All the breeders of purebred dogs that I know have very well planned breedings. Most of the puppies have been spoken for by people we have carefully screened even prior to breedingTemperament, health, longevity are the first things I look at when STUDYING the pedigrees of dogs that I would consider breeding. In the Golden Retriever Breed we have many heritable diseases (just like most breeds) & nbsp; therefore myself and any other breeder I know make sure that the dogs being bred have many generations of our breed specific clearances, in hopes to keep working on cleaning up our gene pools and providing, loving, healthy pets for the people who seek a purebred puppy to love, show, do obedience with or THERAPY work. On the particular breeding I just did, you can trace about 10 generations of Hip, eye and heart clearances, which means simply that we as breeders do the best we can to produce sound healthy puppies who are good representatives of their breed. Since however, they are not toasters we buy off a shelf at Walmart, we still can produce puppies that are affected by these same diseases that we have all these generations of clearances for.
That is why we carefully screen our puppy people and why we have pretty tough contracts in place before the pup ever leaves our home.
My puppies are microchipped ,before leaving my care and pet puppies are sold on a spay/neuter contract.
How do we enforce this you may ask??
The AKC Limited Registration papers are not even given to the puppy buyer until proof of sterilization of said puppy (AKC and The Golden Retriever Club of America find this practice more than acceptable) I do call the vet, or check the pup myself to make sure it WAS my puppy that was sterilized. Vets are happy to oblige us in scanning the pup and putting it on the surgery paperwork. In mine, as well as most other contracts I have read: if ever for the life of the dog the owner cannot keep it or care for the dog for any reason at all at any age , the dog is to be returned to ME, my puppy, my lifetime responsibility! My contract even has me having first right of refusal before a dog I have produced can be euthanized, except in a severe trauma situation or a very old dog.......... There is a place for those of us who love our breeds to produce purebred puppies..... We are not adding to the shelter supply of unwanted pets. In fact many times we determine the folks who call us would be better off to rescue a pet and I myself and most other breeders I know direct the people appropriately.
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