How Do You Choose Your Pomsky Kennel?

How to choose your Pomsky kennel is a genuine question worth asking, but not every prospective owner goes through that process, for lack of time and out of impatience.

Often we wonder about the breed we would like to adopt, then look online to see whether puppies are available: breed listing sites, classified ads, Facebook, and sometimes the breed clubs too. Then we spot a little face, fall in love, and the puppy is available. Off we go into this new adventure.

We simply forget that the breeder is crucial to the puppies’ socialisation. Choosing your kennel is also an act of advocacy: choosing the one that looks after its breeding dogs and cuts no corners on their welfare or their health. By selecting a conscientious breeder, you encourage them in their approach and their passion, and you penalise the unscrupulous ones.

To guide you and help you choose your Pomsky kennel, we are going to highlight a number of subjects that will be important to raise with your breeder, because all of them will be decisive for your puppy’s future.

Choosing your Pomsky kennel based on the dogs’ health

French regulations also require breeders never to let puppies leave before a full 8 weeks. Puppies must be vaccinated, identified, wormed and provided with a certificate of good health. The certificate of good health is a checklist completed by the vet, who examines the various parts of your puppy’s body to confirm they are in good health.

It is also recommended that females do not have a litter before 15 months and that they do not have more than three litters in two years. So you can find out the mother’s age and look at the date of her previous litter. These criteria are checked automatically for LOF-registered dogs, but on non-LOF dogs they are left to the breeder’s discretion. The number of litters and how closely spaced they are will have no direct effect on your puppy’s health, but they will strongly affect the mother’s.

It can also be worth asking, in the case of LOF dogs, for the parents’ pedigree and all the health tests. Every breeder should be able to provide them. With those tests to hand, choosing your kennel will be simpler.

To choose your Pomsky kennel well, it is important to ask about the environment

There are as many kennels as there are breeders. It is important to ask about the environment the puppy has grown up in. You might, for instance, find out how many breeds are kept and how many breeding dogs are present. That will give you an indication of how family-like the environment is.

French regulations also impose a minimum of five square metres per dog. The breeder, however, is under no obligation to take the dog out of its pen, nor to walk it on a lead or give it access to the outdoors. In any case, a transparent breeder will give you the opportunity to come and visit their premises and see their breeding dogs. You will then quickly be able to judge whether they are sociable or not. You will also see straight away whether the dogs have outdoor facilities where they can play and enjoy a little sunshine.

Ask about the activities offered to the Pomskies

As we noted above, there is no legal obligation on a breeder to take their dogs out or to occupy them mentally and physically. So it is not unusual to find, in some Pomsky kennels, that the dogs are fearful. They do not necessarily have the chance to do anything outside the kennel. Some do not even leave their pen.

On the other hand, some breeders do a great deal of work on socialising their breeding dogs. They give them a family life with a range of activities: dog dancing, agility, obedience, hiking.

Since the parents’ character strongly influences the puppies’, we can only recommend that you choose a kennel with sociable, happy breeding dogs.

Ask about the parents’ character in order to choose your kennel

We keep coming back to the parents’ character because it will greatly influence the puppy’s. The socialisation carried out during the puppies’ first three months of life is decisive too. Your future puppy’s character, and therefore the relationship you will have with them, is strongly affected by their parents’ character, by how the pregnancy went, and by the socialisation done during those first three months.

A conscientious Pomsky kennel will always choose its breeding dogs on appearance, but also on temperament. So, in order to have a balanced puppy and give yourself every chance:

The parents must be neither fearful nor over-excitable; they must have calm contact with humans and with other animals. That is what is expected of a good breeding dog.

The mother’s pregnancy must have taken place in a calm, stress-free environment. She must not have suffered any trauma.

The breeder must then pay attention to the puppies’ development and socialisation. From the puppy’s first days of life, the breeder can introduce early stimulation.

Phase by phase, the puppy acquires new abilities and discovers the world.

Then, little by little, the breeder introduces various noises, textures, games and animals into the puppy’s world. That way, when you come to collect your puppy from the kennel, they should not be fearful and should already have discovered part of the outside world.

Have you found the kennel that suits you and matches your values? We have no doubt you will soon find the ball of fluff that steals your heart.

You can find the list of the various Pomsky kennels here: Pomsky kennels in France: everything you need to know