girls last year. We missed having puppies underfoot so these puppies got all of our attention and are spoiled rotten.  We plan to have a more active breeding program in 2008.


 

While we can not guarantee that we will be having more births over the coming months, the odds strongly favor it.  We are very hopeful that we will have several litters of puppies born this Spring and several puppies available for adoption this Summer.

We have currently have 7 girls who are of prime breeding age this year and they come into heat about twice a year (every 4-6 months) and can potentially be bred.  We are actively breeding all of them this year as they come into heat with our Handsome male GSD, Victor.


Gestation (pregnancy in dogs) is only about 62 days.  We hope we have other pregnancies underway right now.


 There is no good test to determine if a pregnancy exists until midway through it at about 30 days.   The surest pregnancy test is an x-ray, but we do not want to expose the mothers or puppies to unnecessary x-rays so we are never totally certain we have a pregnancy until the last few days when their breasts enlarge and begin to fill with milk. And finally, of course the total number of puppies is unknown until the birthing process is completed which is a process that takes many hours.  The average litter is 6 puppies, but there can be 10-12  puppies in a litter!.

Anyway, the odds are good that we will have several puppies available for adoption this Summer and Fall 2008.

Complete information about our adoption process, puppies and parents is available here on our Web Site:

 

We require that potential puppy buyers fill out our ONLINE PUPPY APPLICATION which is located on our Web Site.  This will put you in line to adopt a puppy when they become available.


PUPPY APPLICATIONS  for our Waiting List ARE BEING ACCEPTED NOW.

We appreciate that adopting a puppy is a major decision.  We all make a considerable financial , time and emotional investment when we take a German Shepherd puppy into our family.  It is a long-term committment  and we hope that you will take the time to check us and our puppies out thoroughly. 


There is a good reason why past German Shepherd owners always come back for a new German Shepherd puppy.  They are just the greatest all around dogs in the world!


Our website is never really finished.  If anything, we may have too much information here.  Sorry about that!  Yes, the print size is large here, but we are in our 50s, go figure. But when we ourselves are looking for a new puppy, these are the things that we want to know.   We have tried to present as much information as possible about our puppies so that you can make a wise adoption decision.


Our puppies are generally priced at around $750 to $1000.  Puppies from the Greta and Victor litter were $900 each.


Click on Victor and Bridghid Links on the left side of this page to see pictures of the parents and to review their pedigrees.


We think our puppies are exceptionally beautiful  with wonderful spirit, genetic heritage and temperament.   



Thank you for Visiting!  - Lyle and Kathy Williams


Want a Puppy Now?  or Later?  Either way Click on the next lines below for our ONLINE PUPPY APPLICATION  (FREE) :

CLICK HERE TO GO TO OUR online "Puppy Application" It only takes a few minutes to apply for one of our puppies Or to be on our Waiting List for the Next Puppies available!

CLICK RIGHT HERE TO EMAIL US at German_Shepherd_Puppies@Yahoo.com WITH ANY QUESTIONS YOU MIGHT HAVE.


 
Our puppies are generally priced at around $750 to $1000.  Puppies from our current Bridghid and Victor litter are $800 each.
Puppies are not completely reserved-sold until we have:

1) received and approved a "Puppy Application";

(2) a "Puppy Deposit and Sales Agreement "has been finished;AND

(3) the required Deposit has been paid. 

PHONE CALLS - PLEASE DO NOT CALL UNLESS YOU HAVE FILLED OUT OUR ONLINE PUPPY APPLICATION!   We really would prefer that you Email us with any questions you might have that we have not answered on this Website. Email is faster and more cost effective than telephoning. We can answer email at times of the day or night that we could not call you. Our family is essentially up at night and sleeping days.  If anyone asks a question that we have not addressed on this website, we will add to the website to cover that question as soon as possible. There is a Email link to us at the bottom of this Home Page and on the Menu on the Left Side of the page.

CLICK ON THIS TO GO TO OUR Online "PUPPY APPLICATION" FORM. It just takes a few minutes to apply for a puppy.

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February 4-2006:  The above pictures of a Puppy and his Boy are courtesy of the Neece Family who picked up Heidi's Boy#3 (now named "Schultz") on 1-29-06.  The pictures were just too adorable not to post.  ( even if it took an hour to upload the above cute pictures on our 24k dialup connection out here in the boonies!  I really think SBC/AT&T/Verizon/Ameritech/Illinois Bell could get those "temporary" phone lines out of that muddy ditch down the road....they've been there for a year now and have been sliced up to shreds twice now when our township road commissioner mowed the sides of our roads.  BIG NEWS:  On 2/15/06 we are supposed to have Direcway Satellite installed!!!  We waited 2 years on a Wildblue Waiting List and they forgot about us and are sold out...damn you people in Chicagoland for hogging amd filling up Wildblue Beam 28!!  So reluctantly we are paying an arm and a leg for Direcway.  It had better be as fast as advertised!  Then all those pictures we have been sitting on will be uploaded finally and this site will stay more current!}   The Neece Family  wrote:
 

 

Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2006 22:17:26 -0600

Hi Lyle and Kathy,

 

Just a quick update on Schultz (Heidi’s Boy#3 Black Collar)--he's wonderful! 

 

We had his well puppy check with the vet last Monday, and he's a very healthy boy …………......He's doing really well with housebreaking with only a couple accidents so far, and is pretty much crate trained. :0)  We're most impressed with how sweet he is with our one-year old.  A*** loves to give Schultz lots of love, and Schultz patiently takes it all.  Schultz only really cried the first night here, and is happily settled in now! ...............

