WORLD OF DOGS

Before you visit a dog breeder do check that their puppies are sold with a guarantee, full registration if pedigree stock, up to date vaccinations and micro-chipped or tattooed. All pups should be breed for structure and sound temperament. It is also best that puppies are raised in family environment one litter at a time. Many will seek an AKC registered puppy, and with all their vaccination shots current.

Puppies from good breeders will hold on to them and they will not be sold until they reach at LEAST 8 weeks old.

Micro-chipping of your puppy is advisable to ensure that should your puppy get lost he will be traceable through his microchip tag. Tag fitting (insertion and activation) is offered by most vets and will be done at the agreed expense of buyer or seller according to agreement.

If you are unsure about the best way to go about buying a puppy, veterinary pet centers will often have adoption guides to educate you on what you need to think about before adopting a puppy.

Breeding can be very time consuming when it comes to maintaining the health of the mother and puppies once they are born, and is best done by small breeders that love the breed and really care about the puppy and the mother.

However, in California, and elsewhere, the plethora of small breeders that exist are hard to find. One way of finding breeders is through Pet Net California. Pet Net California states that they offer a comprehensive dog breeder directory to help you find a puppy in your area.

Each breeder advert includes a telephone number, email address, and web page so that you can make contact with the breeder to view photos of puppies for sale, inquire about prices, seek dates for upcoming litters, apply to purchase a puppy, or just find out more about the breeder and their dogs.

Breeder Web also provides a similar service. They require that all their breeders sign up to an agreement of humane breeding. They are said not to allow any dog breeder that breeds more than three types of into their service, as that tends to point at breeders who focus less on the dog and more on the profit.

www.freedoglistings.com and Breeders.NET are web resources which again are active in the sunshine state for kennels, puppies, adult dogs, information and pictures. If you're searching for information from the Affenpinscher

to the Wirehaired Pointing Griffon or if you want to know, say if a Yorkshire Terrier puppy is right for your family – they may be able to help you.

Whether you want puppies suitable for showing, obedience or just loyal family pets. Whether you seek puppies which are pedigreed and eligible for registration with the AKC at 1 year of age, or a non-pedigree, do take care to make sure that your puppy will be:-

1.Healthy, happy and home raised.
2.Supplied with health guarantees and contracts provided.
3.From a healthy adult dog, as this leads to a healthier litter.
4.From a dog breeder that has the availability of facilities to isolate a mother and her pups from the rest of the adult dogs.

There may be more requirements which you may have, but the point is that there is scarcely a pet store than can guarantee that these requirements have been met.

Pet stores cannot tell you any personal stories about the parents of your puppy, nor can they tell you about the grandparents. Also, you cannot call pet stores to tell them stories about your puppy like its first experience with an obedience command!

We wish you well in you puppy hunt, and we hope you find like so many people with patience do; an adorable little pup which will be well behaved by nature and get along well with all dog breeds, and also any of your existing house pets.