Rayvale Posted February 18, 2011 Share Posted February 18, 2011 I am putting together folders for each of the puppies that were whelped last week in anticipation of their forever homes (even though I intend keeping one)! Contents include - but not limited to The mandatory stuff like: All of my contact details Pedigree papers Vaccination Cert & details of current vet Worming details Feeding schedule (will include food in the care pack) Breed Standard Some fun photos from birth to sale of pup A picture of Sire & Dam Voucher for "ANYTIME - Puppy Holiday / Minding" Puppy blanket, toy, & harness What other things do you include for your pet buyers (as the sale pups will all be on L/R)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Borderpower Posted February 18, 2011 Share Posted February 18, 2011 I also do lead collar 1 feeding dish sample packs of puppy food,milk, and biscuts as what you have menioned already toys, worming,blanket and all the paper work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
espinay2 Posted February 18, 2011 Share Posted February 18, 2011 (edited) Fridge magnet with contact details. People 'lose' your email address and phone number when they file the papers away. But people keep magnets on the fridge for years and years. Put a nice picture of a dog or puppy on it and you have even more chance of it staying there. No more excuse that 'I couldnt find your phone number/email address'. Vistaprint is a great place to get this sort of thing. Collar. I have a particular type of collar I recommend for starting training (martingale collar). They fit a Pyrenean from puppy to adulthood and last the lifetime of the dog. They are however, hard to get in Australia. I can get them from Country Brook Design in the US for a good price though. Dog Tag - engraved on one side with the breed and my website address. They can put their name and phone number on the other, or just use two tags if they like. IF they use them, it means there is a 'backup' contact should the dog be lost. Try ebay for them. edited to add - Pet insurance. If you sign up to something like Pet Plan they can be covered for the first few weeks. Helps you too if something should go wrong. Edited February 18, 2011 by espinay2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baileys mum Posted February 18, 2011 Share Posted February 18, 2011 I put in everything you have mentioned plus I throw in -A puppy blanket with litter scent on it -A toy with litter scent on it ,+ a couple of new toys -A collar & lead (I like the Rogz pups ones) -A couple of monthly treatments of Advocate with instructions -A little booklet about the breed that I've made up myself - A book on raising & training puppies -A contacts page including my own , breed club, Dogs vic, & of course Dogzonline site. -Some treats & of course the food I've fed them (1.5kg of Advance puppy) with feeding instructions, including a list of foods not to feed puppies & dogs. -I also give tips on safety, puppy proofing the house & settling a puppy in its new home. - A typed up page about the puppy , including time of birth, weight at birth & general personality of the puppy -My contract of sale I think that is all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jerojath Posted February 18, 2011 Share Posted February 18, 2011 troppo I would maybe rethink the "anytime puppy holiday minding" offer, unless you intend this litter to be a one and only. You may one day find your self with 30 dogs over the Xmas holidays! No breeder minds having one or two back for 'boarding', I do it a lot and don't ever charge, but I certainly don't offer it to ALL my puppy buyers as an 'anytime' offer! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jed Posted February 18, 2011 Share Posted February 18, 2011 Basic puppy training and how to begin information Housetraining information A couple of pages on characteristics of the breed. Information on vaccines and vaccinating (before their vet tells them their pup must have a C7 and the breeder was very mean to give it only a C3) Basic information on a raw diet I offer to mind pups I bred - if the owners need someone, not just because they are too lousy to pay boarding fees ( I don't quite put it like that though}. I have had a dog back through a divorce, and he then went to live with the wife and kids, one back when grandpa died, and no kennel could take him at such short notice, and other such genuine situations. I include that in writing in the information I supply Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dancinbcs Posted February 19, 2011 Share Posted February 19, 2011 Add copies of any health results for the parents and an extended pedigree to everything else that has been suggested. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
