We strive to raise litters of working minded dogs who true to their breed’s purpose live and breathe for their owners. These service minded dogs do not do well in a kennel environment and can be greatly mentally stunted when not in a family unit. Therefore, in the best interest of our dogs we place our future breeders with carefully vetted families to foster until they are ready to be parents. This is a major commitment for any potential home and to thank them we provide these high quality dogs in exchange for raising a litter in their home for us. The kennel covers all vet costs for the dogs and their litters and all nutritional cost for female dogs during the pregnancy until they have weaned their litters.

Male dogs in this program will need to be returned to the kennel frequently between the ages of 1.5 and 4 years. We only chose 1-2 male dogs for our breeding program a year and the families must live no further than 150 miles from the kennel.

What the home is responsible for:

• Feeding the dog a healthy diet, except during pregnancy in which the kennel will cover all food and the foster must follow a very strict feeding regiment to ensure health of the litter and mother.
• Raising a litter of doberman puppies from birth until 8 weeks old if fostering a female.
• Getting the dog and puppies to vet appointments. Kennel will cover cost of vet appointments however the fosters must find a vet that is approved by the kennel.  This vet needs to be able to dock tails and remove declaws, puppy count xrays, OFA testing xrays, thyroid panel testing, and 24 hr holter monitoring.
• Foster must be able to do cheek swabs for DNA testing or take the dog to a vet to get this done.
• Foster must be wanting to keep the fostered dog for life as the kennel will give full ownership to the foster of the parent dog at the end of the breeder term contract.
• Returning the puppies to the kennel at 8 weeks, or the male stud to the kennel multiple times as needed.
• The dogs are owned by the kennel until released by the kennel to the foster family.

Our breeder term contract is an enforceable contract which will allow the foster family to take full ownership of the parent dog at the end of the terms with no costs due. All genetic testing and OFA records will remain property of the kennel. Please note, should the terms be breached the penalties of this contract are extremely harsh and prospective breeder fosters should be aware that our contract will not only cost them monetarily but any chance of retaining ownership of the dog cover by the breeding terms contract. Fosters can walk away from the contract without penalty at any time by returning the dog to the kennel. The breeder term contract does NOT allow the retaining of any puppies born and all puppies must be turned over to the kennel at 8 weeks. If a female loses her litter or no puppies survive the female may have to be rebred as the terms do not end until a litter is turned into the kennel OR the kennel decides the dog is no longer viable as a breeder. From time to time for reasons of the kennels needs or due to results of vet work a dog that was placed into breeder terms ends up not being needed or usable for the program and in those cases the kennel will simply relinquish full ownership of the dog to the breeder terms family after the dog is altered. All Breeder Term dogs must be altered prior to ownership being turned over to the family. The kennel will pay for the cost of altering the dog.

To be approved as a breeder’s term foster you must meet the following requirements:

• Live within 500 miles of the kennel for a female. – 150 miles for a male.
• You must travel back to the kennel several times during your fostering of the dog.
• Have a vet who can do all testing and also dock/remove dewclaws and have their pricing for such services readily available for the kennel to look over and approve. You will need to contact them and provide pricing on the application.
• Have the time and space required to raise a Doberman and a litter of puppies a typical Doberman litter is around 9 but can be more. Larger litters which WILL require supplemental feeding. Or be able and willing to return the female to the kennel for 9-12 weeks prior to their due date for the kennel to raise the puppies.
• Must own your own home or have a letter from your rental agency or landlord approving you to have a Doberman and for a female doberman approving you to raise a litter of dobermans.
• Pass a background check which includes a criminal check.
• Provide the names of all persons over the age of 18 living in the home.
• Your license must match your address.
• Must have lived at your home no less than 2 years.
• Must come pickup the dog in person, sign the contract in person, and provide a thumbprint on the contract.

At the end of your contract the dog will be altered and full ownership will transfer to the foster family. AKC paperwork will be transferred to the new owners at this time.

Puppy Questionnaire