What a great question! Let me explain how and what we do, to ensure the pup you take home from us is the best choice for your family and lifestyle.
Puppies are very different, just like children, some kids are the athletic types and some are scholarly type. We find it’s the same for pups!
We understand the puppies personalities from about 5 weeks old, and we begin the matching process based on your needs and wants. We go back, check our notes regarding the families preferences, start to consider which pups goes where, taking into consideration everything you have told us.
As the puppies start to become little dogs, the sorting process considers the following:
Mums and Dads energy levels, their size, depth of colour and their personalities.
Which puppy comes out of the whelp box first?
Which puppy opens its eyes first?
Which puppy is the first to recognise a human voice?
When spoken to, which puppy wags its tail first?
Which puppy is sitting in the corner very quietly?
Which puppy reacts to loud noises?
Which puppy pushes the others away from the food?
Which puppy barks at me?
Which puppy is the most sensible?
Which puppy watches and takes in everything around them?
At 7 weeks, we begin personality testing to really understand the pup’s innate personalities.
If we were to generalise puppy types, it could look something like this:
In every litter there is an outgoing, very busy, engaging pup, these are best for lots of children or families with a very busy active lifestyle. Then we have the middle of the road pups, these pups have average energy – suit most homes that have children or an active couple. And finally the quiet pup, theses pups are ideal for apartments, people on their own, or older people and very low energy families.
Your idea on your family puppy may be one that is quiet and gentle, however, if you have three active children, this puppy is not going to work out because it just simply won’t have the energy levels to keep up with your kids.
If you are a family who are working most of the time then a puppy that has high energy is not going to be happy left at home!
If you’re looking for an active puppy, but you rarely go for walks, and your idea of having a pup is to sit and watch TV or hang out in your office, this active type of puppy won’t suitable for you.
Or you may have an idea that the puppy that you’re looking for is going to be very gentle and quiet and sit nicely. But, if you have two or three children this puppy is not going to be suitable.
You may also think that you want a girl, but, if you have small children say under four, its usually better to be advised to get a boy. Some girls are fantastic and get on with everybody but a lot of the times this is not the case and girls can be quite picky and prone to be little princesses, and attach themselves to one person in the family, and not really share the love.
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