Green Valley Boxers
Breed: Boxer | Member Since 9/20/2005
Health Guarantee and Contract
Your puppy is guaranteed to be in good health and free of communicable or infectious diseases at the time of the sale. If within 7 days from the time you, the buyer, take possession of the puppy, it is found by a licensed veterinarian not to be in good health, we, the breeders, agree to pay half the vet cost up to $200. We, the breeders are not responsible for any transportation expense charges. A refund will be given only upon receipt of the report from a licensed veterinarian.
We guarantee that every puppy is healthy when it leaves here. If you take your puppy to the vet within 7 days after you pick up the puppy, and the vet finds an unforeseen congenital abnormality, we will either refund your money or allow you to pick out a different puppy, as available. Buyer understands that the following slight genetic defects are not considered serious or life threatening and therefore is not covered: umbilical hernia, undescended testicle, or underbite or overbite. Buyer understands that replacement option is only valid when health problems are attributed to a hereditary problem and not due to accident or contagious and/or other illness.
Our puppies & dogs have not been exposed to infectious diseases here. If your puppy is exposed to an infectious disease after it leaves here, this is not covered under the health guarantee. Please pay particular attention to this if you have recently lost a dog or puppy! Infectious diseases are not covered by our health guarantee, as we have no control over what the puppy is exposed to after it leaves our home. We also cannot guarantee that your puppy will never develop any health problems, just like a pediatrician cannot guarantee that a child will never develop any health problems in the future. Some things are just not able to be predicted. Our parents are free of diseases, disorders, and health problems, or we would not breed them. That means the puppies are less likely to develop problems. However, we cannot guarantee that puppies will not come down with any future diseases, disorders, or health problems.
Please Be aware that vaccinations sometimes fail for various reasons, and a dog does not develop full immunity to some diseases until they are a full year old and have had all their puppy shots, including a booster at the age of 1 year. If you are not willing or able to make sure that your puppy gets ALL of his scheduled vaccines and boosters, please do not purchase a puppy. The ideal method of guarding your new puppy against illnesses is to keep it away from other puppies less than a year old, older dogs who have not had vaccines, any dog who is ill, and places where other dogs have been doing their business or other dogs have been ill until your puppy is at least a year old and has his/her final booster.
Puppies under a year old are especially vulnerable to a few diseases. If you keep yourself informed, you can avoid health problems and illnesses in your puppy. Do not wait a few weeks or a month and then take the puppy to the vet. Do it right away, as soon as possible. Do not wait until your puppy is sick to introduce him to the vet. Get into the habit of seeing your vet on a regular basis. Think of him as your puppy's "pediatrician". The vet is a good person to get to know, and taking your dog to the vet for shots, health checkup, etc., is a good habit to get into right at the very beginning. Puppy "babies" require the same attention and care -- vaccines, well checkups, vitamins, etc. -- as human children. Maybe more. If you are not willing to commit to doing this, please buy a fish or some other animal that does not require the care and attention that a puppy will require.