Here at Short Legs & Curly Wags LLC we are devoted to breeding beautiful, healthy, and lovable furry family members. Whether you're looking for a companion, an adventure partner, a home guardian, or a dog for a different job, we can confidently say that our pups can provide that for you. We breed both AKC registered Standard Poodles and AKC registered Cardigan Welsh Corgis (the long tailed Corgis). We require all of our breeding pairs to have thorough health/genetic testing and also AKC registration to ensure the healthiest and purest representations of their breeds that we can provide. We offer a health guarantee, first vaccines, deworming, and a veterinary exam for all of our puppies.
We are dedicated to helping to end the trend of unethical breeding practices by showing good breeding practices ourselves and informing others kindly about the harms of “having litters for fun.” We at Short Legs & Curly Wags are devoted to our puppies’ health and well-being, and protecting our dogs' families from heartache of a genetic health disorder. This is why we do genetic testing on all of our breeding pairs, ensuring we will not unintentionally pass down future hereditary health issues in our puppies. We also do OFA tests of the common issues in our breeds for which there is not a gene yet discovered for detection by DNA. At SLCW we do allow purchase of breeding rights as long as certain requirements are met. As stated in our contract, any family planning on breeding must agree not to breed the puppy until it is at least 2 years old (female) or 8 months old (male), and to perform genetic testing on both their dog and the mate they are going to breed with. (Yes, even though our puppies' parents are genetically tested this does not mean that the puppy does not need to be tested. Non genetic mutation though unlikely can occur and be passed down to the next generation.)
Also, all buyers must sign agreement to not to pass their dog off to a shelter or pound if they find they cannot keep it, but must re-home the dog to a new loving home situation. This way we hope to keep our dogs out of shelters and in a family it deserves.
Most of all we are committed to being good stewards of these amazing creatures that God has created.