Info For Puppy Buyers

When you add a Kiteroa Golden Retriever puppy to your family, you become part of our Kiteroa family. We like to keep you updated and informed about the puppies as they grow, and we encourage you to stay in touch after you have taken your puppy home so that we can see how your new family member grows, and the adventures they get to join you on.

Below are some frequently asked questions to give you some information about the process that we follow when we are allocating our puppies to their new forever homes. Our priority is our puppies, and while we do our best to cater for your requests as a buyer, we must always put the welfare and happiness of our puppies foremost.

We hope the below information answers all of your questions, but if you require any further information, please don’t hesitate to Contact Us

FAQ

WHY CHOOSE A KITEROA GOLDEN?

At Kiteroa Kennels, we are proud to strive for the advancement of the Golden Retriever breed. This means that we will do all we can to produce sound and healthy puppies, that are an excellent example of the breed.
We are an ANKC registered breeder with Dogs NSW (member #2100057394)

A beautiful, confident and happy temperament is of utmost importance to us, so that our Golden Retrievers can adjust to their surroundings, and be the beautiful, happy dog that the breed is so well known for.

We carry out extensive health testing on our breeding dogs to ensure the best possible chance of all puppies living a healthy long life with their forever families.

The testing that we carry out includes:

Hip x-ray and scoring using the CHEDS system
Elbow x-ray and scoring using the CHEDS system
Annual eye certification using the ACES system
Heart ausculation by a vet
Full Breed ORIVET breed DNA panel of tests, including (but not limited to)
   – Degenerative Myelopathy
   – GR PRA 1
   – GR PRA 2
   – Ichthyosis
   -Neuronal Ceroid Lipfuscionosis (NCL)

This program produces amazingly resilient, confident, enrichment seeking puppies who develop into well rounded, outgoing, operant adults that are happy, socially successful, and trainable dogs. Puppy Culture represents a gold standard in puppy rearing and early socialisation.
Once the puppies begin to walk around and play with each other, then we utilise Puppy Culture and Avidog protocols to give our puppies the best possible start to life.

We start our puppies off at 3days old with ENS or early Neurological Stimulation as per Puppy Culture protocols and continue until 17 days old

This program produces amazingly resilient, confident, enrichment seeking puppies who develop into well rounded, outgoing, operant adults that are happy, socially successful, and trainable dogs. Puppy Culture represents a gold standard in puppy rearing and early socialisation.
Once the puppies begin to walk around and play with each other, then we utilise Puppy Culture and Avidog protocols to give our puppies the best possible start to life.

The Adventure Box

We are always searching for fun and easy ways to develop our pups’ stability. Our Adventure Box has quickly become a favourite, particularly for early stimulation. An Adventure Box is a wonderful way to introduce baby puppies to the sights, sounds, touch and motion they will experience during their lives. Experiences like the Adventure Box may grow the size and complexity of puppies’ brains, helping them to become more confident.

By 6 weeks puppies go on “adventure walks” around our property. They experience all different kinds of surfaces like concrete, gravel, loud corrugated iron sheets, up and down embankments. They also learn recall and to follow closely to people.

What Does My Puppy Come Home With?

When you take home your puppy, we will provide you with a puppy pack that will include all sorts of goodies to help your puppy settle in to their new home, and lots of information for you to help with the care of your new family member. Puppy packs will vary from litter to litter, but will always include:

The puppy pack may also contain little things like:

• A Puppy Toy or Calming bed that Has Been Shared with the Litter.• This will smell like your puppy’s litter, and will be a comfort to your puppy in the initial days of your puppy coming home as well as Heart beat bear so your puppy can hear the comforting sound of a heartbeat.

• Puppy Safe Toys

• Puppy Bowl

• Puppy wipes-Handy for trip home!

• Brush

• Puppy Training Treats

• Puppy collar and lead

• 2kg bag of puppy kibble-Taste of The Wild either Pacific Steam or High Prairie Formula

• Lyka Fresh Food Samples for puppies that are picked up only, as these are frozen meat packs

• Lyka Discount Voucher so that you can continue to feed your puppy as we have here, to ensure they have the best start to life.

• Lifetime breeder support. As your puppy’s breeder, we would love for you to stay in touch with us, and you are welcome to ask us any questions or request advice at any time. If we don’t know the answer, we will do our best to find out for you.

• ANKC Limited Pedigree Registration. This gives the full parentage of your puppy and is supplied by Dogs NSW. The limited registration is for non showing and breeding dogs, and this is what all of our puppies are supplied with.

• 8 Weeks Free PetsOnMe Pet Insurance to take away that new puppy stress while they settle into your family. You can choose to continue this insurance after this initial period (which we highly recommend) and will have the ability to alter the policy to suit your needs.

• Parents Health Information to show you the healthy and sound parentage of your puppy.