If you'd like to purchase one of our puppies...here's how it works: - Contact via email and phone so that we can get to know each other and learn more about your interests; - We'll invite your family to meet us and our PWDs (and maybe peek at the pups depending on their age & if mama will allow); - Your family will be invited back and to meet the pups personally after their first shot (6 weeks); - We'll work together with the puppy families to ensure the right PWD ends up with the perfect parents; - We'll provide you with health certificates, shot/worming schedule, contracts, etc.;  - Puppies should be ready to go to their new homes between 8 -10 weeks of age (we do not send home puppies during Christmas holidays).

Zeke & Dad Maquah

Some things to think about... Your contract will require that you communicate monthly throughout the first year to your pup's litter list, as well as send digital photos every now and then.  Are you willing to take the time to keep your breeder and littermates up-to-date? For the good of the breed, we would like you to have certain health tests performed throughout the pup's lifetime, and provide test documentation to the PWDCA health database or to us to enter in the database.  Are you willing to incur some expense and time to support the longterm well-being of this wonderful breed? Portuguese Water Dogs were bred to be workers and companions.  They need to exercise their brains as well as their bodies.  They are intelligent, energetic and purposeful, and those traits can be put to good use, such as as daily runs/walks and performance activities such as water work, flyball, obedience, agility, rally training, etc.--or they can be boiseterous and unruly, cause destruction of shoes, couches, gardens and more.   They are most content having their humans around -they (and we) love folks who can take their dogs to work or who work from home.  PWDs are not happy left in the backyard or at home alone, and though they've been known to love lapsitting, they are hardly lapdogs.  Do you and your family have the time to devote to developing the fabulous potential of these amazing creatures. Puppy school after the last shot is a MUST.  And then take beginning Obedience.  You may never actually compete in Obedience, but it's amazing what happens to your dog when he/she goes weekly with you to those classes.  Together, you learn control, heeling without pulling, commands like "leave it" (which could save your doggie's life someday).  And once you know basic obedience, there's a whole world of cool activities you'll enjoy together with your PWD.  Including impressing your friends at the dog park ;-)