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I cant get
hold of you on your telephone number of
01366 500148.
This
has changed due to us changing over from
BT to Sky. It is now 01366 501152.
All old contacts please make a note of
this new number.
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When is
your next Weimaraner litter due? March
2010. No more then until early 2011.
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When is
your next Hungarian Vizsla litter due?
Unsure due to seasons at the moment,
either May or Autumn 2010.
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Do you
have a waiting list and can I go on it?
We tend not to make the
waiting list until the bitch is mated as
we get tons of time wasters asking for
puppies. If you are a genuine
enquiry then you should get in touch.
As we will keep your details.
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Should I
just wait until I see you advertise the
litter on your website before I contact
you?
No,
you must get onto our waiting list
before the litter is due as in many
cases our puppies are all sold before
birth, unless we have a larger litter
than planned, or if someone drops out
from our waiting list.
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Do you
need my details?
Yes you need to send us an email as soon
as you can with your home address,
mobile and landline number, and your
email address that you require us to
contact you with. Once you send
your email we will reply to it, if we do
not reply we may not of got your email
so try and email again. If not call us.
You must keep in regular contact with me
because we get hundreds of enquires and
we need to remember who you are
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Can I meet
your dogs?
Yes we
can arrange an appointment. I must add
that we only see people that really want
a puppy off us, if you want to just see
the breed, then go to Crufts in March
2010 and visit Discover dogs, you
can meet many breeds of dogs there and
find out about the dogs. Do
not arrange a visit with us, if you are
already on another breeders waiting
list.
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What age
do puppies leave your home? From 7 weeks of
age. See
puppy development
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Do you
worm your puppies?
Yes normally twice before they leave.
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What
product do you use?
Panacur paste whilst
they are with us, but we send you home
with Drontal tablets
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Are the
puppies vaccinated ?
No, pups are
normally vaccinated around 9 weeks to 10
weeks of age by you, it is wise to allow a
puppy 2 weeks to settle in before taking
them for vaccinations. We believe in
minimal vaccines through out the dogs
life.
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So when
can my puppy go out?
Usually wait 2
weeks after second vaccination.
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Are your
puppies Kennel Club Registered?
Yes all our
puppies that will live in the UK, are KC registered. They also
come with a 5 generation pedigree.
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Are you a Kennel Club Accredited
breeder?
Yes
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Do I need
to insure my puppy?
We send
your puppy home with 4 weeks free
insurance with pet plan. We do
advise you continue with your insurance,
veterinary bills today are very high
and if your dog has a small accident it
will cost hundreds of pounds. At
least being insured you are covered.
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Are you a
member of a breed club?
Yes N.E.W.S (Northern Weimaraner
club).
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Which is
better a dog or a bitch?
Everyone has their
favourites. If you would like to e-mail
me with your details of your experience
of having a dog and how many family
members and ages, then I can tell you
what would suit your home better.
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Can I
breed from one of your dogs?
No you can not. We place breeding
endorsements on all our Kennel Club
registrations certificates that will be
pets. We
encourage spaying and castration. I do
not see the point of a pet being entire.
If however we know someone well in the
UK and they show or work their dogs and
wish for a breeding dog we will then
sell a dog without a breeding
endorsement on the KC Documents.
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I
live abroad can I breed from a dog if I
brought it from you? Yes we are
happy to sell anyone abroad if again
show, work their dogs or are active with
in the Vizsla or Weimaraner community.
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I would
like two puppies would you sell me two?
Having one
Weimaraner/Vizsla puppy at a time is
more than enough to cope with.
Weimaraners/Vizsla can be full of
mischief and if you own two its double
trouble. Its better to have one now,
and then another in a couple of years.
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When do
bitches start to have seasons?
The youngest a
bitch could have a season is 6 months.
Normally the average range is between 9
and 14 months. But I have known a bitch
to have a season about 18 months.
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How often
does a bitch have a season?
Again this varies.
The average is about every 6 months, but
some bitches come in every 3-4 months.
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When is
the best time to spay a bitch?
The best time is
to wait and let her have her first
season, and wait three months then spay
her. If however you spay just before
her season she will not develop mammary
cancer. The choice is yours.
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When
should I castrate a male?
The best time to
castrate a male is after 18 months and
before 2 years.
