Welcome to Trinity Farms, our small family farm where we've been raising Russell Terriers and Norfolk Terriers for 30 years. In all the terriers we have lived with over the years and studied, our research led us to the Norfolk Terriers, about 10 inches tall. Norfolk Terriers have much more amenable dispositions and their personalities are much more easy-going. They are family pets that live with various kinds of animals on the farm.

At Trinity Farms our goal is to provide you with a healthy, happy, superior quality dog. We specialize in Norfolk Terriers, traditional puppy training and raising family pets, show and breeding prospects, bred and raised in our home and family environment. The Norfolk Terrier is an intelligent, even-tempered breed, docile with its owner and loving with children, family and pets. With our many years of experience and our trained eye, we will evaluate and help you pick the perfect family pet for you and your children.

Over the past years we have studied and researched the Norfolks extensively with the objective of developing a selective, elite program to improve the breed and produce the 'best' pups we can. Each dog we have is a product of long years of waiting, searching all over the world, and selecting the most superior bloodlines and excellent specimens for the Norfolk breed. The parents are all champion-sired and have multiple champions in all pedigrees both top and bottom lines.

We have diligently searched and found undiluted bloodlines and healthier dogs. We want our dogs to be the best family dogs, and breed for a well-balanced and better, calmer temperament and sweeter personalities and dispositions, concentrating on temperament, health, conformation and correctness of type for the breed. Our Norfolks still have the working/hunting ability, but they can turn it 'on or off.'  They want to be with you and do what you're doing.

We are presently accepting reservations for male pups for the spring or summer litters of '09. We wish all our folks warm, puppy kisses.

Donna, Michael and Sean                             July 20, '08

Foundation bloodlines descended from
tried and true olde lines directly from England. 

We have selected only the most superior quality foundation stock from  old, original English lines that have a long history of reproducing generations of proven, excellent dispositions and sweeter personalities. We are forever indebted to the breeders before us who have been our mentors and advisors in our life's journey to seek out and produce only the highest quality, and most reliable and dependable dispositions in Norfolk Terriers. We have spent many hours, years, on the phone with breeders who research the very best lines. We search for those we believe to be of superior breeding quality. The Norfolk Terriers were direct descendents from protected and pure lines that trace back to the early 1900's. We have five unrelated lines from this preserved and protected stock and hope to add more. 

We are dedicated to preserving and protecting these bloodlines which are founded on very old established and proven lines from England. These particular bloodlines produce superior quality dogs known for their calmer, more sensible and trainable dispositions.  They are also known  to be incredibly healthy and hardy.

These lines carry few genetic faults.  These are some of the reasons the breeders before us are so committed to keeping these lines pure and protected from outside influences.  

 We also work closely with five or six  veterinarians, here in Aiken, S.C., and with their help and advice we are  developing new foundation lines of superb specimens of the Norfolk Terrier.

We want a Norfolk who is equally at home in the conformation ring, hunting, doing agility or go-to-ground, as he is asleep in your lap watching TV at night. We have invested a great deal of time in researching pedigrees, personalities, phenotype, genotype, and individual dog's family trees. We strive to create and have designed a better bloodline for an all-around family friend and protector, a working dog who can hunt, show or do agility and play with the kids.

Our dogs were originally bred to be English Gentleman's Family dogs and to be with the family, in the house and on the farm and in the field . They are living testimony to the quality, family dogs raised over 100 years ago. We strive to continue the tradition and keep the legacy of these dogs alive so our children's children will be able to enjoy them as much as we have.

 Please enjoy your visit. 

We invite you to call us with any questions you may have.

 

 Irish Blessing

May you always have
Walls for the wind,
A roof for the rain,
Tea beside the fire,
Laughter to cheer you.
Those you love near you.
And all your heart might desire.

 

News for this last week of August:

 We had families move their reservations to '08 for various life situation reasons, ie. new jobs, moving, family emergencies, happy events like weddings to plan and new babies. We work with our families as we want the best time and best circumstances for our babies going to their new homes.

If you haven't received an email response from me within 24 - 48 hours please call me.  We so enjoy talking with everyone and please continue to telephone me to inquire about our extra babies that were a nice surprise.
                       
803-648-3137

 I do ask you to please phone me with your questions and for information about our puppies who are available now and those who are due in July.

 

 This is a video, double click on the photo image and wait for it to start. You may have to double click twice to start. (It's Quick time.)

These are Twig's babies at 7 wks old, they are having a grand old time in the kitchen.

Visiting protocols:

Please know that since baby puppies do not have any immune system until after they have had their third set of shots, we must be extremely careful to protect them from illness and tightly control their environment. This includes cleaning everything, all the time. Most germs and bacteria will enter your home on your shoes or on your hands.

So please know that when you come to visit you will be asked to help us as we try to protect our little ones and our adults.

The first thing we will ask you to do is to step onto a bio-security mat which holds a disinfecting solution to clean all shoes. Then you'll step on a towel to dry your shoes.

Then the second thing we will do is wash our hands before we touch any puppies or mommas. The third thing we will ask you to do is wear a lab coat or smock over your clothes.  Then you will be able to play with our older puppies and the adults. In addition, when we switch playing with one litter and go to another litter, we must wash our hands again, in between litters.

If the babies are still newborns and are not six weeks old yet, we must ask you to look at them - but please do not touch them as much as you'd love to, looking will have to do until they are older. I know this is hard to do and we thank you in advance for being as careful with the babies as we are. 

When we go outside to the backyard to see the adults, and when we come back in, we will again step onto another bio-security mat to clean our shoes again. If you happen to wear open toe shoes or sandals we do have the blue hospital booties which we will ask you to put on over your shoes.

We thank you for your understanding and cooperation with these procedures. It's to protect our little ones and to stop any germs or bacteria in their tracks...literally and figuratively!

 

 

These bloodlines are well known for having extremely calm dispositions and have become known not just nationally here in the states, but internationally as well. They have become highly coveted and there are not as many available now as there were in years past. Because of this, these exclusive lines are being nurtured to protect and propogate these very special bloodlines.

Welcome to our home, "Cead Mile Failte."
 A hundred, thousand welcomes.