Fostering

At Shadowland, we prioritize that each individual dog is given a fulfilling, enriched life; and while they compete in multiple venues, at the end of the day they are beloved family companions first and foremost. 

Our Foster Program allows us to keep dogs incorporated as apart of our breeding program, while still keeping a limited number of dogs in our home. This permits us to offer every single one of the dogs living with us the individual time, love and attention that they deserve, while also offering the dogs apart of our Foster Program to live in homes with their 

families the same courtesy - whether this is a single or multi dog home, it is one where they can enjoy life and some extra attention from “their” people. ​

It also, for young dogs and puppies, becomes an invaluable tool as once they have retired from the show ring and our breeding program, these dogs can simply be retired into the home that they have lived in the majority of their lives. While we use the term “Foster”, these foster homes are truly their “forever homes”.

What it entails...

Through our foster program, the foster family would receive a puppy or young adult dog free of charge to them (rather than the regular purchase price of our puppies/dogs).

The dog would live primarily with the Foster Home as their beloved family companion like with any average family dog.

The Foster would cover the cost of daily expenses including food, routine vet care, and everyday needs.

We would require the foster to keep the dog intact (not spayed or neutered) and we would get to “borrow” back the dog for short periods of time.

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For puppies and young adults, this would include being with us for the occasional weekend (usually Fri-Sun) as they work towards finishing their Championships. This is usually no more than a few weekends over the course or a year or so.

For young adults that are already finished their championships prior to being placed in a foster home, those show weekends would be rare, if at all!

Most importantly, our Foster Program allows our dogs to be a crucial part of our breeding program.
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For girls, this means that she would come back to us to whelp puppies and continue future generations here at Shadowland (this would be up to 8 weeks at a time to whelp and raise a litter). Our girls are bred no earlier than two years of age and retired by six years of age at the very latest, though often sooner then this. Once retired from our program, she would be spayed at our expense. 

For boys, this means keeping them intact for the duration of their lives (unless medically necessary to neuter) and allowing us to use him at stud. Boys would be away from home for several days to a couple weeks at a time during breedings, which would be taken care of by us, at our home.

All expenses, transport and efforts regarding showing and breeding shall be ours here at Shadowland.

With our foster program it allows us to keep dogs as an invaluable part of our breeding program, and our foster homes receive a show quality puppy who will be championed and health tested (by us) free of charge. 

Foster homes must live within driving distance to us and be located in Ontario, Canada. Please include your location when applying.