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This is some question to think before buying a puppies. 

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 My family and me are we ready to adopt a puppy ?

What type of puppy should we acquire ?   Age  /  Compagnion dog  /  show dog  /  guard dog  /  to know

  Where to buy a puppy  /  why a registered puppy  /  proof of the puppy was registered  /

 A Valbriden puppy

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Adopt a puppy

Before buying a puppy here some questions to arise :
 

 My family and me are we ready to adopt a puppy ?
 

                                               

Choice a puppy is a very important step because a dog implies a commitment from 12 to 15 years of common life.

The first thing to wonder it is if we live in an adequate environment for a grown-up dog because there will not stay in a puppy size, they grow-up at most six months. Have we as well autorisation required for example: a letter signed by the owner, an extract of the regulations of our building or of our municipality, etc. Do all the members of the family wish to share their life with a dog for the  next 10 or 15 years? If you have children, this is well  to give them responsibilities, but don't forget that some day the responsibility will fall maybe to you . Are we certain to choose the race which is convenient for us in short and long term?  Those simples questions are very important, because to adopt a puppy it's take a serious commitment to them, your family and you. It's too frequent to look puppies  abandoned after some months because someone had taken time to do enlightened choice being bouth it.

The decision is taken you are ready? How to choose the good puppy, the one who will answer your expectations, who will have the temperament for which you hope?
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What type of puppy should we acquire ?

Why to choose the quality, the temperament and the health ?  

                         

Age

Your puppy should have approximately 8 weeks or more, because at this age it acquired the identification to his pair and is ready to live the detachment with his mother.

Companion dog

When one wishes a dog exclusively for company, especially in families containing old persons or children, the choice turns out major.  It is necessary to choose a puppy with a lively temperament but not too much, a very good obedience and a profound sociability, an average or weak possessivite, an aggressiveness and a fighting spirit averagely reduced. It's disadvised on the other hand, to look for an animal to the strong personality. It's not necessary either that the puppy was a good subject for exhibition.  The dog of company should be socialized as quickly as possible.  It will be advisable to take him in walk, to show to him many things, persons and animals and to make him participate in a collective dog training like the pre-maternal in the obedience.  It's necessary to understand that a good dog have a good teacher, a good boss. To be a good boss it is necessary to learn how to educate its dog, how to teach them.
 

Show dog

If you wish a dog for exhibition it will be necessary to specify that to the breeder, because this one reserves the first one and sometimes the second choice to the buyers who will present them on the " ring" in show.  It is impossible to assure that the puppy, grown-up time will be a champion, however by acquiring a puppy issued from a lineage of champions and by knowing well the standards of the race you already have a better hope. Beyond the physical attributes, the dog of exhibition should possess very precise characteristics: a profound sociability, a good obedience, not enough aggressiveness and fighting spirit, a lively temperament and especially it should have what one calls "the sense of the  ring ", a natural attitude to show themself.  A dog of exhibition will not only be sociabilise with the human beings, but also with these congeners. It should also have to prepare to like transport in car from very young. The training under various aspect will be very important so much for the handler.  We don't sold a puppy for show, if you want to go in show with them your could but we sold companion and spoiler only.

Regrettably in Quebec, Westie or Scottish is most of the time the only one of those races in the show ring. For example, when the other Westie is presented they are of the same breeder, so, this breeder, can make sure to classify champion one of its dogs.  He just have to prepare adequately the one he need a champion title.  It is also necessary to know that the dogs of those races are groomed so as to hide the defects, knowing that no dog is perfect, the work of the groomer must be impeccable. The handler as to know as well the competitors, if necessary so as to encourage the competitors (dogs) to make errors, such as roll about the tail on the back because he feels dominated. The judge very often judge in the appearance because they don't very know those races in our  rings in Quebec and they have to many different races to judge.  That it is occasional that the judge is strongly specialized in the westie or the scottish. In brief, we consider that a dog can be considered as champion, is the most corresponding to its race so physically no as at the level of the temperament that if it had to contribute against several dogs of its race and resulting from different breeding. In Quebec and somewhere else very often, the championships are obtained by the accumulation of a point and are enough two dogs in the boxing ring so that the winner has a point or if he is alone it will automatically be promoted to the judgmentof the group of dens. To obtain a title the dog must have had, at least once, two points during the same judgment. The third place in the general class of the den any races merged, even if there is no other westie or scottish, will allow to have it two points. When the accumulation of 10 points is reached the championship is put handed in the dog (not to say to the groomer or to the handleror in the strategic breeder). In my opinion these championships have no value and absolutely want to say nothing but it is pleasant to live this experience occasionally it would be only to present our dogs to the public or have a feeling of membership. Having said that, know that in Europe very often it is one about fifty dog of the same race that is presented in front of a judge thus the championship is acquired with much more difficulty and actually it has much more value. This is our opinion, it is supported by many but it lives our opinion, also take that of the others.
 

