How Can I Be Considered for a Worrywort Puppy? If you would like to be considered for a puppy feel free to contact us with questions. We will send you out our puppy questionnaire for you to fill out. The purpose of the questionnaire is to get a feel for what you want and your home situation...and to also educate you. Once you are approved for a Worrywort puppy we can accept your deposit.
Deposits: A $300.00 deposit will be accepted from approved homes to hold a puppy. The deposit is non-refundable. Send your deposit only if you are committed to add a Worrywort puppy to your household, it will not be refunded if you back out. If however, I cannot provide you with the puppy agreed upon (i.e. you want a white female and only white males are born) then I will refund your deposit.
Health: As the breeder of your puppy I have done everything I can to assure that the health of your puppy is excellent! All breeding stock has appropriate health certifications. Please see each of my dog's OFA link listed with each dog - the health testing on my own breeding stock goes above and beyond most breeders.
I only breed dogs that have no known detrimental genetic health condition! We stack the deck in your favor by breeding away from lines and dogs known to carry detrimental genetic health conditions. Undesirable traits do occur out of healthy parents and problems can crop up in any litter (purebred or mixed breed). Please understand that with the genetics of breeding dogs, nothing is 100% guaranteed.
Do you sell Breeding Dogs?
I get asked this question by a lot of people looking for pets that they might possibly want to breed and also from other breeders.
What I want from a person that I entrust a breeding dog to is for the dog to live in the house as a member of the family. I don't have a 'kennel" per-say....all my dogs are in the house and in houses across the nation as companion dogs first and foremost. With my own four dogs that live with me, I could not imagine adding another dog, as I don't know how I would have the time to properly raise, socialize and train the puppy. My puppies are companions and not commodities. I have on more than one occasion placed a top dog in a wonderful pet home when I could not find a suitable show home.
A person I entrust a breeding dog to would be on a show/trial contract. All my own dogs and any stock used for breeding are shown and trialed and have multiple titles to prove it. I would expect similar from a person I entrust a breeding dog to. How else would you know how good that dog is if it is not examined and trialed? One does not go to a brain surgeon without checking out his credentials or relying on the fact that his father was a brain surgeon. One should not use a breeding dog without that dog having some credentials or relying on the credentials of its parents or grandparents - yet many breeders do. Even though the average person who gets a dog may not be buying it for showing, they still deserve a puppy that has the potential to be one from a carefully planned litter.
A person I entrust a breeding dog to would have to have "above the average breeder" health testing done on the dog before breeding it. I have gone above and beyond what 99% or breeders do on their own stock. Most shepherd owners only do OFA hip and OFA elbows...and most basenji owners do OFA hip and OFA fanconi and CERF the eyes. I would expect more health testing than the average breeder does for its breed. How else do you know that the dog is worthwhile to breed and will pass on more good traits than bad?