Puppy Policies and Application Process

As responsible breeders, we are responsible for any puppy we bring into this world for their entire life.  We raise them carefully to be well-adjust puppies and want to assure that their forever home will be exactly the right place for them, where they will be loved and appreciated for the special dog that they are.  We know that life holds no assurances, so if for some reason the owner is no longer able to keep the dog, it must come back to us so that we can re-home it to someone we have also approved.

We charge one price for all our puppies – every puppy is special in its own way, whether it’s going to be a top performance dog, a conformation champion, or a best buddy.  You are still getting that very special personality that is a Pumi.  Because genetic diversity is very important in a breed like the Pumi that has a small gene pool, we do not require spaying or neutering of any dog unless there is a specific hereditary heath reason for not breeding.  There is no scientific evidence that a dog needs to be bred, but there is scientific evidence that early spaying and neutering can be detrimental to later health.  So unless someone is as committed to being a responsible breeder as we are, spending hours studying pedigrees and genetics and hours more raising puppies, you probably should not breed. 

In most circumstances, we will choose your puppy for you.  We will have lived with them and evaluated them every day of their lives in order to make sure we have a good match with their new home.  In turn, we expect a commitment from the puppy owner to take the puppy to classes and train them to be a good companion.   A Pumi is extremely smart, and without guidance can become a dog that is running the household instead of the other way around. 

We use the European method of naming litters, and that is all the puppies’ names begin with our kennel name “Abiqua” and the second word in the name is a Hungarian word that for each puppy in the litter starts with the same letter, and each litter is in alphabetical order.  So for our first litter, the second names all started with “A”, the second litter “B” and so on.  For your puppy you may choose the Hungarian word within those parameters or we will give you some suggestions, or we can choose the name for you.  We will register the puppy for you and also register their microchip with AKC Reunite if you don’t have a preference otherwise.

After reading all this, if you are still interested in getting a Pumi puppy from us, please email us and tell us a bit about yourself, your family, and why you're interested in getting a Pumi. If we don't answer right away, it's probably because we just don't have anything available at this time since we only breed 1 or 2 litters per year.  If we feel you will be a good puppy owner and you definitely want a puppy from us, you may send us a deposit which will move you up the list for the first available puppy that matches your criteria.

We do not normally ship our puppies.  We prefer that you come to our house to get the puppy where you can see the adults and we can indoctrinate you into the world of the Pumi.