Guard and defense dog

The characteristics of a guard and defense dog are not defenit by the sex and only by the breed.  The dog  should have a lively temperament, a profound fighting spirit, a pointed attentiveness, a big sociability, a very good obedience quality and a very net curiosity. The training up to the infringement of the diploma of level obedience 3 and protection is imperative itself to strengthen these characteristics and to keep the control over the dog. Please, remind  that a quite dog will always stay with dog instinct, be careful with guard education.

Finally it is necessary to know …

In a litter all  puppies are different even if they arise from same parents. To look at the children of the same family did they all take the same physical and physionomy?  and the temperament as those of dad or mom?  Or a little of the grandparents?  Also for puppies they are different some of the others. It is frequent that in a litter the ideal companion has no qualities of conformation required to become a champion within his race. Samething,, a dog having a promising conformation have'not especially the temperament required to be your ideal companion. The question to wonder is also simple as:  Do you firstable want a good companion and is'it important he have the sense of the ring ? If yes you want a futur champion because you hope to present your dog in show it will be important to speak about it with the breeder.
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WHERE TO BUY A PUPPY

If it most important to do the good choice of a race, still it's necessary to know to whom ask  for  the dog corresponding to your tastes and to your needs. The fate offers only very exceptionally the luck to find at a neighbour's or a friend the ideal puppy.  Refuges of animals avoids in a dog a sure death, but the reason for which his last boss abandoned him unknown and the buyer risks to discover it to his expenses. The animalshop,  do a commercial transaction of resale you have to could meet the breeder. You could find some publicity in newspaper or internet, be careful to make sure that it is not that a means used by brookers of dogs appearing as breeder. They are very different. Meet the breeder and  is kennel diminue the  risk that puppies result from dogfactory  and then you encourage them to pursue the ill-treatment imposed on animals. 

The breeder is a dog professional.  He selects dogs who will reproduce according to their morphology, to their character, to their previous history.  He selects the subjects which can be completely coupled together, genetic and behavioral. He give to his dogs good education,, best socialisation, and over. He knows his dogs better than anybody. By pride or out of necessity, sensitive to the quality of its production, to the reputation of its name, the pleasure to raise pass by the search for a reach maximizing the standards and the temperament of the race and the customer satisfaction.

Why to buy a registered puppy

A registered puppy insures you of the genetics and that you buy as companion of life point of view temperament and contagious health genetically. The breeder is above all a professional. He selects the dogs which will reproduce, he educates them, he knows them better than anybody. According to their morphology, to their character, to their previous history, he selects the subjects which can be completely coupled together, genetic and behavioral. By pride or out of necessity, sensitive to the quality of its production, to the reputation of its name, the pleasure to raise pass by the research for a reach maximizing the standards and the temperament of the race and the satisfaction of the clientele.

The conscientious breeders sell their puppies with an agreement of not reproduction to protect the race and the improvement of this one. If people couple them dogs without the reproduction rights, because some race are little spread, the risk of coupling genetically very bound(connected) is very important. During genetically connected coupling only a breeder of big experience can make sure of no no not to renforcir of defects, problems; to improve really the genetics. This cannot be made at random or be taken without thinking. Customs set apart, it is necessary at least to have what we make. It is not inevitably the case of people who couple their dog for the pleasure without having the rights of it.

Proof of a registered puppy

 A registered puppy is at first the guarantee that the parents whom one present you are possessions the parents of puppies which you buy. When you buy a registered puppy you have to have a copy of the contract of booking with subscriber the number of reach, the name of the parents under whom the Canadian Canine Club registered well them and handed forms required to declare every puppy individually. The puppy must be also tattooed or have a micro-chip of implanted with proof of the veterinarian which implanted it unless the breeder implants it in front of you or have a scanner to proof you they put the miclroship. You have to see the original pédigree of the parents of the puppy with at least three generations, the original recordings of the parents, the originals of gave evidence of OFA, OVC,  if the breeder tells you to have it, according to the race and finally if the dog is a champion you have to see its original certificate of the title.   All of those information are supposed to be available on CKC to.

Also know that : to register a puppy is little expensive and not very complicated, it cannot be not truth or the only reason for which the puppy is not registered, possible that the person is not the right to reproduce with one of both parents. In that case, this person knows possiblement not or little the genetics of its dog and will couple with a dog about which she will not know much either. Will there be genetic defects  or problems of temperament, couplings between parents which will double these problems? Why is all this so important? Because you will live 12 - 15 years with your dog, you want to spend them at the veterinarian's? At the specialists in improvement of the canine behavior?

A VALBRIDEN PUPPY

Valbriden is a professional breeder with particulary a domestic vocation.  Our dogs are at first good companions.  Our dogs live in a family and participate in the life of their house. Puppies are born under the care of their mother and under the breeder supervision in the house. The middle where they grow is the best to socialise, to the exercise and to the play as well as to the development of their temperament. The natural homemade food and the adaptation to the high-quality dry food , from which benefit puppies and their mother confers them a very good health and a magnificent hair.   We do our best for the puppies have a good congenital development and groow-up but like for the human baby  we can't guarantee the perfection it's why Valbriden give a two year guarantee with your  puppies puchase.  That's why you have to acquire a Valbriden puppies !

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