Sentences with phrase «most home breeders»
Most home breeders never make any money, between time and vet cost.
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Most breeders will not take a puppy away from its mother before 7 weeks of age and will permanently identify every puppy, by either tattoo or microchip prior to being placed in its new home.
Most are happiest when they live in the breeders» homes, whelp, and rear their pups under the watchful eyes of the breeder.
A truly responsible breeder will, in most cases, refuse to sell two puppies to one home, except on the rare occasion that a prospective buyer can prove she has the skill, knowledge, time, ability, and monetary resources to provide an excellent environment for two pups at once.
Choose a Food Most breeders, pet stores or shelters will send you home with a short supply of the puppy food your dog was eating before going home with you, and you should use it at first.
Before finding forever homes for puppies in their care, most breeders have the puppies checked by a vet or micro-chipped for future identification purposes.
Most reputable breeder will dock or crop on ALL animals if it is a part of the breed standard - but some will not, especially if a chosen home asks them not to on a pet animal.
The most effective way to find homes is by connecting into the network of breeders in your area.
The most obvious and the best long - term medium for dog breeders and forever homes to stay in touch — Facebook!
Most breeders have jobs away from their homes and they still have to feed, bathe, groom, train and care for the dogs, fix meals, do laundry, spend time with their family, watch a little TV, eat and sleep.
Most breeders won't sell puppies to homes with children younger than eight years old.
She's the most precious pup ever, an English Bulldog I got from a rescue shelter, a breeder didn't want her anymore but I am so happy she came into our loving home as I couldn't imagine my life without sweet little Lola, her face is so pudgy and cute I want to kiss it all the time!
You have to be prepared to walk away all the way up to the moment that you sign the contract (the most common story I hear is that people get to the breeder's home and find that it is somewhere they feel they need to rescue the puppy from, or they get there and can obviously see that the puppy is timid and will not be the happy, well adjusted dog they had been promised).
Reputable rescue organizations aren't out to make a buck (which is opposite of most pet stores and breeders), so adoption fees typically just cover the costs of caring for an animal until he goes to a new home.
Additionally, they reported, «pet store - obtained dogs had a range of miscellaneous behavioral problems at significantly higher frequencies than did those acquired from breeders (e.g., escaping from the home, sexual mounting of people and objects, and most forms of house - soiling).»
Reputable breeders are most concerned with placing each puppy in an excellent home as a loving companion and house pet.
Most responsible breeders will not let puppies go to their new homes until at least 10 weeks of age.
Ethical breeders will not allow their dogs to go to a new home before eight weeks of age; most won't let them go sooner than 10 weeks.
The most common source of owned cats was from a friend or relative (42 % in 2005 versus 33 % in 1993), followed by being found as a free - roaming homeless cat (20 % in 2005 versus 32 % in 1993), a public or private animal shelter (16 % in 2005 versus 12 % in 1993), a breed rescue group (9 % in 2005 versus 2 % in 1993), a breeder (4 % in both years), an ad in a newspaper or adopted or purchased in a pet store (2 % in 2005 versus 6 % in 1993), a negligible percentage born at home (< 1 % in 2005 versus 6 % in 1993), and the remainder coming from various minor or unknown sources.
It was very difficult for us to see them leave to go to their new home, which is the most painful part of being a breeder.
Dogs were acquired from a variety of sources; the most common were friends or relatives (30 %), breeders (25 %), public or private animal shelter (15 %), with the remainder (less than 10 % each) coming from a breed rescue group, a newspaper advertisement, found as stray, being born at home, acquired from a pet store, and rare other sources (Fig. 1).
Most breeders know of a home in which the situation escalated until the owner had a chubby, less - than - completely - housebroken dog that roused him at 5 a.m. and had kissed and charmed its way out of being groomed so often that it was a smelly, matted mess.
And when I contacted the auction's owner to ask for an interview, he was welcoming and spent an entire day with me, talking openly about his personal history, his current business practices and even taking me to meet the types of breeders he respects — breeders whose dogs, when I got to their commercial - scale farms, were running and playing in spaces as big as many suburban backyards and even ballfields, dogs who came up to me to say hello and, in most cases, seemed just as happy and normal and healthy as my own two spoiled mutts at home.
Most breeders» sales contracts stipulate that the puppy buyers are to contact the breeder when such a situation occurs so that they can assist in rehoming, or if they are able, even take back the dog when a new home isn't available.
The most important way to reduce the failures that come to rescue is for breeders to become more selective in choosing the homes they sell to.
Most people have no idea, I didn't till I fell in love with Corgi's and read all the info put out there by corgi lovers, including the home breeders.
As with all dogs, you should have a good breeder evaluate the personality before you bring it home, but most of them will do well with kids in the household.
Most breeders let the puppies stay with their mother 8 - 12 weeks before they are placed in their new homes.
It is most desirable that the puppies are kept in a busy room in the breeder's home, not in barns or garages.
Most unethical breeders send puppies home earlier because they don't want to feed or clean up after them — that's the real reason.
The Virginia Inspector came into her home today carrying a Virginia Breeders Federation book, the one that most of the vets in the state have available.
A lot of people won't get rescue dogs because of their unknown history and they'd rather buy a puppy or an older dog that has been «run on» (to see if it is up to show or breeding standard) from a good breeder — because that breeder will know the temperaments of the parents and can also usually tell the character of the pup by the time they are ready to go to their new homes — and most certainly not at 8 weeks — mine NEVER leave until at least 12 weeks!
The most active and vocal ones are in Missouri, Pennsylvania and Ohio, home to the heaviest concentration of puppy mills or what the AKC refers to as «high volume breeders».
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Another advantage is that the serious show breeder is likely to know a great deal about the breed, loves the breed and will be willing and able to answer most questions as well as to assist with suggestions to solve any problems that might come up with managing the new puppy once you get it home.
For one, most reputable breeders have a «puppy package» that helps with the transition between the kennel and the puppy's new home.
I don't know anything about how pet stores operate in Italy, or even outside of New York City — and very little on how things have changed since I worked at one in the 1990s — but it's been my experience that most behavior problems in young puppies come from being sent home too early by the breeder.
When a pet store buys puppies from good breeders, pairs the pups up properly according to age and size, and allows them to play together, they're very rarely aggressive, and will in most cases be better socialized than if they're sent home before they're 12 weeks of age.
Alex has been most helpful and to be honest I have never seen a breeder so honest and open about his dogs and invited us right into his home.
Most breeders are great at carefully placing the most assertive puppies into homes with the right type of owner, providing lots of great advice and guidance to prevent problems from developMost breeders are great at carefully placing the most assertive puppies into homes with the right type of owner, providing lots of great advice and guidance to prevent problems from developmost assertive puppies into homes with the right type of owner, providing lots of great advice and guidance to prevent problems from developing.
Another reason is that, while reputable breeders do their best to screen families to make sure their puppies are going only to the most loving of homes, it is a risk that any puppy sold intact could end up producing puppies in a puppy mill, with quality of life so poor it is hard to imagine.