Puppy Donations
Service dogs are a lot of things to their partners: companions, helpers, independence helpers, and family. All service dogs start out as puppies, and many are able to help someone gain their independence through a lifetime of training. A donation of a puppy can help these individuals obtain independence that they’ve never experienced before.
Domesti-PUPS focuses on using dogs for mobility assistance, wheelchair assistance, hearing and medical alert or response dogs.
Domesti-PUPS looks for breeders that advocate for the health, temperament, working ability, and longevity of their dogs. Service dogs have very difficult jobs, and it takes a very rare, and remarkable dog to do it. There are certain characteristics that we strive for in our service dogs, including:
- Friendly temperament
- Ability to focus on their handler while working, no matter now exciting
a new person may be
- Remaining calm and quiet during long periods of time
- Being willing to work in an instant if needed
- Confidence in new situations, while being responsive to those that may have little physical control
- Willing and able retrievers
Many dogs that come from a history of confident, calm, focused, working dogs that receive the correct handling, social, and environmental stimulation in the first weeks of their lives have the best chances of becoming service dogs.
Retrievers and retriever mixes are very common in Domesti-PUPS, due to their general size, willingness to please, training motivation, and ability to carry things in their mouths. However, we are always willing to look at different breeds of dogs, as long as the parents meet some of the qualities that have proven to produce good service dogs.
These parental qualities include:
- Never meeting someone they don’t like
- Being appropriately social with other dogs
- Not being afraid of things, and willingness to work through potential fears
- Ability to be handled by everyone in every place, including strangers
- Happy to retrieve, and carry things in their mouth
- Eagerness and drive to work with people
- Not protective by nature
- Size requirements (minimum of 65#)
- Orthopedic clearness on hips and elbows (OFA or PennHip)
- CERF and cardiac clearances
- Other breed-specific health clearances
Labrador testing: Centronuclear Myopathy, Copper Toxicosis, Degenerative Myelopathy, Exercise-Induced Collapse, Hereditary Nasal Parakeratosis, Progressive Retinal Atrophy, Progressive Rod-Cone DegenerationRetinal Dysplasia/Oculoskeletal Dysplasia 1, Skeletal Dysplasia 2
Golden testing: Degenerative Myelopathy, Ichthyosis, Progressive Retinal Atrophy, Progressive Retinal Atrophy, Golden Retriever, Progressive Retinal Atrophy, Progressive Rod-Cone Degeneration
Poodle testing: Degenerative Myelopathy, GM2 Gangliosidosis, Neonatal Encephalopathy with Seizures, Osteochondrodysplasia, Progressive Retinal Atrophy, Progressive Rod-Cone Degeneration, Von Willebrand Disease I
Goldendoodle testing: Degenerative Myelopathy, Ichthyosis, Neonatal Encephalopathy with Seizures, Progressive Retinal Atrophy- Golden Retriever 1, Progressive Retinal Atrophy-Golden Retriever 2, Progressive Retinal Atrophy, Progressive Rod-Cone Degeneration, Von Willebrand Disease I
Puppies also need to have some unique qualities in order to increase their chances of becoming successful service dogs in our program. We look for puppies that have been whelped and raised in a home verses outdoors, and puppies that have been handled since the day they were born. They must have also been:
- Exposed to and handled by many different types of people, including children
- Had exposure to a large variety of sounds, from indoor and outdoor environments, starting at around three weeks of age
- Provided with a rich environment, providing stimulation in various forms of objects and textures to play with, walk on, and climb in or around
- Exposed key environments, such as the crate, riding in a car, and many indoor and outdoor locations (parks, vet offices, pet stores, etc.)
- Puppies should have had beginning grooming performed on them
- Training used to help handle the puppies body done frequently from a very young age
- Started potty training and crate training
- Highly sociable and confident in and around new things
- Preferably 8-9 weeks old
Whenever possible, Domesti-PUPS prefers to temperament test the entire litter of puppies, to find which one is the most suitable in the qualities we look for in future service dogs. However, if the breeder is located very far away, we can send the temperament test there, for the breeder to administer and send the results to us.
Very few dogs actually become service dogs, due to the high levels of training, and the consistency needed to become a service dog. Puppies/dogs that do not make it through the service dog program at Domesti-PUPS may be used in another program, such as our Edu-PUPS or Petting-PUPS program, or possibly placed in a permanent pet home.
We understand the dedication and commitment breeders have to the puppies they raise, and the futures they hold. This is why Domesti-PUPS understands that requesting a donation of a puppy is a huge favor to ask, but one that is required in order to have a successful service dog in the future. Please consider donating a puppy to Domesti-PUPS, to help us unlock the independence of a person in the future.
