Meet
The Habibi®
THE FIRST COMPANION BREED CREATED FOR NEURODIVERGENT KIDS
The therapeutic companion breed for kids with ADHD, autism, anxiety and sensory needs, raised by the woman who created it
Since 1989, I’ve been developing the Habibi for children living with ADHD, autism, anxiety, and PTSD. Every puppy stays a little longer, spending the riskiest in-between weeks here with me. They come home fully vaccinated and safely socialized, already further along and ready for every adventure your family takes.
A Modern-Day Familiar for the Child Who Feels Everything
Under 20 lbs & Many Under 10 lbs · Adventure-Ready · Fully Vaccinated at Homecoming · Placed Nationwide
Because Some Bonds are Written in the Stars
AVAILABLE LITTERS
Your little love starts here.
A little Familiar.
A whole new chapter.
Meet the Habibis looking for their families.
Small companion puppies, thoughtfully raised since 1989.
Violet & Jasper
Growing in the nursery
5–12 LBS ESTIMATED ADULT WEIGHT
BORN AUGUST 5, 2026
Your little love starts here.
A little Familiar.
A whole new chapter.
Meet the Habibis looking for their families.
Small companion puppies, thoughtfully raised since 1989.
Bluebelle & Jasper
Growing in the nursery
8–14 LBS ESTIMATED ADULT WEIGHT
BORN AUGUST 26, 2026
Your little love starts here.
A little Familiar.
A whole new chapter.
Meet the Habibis looking for their families.
Small companion puppies, thoughtfully raised since 1989.
Snapdragon & Oakley
Ready to come home in Oct.
10–14 LBS ESTIMATED ADULT WEIGHT
BORN JULY 26, 2026
Your little love starts here.
A little Familiar.
A whole new chapter.
Meet the Habibis looking for their families.
Small companion puppies, thoughtfully raised since 1989.
Primrose & Jasper
Ready to come home
5–12 LBS ESTIMATED ADULT WEIGHT
BORN JULY 4, 2026
What “Further Along” Looks Like
My daily curriculum keeps every puppy moving forward while they’re here.
EARLY PROTECTION
Your puppy receives early Neotech vaccinations for parvo, distemper, and adenovirus before homecoming. Informed by Dr. Ronald Schultz’s research, we recommend titer testing to assess immunity before additional core boosters.
SWEET DREAMS
Most come home sleeping six to eight hours a night.
EVERYDAY PRACTICE
Most come home 75% through potty and crate training, with bladder and bowel awareness already switching on.
YOUR HOME PROGRAM
Then I hand you my program to follow at home, so your puppy hits the ground running from the first day.
Little steps. A lovely head start.
HABIBI HEROES
What Habibi Dogs Do
Small companions. Stories that stay with you.
Since 1989, families have told me the same things over and over, from children carried through emotional overwhelm to quiet, grounded presence during grief.
It comes from four decades of breeding for exactly this, and from a relationship built the way it was meant to be.
These are their stories.
Real families. Extraordinary moments.
Honey’s quiet warning
A four-month-old puppy alerted her family to a gas leak. Nobody taught Honey that. The gas company told her family that thirty more minutes would have been too late.
Read Honey’s family review
A steady presence at school
My eight-year-old Habibi Bear comes with me to school every week. My students, especially those with sensory needs, gravitate to him. His energy is gentle, grounded, and soothing.
Read the original school story
Heaven stayed beside Olivia
Heaven stayed through every transfusion. Matched with Olivia’s family through Hannah’s Heart, part of our nonprofit The Sirius Fellowship, he became her constant companion through blood transfusions and treatment. Nobody trained him for it. He simply knew what she needed, and he stayed until the very end. We will never forget sweet Olivia.
Read Olivia’s family story
Support that reaches everyday life
Explore the original family references below. Select a review to read it in full.
Psychiatric Support for Autism
Certified therapy and facility work — focusing on children with disabilities
Psychiatric Support for a Child with Down Syndrome
See a Habibi in the spotlight
The only dog to pass. During a televised investigation in Salt Lake City, a professional protection trainer evaluated several family dogs, including breeds commonly used for protection work. One dog showed the instinctive response he said families actually need, and that dog was a Habibi.
Before You Choose Any Breeder,Ask These Questions
I’d rather you choose well than choose me. Here’s what I’d ask for my own family.
