Le cucciolate
Planned well in advance. Raised in the house.
How a litter happens here — and what is true right now.
A Wanhelsing litter is rare, and that is method, not accident. Behind each one stands a pairing studied long before it is made — morphology, temperament, genetics, and the life the puppies will live. There are not many in a year. There were never meant to be.
When a litter is on the ground, nothing is listed and nothing is queued. A puppy here is never simply sold — it is entrusted, with care and responsibility on both sides: a family introduces itself, a conversation follows, then a visit, then the wait for the right puppy. The match decides, not the order of requests.
L’affidamento — the path, step by stepHow families are chosen
Prima
By the time a litter is announced, most of the work is already done. Two dogs have been studied — the health of both, the character of both, the line behind each — and weighed against Francesca’s written ideal, the one the selection has followed from the start.
Part of the study is simply watching. What a sire passes on can only be read in his puppies, and that reading takes years — the house learned it first with KevinCostner, whose first litter is where the kennel begins.
The rest is time. Seasons pass in which nothing is bred at all, because the right pairing is not there yet. When it is not there, the house waits. Most of the method is patience.
In cucina
Born in the kitchen.
A litter is born in the house and grows up in it — in the kitchen, in the middle of the family’s day. The first sounds a puppy knows are household sounds; the first floor under its feet is the family’s own.
Someone is there when each one arrives. The house’s telling keeps the scene of Helsingvon’s birth: so small she seemed premature, cleaned by Francesca’s own hands and set at her mother’s teat — «ben decisa a stare al mondo», quite determined to be in the world.
The adults nearby are part of the raising. Of DulceCream, a great sire of this house, the family’s telling keeps one line: gentle above all with the puppies. That is the kind of adult a litter here grows up beside.
Come and see how the puppies live — a conversation first, then a visit by appointment.
La consegna
When the day comes, a puppy leaves with its papers in order: puppy kit, pedigree, microchip, health certificate, ownership transfer where applicable, feeding guidance.
The papers are the short part. The support that follows is ours — in year one, and in year ten.
In casatwo puppies, below the window
La situazione
Right now.
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Last confirmed: August 2026