Your Litter A to Z, Module 5 - Placing Your Puppies

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• Module To-Do’s

What’s In This Module

• Selecting Homes For Your Pups
• Finding Homes
• Sample Emails, Documents and Applications

No matter how well bred and raised your pups are, if they don’t end up in the right home, they won’t thrive and most likely, neither will you. Great matches between homes and pups bring tremendous joy to all concerned but bad matches make everyone miserable. These bad matches can also be costly to you in terms of time, money and sanity. Setting up a home selection process tailored to your kennel and breeding goals will help you increase the number of great matches you make and reduce your bad ones. Doing it BEFORE your pups are born, will make the process even easier.

Selecting Homes For Your Pups

Start with this video about matching your home-selection process to your breeding goals, dogs and you. (For most of us, it’s important for us to like our buyers, too! My saying is that people who annoy you before they buy, will continue to annoy you for the dog’s lifetime.)

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Finding Homes For Your Pups

Now, let’s go through the 8 steps to selecting a buyer. With the growth of Good Dog, some of this will take place through your Good Dog page and dashboard but the process is still the same.

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Sample Emails, Documents and Applications

Good Dog’s Legal Hub has many sample documents for you to use. Here are a few that we have used to find and commit to our buyers.

Application Questions

Your application can help you identify whether an application is right for you and your puppies. Remember, your buyers can help you further your breeding program so think about the specific information that you want, not just what everyone else wants.

• Sample Pet Application – some questions you may want to add to your buyer application for pet homes
• Sample Performance / Breeder Application – if you sell to competition or breeding homes, check out our application for questions you may want to add to your buyer application for pet homes

Information About You and Your Litter

• Sample About Us – add more info about you and your dogs to your Good Dog webpage so you can find the buyers that you are looking for and who will thrive for your dogs

Reference Request

We highly recommend you check references on your buyers. Here are sample reference requests, including a vet reference request.

• Sample Reference Request Email
• Sample Vet Reference Request

Deposit Acceptance Note
Your deposit agreement can be anything you want it to be as long as it is clear, in writing, and signed by you and your buyer. Be sure to include details like whether the deposit is refundable or not, and under what circumstances. Watch the Breeder Contracts and Warranties for more details.

• Deposit Webinar – you’ll need to log into your Good Dog Breeder dashboard to see this webinar
• Sample Non-Refundable Deposit Agreement – you’ll need to log into your Good Dog Breeder dashboard to see this document

Your Contracts and Warranties
Your contracts and warranties should be tailored to your needs and those of your buyers. Watch the Breeder Contracts and Warranties class for more help. If you are really concerned, have your contracts and warranties reviewed by a lawyer. Our samples are only offered as a starting point. They are most likely not fool-proof in your state or province.

• Breeder Contracts Webinar
• Sample Pet (Limited Registration) Contract 
• Sample Performance (Full Registration) Contract
• Sample Pet (Limited Registration) Warranty
• Sample Performance (Full Registration) Warranty

Your Litter A to Z Table of Contents

Section 1: Pre-Breeding

• Intro to Your Litter A to Z
• Module 1: Preparing Your Dogs For the Breeding
• Module 2: She’s In Season

Section 2: Pregnancy & Whelping

• Module 3: The First Trimester (From ovulation to Day 21)
• Module 4: The Second Trimester (Day 22-42)
• Module 5: Placing Your Puppies
• Module 6: The Third Trimester (Day 43-whelping)
• Module 7: Labor & Whelping

Section 3: Litter Management: Month 1

• Module 8: The First 48 Hours (Birth to 48 hours)
• Module 9: Your Litter’s First Week (Birth to Day 7)
• Module 10: Your Litter’s Second Week (Day 8-14)
• Module 11: Your Litter’s Third Week (Day 15-21)
• Module 12: Your Litter’s Fourth Week (Day 22-28)

Section 4: Litter Management: Month 2

• Module 13: Your Litter’s Fifth Week (Day 29-35)
• Module 14: Your Litter’s Sixth Week (Day 36-42)
• Module 15: Your Litter’s Seventh Week (Day 43-49)
• Module 16: Sending Puppies Home
• Module 17: Your Litter’s Eighth Week (Day 50-56)
• Module 18: After the Eighth Week (Day 57 and beyond)

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