ABOUT OUR PUPPIES
Our home is our kennel. Our Havanese are our companions first and show dogs second. If I have a Havanese that possesses exceptional temperament, conformation and health, then that dog will be part of our breeding program. If you would like to be considered for a future litter, please fill out this questionnaire.
All of our dogs are fully health tested. You can find all of our testing listed with the OFA. We screen our puppy buyers very carefully to assure a successful placement. Many of our puppies are sold as companions with limited registration. This means they can not be bred and they will be spayed or neutered before they arrive at their new home. Breeding is for one purpose, to better the bred. Altered dogs make better pets, and this also prevents any accidents from happening!
Our puppies go home at 9-11 weeks fully vaccinated, BAER tested, and spayed/neutered or with a spay/neuter contract. We don't ship puppies, but we do recommend coming to visit us in Arizona! Most airlines will allow you to bring your puppy home on your flight for a nominal fee. As of today, the only airline I'm aware of that does not allow pets in the cabin is Southwest Airlines.
EVALUATING PUPPIES - The question most often asked by prospective owners is how we decide with puppies are "show" and which are "pet". First, let me do away with those labels. Puppies are sold on either full or limited registration. If a puppy is sold on limited registration, owners must sign a spay/neuter agreement. Our breeding program is based on the total Havanese and geared towards producing a sound dog in both structure and temperment. Ideally, we also strive to produce a dog that follows the AKC breed standard closely enough to be competitive in the conformation show ring.
STRUCTURE - When our puppies are eight weeks of age, we evaluate them for structure. This means that we spend time watching them move and determine their physical strong points and weaknesses. Conformation quality in a litter can vary widely as can the depth of such quality. Every dog, even champions, and every puppy has at least one fault. Some have more and each fault comes in varying degrees, from minor to major. If a puppy has one or more major physical faults or a disqualifying fault that pup will only be sold on limited registration with a spay/neuter agreement, which means it is not to be bred and its faults would prevent it from being successful in the show ring. In any given litter, there might be one or two puppies that have only minor faults and on the whole appear to be very balanced, correct individuals. These puppies are sold on full registration and we either keep them for ourselves or consider them for serious competitive show homes. Most puppies fall in between the two ends, having perhaps a noticable fault, but also possessing many good traits as well. These puppies we sell on limited registration.
MATCHING PUPPIES AND OWNERS - Usually, when the puppies are about six weeks old (or sometimes sooner) prospecive owners start getting anxious about which puppy will ultimately be theirs. Because the best time to evaluate puppies for structure is at least eight weeks, and because the development of their personalities in an ongoing process and assessment, it would be unfair of us to start divvying up the lot sooner than eight weeks of age. So patience, hard as it is to uphold, is a must. What we try our best to do is match puppies to owners, not just maintain a first-come, first-serve list. The more open owners are to different colors or either sex, the easier it is for us to find the pup of the appropriate personality and structure to match their needs. The more specific they are, the harder it is to provide people with exactly what they want.
Contact us for availability of limited registration or full registration/show potential puppies We do not sell "breeding dogs" or "breeding pairs" so don't even ask!
You must complete our questionaire to be on our waiting list for puppies. If you have any questions, please feel free to call after you have filled one out and I'll be happy to chat..
A Janizona puppy..........
Comes from two fully health tested AKC registered parents and all health test results may be verified online at offa.org;
Are raised with their mother and littermates, but interact with their human family all through the day;
Live, sleep and play in our home - not in a kennel;
Are socialized by "The Rules of Seven", an expansive socialization program;
Have their temperaments tested when they are seven to eight weeks old;
Have very thorough veterinary physicals at eight weeks old when they receive their first vaccines and Avid microchip;
Have been wormed for any possible parasites;
Have their conformation evaluated at 8 weeks old by "soaping" their coat down;
Have been BAER hearing tested;
Are crate-trained and take take their afternoon nap in separate crates at nine weeks old;
Have been trained to use the UGODOG potty tray and have begun potty training outside;
Are AKC registered and able to participate in most AKC events;
Must be picked up in person. We do not ship puppies under any circumstances.
