DEPOSIT/RESERVATIONS

Placing a deposit for a future litter — in most cases puppies are reserved even before conception. One may wonder: how is this possible? The true Coton de Tulear remains a rare breed, typically having litters of four or less.  We do health testing, wellness exams before a male and female mate. All puppies are planned with great care and consideration.

We do not work with the ASCPA, or the Human Society, or members of these organizations — several veterinarians have advised us that the mission of these organizations is to eventually have all dogs living in the wild, with zero domestication and human companionship. A veterinarian told us this in Phoenix, Arizona and in Los Angeles, California.

When placing a deposit and signing a contract for a future the birth of a future litter, it is first come first served, this insures your position on a waiting list for a puppy.

Each family will be notified weekly with photographs and video, provided with litter development.

Your puppy must be picked up by at 8.5 weeks of age, but no more than five days after the puppy has reached 8.5 weeks. If family fails to pick up or accept the puppy nanny delivery within this period of time we then consider the puppy “available”. If a family changes their mind for any reason the deposit is non-refundable.

Breeders generally offer some written health guarantee/warranty; there is always the fine print and do your best to understand the health guarantee, always free to ask questions.

Let’s face it; you are purchasing a living breathing creature that is subjected to becoming ill, just like a human baby, or adult for that matter.  Living creatures are subjected to pathogens, environmental influences, and issues resulting from injures or accidents that a person and family, for that matter, may witness or not witness.  Accidents and injuries happen.

NO reputable breeder wants to have a puppy or one of their adult offspring to develop a health problem or receive a call or email that a puppy is ill…………….

Orthopedic Issues: These are the most common issues with puppies, no matter the breed, breeder, or owner of the puppy or young adult. Joint problems are environmental. Due to the animal being overweight, stress related to overactivity, running, jumping on and off furniture, and lack of supervision around small or young children.  The stress factor means the underdeveloped ligaments and joints receive excessive or slight injury from strenuous exercise, being stepped on, sat on, or unsupervised play from children and sometimes adults—nutritional deficiency, and so forth.

The puppy is your property once the purchase is completed; breeders cannot and should not micromanage.

You are raising the puppy, feeding him/her, and providing all the needs for a puppy.  A breeder can only offer you advice about what has been proven by them, especially listen to the breeder/s as they typically have decades of experience with the breed you are buying.  Trust us; they have had trials and error, learning well from their experiences, which is a sign of their due diligence.

A breeder has zero control over how the buyer raises, socializes, feeds, and cares for the puppy. The breeder can advise and make healthy suggestions, but the buyer does not always heed the breeder’s experience.

If the new owners decide to start cooking human foods for their puppy, young adult Coton —- or feel the Coton needs to be on a “vegetarian” diet, never eating meat, don’t expect the breeder to offer you compensation or assistances via the puppy agreement you signed.  As there is no doubt whatsoever, your Coton will end up hospitalized due to nutritional deficiencies.  Dogs require nutrition radically different from a human being, plus the organs function differently from human organs.  But we have encountered customers that know better than we do and that of our veterinarians.

Over the years, we were being confronted with some very bizarre requests.  One customer swore that we gave her a male puppy instead of the female that we sold her. After weeks of telephone conversations, emails, and impolite abuse from our customer, we advised her to take the puppy to her veterinarian and learn the gender of the puppy.  Bottom line, we sold her a female, and she took possession of a female Coton de Tulear, what she was looking at and trying to understand —- well, we will never know.  That was a rough journey; we learned so much within those two weeks about the human race.

A second experience a family adopted a Coton de Tulear puppy; we advised them to continue raising the puppy in a wire cage — but little did we know that the family placed the puppy in a walk-in shower in their master suite for 8-10 hours per day.  The glass was frosted so the puppy could not see out — and they contacted us because the puppy was anti-social with humans.  We hired an attorney and repossessed the puppy because of their neglect.  We worked with the puppy for four months to introduce him to humans, standard treatment, and social skills.

Our third life lesson: We received a telephone call from a customer panic-stricken because her Coton de Tulear puppy needed emergency surgery on a Sunday evening, which was going to be costly.  They demanded we give the vet hospital authorization — she felt we needed to pay for the operation and all treatment and expenses.  The veterinarians said the Coton puppy had renal shutdown and a liver shunt.  Exploratory surgery occurred.  In conclusion, the Coton’s stomach was full of pistachios and shells of the nut; his kidneys shut down due to the pistachios’ reaction.  He nearly died.  Would you believe the puppy owners never apologize to us? They thought the puppy was unhealthy and had a liver shunt — the only communication we had was with the veterinary hospital.  What an ordeal for that puppy.  We considered hiring an attorney and taking the puppy back.

A speculative or inconclusive diagnosis will not be acceptable and covered by the puppy agreement.

If your puppy becomes ill, please use common sense, STAY OFF of the internet, internet forums, and social media asking for advice.  Some of the things I see, and witness posted on the internet and the suggestion/s people use are deplorable — and dangerous.  If problems arise, take your Coton to a veterinarian ASAP.

Pay attention to your puppy agreement, read it in its entirety —- if you don’t understand something, ask questions.  The contract is a legal binding agreement, created by an attorney to cover the Coton de Tulear puppy — period.

Then the C-word — Cancer.  Research what causes cancer.  Most Cancers are caused by damaged cells.  It is what the puppy or dog is feed as well as what they are exposed to.  Topical flea and tick prevention are at the top of the list; they are insecticides — read the label on your dog’s flea and tick prevention box.  Stop feeding don’t provide cheap kibble made from GMOs, horse meat, by-products, and starches.  You expose your Coton to —- herbicides, dog treats laced with heavy chemicals that tell the owners to wash your hands after giving the treat to the Coton.  These things cause damaged cells; this is why dogs live much shorter lives than they did 30-40 years ago.  Coton’s have been known to live to be in their early 20’s in Europe back in the 1950-1960s, before coming to the USA.