CURRENT AVERAGE WAITLIST TIME: 4.5 MONTHS

GuardianKin Kennels maintains a waiting list for potential clients which helps us determine pairings based on what the client is interested in. By joining the waitlist a client will place a non refundable deposit down and fill out a form telling us what you are looking for in your next companion including breed, size, color, and wait training level you need.  We lock our waitlist to a maximum of 40 persons. Which is approximately 2 years of waiting maximum depending on breed. We will talk with all waitlist clients before accepting their deposit to ensure that we can meet their needs in a dog. Once added to the wait list you will receive a number that corresponds to the number in line you are and a general estimate of how long you can expect to wait for the dog you are looking for. If you are looking for rarer colors like a white doberman the wait time will be much longer then if you are looking for more common colors. After each litter is placed wait list clients that did not receive a puppy will get a new number as their position in line moves up.

The benefit of being on the wait list is:

• Waitlist clients get an average savings of $200-400 over non waitlisted customers on the final cost of their puppy.
• Waitlisted clients are far more likely to get their choice of gender, color, and size than a non wait list client.
• Waitlist clients are given priority in all contacts regarding puppies.
• Waitlist clients are notified of planned litters and litters as they are born.
• Waitlist clients receive frequent updates as litters progress and are the first to get to chose puppies, based on their number in line.

Waitlist Doberman puppies are $2000 if picked up at 8 weeks.

Waitlist Doberman puppies in our head start program are $2700.

Waitlist Dobermans in our foundations program are $4000.

It is $500 to be placed on the wait list, this deposit is non refundable but is taken off the total price of the chosen puppy.

How the waitlist works:

1. Client fills out the puppy questionnaire and is vetted by GuardianKin.
2. If approved client signs the waitlist contract and remits the $500 holding deposit.
3. Client receives their current waitlist # and estimated waiting time.
   1. Please note that the waiting time estimate does not represent a guaranteed time frame and is only intended as a rough estimate.
4. Each time a litter is planned or upcoming waitlist participants will receive an email notifying them.
5. When a litter is born the waitlist members at the top of the list will be notified and polled to see if they are ready to receive a puppy from the litter.
   1. Should a waitlist member at the top of the list reply they are NOT ready to receive a puppy from the litter they will be moved to the bottom of the waitlist.
   2. We will cycle through the waitlist until we have 1 ready waitlist member per puppy in the litter that matches the color and gender requirements of the client.
6. Waitlist members that are ready to receive a puppy will be kept up to date on the litter.
7. We will match puppies with their final waitlist members at 6-7 weeks old based on the compatibility of each puppy to the waitlist clients questionnaires.
8. The ready waitlist members will then be matched to their puppy and have a final chance to reject the puppy before locking their deposit to the puppy.
   1. If a waitlist member approves the match and locks their deposit to the puppy the waitlist member MUST take their puppy or forfeit their deposit.
      1. THE ONLY exception is if we decide that the match is not viable before the puppy is 8 weeks of old or if we cannot provide the chosen puppy. In this case and only this case a waitlist member can chose to return to the top of the waitlist OR receive a refund for their deposit.
9. Client picks up their puppy at 8 weeks (12 weeks for the head start program or 16 weeks for the foundations program).

Puppy Questionnaire