Responsible dog breeders shouldn't have to spend hours screening unqualified candidates.

We screen, educate, and verify candidates for your pet quality puppies before you ever pick up the phone. So you only spend time speaking with serious, compatible homes.

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Placing Puppies in Homes Shouldn't Be Stressful

  • Too many inquiry emails from unqualified candidates for your dogs
  • Hours spent educating unqualified candidates about your breed.
  • Lots of inquiries with only a few turning out to be qualified for pet homes
  • Frustration of applicants not understanding what sets your breeding program apart from others
  • Managing expectations of applicants who underestimate the responsibility of a dog
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You Love Your Breed

Your time should be spent raising exceptional puppies, not filtering out unqualified candidates.

You are a breeder for the love of the dogs. Not for the profit, not for the glamour, but for the health and betterment of your breed.

Spend more time with your dogs, and less time investigating which people are qualified to bring your puppies home.

You still control your waitlist, home placement, and personal connection. We screen, you decide.

Keep the personal touch, lose the busy work.

Our breeders only speak with applicants who are pre-qualified to take home one of their puppies.

Every buyer who reaches you has already:

  1. Completed a breed compatibility assessment
  2. Learned the specific needs of dogs from your program
  3. Been evaluated for lifestyle fit
  4. Demonstrated commitment to responsible ownership

    You receive a qualified applicant report before you ever speak to the applicant.
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The Qualified Puppy Home System™

We screen and qualify candidates for your pet quality puppies before they join your waitlist.

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Step 1

Pet home candidates complete our breed-specific compatibility assessment. Most candidates complete the assessment in 10-15minutes and save 90-120 minutes of research.

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Step 2

We manually review and evaluate their responses. We score their assessment based on their compatibility with your breed. Candidates that are at least 75% compatible are qualified.

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Step 3

Qualified or unqualified - all candidates receive education about your breed's needs. If qualified, they will be notified of the next steps to working with you.

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Step 4

Only qualified candidates are forwarded to you. You spend your time speaking with people who are already pre-qualified for a pet quality dog from your breeding program and have been educated about the dog's breed-specific needs.

Most breeders are fully set up in 1 day.

One-time setup, no maintenance needed.

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We Only Work with Responsible Breeders

  • Health Testing

    Breeders must perform breed-appropriate health testing and provide their buyers with the published results of those tests.

  • Safe Environment

    Breeders must raise their puppies in their home or equivalent safe, enriching environment.

  • Selectivity

    Breeders must follow responsible placement practices for their puppies.

  • Lifelong Support

    Breeders must prioritize support for the buyers of their puppies for the dog's lifetime.

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We only partner with breeders that meet ALL of these criteria.

  • Proven health testing with published results
  • Puppies raised in-home or equivalent
  • Puppies strategically placed in homes
  • Lifelong support of clients

Current Availability

To maintain the quality of candidate screening, we limit the number of breeders we work with.

Once we are full, we close applications until a spot becomes available.

This protects:

  • Breeder Reputation
  • Buyer experience
  • Placement quality
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What You Get

As a Whelp Breeder, you can choose a variety of services based on your breeding practices and litter plans.

Qualified Leads Only

If you are a breeder that has a steady stream of inquiries and varying litter plans year over year, this plan is for you.

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Litter Placement

If you are a breeder that does not typically receive inquiries until you have a litter announced, this plan is for you.

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Why I Built This

I was once a child who had a dream to raise puppies for a living. I have no familial background in dog breeding, I just loved dogs. Fast forward through childhood, high school, and a college degree in Business Management. My life priorities had changed, but my childhood dream had not. I have had the privilege of experiencing a wide variety of dog breeds and their varying temperaments and natural abilities. I educate those around me about the unique form and function of dog breeds at every chance I have, to try and raise awareness of the value each of these dog breeds brings to the world and their unique needs. It only felt right to combine my adult skills with my childhood dream and support those who are raising puppies the right way. Hopefully that's you.

My goal today is to serve and bring value to responsible dog breeders across the United States by relieving the most stressful parts of raising puppies, making sure they land in homes that love them as much as you do. Because you care, this process takes time. I care too. And that is why I am supporting breeders in this way. So they can spend more time with the dogs that made them fall in love with breeding in the first place.

xoxo, Courtney Smith