The Riverglenn Agreement 2017, includes the following:
Breeder Responsibilites
We will provide you with copies of the following documents, each for Dam and Sire: Registration, Pedigree, and test results for Hips, Eyes, JDCM, GM1, prcd-PRA, and Improper Coat.
We will provide you with your dog’s Canadian Kennel Club Non-Breeding Purebred Dog Certificate of Registration, within 6 months of taking possesion of your dog.
We will refund the purchase price of $2500 to you, if a Veterinarian properly diagnoses your dog with any of the following: prcd-PRA, Improper Coat, GM1, JDCM, Hip/Elbow Dysplasia.
We are responsible for the puppies’ first Veterinary exam, vaccinations and microchip, and will provide you with these and any other veterinary records of your dog, including the Province of NS Form A: Veterinary Certificate.
We are responsible to help you and your dog, with any issue, for their lifetime. We will provide appropriate information and advice at our home or yours, or over the phone.
We will accept the return of your dog for any reason, at any time. We will determine the refund amount to you, with consideration of the cost required to rehome your dog.
Dog Owner Responsibilities
Food
Provide unlimited, clean water, and feed your dog healthy food. As a minimum, healthy food is a processed dry dog food that contains meat or fish as the first ingredient, as well as fruits, vegetables, and grains that are safe for dogs and in the appropriate proportions. The best healthy food is unprocessed raw and/or cooked meat or fish, fat, fruit, vegetables and grains that are safe for dogs and in the appropriate proportions.
At Home
House trained or adult dogs will not be kept in a crate while you leave the house. A crate with an open door is fine, but allow them to decide and move freely. Teethering a dog is not permitted.
Education
Use only positive training techniques with your dog. Discipline should be firm but gentle when you need to tell your dog that certain behaviours are not acceptable.
Attend at least one training class with your dog, between 6 and 12 months old, in which the Trainer uses only positive techniques. Provide us with the course certificate, within a couple weeks of completion.
Grooming
Use only combs and brushes on your dog that are meant for hair. Tools designed for 2 coated shedding type dogs should never be used on a PWD.
Take your dog to a groomer, who understands the coat of a PWD, before 4 months old. Your dog must be cleaned and groomed at least once a month. If you are not a groomer, you must take your dog to a groomer at least 3 times per year, as long as you have properly goomed your dog the other 9 months.
Vet
You are responsible for the 2nd puppy vaccinations and exam, 3rd puppy vaccinations and exam, and the 1 year old vaccinations and exam. Provide us with each of these Veterinary records within a couple weeks of each exam. If your puppy is with us during any of these timeframes, we will take your dog to our Vet and you can reimburse us.
Have your dog spayed/neutered by a Veterinarian before 12 months old. Provide us with the certificate within a couple weeks of the procedure.
Obtain a Certificate of Health and Vaccination for your dog, annually, for their lifetime. This means a Veterinarian examimes your dog annually. Vaccination boosters and pest control are given only as necessary, as agreed to between you and your Vet.
Other Important Notes of the Agreement:
We are transfering ownership of a dog to you and only to you. If you are ever unable to care for your dog, you do not have rights to give or sell the dog to any person or organization, other than back to us. We will give fair consideration to any person you wish the dog to go to. We are responsible to rehome our dogs. We will determine the refund amount to you, based on the cost required to rehome your dog.
If a Veterinarian diagnoses serious health issues for your dog, including, but not limited to life threatening diseases, under or over weight, malnutrition, matted and smelly hair, aggressive temperament, you are responsible to inform us and we will help you and your dog.
If you do not spay/neuter your dog within the agreed timeframe, ownership is immediately returned to us, unless we mutually agree to a new deadline.
If you knowingly or unknowingly breed your dog, you are responsible to inform us, and ownership is immediately returned to us.
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