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About Havanese
Whether you're looking for a top show dog or the perfect companion. Havanese will steal your heart. Havanese are exceptionally intelligent, quick to learn, and anxious to please. As top breeders, we breed for confirmation, health, temperament and coat. We raise only Havanese and they share our home, our heart and our bed!
The Bichon Havanese, also know as the Havana Silk Dog, is a small sturdy dog of immense clownlike charm. He is slightly longer than tall, and covered with a profuse mantle of untrimmed long, silky, wavy hair. His plumed tail is carried loosely curled over his rump. A native of Cuba, he has evolved over the centuries from the papered lapdog of the aristocracy into what he is today - the quintessential family pet. The Havanese duties traditionally have been those of companion, watchdog and child's playmate. His presentation in the show ring should reflect his function - always in excellent condition but never so elaborately coifed as to preclude an impromptu romp in the leaves, as the Havanese character is essentially playful
rather than decorative.