/* TEAM */

Owner & Breeder: Mark Nelson
Location: Lynden, Washington, USA
Contact: nwlagotto [at] gmail.com

/* THE DOGS */

Foundation lines: Il Granaio Dei Malatesta (Italy, Monica Benelli)
                  Gillenias kennel (Sweden)

Breeding dogs:    Mocha, Tia, Ginger, Bonney, Mousse, and the rest of our family.

/* THANKS */

Every family who has welcomed one of our puppies into their home.
Every past buyer who still sends us photos of their grown dog.
Every past buyer who has written a Google review — we read every one.

Katrien van Gemert, for her work on the Lagotto coat and the philosophy of
keeping it rustic. Our grooming practice is shaped by hers.

The researchers whose peer-reviewed work informs our decisions:
Hart et al. (spay/neuter timing), Krontveit (growth plates),
Asher (puppy development), and many others.

Our veterinary team, who catches the things we miss.

/* SITE */

Design & Build: Clarion Studio (clarion.studio)
Typography:     Cormorant Garamond, DM Sans, Pinyon Script
Palette:        Cream, deep green, warm gold
Platform:       Static HTML, deployed to Cloudflare Pages
Standards:      Semantic HTML, JSON-LD schema, AI-crawler aware

Built for the people and the dogs — not for the algorithm.
Though we did think about the algorithm.

Last updated: April 2026