 

 
 
 
TO APPLY TO BE ON OUR WAITING LIST FOR THESE PUPS 
OR OUR NEXT AVAILABLE PUPPIES...........
PLEASE USE OUR Online 'PUPPY APPLICATION" Form. 
 
  THERE IS A LINK AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS PAGE TO GO TO OUR ONLINE PUPPY APPLICATION. 
 
The picture below was taken 3-21-05 on 8th Week Birthday of Greta's Last litter.  If you click on this picture it will take you to more pictures of this group of puppies!

Brad with with Greta's Puppies #2, #3 and #5
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8-weeks-old 3-21-05

We always welcome PUPPY APPLICATIONS to be on our WAITING LIST to have priority choice of our upcoming litters.    We expect several litters to be born in 2008.

GRETA WITH 2 OF HER July 21, 2004 Puppies
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19 January 2005 Picture of Greta and 2 of her previous litter
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GRETA PUPPIES BORN 24 JANUARY 2005
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This is how small NEWBORN PUPPIES ARE!

 
 
On 1-19-05, We took the above pictures of Greta and 2 of her girl puppies from her last litter that were born on July 21, 2004.   
Gretchen and Trude were 6 months old on January 21, 2005. 
This will give you an idea of what we expect .  You can see how beautiful and large they are at 6 months.
 
Welcome to
Harmony German Shepherds!

We have owned and loved German Shepherds for over 25 years. We carefully selected our Male and Female Shepherds for breeding, temperament and intelligence and raised them in our home.

Our puppies have proven to grow into healthy dogs with excellent temperament and intelligence. We post pictures here of the litters that are born and provide additional information about them and about German Shepherd Dogs in general.
 
*We offer Only:  AKC REGISTERED PUREBRED German Shepherd Dog Puppies.
 
 
*From:  our own AKC Registered Purebred GSD Parents - specially raised and selected by us for breeding.
 
* You will receive official AKC Registration papers with your puppy.
 
*All puppies have initial VACCINATION
 
*All puppies have been WORMED
 
*Purchase includes our "PUPPPY OWNERS MANUAL" booklet and advice after purchase.
 
*Puppies are introduced to CRATE TRAINING.
 
*Puppies are well SOCIALIZED with daily interaction, play and exposure to routine household noises,  family and other dogs and pets.  They live in the cleanest possible environment which should help with their housebreaking.
 
* Temperament Tested and observed and given individual special attention to help develop best possible personalities.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
TO APPLY FOR ONE OF OUR FUTURE PUPPIES  - TO BE ON OUR  "WAITING LIST" JUST COMPLETE OUR "Puppy Application":
 
JUST CLICK ON THE  LINK BELOW 
 TO GO TO OUR
NEW ONLINE
PUPPY APPLICATION:

CLICK HERE TO GO TO OUR ONLINE PUPPY APPLICATION

YOU CAN PAY YOUR PUPPY DEPOSIT WITH:
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A WORD ABOUT USING PAYPAL.
PayPal is a Safe, Easy and very convenient way to send us money to pay your Deposit on the puppy of your choice. 
 
BUT, do not give us an email address that you have used for PayPal (ebay) transactions in the past UNLESS that old PayPal account is totally and perfectly setup and recently used,  verified and already linked to a credit or debit card account already!  You will run into all sorts of confusion if you do this.
 
It is better and much easier to give us an email address to send our Deposit Invoice to that has Never Ever been used with PayPal....that way making the payment is very very simple.  Just have a credit or debit card handy to make the payment. 

Harmony is not on every map, but it does exist.  Harmony, Illinois is located in a rural area North of Mount Vernon, Illinois....which you can find on most maps.  (2006 -We are finally on Mapquest.com....but of all things there are 2 Harmony, Illinois!!! we did not know that!  Pick the Harmony that is in Jefferson County, Illinois, that is where we are.)
 
We hope all of our Puppy Buyers can visit us here in Harmony; but, if that isn't possible, we do personally HAND-DELIVER  puppies to our customers.
 
We raise our German Shepherd puppies on our  20 acre farm here in Southern Illinois in an environment where they have plenty of room to romp and play.  They are exposed to other dogs, kids, cats, chickens, deer and various wildlife.  They are played with and talked to throughout the day and are well socialized.
 
Our aim is to breed classic German Shepherds with calm solid temperaments and classic looks.  Our parents have excellent pedigrees - generally a mix of 100% European and quality American bloodlines.
 
Thank you for visiting!
Lyle and Kathy Williams

Harmony German Shepherds Hand-Delivers German Shepherd puppies to these states:

 

Alabama AL Alaska AK Arizona AZ Arkansas AR California CA Colorado CO Connecticut CT Delaware DE Florida FL Georgia GA Idaho ID Illinois IL Indiana IN Iowa IA Kansas KS Kentucky KY Louisiana LA Maine ME Maryland MD Massachusetts MA Michigan MI Minnesota MN Mississippi MS Missouri MO Montana MT Nebraska NE Nevada NV New Hampshire NH New Jersey NJ New Mexico NM New York NY North Carolina NC North Dakota ND Ohio OH Oklahoma OK Oregon OR Pennsylvania PA Rhode Island RI South Carolina SC South Dakota SD Tennessee TN Texas TX Utah UT Vermont VT Virginia VA Washington WA Washington, D.C. West Virginia WV Wisconsin WI Wyoming WY

 

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Harmony German Shepherds
 Harmony, Illinois   (Near Mount Vernon, Illinois)