Lifelong
advice and support is offered to our puppy owners,
by phone, email or face to face.
Puppies are socialized with toys & tunnels, with other pack members, horses & farm noises before going home at 8 weeks
I temperament test puppies at 7 weeks of age, to know the puppies energy, drive and personality, to make recommendations to help match the puppies personality with the right family. The ultimate goal is fitting the puppy into the right environment where it is to be placed. Puppy buyers choose their own puppies based on photos, temperament test results, energy and drive, observed in the litter. I do not choose puppy for buyers, but do make recommendations from the information on the application and many conversations before puppy goes home.
I always reserve the right to deny the choice, if the choice
is not the right puppy for the environment.
Puppy is sent home with a toy/towel with the litter mates
and moms smell on it, a comforting scent, to help get thru the first couple of
nights. Also a printed weight chart since birth, a weekly diary of its
first 8 weeks of life, 4-5 generation pedigree, results of temperament testing,
micro-chipping paperwork & tag and AKC application to register puppy.
Buyer will love said puppy with daily hugs and will send
periodic (bi-yearly- minimum) updates w/photos (throughout her/his life) to
seller. Buyer will train said puppy basic commands; sit, stay, come, leave it,
heal, also socialize said puppy in public a minimum of 50 times before 1 year
of age and continue training if you’re so inclined. I suggest a puppy class,
then adult classes before 2nd year of age.
Buyer will also offer Breeder/Seller first refusal of puppy
if ever he/she is for sale.
Please
know, most breeders dont breed for a medium drive or therapy temperament, as we
do.
While searching for your next furkid, make sure you ask about drives, health
& titles.
If any of their dogs or pups do schutzund, that is HIGH drive.
Not to say it is bad, as my dogs will do 2 of the 3 trainings in SchH.
Tracking & Obedience, just not the bite work.
They learn it, but dont have much "fight" drive to title in
that discipline. Another factor is larger size, so unless the helper is a
larger fellow, most aren't going to train with a bigger dog up on his back legs,
as which will be required come trial time, so this can become a training
issue...where not being used to dancing on a sleeve on only rear legs may cause
the dog to let-go of the sleeve.
Our dogs are a blend of lines, a process that's
taken over a twenty years.
Bear had Swiss Working line in his pedigree, Phenyx came with Working lines in
her's, same with Zeus. It's a balancing act, and we seek to co-create
dogs with medium aggression levels on purpose.
I guarantee hips and temperament in writing as long as you
DONT spay or neuter your pup until age of two years.
Large, straight backed, old-style German shepherds
All puppies Micro-chipped, vaccinated & de-wormed before
going to new homes.
After Application is approved, a non-refundable, but litter transferable
deposit of $200 for a puppy is required.
I will NOT sell 2 puppies at the same time to the same home/family.
Or sell a puppy into a family that already has a puppy under 1.5 yrs old.
(I believe every pup deserves an undivided attention to learn, then they can
help with the next pup)
Veterans, Firefighters and Police organizations receive a $100.oo discount.
We employ the Super Dog program with all litters. Read about it here: Early Neurological Stimulation