becks Posted February 20, 2011 Share Posted February 20, 2011 I think it is nice not to go overboard with what you put in a pack (re. collars, leads, bowls, bedding etc) as puppy buyers really enjoy shopping for their new pup. I give them a list of suggested items they should get before pup goes home. I include a lot of info (though have cut back a bit on that as it was taking to much printing, so some of it is now on the website, so easy to find at anytime). The most important for me, aside from all the 'have to' paperwork is the puppy insurance, the Petplan policy are good and give people time to sort out a policy of their own for the dog. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tommygirl Posted February 20, 2011 Share Posted February 20, 2011 My last litter I included brochures on flea/worming/puppy preschool/council rego/puppy care etc. My local Petstock has loads of different info brochures I collected all nice glossy and saved me doing The work/printing them out. I told them I just had a litter and wanted 7 x all the brochures I picked and they even gave me some little discount vouchers too. I do my own book up too, which has sire dam pics, puppy pic, diet info, breed info, but this saved me a lot of printing! I include a small chew toy too and a couple of days worth of food they are on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rayvale Posted February 20, 2011 Author Share Posted February 20, 2011 There are some Awesome ideas in here guys! (Really love the magnet - thats how I keep a lot of my "important numbers" handy with the vet magnet on the fridge)! I hear you Jerojath - but I only intend to breed to improve my showing group and as they only have small litters and I have only bred 5 litters in 6 years I am really not too worried about having the furry little buggers back to visit. (But I might put some conditions on there though!) Tommygirl - what sort of info brochures did you get - I dont remember seeing any at the local Petbarn? Sounds like a great place to look for stuff though! Yep Jed - puppy training info is a must, too many people think of Chi's as just little dogs who don't have manners, so often due to lack of training! Will talk to the lady we do puppy training with and grab some info from her! Thanks again guys! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oakway Posted February 20, 2011 Share Posted February 20, 2011 I think it is nice not to go overboard with what you put in a pack (re. collars, leads, bowls, bedding etc) as puppy buyers really enjoy shopping for their new pup. I give them a list of suggested items they should get before pup goes home. I include a lot of info (though have cut back a bit on that as it was taking to much printing, so some of it is now on the website, so easy to find at anytime). The most important for me, aside from all the 'have to' paperwork is the puppy insurance, the Petplan policy are good and give people time to sort out a policy of their own for the dog. I agree totally becks. I think some of you are just totally overboard. Give similar to what Jed does the essentials. Give what they really need. The vaccination certificate. The feeding programme. The food the pup is used to eating The registration certificate (if available) The thing people always thank me for, is a list of nasties not to feed and the nasties that can grow in the garden. They always say I never thought of those. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tommygirl Posted February 21, 2011 Share Posted February 21, 2011 There are some Awesome ideas in here guys! (Really love the magnet - thats how I keep a lot of my "important numbers" handy with the vet magnet on the fridge)!I hear you Jerojath - but I only intend to breed to improve my showing group and as they only have small litters and I have only bred 5 litters in 6 years I am really not too worried about having the furry little buggers back to visit. (But I might put some conditions on there though!) Tommygirl - what sort of info brochures did you get - I dont remember seeing any at the local Petbarn? Sounds like a great place to look for stuff though! Yep Jed - puppy training info is a must, too many people think of Chi's as just little dogs who don't have manners, so often due to lack of training! Will talk to the lady we do puppy training with and grab some info from her! Thanks again guys! My one has them on a table near the checkout area but some you have to ask. I had one on worming (the brand I like to use and it explains worming frequency, why it's important) flea treatments ( also the brand I use on mine), petstock make Their own brochure range on puppy care etc (I assume they give it out at their puppy preschool) that's good. Also they had one think it was made by RSPCA on registering your dog with local council. That's the ones I remember anyway they had loads so I just picked through and found ones I thought useful. I just went in told them I had a litter and was putting together puppy packs and what could they give me...they were really Good...it's in their best interest to be helpful! New puppy owners spend $$ and wom is the best advertising... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