If interested in donating a well-bred, and well-raised puppy to Domesti-PUPS, now or in the future, please contact us at [email protected]. Thank you for your consideration.
Domesti-PUPS focuses on using dogs for mobility assistance, wheelchair assistance, hearing and medical alert or response dogs.
Domesti-PUPS looks for breeders that advocate for the health, temperament, working ability, and longevity of their dogs. Service dogs have very difficult jobs, and it takes a very rare, and remarkable dog to do it. There are certain characteristics that we strive for in our service dogs, including:
- Friendly temperament
- Ability to focus on their handler while working, no matter now exciting
a new person may be
- Remaining calm and quiet during long periods of time
- Being willing to work in an instant if needed
- Confidence in new situations, while being responsive to those that may have little physical control
- Willing and able retrievers
Many dogs that come from a history of confident, calm, focused, working dogs that receive the correct handling, social, and environmental stimulation in the first weeks of their lives have the best chances of becoming service dogs.
Retrievers and retriever mixes are very common in Domesti-PUPS, due to their general size, willingness to please, training motivation, and ability to carry things in their mouths. However, we are always willing to look at different breeds of dogs, as long as the parents meet some of the qualities that have proven to produce good service dogs.
These parental qualities include:
- Never meeting someone they don’t like
- Being appropriately social with other dogs
- Not being afraid of things, and willingness to work through potential fears
- Ability to be handled by everyone in every place, including strangers
- Happy to retrieve, and carry things in their mouth
- Eagerness and drive to work with people
- Not protective by nature
- Size requirements (minimum of 65#)
- Orthopedic clearness on hips and elbows (OFA or PennHip)
- CERF and cardiac clearances
- Other breed-specific health clearances
Labrador testing: Centronuclear Myopathy, Copper Toxicosis, Degenerative Myelopathy, Exercise-Induced Collapse, Hereditary Nasal Parakeratosis, Progressive Retinal Atrophy, Progressive Rod-Cone DegenerationRetinal Dysplasia/Oculoskeletal Dysplasia 1, Skeletal Dysplasia 2
Golden testing: Degenerative Myelopathy, Ichthyosis, Progressive Retinal Atrophy, Progressive Retinal Atrophy, Golden Retriever, Progressive Retinal Atrophy, Progressive Rod-Cone Degeneration
Poodle testing: Degenerative Myelopathy, GM2 Gangliosidosis, Neonatal Encephalopathy with Seizures, Osteochondrodysplasia, Progressive Retinal Atrophy, Progressive Rod-Cone Degeneration, Von Willebrand Disease I
Goldendoodle testing: Degenerative Myelopathy, Ichthyosis, Neonatal Encephalopathy with Seizures, Progressive Retinal Atrophy- Golden Retriever 1, Progressive Retinal Atrophy-Golden Retriever 2, Progressive Retinal Atrophy, Progressive Rod-Cone Degeneration, Von Willebrand Disease I
Puppies also need to have some unique qualities in order to increase their chances of becoming successful service dogs in our program. We look for puppies that have been whelped and raised in a home verses outdoors, and puppies that have been handled since the day they were born. They must have also been:
- Exposed to and handled by many different types of people, including children
- Had exposure to a large variety of sounds, from indoor and outdoor environments, starting at around three weeks of age
- Provided with a rich environment, providing stimulation in various forms of objects and textures to play with, walk on, and climb in or around
- Exposed key environments, such as the crate, riding in a car, and many indoor and outdoor locations (parks, vet offices, pet stores, etc.)
- Puppies should have had beginning grooming performed on them
- Training used to help handle the puppies body done frequently from a very young age
- Started potty training and crate training
- Highly sociable and confident in and around new things
- Preferably 8-9 weeks old
Whenever possible, Domesti-PUPS prefers to temperament test the entire litter of puppies, to find which one is the most suitable in the qualities we look for in future service dogs. However, if the breeder is located very far away, we can send the temperament test there, for the breeder to administer and send the results to us.
Very few dogs actually become service dogs, due to the high levels of training, and the consistency needed to become a service dog. Puppies/dogs that do not make it through the service dog program at Domesti-PUPS may be used in another program, such as our Edu-PUPS or Petting-PUPS program, or possibly placed in a permanent pet home.
We understand the dedication and commitment breeders have to the puppies they raise, and the futures they hold. This is why Domesti-PUPS understands that requesting a donation of a puppy is a huge favor to ask, but one that is required in order to have a successful service dog in the future. Please consider donating a puppy to Domesti-PUPS, to help us unlock the independence of a person in the future.
If interested in donating a well-bred, and well-raised puppy to Domesti-PUPS, now or in the future, please contact us at [email protected]. Thank you for your consideration.