So, you decided to get a dog. On family council the decision was made that it will be a German shepherd. How it is correct to buy a dog of this breed?
Instruction
1. First of all, be approved in the decision to have a dog of this breed. A German shepherd – a dog large and active, demanding serious training and long walks. If you have no time or forces for daily classes with a dog – refuse temptation to get a sheep-dog.
2. When you are sure of the choice, accurately define for what a dog: for protection, for sport, for exhibitions, for walks, for breeding cultivation? Depending on purpose of a dog, you will be able to orient in search of the puppy suitable you. Why so? The variation in prices of dogs of such popular breed is very high. The adult dog for protection of the private house can be taken in a shelter, and on a puppy of a show class it is necessary to fork up.
3. Having stopped the choice on a dog for exhibitions, select nursery according to taste and on a pocket. Puppies from young people, the nurseries which did not prove yet, as a rule, cheaper. But the dogs received in them can not always successfully compete with more eminent fellows. Do not choose nursery only on beautiful advertizing on the website. Surely communicate to manufacturers personally.
4. Learn more about the chosen nursery. What family trees and titles producers have. Do they have necessary certificates and the hit qualifying standards for OKD and ZKS. Whether inbreeding (closely related crossing) was applied in cultivation. On what account there is a nursery among manufacturers. All this information can be obtained at specialized forums.
5. If in the chosen nursery there are no puppies for sale at present, you will be able to register in one of the following dung. If puppies are, then to you will suggest to choose one of them. Pay attention, to that the puppy was healthy and had no obvious pedigree deviations (a nepolnozubost, a non-standard color, a tail a kalachik, a kriptorkhizm).
6. Sign the contract of purchase and sale of a puppy with the manufacturer. It is recommended to discuss separately a possibility of compensation of a part of the sum at detection in a consequence at a dog of such breeding defects as a kriptorkhizm, a dysplasia, epilepsy. Together with a puppy the manufacturer reports you to hands a breeding card of a puppy (which subsequently you will exchange for a family tree in your club) and its pet passport.