Providing Puppies With New Homes Before placing puppies into new homes, it’s crucial to ensure they are developmentally ready for the transition. Here are some important considerations: Age and Weaning Status Wait until puppies are at least 8 weeks old before allowing them to go to their new homes. Ensure they are fully weaned from […]

Creating Waiting Lists Once you know how many puppies you have and their genders, decisions about their future homes need to be made. Often, breeders may choose to keep a puppy for their own breeding program or personal reasons. Assessing Waiting Lists When you know what dogs you aren’t keeping, you can start to go

Introduction to Puppy Rearing For the next eight weeks, you are going to be in charge of making sure that the puppies are raised correctly. It is going to be your job to make sure that the puppies you are providing are properly socialized and healthy. Initial Care and Handling First of all, they should

Preparing for Birth When it comes time to birth your puppies, there are a few things that you should know so that your puppies can be happy and healthy and that your mother dog will be safe. Monitoring the Due Date First of all, keep track of the due date. Your vet can help you

Preparing for Breeding Once you have everything set up, you can begin to actually do the breeding process for your puppies. Ensuring Correct Age and Health Again, make sure that the dogs you are breeding are the correct age. You want to be sure that you have waited for the right amount of time, and

Creating Questionnaires and Waiting Lists A responsible breeder will have a questionnaire for potential owners, and will also have a waiting list for them. This helps you to provide yourself with a good idea of what owners will be like and it allows you to approve them even before you have puppies. Developing a Web

Deciding When To Breed When you are raising dogs in order to breed them, you are going to need to decide when you should begin the breeding process. This is very important because you don’t want to breed dog when they are too young, and you also don’t want to wait too long. Considerations Before

Raising Your Breeding Dogs Now that you have acquired your beginning stock, you’re ready to embark on your breeding journey. But before diving into breeding, there’s the enjoyable task of raising puppies from the start. Hand-Raising for Optimal Development The ideal breeding stock comprises dogs that have been hand-raised by you since puppyhood. This hands-on

Selecting Your Breeding Stock Your beginning stock is going to be important for you to obtain after you have decided what you would like to breed, and after you have researched the breeding standards that you are going to be looking for. Armed with a copy of the breeding standards, go to work searching for

Exploring and Learning Breed Standards Understanding Breed Standards In order to do a breeding plan in the correct manner, something that you are going to have to do is to develop an idea about the breed standards that you are looking at and how to apply them to your own dogs. Looking at breeding standards