Will their full puppy vaccine series be finished?Mine finish their puppy parvo/distemper series here, so families have one less thing to navigate after homecoming.
Who holds them through the hardest weeks?At eight weeks, the work gets harder: mama dog steps back, and the puppies need more hands-on care. That’s when many breeders send them home. I keep mine. They stay through those demanding weeks for gentle socialization, canine manners, and a head start through the Habibi Method.
Will they be sleeping longer at night?Most come home sleeping six to eight hour stretches, with potty learning already underway.
Who helps me once they’re home?You have four weeks of follow-up coaching as your puppy settles in and your bond begins.
Was this dog bred for a family like mine?Since 1989, I’ve bred for the bond—with sensitive children and families navigating ADHD, autism, anxiety, and sensory needs in mind.
One Woman. Four Decades. Three Things That Didn’t Exist Before Her.
Three elements. Each one essential. None of them optional.
The Familiar Bond™
The Philosophy
The Familiar Bond™, which has now reached more than 1.3 million people worldwide.
The Habibi Method™
The Methodology
The Habibi Method™, a nervous-system-first approach to raising a companion, refined across four decades and thousands of puppies.
The Habibi™
The Breed
The breed. The Habibi, developed since 1989 through Hybrid Integrity Architecture™, a breeding methodology with no precedent in this industry.
The genetics make it possible. The philosophy makes it probable. The Familiar Bond™ makes it real.
Julie Marie created all three. Every pairing in this lineage traces back to a decision she made. Every puppy here spends her imprint window with the woman who built the breed. There is one person, one standard, and nearly four decades of refusing to compromise on either.
What Is a Habibi?
The Habibi is a companion breed I’ve been developing since 1989, long before anyone had heard the words Cavapoo, Cavachon or Doodle. Everyone else sells the ingredients. The Habibi is the result: nearly 40 years of one line, bred for depth of bond with every generation.
You Become Their Heartbeat
There is a moment that happens in every Habibi home.
It doesn’t announce itself. It arrives quietly, the way the most significant things always do.
You have been dreaming of this day. The car ride home, the first steps through the door, the way your child’s face will look when they finally meet the one who was always meant for them. Homecoming day carries a particular kind of magic, and it deserves to.
But your puppy is arriving into something enormous.
They came from a pile of heartbeats, the warmth of littermates, the steady rhythm of a mother, the only comfort and safety they have ever known. Every sensory anchor they trusted is gone. They are crossing a threshold that has no map, into a world that is entirely new, held only by the family waiting on the other side.
In the Habibi Method, this is what I call, the Betwixt. The tender, disorienting threshold where everything is new and nothing is settled yet.
And then something shifts.
Your child, who has spent years being asked to adjust and explain and accommodate, simply exhales. And the dog beside them doesn’t move away. Doesn’t startle. Doesn’t ask anything of them at all.
They just stay.
In that staying, something ancient passes between them. A recognition that has no clinical name and does not need one.
You become their heartbeat.
And they become yours.
This is not companionship the way the world has come to understand it.
This is the Familiar Bond, and it looks different in every home it enters.
The Healing Bond™
I support you physically and medically.
For a family navigating medical complexity, neurological difference, or disability-related needs. One person, one Familiar, with Sacred Tasks built on a relationship of trust.
The Sacred Bond™
Together, we support others.
For a person and their Familiar who offer comfort to others in schools, hospitals, and care settings. Their own bond remains the center from which that service grows.
The Heart Bond™
I support your emotional world.
You create emotional safety for your dog first. From that mutual safety grows a Familiar deeply attuned to your inner world—a relationship that holds you both.
The Family Bond™
I belong to and connect the whole family.
A Familiar whose relationships reach across the whole household. Children and adults learn Sacred Signals, share care, and grow their own bond with the same dog.
The Wild Bond™
We experience the world together.
For families who want to explore life together, from trailheads to airports. Thoughtful exposure and Sacred Signals keep adventure within your Familiar’s comfort.
Why Every Habibi Stays a Little Longer
A puppy who goes home at eight weeks walks into an impossible month. Their vaccines aren’t finished, so they can’t safely meet other dogs or go to puppy class, and families are told to keep them home during the very weeks that shape who they’ll become.
Your Habibi spends that stretch here with me instead. They finish their full puppy vaccine series under the protocol I use with Dr. Ben Hatler at Neotech, so the follow-up vaccine visits most new families spend those weeks booking are already done. They learn dog language from other dogs in my Enrichment Center, the way it was always meant to be learned, while my daily curriculum keeps them moving forward.
