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Background
The Danish-Swedish Farmdog is a rare breed in The US, and a small breed in it's origin countries - Denmark and Sweden. We are a member of ARBA (American Rare Breed Association) and the Danish Breed Club, and will comply with the breeding-guidelines provided by The Danish oganisation. We have an extensive mission-statement, as there is a lot of important issues to take into consideration, when working with this particular breed. Our love for our dogs, and the breed, is greater than the wish to produce puppies.
Breeding Program
Based on the above, we will be carefull and selective in our breeding. We will always keep the Danish-Swedish standard in mind, when picking partners for our dogs, but our main concern is to breed puppies of the correct temperament, and puppies that have the health and the strength, that this breed stands for.
We will in some cases be mating our females in Denmark, in an effort to bring in new blood-lines, and open more oportunities for future breeding within the US.
A puppy-buyer will become a "member of our family", as we will follow each and every dog thru their entire lives. We want to know if a "Little Denmark pup" develops correctly in temperament and if they have health-issues. This on-going evaluation will help us in the breeding program, and secure the breed over-all, also in the future.
Mission Statement
It is our purpose to work over-all for the breed, Danish-Swedish Farmdog.
It is also our purpose to always consider the well-being of every dog we own, and every puppy we breed. It is our purpose to do the best possible for the breed in The US, working closely with other breeders and Danish-Swedish Farmdog owners, in Denmark and The US. It is our purpose to consider future generations of the breed in The US, while complying with guide-lines given by the Danish Breed Club. Two important examples are:
1. Only to work with dogs, approved(*) in the show ring for breeding.
2. Only breeding to males that hasn't exceeded 40 pups.
It is our purpose to breed with the philosophy: "Quality, not quantity".
(*)Breeding approved meens, that a certified judge, at a public event, approves that the dog is qualifying, as being within the breed standard.
In Denmark the dog must obtain at least a "second place" ranking=blue ribbon. In ARBA shows this equals a "very good" ranking on the rating card.
Our Promise
- We will hold ARBA-registration of all our dogs, and will provide ARBA-registration for all our puppies. We will hold membership in relevant organizations.
- We will show our dogs at ARBA-events, and when possible in Denmark, and only breed dogs, that are breeding approved.
- We will always be honest and provide information about health-issues in all breeding questions.
- We will do extensive research before picking a partner for our dogs, and we will keep records, open to other breeders, about information we might obtain during this research.
- We will work to prevent "puppie-mills" from ocurring, and if they do so, we will work hard to terminate them.
- We will participate in the work to create a Breed Club in The US, and we will incourrage all puppy-buyers to obtain membership.
- Puppie buyers will be carefully selected, and no Puppy will be sold without contract. Spaying/neutering will be mandatory, by contract, of dogs developing health issues, that makes them in-appropriate for breeding.
- Our puppies will be born and growing up in our home, as part of our family. They will be handled by people from birth, well socialized, and used to the sounds and activities in a normal household. No puppy will leave our home untill 9 weeks of age.
- We are, first and most, owners of our dogs as pets, and happy members of "The US Farmdog Family". We will terminate our breeding if we feel it is not serving our puposes, or keeping our promises, as listed above.
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Rufus(In Denmark)
We will only breed to dogs, that are breeding-approved in the show ring.
ARBAshow Nov02
We try to make it to this show in Claremont,CA, every year in November.
Group 02
We are happy members of "The US Farmdog Family".
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