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Topic Dog Boards / Breeding / What do you put in your puppy packs ?
- By Ghost [gb] Date 13.03.11 16:01 UTC
Just wondering what you all put in your packs ?
I have a 40 page display book with (so far) the following:
About us page
health test copies
feeding info
diet sheet
grooming info
health tests explained
'Whats in the price of a puppy?' - explains the costs involved
Links page - links of places to buy the brushes etc
Calendar - with dates when to worm etc
pedigree
weight chart - weight from birth up to 6 months to be recorded

Any other ideas ? any other unique things you put in?
- By toffeecrisp [gb] Date 13.03.11 16:58 UTC
I put toys and food in mine aswell and a smelly puppy blanket.
- By rabid [gb] Date 13.03.11 17:01 UTC
I will put in training recommendations for clubs near them as well
- By Trialist Date 13.03.11 20:07 UTC
I put quite a comprehensive puppy pack together for my litter last year and now really feel it was far too much. Who was the pack for? As much as anything, it was for me 'cause I enjoyed putting it together!!

Ideally I think it is best to split any information pack, as let's face it, when you take your pup home the last thing you want to do is to read a load of junk from the breeder.

I included most of what you've put down, not sure about the what's in the price of a puppy. The price of my pups went absolutely no where in covering the cost of 'production' and not sure why you need to basically justify the price of your pups. If they're from good stock, are health tested, and very well reared, then you don't need to justify.

Ian Dunbar's 'Before you Get your Puppy' is a good one to give .... before they take pup home. This is available for free download from:

http://www.dogstardaily.com/training/you-get-your-puppy

There are actually a number of useful downloads on this site:  http://www.dogstardaily.com/free-downloads

I explained about drugs to be avoided - in my breed Millbemax ... and consequences of doing so. Not only will breeder come round and beat owner around head, but use of such drugs may cause death or blindness.

List of poisons - plants, fruits, etc

Photos - on dvd ... lots of photos :-)

Where they can buy the food that I've put a lot of thought into feeding. Recommended products - collars, collar tags, brushes, etc ... and where they can be purchased at good prices

Unique? Bag of poo. Yes, seriously, a bag of poo.
2 weeks worth of food. Very special toy - one that I've played with just that puppy, for what I'm rearing and for the jobs they're, that happened to be a fleece tug toy.
Recommended exercise times, giving full explanation about growth of pups and importance of not doing too much too soon, with details about when particular growth plates close up.
Blanket - with Mum's and rest of litter's smell on.
Water from my home - good for if a long journey home and I ask them to use it for the first couple of days. Water changes can cause stomach upsets, new owners frequently try to change food when pup's at home as they think they don't like the food they've spent the last weeks on!!
Copy of pup sales contract
What's been done with puppy - way reared, socialised, etc
Think that's it ...

Worth doing a search for puppy packs, using the google box in the search section, there's been tons of discusison about these over the years so you may well find more information!
- By Justine [gb] Date 13.03.11 21:13 UTC
Free insurance details ;)
- By JeanSW Date 13.03.11 23:51 UTC

> Ideally I think it is best to split any information pack, as let's face it, when you take your pup home the last thing you want to do is to read a load of junk from the breeder


Like Trialist mentions, a puppy is so much more interesting than a load of paperwork.  I do give the information pack part of my puppy pack when a pup is chosen, and ask them to take home and read.  Reminding them that, if they don't have time to read it -- then they don't have time for a puppy!

However, I do add a lighthearted bit, telling people how to prepare themselves.  Hope it will make some of you smile.  :-)

To make sure you are ready for that new puppy, please do the following:

1)   Pour cold apple juice on the carpet in several places and walk around barefoot in the dark.

2)   Wear a sock to work that has had the toes shredded by a blender.

3)   Immediately upon waking, stand outside in the rain and dark saying, "Be a good puppy, go potty now - hurry up - come on, lets go!"

4)   Cover all your best suits with dog hair. Dark suits must use white hair, and light suits must use dark hair. Also float some hair in your first cup of coffee in the morning.

5)    Play "catch" with a wet tennis ball for hours.

6)   Run out in the snow in your bare feet to close the gate.

7)   Tip over a basket of clean laundry, scatter clothing all over the floor.

8)   Leave your underwear on the living room floor, because that's where the dog will drag it anyway. (Especially when you have company.)

9)   Jump out of your chair shortly before the end of your favorite TV program and run to the door shouting, "No no! Do that OUTSIDE!" Miss the end of the program.

10)  Put chocolate pudding on the carpet in the morning, and don't try to clean it up until you return from work that evening.

11)  Gouge the leg of the dinning room table several times with a screwdriver - it's going to get chewed on anyway.

***Take a warm and cuddly blanket out of the dryer and immediately wrap it around yourself. This is the feeling you will get when your puppy falls asleep on your lap.

-author unknown
- By Reikiangel [gb] Date 14.03.11 07:11 UTC
I love that.
- By suejaw Date 14.03.11 07:29 UTC
Brilliant Jean, love it :-D
- By Isabella [gb] Date 14.03.11 10:31 UTC
Awww Jean thats so sweet.

Very good
- By AlisonGold [gb] Date 14.03.11 11:07 UTC
Most if not all of the above plus worming tablets and the chart of the worming regime so that the new owners have the dates for worming up the the 12 week mark and the tablets to do it with.
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