How Viable Is It To Do House Checks?

[Moselle]

Ideally to carry out house checks when rehoming a dog or selling puppies is great but how does a breeder manage to do so or does this take place at all or is it considered unecessary?? What happens if you find a "suitable" home and it happens to be interstate? or perhaps in the same state but a fair distance away? I believe that some shelters do this but I have always wondered how this is possible given the distance in alot of case.....

[Hafhafa Hounds]

Easy - networking.

Firstly, I made sure potential puppy owners understood that they would get a puppy from me IF I chose to sell them a puppy, not if they handed over some cash.

Then I did a written questionaire, house checked or asked for references from anyone whose personality/answers/face I wasn't fully satisfied with and I have done home checks after the puppies went, too. ;) ...and before you flame me for the "face" comment - my puppies, my rules.

I haven't yet sent one of my own puppies interstate, but have rehomed rescue dogs interstate. Didn't need to do a check (both were friends of trusted rescue associates or checked by the organisation I rehomed through) I but did ask for refs & vet phone numbers. I'm also the second contact on all my microchipped puppies (I did breed a litter pre-microchipping) and rehomed rescues.

Sonia