My Breeding Philosophy
Bellini Poodles is dedicated and devoted to raising high quality CKC poodles with proper conformation, good health and even temperaments. Our goal is to breed poodles that excel in conformation, obedience, agility, as well as, loving companions for your family. We produce puppies in sold colors of Brown and Black. When you purchase a Bellini Poodle, you become part of our extended family; and we are available to our families for the lifetime of our puppies. Should you ever have questions regarding diet, vaccinations, house breaking, crate training, grooming...anything we can assist with, we will. We are always interested in how our puppies are doing and love to receive updates and photos of our babies as they grow up; along with brags about their accomplishments and titles. All of our puppies leave well-socialized, introduced to crate training and potty training, fully groomed, vet-checked, all vaccinations appropriate for their age at delivery. *No tail docking or Dew claws removed*
Bellini poodle puppies are beautiful, smart and have wonderful temperaments. They are fun, friendly, intelligent and make wonderful family companions. Potential buyers are screened to help ensure a good match is made between the owner and new puppy; while also understanding the responsibility of owning a Bellini poodle. A $500 deposit is required to hold a puppy; the deposit is 100% refundable if breeder cannot provide a puppy to the future owner. A separate agreement, signed at the time you pay in full and pick up your puppy, includes a 72-hour health guarantee and a 2-year genetic health guarantee. All puppies sold as companion pets are sold on CKC non-breeding contract, unless other agreement.
Home Raised
Our puppies are much loved members of our family and raised in our home. All Bellini puppies are bred to be show quality; however, that does not mean they all will go to show homes. Usually, only one or two puppies from a litter will go to the show ring; where the rest of the litter will be quality puppies in loving pet homes. Placing our puppies in forever loving family homes is our top priority. We breed for type, health and temperament for both show and companionship from well known champion lines. While obtaining Championship titles is important to us, our priority lies with the temperament and health of our dogs.
Bellini poodle puppies are available only occasionally, as we breed on a limited basis. When you purchase a Bellini puppy you will be getting a poodle puppy that has been raised in the home, is well-adjusted, and will move effortlessly into your home & hearts. Our puppies are handled on a daily basis from the day they are born. During their neonatal period we do early neurological stimulation to help the puppies have stronger heart beats, more tolerance to stress, and greater resistance to disease. We help enrich their minds and bodies through puppy culture and Avidog with early exposure with our "adventure box", agility equipment, exposure to our safe outdoor environment until they leave us for their forever loving families. All of our puppies are well socialized with people of all ages. We do our best to prepare your new family member to be a confident, well adjusted pup through socialization and exposure to different situations, sounds and stimuli which is importance for our puppies development of sound mind and body.
Our puppies remain in our home until nine weeks old. We keep the puppies’ play area neat and clean, which teaches the puppies from an early age to be clean and not soil where they sleep, eat, and play. Starting around 4 weeks of age, the puppies are taken outside to play for short periods of time. During this time we work on basic potty training through helping puppies associate going outside with going “potty,” which helps their natural desire to keep their sleep and play areas clean so by the time you get a puppy from us, they have a great start to being potty-trained. Also starting around 4 weeks of age, we introduce them to weekly grooming, which consists of bathing, blow drying, clipping nails, shaving faces, feet, and base of tails. Early grooming helps teach the puppies to learn to enjoy the grooming process as it is a big part of a poodle’s life. We expect our new families to continue with grooming every 4-6 weeks. Poodles require regular grooming their entire lives- it's their spay day!
Health
As dedicated & ethical breeders of poodles, we stress the importance of all genetic health testing to insure that our prospective parents are in good health. All adults are certified free of hip and elbow dysplasia by the Orthopedic Foundation for Animals (OFFA). They receive eye exams by a veterinarian who is
board certified by the Canadian College of Veterinary Ophthalmologists. Our Standard poodles are also tested For Cardiac. We also use the DNA tests panel that are currently available for our breed from Paw Print Genetics. Think ahead to 12-15 years and the importance of choosing a puppy whose ancestors have been screened for common health issues which have a genetic basis. There are no complete health guarantees in life, and even with all our testing, sometimes problems may occur. The very best source of a healthy, well-socialized, quality poodle puppy is from a conscientious breeder with a long-term commitment to the breed and a reputation to uphold. When purchasing a Bellini Poodle you become part of our extended family! Letting puppies go to new homes is difficult for any serious and dedicated breeder. We care deeply and love every puppy that we bring into this world. We invest much of ourselves into the puppies we breed, care for, and raise. We are here for and encourage our new families to stay in touch with updates on their puppy's progress throughout the puppy's life time with e-mails, photos, and visits. We thank all of our puppy buyers for providing wonderful loving homes to our precious babies.
Can I Pick Out My Own Puppy?
Many of our waiting puppy buyers ask us if they will be able to pick out their own puppy from the litter. Since we take the placement of each puppy into it’s new family very seriously and want the ‘perfect’ match, the answer is most often ‘no’. A breeder spends a lot of time with a litter of puppies. From day 1 we are with the puppies 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. We watch them grow and develop their own little personalities and watch them interact with each other and with their mother on a regular basis. We are able to observe a litter of puppies at different times of the day and in different situations. Nobody knows each individual puppies temperament and personality better than the person responsible for their care for the first 8 weeks of their life.
We ask all potential puppy buyers to fill out our ‘Bellini Pre-Adoption Questionnaire’ which allows us to get to know each family a little better. By filling out this application puppy buyers are helping us to get a feel for what their families lifestyles are and what types of characteristics they are looking for in their new puppy. Active, young family is more likely to be looking for an outgoing, energetic puppy that can keep up with their busy lifestyle while an older, retired couple may be looking for a more laid back, calm puppy.
Puppy buyers will often come to visit a litter before the pups are ready to go and they will see the puppies for maybe an hour or two . These short visits are fun but are not enough time for a family to really get a feel for each individual puppies personality or to know which one would best fit into their household. Sometimes, depending on the time of day and circumstances, the more high energy puppy in a litter might be tired or having a quiet day when a family comes to visit. A family looking for a quiet, more laid back puppy might mistakingly think that this puppy is the right one for them and if they were given the choice, they might very well have chosen to take that particular puppy home only to find out a day or two later that the puppy they picked was not so laid back after all! The same can be said for the quiet , laid back puppy who is having a busy or high energy day when a family comes to visit. A family looking for a pup that is full of energy, a puppy that will keep up with their families busy lifestyle, might choose this puppy and later on find out that it might not have been the perfect match for their active lifestyle.
It is very important to us that each puppy is matched with the right family. We want our puppies to be happy and for their new families to enjoy their new puppy for many years to come. For this to happen, we need to make the best match possible between puppy and new family. We take this matching process very seriously . We have a very good track record for making the right choices in matching puppies with the right families! Our new puppy families always feel that they have been given the perfect puppy and we get many updates and reports to support this fact. So we ask all our puppy buyers to trust in our ability to choose the puppy that is going to best fit into their family and who is going to bring many years of joy to their lives.
Please read our Puppy Evaluation and Selection Process page for more details.
If you are interested in adding a Bellini poodle puppy to your home, fill out our Bellini Pre-Adoption Questionnaire.
