What is guardianship?
Guardianship is a collaboration between ethical breeders and dog lovers for the purpose of breeding dogs without keeping large numbers of dogs in a kennel environment. We raise dogs for the main purpose of being companion pets. These dogs do not do well in kennel situations, they NEED to be with people! Guardian dogs are dogs chosen for breeding purposes and then live with their guardians outside of our home. This allows the dogs to get more of that one on one attention that they want and need and allows us to continue to breed dogs in an ethical way.
What are the benefits?
The benefits for the guardian home/parent are many
What are the drawbacks?
The main drawback is that you don’t have complete autonomy of your dog until they are retired from breeding. That being said, we do endeavour to make the arrangement as easy as possible on all parties! The other drawback is that for guardian homes of females they will not have their dogs for 2 months at a time while they are raising their puppies. And for Males they need more consistent training so that they don’t mark and some do mark occasionally even if they are trained but that usually completely stops when they are neutered after they retire.
What are the requirements?
The main requirement is that you take good care of them and stay in good communication with us. And of course that you don’t get them spayed or neutered till they are retired!
How long do guardian dogs stay in the program before they are retired?
It depends! We hope that we could have 4 litters out of each breeding female and 6 years of service for males. But not all dogs do well with having and raising puppies and some males do not produce the quality that we are looking for so sometimes we do need to retire early.
What happens after retirement?
After our breeding dogs in guardian homes retire they stay with their guardian family for life!
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