By homecoming, the hardest part of puppyhood is behind them. What’s left for you is the part families actually dreamed about.
Pups in Training
Every Habibi leaves here prepared. A Pup in Training leaves here further along.
Sometimes it’s something in the way she moves or observes, a quality of presence that tells me this one is ready for more. Sometimes a family’s timing needed to catch up, and four weeks turned an impossible month into an easy one.
Either way, what she receives in that time cannot be purchased later at any price. More daily nervous system regulation work. More attachment and together-alone work, which prevents separation anxiety rather than treating it afterward. More canine social learning inside the Enrichment Center. Familiar Activation Protocols, so the Familiar Bond takes hold the day she walks through your door. And her Human’s Guide to the Dog Galaxy curriculum already underway, so you continue rather than begin.
More method. More window. More dog.
Four weeks · $750 per week · $3,000 · Two spots per litter
What Makes a Habibi
Bred for This, Not Trained Toward It
Emotionally intelligent temperament, by design. Every generation is shaped around nervous system stability and relational temperament rather than appearance, so each puppy grows into a calm, confident companion who thrives in modern family life.
Allergy-friendly coats. Soft and low-shedding, producing significantly less dander than many traditional breeds. No dog is truly hypoallergenic, and families sensitive to shedding or dander find these coats far easier to live with.
Travel-ready for wherever your life takes you. Small enough to ride in the cabin at your feet, from road trips to cross-country flights, with estimated adult weight listed for each puppy.
Every Habibi Family Begins
With Preparation
There’s no waitlist number here, and no deposit before you’ve recognized your puppy. Every family starts inside the Familiar Watch, my one-time $197 application and preparation program, whether you are interested in an available puppy now or preparing for a future litter. Your $197 buys the program and lifetime membership; it is not a puppy deposit and is not credited toward the puppy price. You’ll follow each litter as they grow and see every new puppy 24 hours before the public. You’ll also work through The Human’s Guide to the Dog Galaxy™, my complete preparation curriculum valued at $700, with lifetime access and no monthly fees.
When you see the puppy who’s meant for you, you’ll know. That’s when you move forward and pay for your puppy, with the price confirmed in your agreement. No money down on a puppy before you know it is the one you want.
Meet Julie
One Breeder. One Standard. Since 1989.
I’m Julie Marie. Montessori educator, author, creator of the Habibi, and the one person who has made every decision in this lineage for nearly four decades.
I was teaching children who needed something no dog on the market could give them. Autistic kids, neurodivergent kids, children with Down syndrome, families moving through trauma. They needed a dog who could regulate alongside a dysregulated nervous system and stay steady while a child fell apart and came back together.
That dog didn’t exist, so I started building one. This was before Cavapoo was a word, before anyone said doodle out loud. There was no market to follow and no trend to chase. There was a room full of kids who needed something, and me, deciding I’d spend the rest of my working life making it.
What I learned along the way is that the dog is only half of it.
There’s a window that decides most of who a puppy becomes, and it lands at the exact moment a family can’t safely manage it at home. I named that window the Betwixt, and I built an entire program to hold it. Your puppy spends the beginning of those weeks here with me, with safe canine exposure and daily nervous system work, while attachment is physically wiring into who they are.
Then the Betwixt crosses your threshold with them, and I hand you everything I’ve learned about carrying it the rest of the way. The techniques, the sequence, the signals most people never learn to read, and the method for reaching Union, where your child and their Familiar stop being two beings figuring each other out and start moving as one team. I coach you through it while it’s happening in your house.
It starts with me. It’s completed by you. Neither half works alone, and that partnership is the reason these dogs become what families tell me become their Familiar, their soul dogs.
Four decades later, those dogs live all over the world, and the method that came out of the work has reached more than 1.3 million people.
Your First Step: Join Familiar Watch for $197
Lifetime access · No monthly fees
Pre-approved. First in line. Inside the inner circle. One-time $197, lifetime membership, six coaching sessions, and Julie’s candid puppy moments you won’t see anywhere else. No deposits. You pay for your puppy when you’re ready to bring them home.
There is no large deposit. No pick order. No waitlist number to sit behind. Just readiness, and when you’re ready, we’ll know it together.
