“People are calling about puppies, now what?”
Now the really hard people work begins of spending time with the people who call and making sure that they are suitable owners with good homes for your puppies. You have a great deal of emotional, financial, time, and energy investment in these puppies and should want to ensure that they go to the best possible homes. You carefully word your advertisements for the various dog papers and, perhaps, the dog magazines, if you can financially afford the investment. As the phone calls come in, there are definitely questions that you will want to ask the prospective buyers and questions that you should look for them to be asking you. Are you determined enough and able to turn away people from who you don’t get a good feeling? Can you continue to look for good, responsible homes even when the puppies may be twelve weeks old, eating you out of house and literally home, as their little teeth tear into the woodwork, leave little stains on the carpet, and snag your best hose? Your responsibility continues even when the little imps are not quite so cute any more because the strain of late nights and extra work has worn you to a frazzle.
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