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What
happens to a male if I castrate him at 5
months?
The dog is still growing and I have seen
Weimaraners grow over size by castrating
early on. Also they have not had
the chance to mature mentally and can
take longer to grow up.
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How often
should I worm my dog?
Adult dogs are
generally wormed every 3 months. Puppies
are done more regular, just read your
worming product.
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Should I
microchip my puppy?
It is a very good
idea to microchip your puppy. We
do this as standard now before pups
leave.
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Can
Weimaraners have ear tattoo's?
Yes any dog can.
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Does my
dog have to wear an identity disc?
Yes by law in the
Uk you can be fined if your dog does not
have an identity disc on his collar. By
law your dog must have on the disc your
surname, telephone details and address.
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What
should I write on the disc?
Do not write the
dogs name as a thief will know what to
call the dog.
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Do
Weimaraners come in different colours?
A Weimaraner in
the Uk is Silver Grey. In the range of
silver grey the colours such as roe
grey, mouse grey. No other colour
is recognised by the breed clubs.
Although if you go to register a litter
with the Kennel club we can choose
silver.
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I have
seen a Chocolate Weimaraner are you sure
they don't come in different colours ?
Chocolate looking Weimaraners are either solid liver
German Short Hair Pointers or Weimaraner
cross breeds. Most cross breed
Weimaraners are Chocolate colour.
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Do
Weimaraners have two hair lengths?
Yes they come as
short hair or long hair. Some short
hair bitches can produce long hair
puppies, so you must know the genetics
behind your bitch and dog.
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I have
seen a Weimaraner with orange tan
markings on is this a colour?
No this is
considered a mis-marking. This is not
desirable and pups are usually cheap in
price and come with no KC documents.
Someone told me once that a breeder was
trying to sell these as tri coloured
Weimaraners. Their is no such colour as
a tri coloured Weimaraner. This breeder
was just doing and saying anything to
sell his puppies.
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Is white
allowed on a Weimaraner?
A small white
blaze is acceptable on the chest only.
If a Weimaraner has white toes, or white
spots on its coat, this is a mis-marking. Quite
often white spots elsewhere on the coat
do just vanish in time. White on
feet can vanish. You should not show a
dog with white toes. For a pet it
does not matter. White marks on
the coat due to injury are not
penalized. Remember for a pet dog it
does not matter if its not perfectly
marked.
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Is white
allowed on a Hungarian Vizsla?
Again
this is acceptable on the chest only.
White toes are often seen in pups, but
they seem to vanish later in life.
Odd ones will retain white feet.
Many Vizsla's in the ring do have white
hairs on their toes as I have seen them
many times. You have to look hard
to see them.
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What
colour eyes do Weimaraners have?
Blue Grey or Amber
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What
colour eyes do Vizslas have?
Usually the same
as their coat colour.
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Are
Weimaraners still docked in the UK?
People
that work their dogs can still have
puppies docked. But you will find mostly
dogs are undocked now.
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Do you hip
score your dogs?
Yes.
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If one of
the parents is hip scored and the other
is not, is it okay to have a puppy still
? Both parents
should be hip scored. Only common sense
tells you that if only one is hip scored
you could still have the genetics of the
of a dog which could carry HD.
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How do I
recognise a puppy farmer?
I have learned
over the years that puppy farming to one
breeder means something else to someone
else. But generally they are dogs bred
in huge numbers, kept in filthy
conditions, they are not kennel club
registered, and they are not hip scored,
they do not come from show dogs, they
are sent out from their mothers at 5
weeks of age, they are not wormed, the
owners are not given after care of there
puppy. They may have at least 5 to 10
different breeds, with puppies running
about all the year. They do not
specialise in any one group of dogs, but
anything that is popular such as
Westies, King Charles spaniels,
Labradors, Cocker spaniels and the
latest craze of cross breed dogs,
especially poodle cross's. They
can be kept in crates upon crates upon
crates, limiting spaces, and more like
battery hens than dogs.
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Do you
have a stud dog?
Yes we have
now one Weimaraner stud dog available. If you are interested
in using our stud dog you should send me
a copy of your bitches pedigree, KC
document, Hip score result. Get in
touch and have a chat. We will
have in 2010 a male Vizsla at stud but
only once he has had his hip scores
done.
