Contract & health guarantee

1. What we guarantee

Your puppy leaves here having had a full veterinary examination within the preceding week, its first vaccination, regular worming from two weeks old, and a microchip fitted and transferred to your name on the day you collect. If your own vet finds a significant health problem within seventy-two hours of go-home day, return the puppy to us and we will refund you in full. This sits alongside, and does not replace, your rights under the Consumer Rights Act 2015.

For two years from the date of birth, we guarantee your puppy against hereditary defects that are life-limiting or that require major surgical intervention, diagnosed by a veterinary surgeon and confirmed by a second opinion we may request. The remedy is a replacement puppy from a future litter, or a refund, at your choice. We do not ask you to return a dog you love in order to claim.

2. What we ask of you

• Take the puppy to your own vet within seventy-two hours of collection.
• Keep vaccinations, parasite prevention, and dental care current for the dog's life.
• Maintain the coat, whether in full coat or a shorter clip, so that the dog is never matted.
• Keep the dog as a house dog. Not kennelled outdoors, not chained, not left alone all day as a routine.
• Do not breed a dog sold on limited registration, and do not sell or give the dog to a third party, a rescue, a rehoming centre, or a research facility.
• Tell us if the dog develops a serious hereditary condition, even years later. It changes what we breed.

3. The take-back clause

If at any point in this dog's life you cannot keep them, they come back to us. Any age, any reason, no fee, no judgement, and no questions you do not want to answer. Divorce, illness, a move, a new baby, a job, or simply having got it wrong — it does not matter. Telephone us and we will arrange collection.

This clause never expires and it is the reason we keep our numbers small enough to honour it. No dog we have bred has ever gone into rescue, and none ever will.

4. Registration and breeding rights

Pet puppies are registered with the Royal Kennel Club and sold with endorsements: progeny not eligible for registration and not eligible for export. Your puppy is fully registered and may compete in any RKC discipline. As the RKC requires, we tell you about every endorsement in writing and you acknowledge it before the sale — a breeder who springs an endorsement on you afterwards has broken the rules.

We will lift the endorsements in writing for a home we have approved for showing or breeding, once the dog has completed the health testing for the breed.

We do not require early neutering. Current veterinary evidence favours waiting for skeletal maturity in a large breed, and we will discuss timing with you and your vet.

5. Deposits, balance, and cancellation

The guarantee does not cover injury, infectious or parasitic disease acquired after collection, conditions arising from neglect, poor diet, over-exercise during growth, or a failure to maintain the coat. It does not cover cosmetic faults with no effect on health, nor temperament changes following an event in your home. It does not cover a dog that has been bred without our written agreement.

The balance is due Two weeks before go-home day. If you withdraw after we have matched you to a specific puppy, we will do our best to place that puppy quickly and will discuss your deposit with you fairly. If we cancel for any reason of our own, you are refunded in full without argument.

6. What is not covered

The guarantee does not cover injury, infectious or parasitic disease acquired after collection, conditions arising from neglect, poor diet, over-exercise during growth, or a failure to maintain the coat. It does not cover cosmetic faults with no effect on health, nor temperament changes following an event in your home. It does not cover a dog that has been bred without our written agreement.