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We are
members of the Tibetan Terrier Club of
America (TTCA) and the all-breed Packerland
Kennel Club (PKC). Linda has served as a
Vice President of the TTCA and as an
officer/Board of Directors member of the PKC.
As members of the TTCA, we support the TTCA
"Guidelines for Responsible Breeders" and we
are on the TTCA Breeder Referral List. We
encourage you to visit the TTCA website to
learn more about the TT parent club.
PUPPY
SOCIALIZATION
Our
puppies all receive daily handling from the
day they are born. We believe is extremely
important to take our puppies to new
environments and to meet other people and
carefully selected good natured dogs of
other breeds. We believe that this is an
important foundation for developing the
personality of each and every puppy. We will
raise only as many litters as we can give
the proper time and effort to. We are
fortunate to have extended family who love
to help play with and socialize our
delightful young puppies.
BREEDING
FOR THE FUTURE
We
believe that the focus of each litter should
be trying to produce high quality TTs that
will be an asset to the breed--TTs that we
can be proud of having bred. We will not
breed to produce "just another litter."
SELECTION
OF SIRES AND DAMS
When
selecting the sires/dams of our future
litters we follow a very high standard of
ethics.
1.
All sires/dams MUST be champions. Why?
Well, if they are not good enough to earn a
championship they are not good enough for
our breeding program. We believe in
breeding high quality to high quality to get
high quality. In addition to being
champions, many of our sires/dams have
earned additional titles including Best in
Show, Specialty Best in Show, Group awards,
Register of Merit awards, Canine Good
Citizen (CGC) awards, Obedience titles, and
Agility titles.
2.All of our sires/dams have passed CERF/CERF
eligible exams and /or ERG eye exams (or the
foreign equivalent of these exams).
3.
All of our sires/dams have a permanent OFA
hip rating. In order to get this they must
be at least 2 years of age. OFA will only
give permanent ratings to mature TTs,
anything under 2 years is considered by OFA
as being too immature to be given a
permanent hip rating. We breed only mature
sires and dams, even though it means waiting
patiently for them to grow up to be at least
2 before they can be used in our breeding
program.
The OFA
website lists OFA and CERF and other info
and we encourage you to check it out to
verify the hip and eye results on our dogs
or anyone else's at
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EXCALIBUR
TIBETAN TERRIERS