Inside, you’re part of the Familiar Watch, your living window into our world. Litter announcements, nursery access, puppy introductions, and the real-time moments that never make it to public feeds. Your membership includes The Human’s Guide to the Dog Galaxy™, our complete preparation curriculum valued at $700.
Members see every new puppy 24 hours before the public, which matters more than it sounds. Our fastest-moving puppies are claimed within the first day.
How This Works
- Apply. Tell me about your family and your child. You’ll hear from me within 24 hours.
- Prepare. Join Familiar Watch for a one-time $197 payment and begin learning the Habibi Method. This pays for preparation and lifetime membership, separately from your puppy.
- Recognition. When you know which puppy you want, move forward and pay for that puppy. No puppy deposit is required before you choose.
- Homecoming. Your puppy comes home to you, or flies with a nanny who places them in your arms at the airport.
Speak With Julie
Every Habibi placement begins with a conversation.
Not a sales call, and not a screening. A conversation about your family, your child, and which companion is right for you, with the woman who developed this breed.
These are held by appointment, and I keep the number small each week so each one gets my full attention.
Already looking at a specific puppy? Send me a text, and I’ll come back to you within one business day.
Real Families, Real Transformations
Every review below comes from a family who went looking for a puppy and found a true companion.
Parents raising children with autism, ADHD, anxiety or PTSD share the moment their child found a friend who understood them without a single word. Others tell how a four-month-old Habibi woke the house during a gas leak, or how a gentle dog stayed close through grief and the hardest seasons of life. I’ve been raising Habibi puppies since 1989 with a nervous system-first approach, and more than 1.3 million people have followed this work. These stories from families across the country are why I keep going.
Read what life with a Habibi really looks like, and the Familiar Bond each family built together.
Some of these families came home under our earlier process as we have been raising our dogs since 1989, before every family began with the Familiar Watch.
You’ve Always Known There Was Something Different About You.
Some people look at a dog and see a pet. You’ve always seen something more. A presence. A partner. A soul that chose you just as much as you chose them.
If that resonates, you’re already home.
Some people look at a dog and see a pet. You’ve always seen something more. A presence. A partner. A soul who chose you as much as you chose her.
Your Familiar is waiting. Not because you ordered her, and not because you filled out a form. Because Canis familiaris, the familiar animal, has been finding her human since before history had words for it. We are simply the stewards who honor that ancient choreography with the intention it deserves.
The Future of Conscious Companionship
The Sirius Fellowship
Through our expanding nonprofit work with The Sirius Fellowship, we’re building a world where every sensitive, gifted child has access to this kind of soul friendship. Not therapy. Not service. Partnership.
Because when we honor both the child and the companion as brilliant beings worthy of love and understanding, something shifts that no program or intervention could replicate.
The Next Chapter of the Journey
At its heart, this work is about restoring a more natural relationship between humans and dogs, one rooted not in control or performance but in connection, trust, and mutual understanding during the sacred imprint window.
For some families, welcoming a Habibi becomes more than adding a companion to their home. It becomes the beginning of a bond that changes everything.
Because some companions are simply meant to find their people.
For almost four decades, we have been remembering something the modern dog world forgot.
That the dog was never just an animal to be trained. They were always a familiar, an ancient companion, an extension of the human soul in animal form, choosing us back just as deliberately as we choose them.
The Familiar Bond™ is what we awaken here. It always has been.
Wherever You Are, We’ll Find a Way
The Habibi bond doesn’t belong to one city or one state. Families across the country and beyond have welcomed a Habibi companion into their homes, and we believe that if the match is right, distance is never a reason to say no.
We proudly serve families throughout the United States and beyond. Our flight nanny service ensures every puppy travels safely, comfortably, and with care, hand delivered to families nationwide. Worldwide placement is also available for the right family and the right match.
Because a Habibi Dog isn’t a local product. They’re a lifelong companion. And that’s worth the journey.
We have Habibis in every state and 12 countries worldwide.
Spokane, WA, Seattle, WA, Portland, OR, Coeur d’Alene, ID, Boise, ID, Salt Lake City, UT, San Francisco, CA, San Jose, CA, Los Angeles CA, Dallas, TX, Houston, TX, Miami, FL, Tampa, FL, Atlanta, GA, New York, NY, Washington DC, Chicago, IL, Pittsburgh PA, London England, Dublin, Ireland, China, Holland, Norway, Sweden, and more!