Guardian Homes
Welcome to The Rutlands Australian Cobberdog Guardian Home Program.
Please read through the Guardian Home Program below to see if you are eligible and would like to partake in this program.
It can benefit both your family, and our breeding dogs. Guardian Homes should live no more than a few hours’ easy drive of Rutlands - about a maximum of a couple of hours from Albury NSW.
What Is the Guardian Home Program
Our Guardian home program is a great opportunity for people to have one of our puppies for a lot less outlay, or in some cases for free, and for our breeding dogs to live in a loving family as well as being part of our breeding program.
There are benefits both to the puppy being placed and the family who is adding the puppy to their family.
Benefits to the Guardian Home Family.
Families can have a top quality Australian Cobberdog at a much lower cost .
Guardian puppies are the pick of the litter chosen by the breeder.
Rutlands provides additional ongoing support and communication.
You can schedule your family trips during breedings/whelpings without the cost of boarding your adult dog as they come back to our home at those times.
Benefits to the Breeding Dog
The dog is raised as a pet in a caring loving home throughout his or her breeding career and is not re-homed after his/her breeding career is over, but stays with the Guardian Home and is transferred into the ownership of the Guardian Home.
We want each of our breeding dogs to be part of a family where they are loved and adored. By keeping the number of dogs living full time with us to a minimum we can ensure that each of our dogs get the love and attention that they need as well as contributing to the betterment of the Australian Cobberdog breed. This is why we love having the opportunity to place our puppies in Guardian homes.
The dogs get to be a family pet and get spoiled! The Guardian home is the puppy/dog’s forever home. They live with their family and Rutlands Australian Cobberdogs has breeding rights for a set amount of time (each situation is slightly different so we prefer to work out specific details with each family on an individual basis.) Once the Guardian dog has completed his/her breeding career, he/she will be spayed or neutered at our expense, the Guardian adoption deposit is returned in full, if applicable and the dog will remain a forever pet of their Guardian family!
Female Guardianship
With a female breeding dog, when she visits us for breeding purposes she is usually here for a few hours on 2-3 different days. She’ll then come back to stay with us to deliver her puppies and will remain with us until her puppies are fully weaned at around 8 weeks old. Guardian Home Agreements are usually for one litter, with us, but if the litter is small, or there are no females suitable to keep for breeding, the Agreement may extend to a second litter.
Male Guardianship
With a male breeding dog, the arrangement is much shorter. The male has his semen collected by a reproductive Veterinarian when he is mature, usually by about 14 months of age. This usually entails making the male available to the breeder for two to three days, to make sure good samples of semen are collected. The semen is frozen and stored for future use and then the male is desexed at our cost and becomes the outright property of the Guardian Home.
What Is the Guardian Home Program
Our Guardian home program is a great opportunity for people to have one of our puppies for a lot less outlay, or in some cases for free, and for our breeding dogs to live in a loving family as well as being part of our breeding program.
There are benefits both to the puppy being placed and the family who is adding the puppy to their family.
Benefits to the Guardian Home Family.
Families can have a top quality Australian Cobberdog at a much lower cost .
Guardian puppies are the pick of the litter chosen by the breeder.
Rutlands provides additional ongoing support and communication.
You can schedule your family trips during breedings/whelpings without the cost of boarding your adult dog as they come back to our home at those times.
Benefits to the Breeding Dog
The dog is raised as a pet in a caring loving home throughout his or her breeding career and is not re-homed after his/her breeding career is over, but stays with the Guardian Home and is transferred into the ownership of the Guardian Home.
We want each of our breeding dogs to be part of a family where they are loved and adored. By keeping the number of dogs living full time with us to a minimum we can ensure that each of our dogs get the love and attention that they need as well as contributing to the betterment of the Australian Cobberdog breed. This is why we love having the opportunity to place our puppies in Guardian homes.
The dogs get to be a family pet and get spoiled! The Guardian home is the puppy/dog’s forever home. They live with their family and Rutlands Australian Cobberdogs has breeding rights for a set amount of time (each situation is slightly different so we prefer to work out specific details with each family on an individual basis.) Once the Guardian dog has completed his/her breeding career, he/she will be spayed or neutered at our expense, the Guardian adoption deposit is returned in full, if applicable and the dog will remain a forever pet of their Guardian family!
Female Guardianship
With a female breeding dog, when she visits us for breeding purposes she is usually here for a few hours on 2-3 different days. She’ll then come back to stay with us to deliver her puppies and will remain with us until her puppies are fully weaned at around 8 weeks old. Guardian Home Agreements are usually for one litter, with us, but if the litter is small, or there are no females suitable to keep for breeding, the Agreement may extend to a second litter.
Male Guardianship
With a male breeding dog, the arrangement is much shorter. The male has his semen collected by a reproductive Veterinarian when he is mature, usually by about 14 months of age. This usually entails making the male available to the breeder for two to three days, to make sure good samples of semen are collected. The semen is frozen and stored for future use and then the male is desexed at our cost and becomes the outright property of the Guardian Home.
Accidents, Violations and Acts of God
The value of a Rutlands breeding dog is approximately $20,00.00. But we don't want our Guardian homes to be nervous about being responsible for such a valuable dog, so here is an outline of what penalties if any would apply if an untoward situation was to arise.
Accidental unauthorised mating.
This is unlikely to occur, because in the case of a female, she must be returned to Rutlands at the first sign of her heat period. She will stay here at Rutlands for approximately 3 weeks, until she is no longer mateable. This requirement may be waived depending on your experience, and on the facilities you can offer to keep her from being mated by entire males. If however if she is accidentally mated whilst in your care, she must come back to us a week before she is due to whelp and it will extend the time of your Agreement with us. Any puppies she produces are the property of Rutlands.
Violations
If the female or male dog is desexed or otherwise intentionally sterilized without prior permission in writing from Rutlands, the penalty for this will be $45,000.00 .
Acts of God
If the breeding dog or female is injured or killed, or otherwise rendered through accident unable to breed, this will be considered An Act of God PROVIDED a veterinary certificate is provided to Rutlands, identifying the dog or bitch, by his or her microchip number. There is no penalty for an Act Of God.