Guardian HOme
Join Our Family & Become a Guardian Home!
Our guardian home program is for our breeding dogs to be fostered by loving forever homes while still maintaining status as a breeding dog for a contracted numbers of litters. The Guardian seeks to provide a puppy with a loving forever home and also support the Breeder’s breeding needs through the Guardian Home Program. This allows our dogs to be well loved. We consider our dogs to be the most special puppies who will become a mature dog for many years to come, our guardian homes provide them with proper nutrition, veterinary care, obedience training and exercise they need to have a full and happy life in forever homes.
Below are the current available dogs offered for a guardian home placement & more information on our Guardian Home Program
Guardian Home Opportunity
Bernese Mtn Dog Puppy
AKC Bernese Mtn Dog Puppy
We are looking for a special home for a Bernese Mtn Dog puppy. We are looking to place a puppy from our upcoming litter in a guardian home to keep for future breeding. We would prefer a show home to help display our beautiful import preservation line of Bernese. If you are interested please contact us daybreakacres@gmail.com
How it works
You get your puppy for a minimal cost ($1500), and your family gets a high quality pick of the litter puppy who becomes a mature dog lives with you and becomes a member of your family, while we retain breeding rights and title. The dog may be shown by a handler of our choice while it is in the guardianship, this means that your puppy may spend a few days a month with a trainer and a few weekends away from your family every once in a while to hopefully obtain a championship title. If you would like to show the dog and try to compete on your own we offer bonus money for puppy sales for owners who obtain their own championships, this amount can potentially greatly exceed your initial investment. This can be achieved in partnership with the breeders handler if desired. Once the dog is finished with their breeding career, they are to be spayed/neutered by you and all rights will then transfer to you.
As a Guardian Family, you would be responsible for all the normal pet care, such as: feeding, grooming, normal vet visits, flea/tick prevention, training and toys. We will be responsible for any breeding related expenses such as: breeding fees, ultrasounds, microchips and hip/elbow, eye testing, or anything else associated with breeding.
Typically a female dog cycles every 6 – 9 months. After they are about 2 years old we may begin breeding them. Prior to breeding, we do a variety of different tests on them to ensure they are the best dogs for breeding. We will ask that you contact us at the start of her heat cycle. We will determine the breeding days and coordinate to have her here for breeding. She may stay a week then return to you. We will breed female Guardian Dogs 2-4 times so she may stay a week or a little longer. The next step is an ultrasound at 30 days to confirm pregnancy, then a week and 1/2 before her due date she will come back to us to have the puppies and come back home to you when puppies are approximately 4.5 weeks old.
For our studs, the commitment is higher as we can potentially use our studs more often. Generally we ask that our studs live in Washington, a little closer to where we live to make this easier for everyone. Our studs go through all the same testing and we may begin using them around 18 months of age. Once our most fertile female breeding days have been determined figured out, we will ask the stud to be delivered for a short window of time and then picked back up to allow rest for the stud between breedings or we may house him for a few days.
If for some reason your new puppy does not meet our breeding standards you will be able to keep the dog for a greatly reduced cost, if it does meet the standards we will actually reimburse you $500 upon spay or neuter of the dog. In most cases your new dog will meet the requirements and then you will have a high quality dog that hopefully has earned it's championship with longevity lines for your family to enjoy.
Requirements
Requirements
GUARDIAN HOMES REQUIREMENTS
*You must live within a reasonable distance of Battle Ground, Washington.
*Own your own home or have a history of renting, landlord approval of dog.
*Have prior experience owning, raising and training a dog.
*Have secured safe yard for the dog.
*Commit to provide premium food, Costco name branded food is perfect. Use Puppy high protein quality food for the whole 1st year.
*Make sure the dog gets 15-30 minutes of exercise at least 5 days a week.
*You must accept and follow Daybreak Acres recommendations for the dog puppy’s basic health care and vet care such as required food, vaccine schedules, the use of certain medications, etc.It’s really not hard, just common sense.
*You are required to get the dog to pass the good canine citizen test with AKC (this ensures the dog will have good manners for times away from your family)
*Commit to drive the dog to us for breeding purposes or testing when we request.
*Allow breeder to show the dog, this may require the dog to go to handler training for a few days month and be away to various shows for the duration of the show
*If a move is necessary you must communicate with us immediately to discuss it. If the dog hasn't completed it's breeding commitment then understand it may require a purchase of the dog
*Understand the process involved with caring for fertile and intact males or females and commit to assume those responsibilities and keep them safe. Stuff happen when a female dog comes into heat or season. This is what it’s critical to each cycle written and projected out. Here communication needs to be 100% with Daybreak Acres accurate.
*Make sure no other intact dogs are on your premises to prevent unplanned mating or viruses. You need to be careful always where your Guardian dog is going.
*You must be willing to maintain open and honest, truthful lines of communications with Daybreak Acres
*Provide evidence of care with any matter related to the dog/puppy by providing us with a monthly update on the dog/puppy at the first of every month. This includes a monthly photo of the puppy e-mailed. We have learned that Trust is Earned and Quickly Lost. This ensures that we have eyes on the care being taken of our special dog
*Notify Daybreak Acres of new contact information if there is your cell number or e-mail changes. We are big on communication.
*Daybreak Acres must be allowed to potentially visit your home anytime during the puppies growth to evaluate growth and nutritional needs.
*Commit to love this puppy who becomes a mature dog for many years to come and provide them with proper nutrition, veterinary care, obedience training and exercise they need to have a full and happy life.
Available Puppies
We are expecting Bernese Mtn Dog puppies this coming Winter & Spring are looking for a Guardian show home for two of these puppies - Find out more about this special opportunity to obtain one of our puppies for your family!