Buying a Puppy
As responsible breeders, we will alway suggest that potential buyers look through our list of things to consider before buying one of our puppies.
DOGS ARE FOR LIFE.
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Things To Consider
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Outside - Is the outside around you, safe for a dog?
Do you have a garden with an area of fake/real grass?
Is your garden fenced?
If you have a pool, is it fenced or blocked so the dog cannot get into it on its own?
Is there somewhere, either communal garden or your own, to let the dog out to do it’s toileting and to play?
Inside - Is your house safe for a dog?
Can you puppy proof your home? E.g, Vulnerable furniture under watch (chewy puppies), doors shut, baby gates, no low windows that they could get out of, potential stair gates?
Is outside your house safe for a puppy? E.g Very busy road or many flights of stairs, hedging without borders, low fences?
Have you thought about where your dog will sleep? Kitchen, playpen, crate, spare room, utility/boot room?
Puppies do well in a playpen with a small crate inside so they can have a separate area of newspaper, for accidents, at first, then upgrading to a large crate, once they can hold it through the night, and then to sleeping on a sofa or in a dog bed, once they have calmed down and are trustworthy, e.g not chewing things.
Family
Does everyone in your family want a dog? Including the adults, elderly and children?
Does any have an allergy to dogs?
How many hours each day will the dog be left unattended.
If it is regularly more than 5 hours consider a local dog sitter and dog walker? Dogs cannot be left for more than 4 -5 hours alone without a walk and without human company.
Do you have any other pets?
Would they be friendly with a new excitable puppy?
If you have a dog already are they spade or nuetered to avoid unwanted pregnancy?
The Dog Itself
Cockapoos are not usually barkers, but can be chewers and diggers if they get bored from being left alone for too long?
Do you have the time to walk this dog for at least 25 mins (one walk), but hopefully around 60 mins a day (two walks) if you can? Or one longer run (for the dog, not you, you can walk!) and some brain exercises or playtime? But generally speaking, at least one walk and plenty of attention and play?
Applying for one of our puppies.
Due to having an experience of buying a puppy ourselves, we always try to make our buyers experience as easy, fun and professional as possible. Our puppies are brought up with consideration for their future lives not just for when they are sold, in socialisation and in health and cleanliness. They leave with the most extensive puppy pack around, and an invite to our annual reunion.
To make one of our pups part of your family, we always ask new owners to take an honest look through our 'Things To Consider' list, to make sure they will be the best owners possible for our Puppies.
If you have read this page and decided that you wish to buy one of our puppies, proceed to the CONTACT page. To apply, send a message with your full Name, Email so we can get back to you and County so we can get an idea of how far you will be travelling.
If have already chosen one of our puppies on this website or on our pets4homes advert, please, again leave Full Name, email, County and the 'Little Nickname' name of the puppy of interest.
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Please be warned. People may have been on our waiting list already for that particular puppy. First come, first serve rule applies here. We will try to update the website as soon as possible after someone has expressed interest in a particular puppy.
Available - no one expressed taken a specific interest in this colour/gender before this puppy was born or no one has yet contacted us about this particular puppy.
Interested - There are already one or more families interested in this colour/gender or in this specific puppy, but have not deposited on it.
Reserved - Someone has visited and placed a deposit on this puppy. This can only happen after the pups turn four weeks old. Once a puppy has been reserved with a deposit, it cannot be reserved for someone else. This is non-negotiable.
If the person who made the deposit backs out. In this circumstance, the next on the waiting list for that particular puppy or colour/gender will be notified and the puppy will be offered to them. Should they decide not to take the offer, the pup will be passed down until either someone puts down a deposit or they become available again.
The Deposit.
The deposit on a puppy can only be placed on or after the puppy turns 4 weeks of age. The deposit can only be placed in person when you visit the puppies. The deposit is £250. The rest of the money is to be paid upon collection when you pick the puppy on or after 8 weeks of age.
DEPOSITS ARE NON REFUNDABLE.
This is how we work.
The puppies are not eligible to be visited until 4 weeks of age. We don't let new owner visit and pick out a puppy as they are susceptible to illness. Also, some breeders will let you visit at 2 weeks old, this means that you are only choosing for the colour/gender, but puppies are so much more than that. At four weeks, their personalities are beginning to show, so that new owner can choose for colours, genders AND personalities. You cannot place a deposit without visiting the puppy. Photos can't do animals much justice compared to meeting them face to face!
You may come wanting one puppy and decide on a different one. You won't know until you visit them.
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Paying.
Our puppies are priced at £2000. This is due to the level of thought, care and money that is spent on each individual and on the entire litter, both before and after they leave. We take pride in the way we rear our puppies up until they leave and properly prepare them for their future life, by fully socialising them on our own program, to make sure they are balanced, confident adults. Also by giving the new owner a detailed booklet on how to care for their new puppy and advice on raising them. This booklet details bringing the puppy home trips the vets, training, breeding, recommended things to buy that have been useful to us and tips and tricks we've learned along the way. This booklet is written by ourselves, and is everything we really needed when we first brought a dog! They also come with an extensive puppy pack that many breeders do not offer, this is to help them settle in, as much as it is to help you along the way and make it enjoyable for both you and your new puppy.
PRICE IS NON NEGOTIABLE : )
Other policies
Rehoming a puppy/dog.
- Obviously, we hope that our puppy's owners have checked their lives are compatible with a dog, but in the event that your life changes dramatically and you need to rehome a Serengeti bred dog or puppy, please notify us.
We can't take the puppy/dog into our home besides in exceptional circumstances, but we will advertise online and around the people we know and try own very best to find a suitable home for the dog. This would be easier for us, as we are the breeders of that dog so have evidence of the dog's socialisation and upbringing, we also own the mother and have contact with the father. This makes it easier to prove the dog's heritage and temperament to any new owners. While we do this you are, of course, welcome to put up any of your own adverts and ask around yourself. All we ask is that you choose carefully and that once all is decided please notify them of us, so we can impart some information on them, and invite them to our doggie family meet ups, as it is still a dog bred by us, whom we would love to see again as they grow up.