Registration & Transportation

Registration

Our puppies are elgible for registeration with the National Association of Louisiana Catahoulas and the American Bay Dog Registry. We will usually have the application for registration papers ready for you at the time of pick up. If the papers are not yet in our possession from the registry or association, they will be mailed to you when we receive the papers from the NAlC if at all possible.

**** News Bullitin: Word has it among breeders we know that the NALC is back up and running and able to do their business of registering puppies.

They were besiged by the flood and later had a fire. Hooray! we are glad the NALC is back on duty.

From time to time we have puppies out of a registered sire and a "grade" or non-registered, but out of a full blood Catahoula, dam (female,) that has shown outstanding performance and a registered stud dog. At times we may offer for sale some special cross bred Catahoula pups out of our bear, lion, raccoon hunting dogs or herding breeds.

Transportation

Rancho Santiago does not usually deliver puppies to buyers because we are occupied full time raising and training Catahoulas and mules. We are glad to assist facilitating shipment of your new Catahoula to you. If at all possible we hope you can come to Rancho Santiago to get your pup and meet its' parents.

The nearest air shipment port for puppies (dog & crate must weigh less than 65 pounds!) from RanchoSantiago is a160 mile trip to get to the air port at Lubbock, Texas. The puppy is shipped from "counter to counter" to your nearest airport ... this means that the dog must be met at the airport and picked up when it arrives. The usual air transport fee to most places in the U.S.A. from the Lubbock, TX airport is around $250.00. There is a ranch handling & shipping fee of $200.00 to get the dog to the airport plus the cost of a shipping crate.

Arrangements for Professional Dog Transportation

You may prefer to use the transportation services of a professional dog transporter such as "Red Wing Dog Transporters" that can be located and contacted on the internet. Rancho Santiago will place you dog on the transport in excellent healthy totally sound condition. At that point any liability issues concerning the condition of your dog upon arrival to you are between you and your transporter. Rancho Santiago cannot be responsible or accountable for what happens to a dog after it leaves our care.

Puppies may be picked up from Rancho Santiago when they are weaned at 5 weeks. Please make an appointment to come get your pup. We will give you detailed directions to the ranch at that time.

You can expect that your puppy will have had dewormings every 2 weeks and at least one five-way vaccination and 4 parvo booster vaccinations by the time you get your puppy.

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