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To be on a puppy waiting list from my kennel I like you to complete the enclosed  prospective owner questionnaire (english only now)  It provides me with some information about yourself and your family and tells me what you would like to see in your new puppy.

Once I have your application I’ll get back to you about the waiting lists, puppy deposits and a possible for a visit to my place to se my dogs and the puppies.

If the sire or I choose to keep a puppy, then we will wait until after 7-8 weeks to make that pick, meaning the majority of folks will have to wait until after that to make their pick. Puppy choosing is typically handled ROUGHLY by order of deposits placed, although this often varies based on me trying to accommodate everyone.

I reserve the right to adjust order or assign puppies based on the information I have on file about potential owners. YOU MUST ACCEPT THIS prior to placing a deposit.

This quote very well describes some of the nuances of choosing a puppy by the owners and my priorities in choosing the owners.

Author Ruffly Speaking

PLEASE DO NOT EXPECT TO CHOOSE YOUR PUPPY. This one drives puppy buyers CRAZY. I know this, trust me. I have a lot of sympathy because I’ve been there. But the fact is that when you come into my house and look at the eight-week-old puppies and one comes up and tugs on your pant leg and you look at me, enraptured, and say “THIS IS IT! He chose ME,” I’ve been looking at people coming into the house all week, and every single time this same puppy has come up and tugged at them and every single one of them have said to me “THIS IS IT!”

What you are seeing is not reality. You are seeing the most outgoing puppy, or you’ve fallen in love with the one that has the most white, or the one that has a different look from the rest of the litter (when I had one blue girl puppy in a litter of black boys, every human that came in the house wanted her; when I had one black girl puppy in a litter of blue boys everyone kept talking about how much they loved HER), or the one that’s been (accidentally) featured the most in the pictures I’ve posted. Or, sometimes, you have a very good instinctive eye and you’re picking the puppy that’s the best put together of the litter. And that puppy, of course, is mine, and you’re going to have to pry him out of my cold dead hands.

My responsibility is not to make you happy. And that, dear friends, is why I am posting this now, and not when I have a bunch of actual puppy buyers around :D. But it’s the truth. My responsibility is to the BREED first. That’s why my first priority in placing puppies is the show owners, because they are the ones that will (if all goes well) use this dog to keep the breed going. It’s not that I like them better than I like you; it’s that I have to be extremely careful who I place with them so that they can make breeding decisions with the very best genetic material I can hand them. My second responsibility is to the PUPPY. I will place each puppy where I feel that it has the best chance of success and the optimal environment to thrive.

So while I do care, and I will try to take your preferences into account, do not expect to walk into my living room and put your hand in the box and pick whatever puppy you want. And do not expect to be given priority pick because you contacted me first; conversely, do not expect that because you came along late you somehow won’t get a good puppy. Sometimes the person who calls me when the puppies are seven and a half weeks old ends up with what I’d consider the “pick” for various reasons (sometimes because somebody called me up and said they’d gotten a puppy from someone else; see rule 4 above). I am going to try to do my absolute best to match puppies to owners as objectively as I can, not according to who called first.

 

Firs visit for the further owners we allow when the puppies are at least 3 weeks old. Time between 4th and 8th week puppies use for exploring the “world”. Puppies, under surveillance of their mother and other members of the kennel, are getting to know the rush not only in household and on the yard, but also on individual and collectively walks (vacuum cleaner, mixer, car horn, water, differently dressed people, little children, cry, rain, storms, bangers, shooting…).

I take that as the most important part of the raising, for them not to be coy and sensitive, have positive attitude to children and react well in various life situations.

In this stage we are starting with exhibition training with all puppies with show leashes. With every day’s few-minute training we fix showing habits – leash, what will help in future in training with handler.

With individual walks of every single puppy in supervision of his mother we ensure habit of collar and leash. The presence of his mother eliminates natural fear of open space (meadow) as well as of closed rooms (tunnel), scents and sounds.
With special tools (obstacles) on the yard or during the walks, We are trying to develop abilities to think independently.

Of course, this is really time-consuming, but the truth is that the puppies that are socialized in this way will not have any problems with fitting into their homes or coping with any new and stressing situation in their lives. They will also be better prepared for development of their working skills in their maturity. They will have good basics and all the prerequisites to grow into mentally well-balanced dogs!!!

The puppy will be registered to the Finnish Kennel Club (FCI), microchipped, de-wormed (2, 4, 6 weeks) and checked by a vet (8 weeks).

The puppy package including:

• Contract
• Take-over document of the puppy
• FCI Pedigree, card with the dog’s origin
• EUROPASPORT / The dog’s International vaccination card
• Printed parents information (pedigree, health certificates, Champions diplomas)
• Infromation about whole the litter, its development, and possible problems which occurred in the litter
• Information about the parents and the litters which they come from, and possible problems which occurred with them or in the litter they come from
• Breed standard of Rhodesian Ridgeback
• Free membership of Finnish RR Club for the rest of the calendar year (does not apply to people who are already members or live not in Finland)
• Information about following vaccinations and parasite disposal of the puppy
• Information about the puppy’s training and nutrition, with the menu and the schedule of feeding
• basic equipment for the puppy: a toy and a chewing bone, a dog-collar and leash, show leash, a set of a bag and little lair, granules for the first days in new home and for the journey: dry treats, blanket and a toy with the smell of the mother and siblings

Our care doesn’t end with the leaving of the puppy. We are staying in contact with the new puppy’s masters and we are ready to give an advisory opinion in any sphere related to dogs or help 24 hours a day.

So what family i looking to my puppies?

Of course the most important is that you provide a loving home and a position as a family member to my puppy! But i will be very happy to has active family with show ambitions to my puppies. Showing, field tracking, lure coursing obedience, agility, dog dansing and so on! Ridgeback will be always happy not just lay down on sofa.

I looking on family witch has enough time for right socializing the puppy! For right training the puppy! New family need has time for walking long with puppy and walking not just in forest/fields but in city and has trips for socialization.

Also i asking all puppies to pass official health checks (hips, elbows, shoulders and spine), temperament test and some standard Laboklin tests for breed. And these i ask to do for all puppies and no mater puppy is pet quality or standard. It is important to me like a breeder!

Family for my puppy need agree that puppy will be on all sofas, beds.

New family need guarantee that my puppy will live in house, not in kennels outside. That my puppy will has a full freedom inside.

Puppy is very active till 2-3 years, so the new family should have great patience with all the tricks of the puppy. And always control what the puppy does inside and outside.

New family guarantee be with breeder in contact in all questions! It is mean that if you has any question in any time of the day you need first contact me and then if my answer will be not full enough you can ask forums, facebook and so on! But normally my unswers are enought on all questions about growing, health and so on because i has special cynology and veterian education!

“Men have forgotten this truth,” said the fox.
“But you must not forget it.
You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.

“The Little Prince” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Remember about these always!!!

I am searching for owners who will cherish the pure value of my puppies and breeder’s approach. We choose for every puppy the proper owner in accordance to talents of each pup. We don’t trust our puppy to any interested person.

So if you are ready, welcome in my Big and Friendly kennel family!!

Hanna Dymytrova-Kaihila

Rhodesian Ridgeback Kennel from 2009

“Maanhaar Primo-Creatus”

It is very important to us that the pups get the best start possible.

Our puppies growing up in our house and livingroom and there will be a lot of time and effort put into socialising the pups.

We feed our puppies only with super premium food including special vitamins, fruits and vegetables.

Puppies live with us minimum till 8 weeks, but if puppy need move in another country we will be very happy to has our puppy with us till 4 months.