NORTH ALABAMA IRISHDOODLES
GUARDIAN PROGRAM
Toney, Alabama
256-509-2341
GUARDIAN FAMILIES,
Thank you for your interest in our guardian home process. North Alabama Irishdoodles has been providing high quality puppies raised with ENS, Puppy Culture, socialization and desensitization and other therapies from the time they are born to make great family pets as well potential Emotional support, therapy and service dogs for the last 3 years.
We recently received an invitation from the non-profit SD Gunner Fund based in Savannah, Georgia to provide them with our quality puppies to be trained for disabled veterans and/or family members and first responders to provide care for PTSD, physical limitations and to work beside first responders in search and rescue, etc. Due to this demand and the potential of serving other non-profit organizations we are adding additional standard poodles to our program. These females/males will be AKC registered and of high quality as choosing the right puppy with a great heritage and genetic history is taken very seriously upon selection.
THE BASICS OF OUR GUARDIAN HOME PROGRAM
We believe that parent breeding dogs deserve a great home and a great life. Sometimes our program requires us to have more dogs than we can lovingly keep in our home, so our answer is to allow some of our breeding dogs to leave us and become part of another family’s life and home. Later they then return to us for breeding, and for females, again when it’s time to give birth to the puppies.
The parent dog gets to be a companion/pet and have the happiness of being part of a family and home – and great puppies get raised. This breeding/parent dog lives in their forever home, grows up, is trained, is well socialized, loved and cared for and is part of the family. What could be better?
The Guardian Family has the opportunity to have a truly wonderful dog at a very low cost, in exchange for working with us for future litters. (A litter is considered 3 or more alive puppies that live to 8 weeks.) The Guardian Family is paid a contracted amount for each female dog’s litter during the contract period, or a set amount per stud use for a male. It’s a total “win” for everyone, the parent dog, the Guardian Family, and North Alabama IrishDoodles!
This plan is used by many breeders and is often called a foster or “Guardian Home” program. Summarized – the breeding dog lives with their adoptive family and returns to us for breeding as needed. Females will return when in season, then again to deliver the puppies. The female stays with us for 10-14 days during her heat cycle, to be bred. Then, she returns to whelp (deliver) the puppies a week before they are due, staying with us until the puppies are weaned (8 weeks total).
Males return when a female that he is needed for stud is in heat. We work with our Guardian Homes using a simple contract and we provide support and guidance all along the way, staying in contact through the year. At the end of the Guardian Home Family contract, the dogs belong 100% to the Guardian Family.
Please note that we are very selective and only highly qualified families will be approved to foster our breeding dogs. We will conduct a telephone interview and will conduct a home visit. Our breeding program depends on the quality of care provided by our guardian families – we expect the best home life possible for our dogs.
Guardian Home families must live within 2 hours of Huntsville, ALabama and the family must be willing to meet us half-way driving to get the dog to and from our house during breeding and whelping periods.
If you continue to have an interest in becoming a guardian home for one of our females, please feel free to call me or text to discuss at 256-509-2341. I will send you a questionnaire and a copy of the contract for you to review.