Chicora Rhodesian Ridgebacks: News & Applying

Thank you for your interest in our breeding program! We’re accepting applications and holding fees now for a potential littler mid to late 2026. We take our job of finding the right homes for our puppies serious, and do not settle on just any applicant, so please read through our website before inquiring to be sure you’re on board with our policies and philosophies. If you are looking for a quality puppy quickly, then we are not the breeder for you. Folks usually wait for our pups months in advance. Read below for more info!

Our dogs and puppies are family. The adult dogs are health tested (no corners cut) and cleared for breed-specific genetic diseases and orthopedic faults (details on “The Dogs” page), as well as fed a partial raw diet. Puppies are socialized in our pack and with strangers, cats, chickens, ducks, rabbits and whatever other critters we may have running around the farm. We perform early neurological stimulation (ENS) on our puppies, and support some aspects of Puppy Culture as a part of our puppy husbandry. Our puppies are weaned onto a raw diet before going to their homes and allowed to play outdoors to encourage strong immune systems. We follow the Jean Dodds vaccination protocol (delayed administration/far apart between series) and care for the whole pack as holistically as possible in order to promote long, healthy lives in both our adult dogs and puppies. Puppies are dewormed, microchipped and thoroughly examined by their veterinarian before going to their new homes. Deliveries within the southeast are usually available for a fee. We rarely ship, but can arrange to fly puppies with a personal puppy nanny in some cases.

Applying early means you can follow along on your puppy’s adventures of being born–from the mating and the whelping (birth), its first solid food experience and outdoor play time, to your puppy’s first veterinarian visit. We post the process on all our social media pages and send private update emails to everyone on the reservation list. There are other perks to applying early that you may discover in the application process.