Please do not visit the breeder unannounced!
First contact with us:
Typically, initial contact is made via email or telephone. This allows both parties to get a first impression of each other. Often, essential details can be clarified during a phone call. For example, some buyers are particular about only rehoming a male or female puppy. If all puppies of the desired sex have already been reserved, a personal visit is unnecessary. Friends, neighbors, and dog experts: Should you bring strangers along?
Ideally, all family members who will later live in the same household as the dog would like to visit us. However, please let us know in advance how many people will be coming. It's not ideal to invite acquaintances, friends, or distant relatives without asking and then arrive in a minibus.
The purchase price:
Selling puppies has nothing to do with a marketplace. We run a responsible breeding program, which is costly and time-consuming. Anyone who starts haggling won't exactly make themselves popular. And rightly so, because it gives the impression that the buyer only wants a cheap puppy without regard for breeding line, health, and temperament.
How we handle our puppies:
Our instructions must be followed during all interactions with the puppies. The standard phrase "They have to go through it" or "That's just part of it" doesn't always apply. The first few weeks of a puppy's life are an extremely sensitive phase. Anything that goes wrong during this time can be very difficult to correct. Our puppies can only be visited from the age of four weeks. And even then, you may only look at them and not touch them.
A notice!!!
Please do not visit us or our animals if you have a cold or a runny nose (children with colds should also not be brought along). Humans can transmit cold viruses to puppies (but not vice versa).
Depending on the puppies' age, only a limited number of people, if any, are allowed in the whelping room. Thorough hand disinfection is also necessary during the first few weeks of life to protect the puppies from infections. These precautions are naturally unnecessary once the puppies are 5-6 weeks old and exploring the world outside their whelping room.
VISITOR DOGS ARE NOT ALLOWED!!!
Since we have several dogs, it unsettles the mother dog and creates unrest within the pack. It endangers the puppies (germs and viruses) and is absolutely not common practice and undesirable here. Unfortunately, it's not possible to test whether a dog gets along with a puppy here. It's pointless to introduce your dog, who is likely quite nervous due to our other dogs, to the lively, playful puppies, because puppies get along with any well-socialized dog.
You only visit a breeder if you have a genuine interest in buying a puppy, not for a weekend outing to kill time. It's best not to visit five or six breeders in a row. This can spread diseases, bacteria, and germs, which the breeder certainly doesn't want, as it endangers the puppies' lives.
No breeder's environment is sterile. However, the germs and viruses that surround the dogs at the breeder's are familiar to them. Their immune systems are, so to speak, already adapted to these viruses and germs and protect the dogs from them. Foreign viruses and germs brought in by visitors on shoes and clothing, or by other dogs, may not yet be recognized by the breeder's dogs' immune systems, and this could lead to outbreaks of disease at the breeder's. Puppies are particularly vulnerable. There are indeed some viruses that would be fatal to puppies.
Even dogs that came from our kennel should not be brought along for visits when we currently have puppies. It's not that we're suddenly no longer interested in a dog we previously sold; it's that these dogs could also carry viruses that can cause illness in puppies. Even if these aren't fatal diseases, it's enough to suddenly have to provide medical care for eight sick puppies. This additional effort, and especially the anxiety one experiences when a puppy, or worse, the entire litter, becomes ill, doesn't outweigh the joy of a dog visit.
Bringing dogs to visit us is unfortunately always a problem. We don't have kennels, so when people visit with dogs, we sometimes have to keep our dogs indoors, as our pack isn't thrilled about canine visitors. Our male dogs, in particular, don't appreciate strange males suddenly appearing in their home. And we don't see why our dogs should have to interrupt their usual routine for a visit, not being able to go outside as they please, just so the visiting dogs can roam freely.