Albtal German Shepherds Reg’d

1908 Hwy 69 N, Val Caron, ON P3N 1M1

705-690-5400 albtalgermanshepherds.ca VersatileGSDs@gmail.com

Puppy Questionnaire & Application

Thank you for inquiring about my litter of puppies, and for taking the time to fill out this questionnaire. The questionnaire may seem long, but your complete answers will help me. The match between puppy and owner is very important to me, and I want you to have a puppy with the potential to meet the needs of your lifestyle and home. Please take your time, and feel free to add additional information that would help me understand your needs in a puppy.

Please be honest with yourself, as well as with me, about what you really need and want in a dog; not what you think I want to hear. Some dogs are just better suited for some lifestyles and homes than others. I will do my best to work with you, but I can only help make selections based on our communication and the information you share with me. Life expectancy for these dogs is about twelve years, and I want those years to be good for both you, and the dog.

All of my dogs are house dogs. Performance dogs can make wonderful companions, but they need training, and plenty of outlets for their drive. I love active, intelligent dogs that want to be with me; however, this does not make them easy to live with all the time. Some dogs in each litter will have less or more of these characteristics.

Eight week old puppies are not adult dogs. What this puppy will become is heavily influenced by how it is raised. During their stay with me I will do my best to give the puppies an excellent start. That said many experts feel that more than 50% of what an adult dog becomes has do to with their experiences after eight weeks of age. If you tell me you want a dog that is crazy to play tug or fetch, it may show great promise at eight weeks. It is the time and effort you put into training your puppy, once it goes home, that makes the bigger difference as that puppy matures. As many accomplished trainers will tell you, “we get the dog we trained.”

PLEASE Read this. I want the right puppies in the right homes! If you are happy, and my puppies are matched well, they are happy. Some heart breaks can’t be avoided; this is Mother Nature not an assembly line. But I want to do everything possible to make sure the next 12 or so years with your dog has the best possible chance to be a wonderful experience. Puppies will not be matched up with homes until all testing and structural evaluations have been completed, at about 7 weeks of age. Pups are ready for their new homes at 9 weeks of age.

I may or may not make the final selection on pups, sometimes things are very clear, but be assured I will at the very least narrow them down. That said, I want the final decision to be yours.

I ask puppy buyers to come pick up their puppies – I discourage shipping puppies, unless under certain conditions.

I would never suggest I can tell you what a 5 week old puppy will grow into – they still have too much developing to do in the weeks to come! If I do not have a puppy to meet your needs based on our communication I will make this clear to you and will not place it in your home. I know this can be disappointing, but please know this is not done with malicious intent. It is done to try to “do right” by a situation. If I see an issue with a puppy that concerns me on how it might fit into your home, I will tell you.