🇬🇧 How to buy a puppy in Brazil

Having a 4-legged companion is always good when we like these companions and are willing to take care of them. Today there are tips on how to buy a dog in Brazil. In other posts I will share tips for buying and adopting dogs and cats in various countries. The basic tips are the same, varying the sites to be consulted and possibly specific norms for each country.

If you just want a cute dog, no need for a specific breed, or if you have no experience with dogs, adopting can be a good option. An adult dog, although it may have some traumas, often already has basic training, which makes life much easier for inexperienced tutors.

Avoid short-snouted dogs such as pugs, lhasa apso or bulldogs, as they are difficult to travel with, if you cannot renew your visa, decide to return to your home country or move to live elsewhere.

• See the official breed standard. In Portuguese you can visit the CBKC (Brazilian Kennel Club) website: https://cbkc.org/racas and you will find the standard of all breeds available in Brazil and some unavailable (no kennels that breed dogs of the same breed). If it doesn't exist there, the race doesn't exist. No matter how cute that “Pomsky” is, he's an SRD (aka mutt). It's a trap! Only buy dogs within the breed standards and according to the other buying tips in this post.  If standards aren't important to you and you just want a cute dog, adopt them.
• In Brazil, CBKC has a ranking of breeders, where we can consult the best breeders of the breed of interest to us: https://cbkc.org/rankings. When looking at the list of the top 5 breeders for each breed you will see that some breeds don't even reach 5 breeders, and others have breeders with a very low score. Keep an eye!
• The CBKC website has no tips for those who want to buy a dog like the Finnish Kennel Club (text from yesterday). But it is worth considering as the breeder's obligations to deliver a healthy puppy, within the standards of the breed, vaccinated, microchipped, with a sales contract that includes guarantees to the buyer, to say the least.
• Talk to the breeder, ask questions. If he delivers puppies without all the vaccines and microchips, run away! A serious breeder will also want information about you, your experience with dogs, with that breed, etc. and will give you information that might even make you give up on the purchase, such as mentioning negative aspects of the breed's behaviour. I've already talked to Brazilian and foreign breeders and the most reliable ones are looking for the best tutors for their puppies.
• Read the other dog tips on this blog and follow the blog and my social media profiles to know firsthand the upcoming tips posted.
• Take good care of your new companion! A dog is a liability for many years and not a disposable object.

Nycka, the Nomad