Rose Lane Miniature Schnauzers
RESERVING A PICK ORDER SPOT IN AN UNBORN LITTER:
When the puppies are born we immediately (within 24 hours) email photos to the first pick male and female buyers.
They have a few days to either select a puppy or pass on the litter before I move along and send photos of available puppies to the second pick buyers and so on until everyone with advance reservations have selected. If you pass on the litter, your $300 deposit is immediately refundable or transferable towards another puppy/litter- your choice. If you do decide to select a puppy at that time, your deposit becomes non-refundable once you ask us to hold a specific puppy and your deposit will be applied to hold the puppy you have selected. In the end, any puppies that are not selected by buyers with advance reservations are then posted on our web site and available to others. Most of our puppies are spoken for long before the age they can safely begin to receive visitors or leave for their new homes (7+ weeks), so reserving earliest will always give a buyer the greatest selection, however it never "commits" you to a puppy you select this young, or have not met in person yet.
Reserving pick order in an unborn litter only gives you advance opportunity to select early in a litter before others!
Additionally, once you have a deposit in with us, we do try our best to give priority consideration to those who have shown a commitment by already having a deposit in with us. Your deposit not only holds your pick order spot in the litter of your choosing, but also simultaneously acts as a "floating deposit" for any other puppies becoming unexpectedly available from other litters, before we post them on our web site as available to others.
RESERVING A SPECIFIC PUPPY WHO IS ALREADY BORN:
You are always welcome to re-select if you change your mind about your puppy prior to 8 weeks old, for any reason. Though your $300 deposit is not refundable once you ask us to hold a particular puppy and turn other buyers away, we will absolutely transfer your deposit towards any other puppy or upcoming litter if you change your mind about the puppy you initially selected! We only have two limitations to honoring a deposit:
Because costs of re-advertising a puppy is both time consuming
and expensive, we limit buyers re-selecting to no more then just one time and we must be notified of any re-selections prior to your puppy turning 8 weeks old. At 7 weeks old they can have visitors in person, so this allows everyone to meet their puppy in person prior to fully committing. Puppies can go home between 7-8 weeks old, depending on their exact vaccination regimen, but must be paid for in full and picked up (unless arrangements have been made in advance) by 8 weeks old. When you meet the puppy in person for him/her to go home, you are still welcome then to pass on the puppy and re-select or wait for another litter so long as the puppy is still under 8 weeks old. This way, you are never ever committed to a puppy before you actually are able to see and meet your puppy in person at 7 weeks old.
For all litters, I update photos at birth and again at 25 days of age and once again at 6 1/2 to 7 weeks old. Unfortunately, I am not able to update the litters more frequently due to time constraints. Also, I do add video clips at 7 weeks old.
Balance payments are due for puppies no later then the date they turn 8 weeks old.