Regarding a contract

[HayleyMarie]

Good Afternoon guys. A questions for you breeders and puppy owners. If the breeder wanted a puppy owner to keep the pup intact until it matures and see if it is breeding worthy.

Breeders what would you want to see on the contract for yourself and the owner.

And Puppy owners, what would you like to see on the contract for yourself and from the breeder?

Puppy owners what do you think YOUR responsibility are and what do you think the BREEDERS responsibilities are.

And vise versa for the breeder
I should add this is not a co-own contract. The puppy owner owns the pup 100%

and GO!

 

[ruthcatrin]

Well, here's what Apollo's contract stipulates.

I COULD NOT neuter him before 10 months of age unless there was a major medical problem requiring it. (she verbally asked us to PLEASE wait till he's at least two, but she also understands that, especially with the females, someone who's not interested in showing/breeding may not want to deal with a heat cycle and doesn't feel she can force them to do so)

His registration with the AKC was listed as a Limited Registration (which means that if I DID breed him his pups couldn't be registered) untill such time as I had his hips and elbows done (full cert not prelim) OR unless I was willing to put his breeder on his registration as co-owner. In order to show him before I did his hips/elbows I had to put her on as 2nd-ary co-owner.

Once we got his official OFA cert for his hips and elbows she filled out the paperwork to remove herself from his registration.

Technically that pushes him into the relm of co-own for that few month period between when we started showing and when actually got his hips and elbows done. To me personally I felt it to be a decent compromise. She does her best to limit the legal allowance for breeding him before he's health tested, while still allowing me as his owner to make decisions as nessecary for his health. Course none of that would stop someone truely bent on BYBing, but thats true even with a strict spay/neuter contract.