One breed, studied the way you'd study a text.
Le Cabinet occupies the ground floor of a stone house on rue Sainte-Ursule — a former family library turned kennel. One litter a year, raised among the bindings, with the same rigour you'd give a rare edition.
A kennel that stayed a library.
Isabelle Prévost inherited this house from her grandfather, a bookbinder and rare-book dealer. The room he called "the cabinet" — its shelves, its leather armchairs, the morning light off rue Sainte-Ursule — is now the whelping room. Nothing was removed; the puppies grow up among the books.
One sire, two dams, one litter a year: just few enough to know every puppy's temperament before we even name them — and we name every one after a writer or a poet.
Isabelle Prévost
Le Cabinet, rue Sainte-Ursule — Old Québec
Three commitments, recorded for every puppy.
They apply to every litter we raise — no exceptions, no extra charge — clauses we never renegotiate.
A file before every breeding
Hips, elbows, heart, eyes and dermoid sinus screening — the condition tied to the ridge itself. You receive the full results, not a summary from memory.
Raised among the books
Daily handling from week three, gradual exposure to the sounds of the house, to visitors, to stone staircases. A well-socialized ridgeback shows it as an adult.
A name in the ledger, for life
We stay reachable long after your puppy leaves. And if you can no longer keep your dog, they come back here — their page in the ledger never quite closes.
The Rhodesian Ridgeback, and nothing else.
One breed for nine years: an athletic dog, reserved with strangers, deeply attached to its home — known by the ridge of hair that grows against the grain along its spine.
We don't diversify. Knowing one bloodline well, its strengths and its faults, beats skimming ten. The Cabinet's ledger has documented every breeding dog since our first litter.
From your first letter to the ride home.
You write to us
Tell us about your household, your experience with an independent guardian breed, your living situation. We reply within 48 hours — sometimes honestly to say the ridgeback isn't right for you.
An interview, then a visit
We meet every family by appointment, in the cabinet itself. You'll meet Montaigne, our sire, and the litter's mother. No placement happens without this meeting.
Entered in the ledger
A $600 deposit confirms your place. Puppy–family matching happens around week seven, based on observed temperament — never on a colour picked from a photo.
Going home at eight weeks
Your puppy leaves vaccinated, dewormed, microchipped and examined by our veterinarian, with a health record and the ledger pages that concern them.
The next litter — Sappho's — is expected in summer 2027.
Our litters are almost always spoken for more than a year in advance. If a ridgeback interests you, now is the time to write and join the list — even if your plans aren't settled yet.