espinay2 Posted February 21, 2011 Share Posted February 21, 2011 I think it is nice not to go overboard with what you put in a pack (re. collars, leads, bowls, bedding etc) as puppy buyers really enjoy shopping for their new pup. I give them a list of suggested items they should get before pup goes home. I include a lot of info (though have cut back a bit on that as it was taking to much printing, so some of it is now on the website, so easy to find at anytime). The most important for me, aside from all the 'have to' paperwork is the puppy insurance, the Petplan policy are good and give people time to sort out a policy of their own for the dog. I agree totally becks. I think some of you are just totally overboard. Give similar to what Jed does the essentials. Give what they really need. The vaccination certificate. The feeding programme. The food the pup is used to eating The registration certificate (if available) The thing people always thank me for, is a list of nasties not to feed and the nasties that can grow in the garden. They always say I never thought of those. Those things are a given. The basics. The things I listed, as an example, are other things I have settled on after research that provide some assistance in some way. They are added extras certainly, but are not thoughtless 'nice to haves'. They are of course geared to my situation, and others may have different things they think would work for their puppy buyers. I LIKE people having my contact details easily to hand. And the magnets were very cheap (in fact if you look at the right time you can get some for (almost if you dont count postage) free. Enough for one or two litters, or even more if they are only small ones. The collars were a breed specific thing - a specific type of TRAINING collar that is not easy to get and would cost a puppy buyer more than double what I pay for them. I recommend them and prefer that they use them at least in the beginning, so I provide them. I have heaps of different colours so they get to choose if they are fussy. Leads or normal buckle collars etc they can get themselves. Training collars may not be an issue for other people/breeds so irrelevant. I thought it worth mentioning though. Ok, the exception could be the dog tags as I kind of indulged with those - I was actually searching for tags that owners could write their name and address on to put on the puppy straight away. Having had the experience of a puppy getting out of a house yard the first day it was left on its own for a while (and picked up by neighbours down the street who thankfully went door to door in the evening to find its owner) tags that are put on a pup as soon as it gets home can potentially mean the difference between having a puppy and not (yes, microchips work too, but require the pup to be taken away somewhere and usually mean the pup would not be returned the same day). I couldn't locate any of the type of tag I wanted that didnt cost the earth so settled on pretty blue metal tags with the breed (a lot of people don't know what it is and often confuse it with other breeds) and webpage address on it. If it is on the dog it is better than nothing. PLENTY of things for a new puppy buyer to shop for and I dont see how any of the above really takes away from that. I also give advice on where to find the 'value for money' and 'tried and tested' products should they want help in that department. They can go to town buying beds, leads, toys, bowls, crates, brushes etc etc etc as much as they like. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SwaY Posted February 21, 2011 Share Posted February 21, 2011 I add a list of online places on where to buy products cheaper - wormers, flea products, shampoo etc. I also have a yahoo group for my puppy people to chat with me and each other. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrinaJ Posted February 22, 2011 Share Posted February 22, 2011 Pedigree Papers Vacc Cert Microchip Cert supply of worm tablets Copy of both Sire and Dam Papers and health clearances Information on: poisions in the garden and household snake bites toilet training exercising a puppy mouting crate training about the breed (history, care requirements, personality.temperament/avgerage life span) Copy of the breed standard anatomy of the Rottweiler diet sheet preventative health care incl. afer vaccination care worming (together with a supply of worm tablets that will cover them until they are 6 months old) stages of development and socialisation settling a puppy at night in a new environment obedience training and when and where the RCV hold their training Activiteis and events they can do with their new puppy (ie: show/ob trailing/tracking/agility/herding/endurance) Conditions that affect rottweilers 5 generation pictorial pedigree 1.8kg Artemis Puppy Food (together with a letter to vet from Artemis about the food, discount vouchers and fridge magent with Artemis phont number on it - this is all from their breeders puppy pack) 2 Toys (1 from Artemis) Blanket Photos of him/her upto 8 weeks of age Membership form to join the Rottweiler Club in their State Dogs Vic Membership Form (if in Vic) Copy of Pet Ownership magazine produced by Dogs Vic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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