Available Puppies
PLEASE NOTE OUR EMAIL HAS CHANGED!!
PLEASE, make your initial contact through email, shillingtonbeagles@gmail.com . Due to the sheer number of calls and emails I could not possiby answer all the calls.
We are open to serious inquiries only. Please email Kim, if you would like more information about the dogs or would like pictures. We ask that you tell us a bit about yourself, in return. What experience do you have with dog ownership? Where do you LIVE? (Typically, we do not ship young puppies by air, as they would be put in cargo) Basically, some information to let us know what experience and resources you have.
We often get several inquiries per day, so please be patient with us, as it may take 48 hours to get back to you. Due to the volume of inquires we get we will not respond to one-line emails asking if we have puppies available and what they cost. 
Boomer, an example of a typical Shillington puppy – not for sale!
About Our Puppies
Our puppies are home-raised, vet checked, microchipped, dewormed and have their first vaccination prior to going to their new home. They are purebred and registered with the Canadian Kennel Club.
All of our puppies are born and raised in our home. They are not born in a kennel. We do have kennel area for our adults which is heated through the winter and air conditioned during the summer. They also have a large fenced yard to play in. All of our adults do enjoy equal time in our house.
All our puppies are sold on a non-breeding contract and have a two-year guarantee for health, genetic issues and temperament. They also have six weeks free pet plan insurance.
As of January 2022 our companion puppies are priced at $2000, which includes HST.
If you are interested in a show dog please contact us for addional information and prices.
PLEASE NOTE: Our Beagles come from many generations
of show stock and our puppies make excellent family pets—they
are not intended as hunting dogs. If you are interested in hunting we suggest you contact a breeder with hunting lines.
Email enquiries are preferred. As mentioned earleir, if you are interested
in a Beagle puppy, please tell us a bit about yourself—if you
have ever owned a dog before, whether you have children, the type of
home/yard you have—reasonable information that would let us know
that you have put some serious consideration about welcoming a puppy
into your lives. Email shillingtonbeagles@gmail.com
PLEASE NOTE:
Due to the popularity of our puppies, we maintain a list of prospective
owners. If you would like to go on our waiting list, we require a non-refundable
deposit of $100. Since we are usually working through a waiting list, we do not post current litters. Please scroll down to read more.
Molly, another example of a typical Shillington puppy – not for sale!
Deposits
We have done this because we have more interest in our puppies, than the number of puppies available. This creates delays in having what you want available. Sometimes, people waiting for a puppy find one elsewhere or change their minds.
Having a deposit reserves your place on our waiting list with other people who are ready to get a pup from us.
Terms and Conditions
- Your deposit is non-refundable, should you cancel. If we do not have a puppy available for you we will refund your deposit. We ask for a deposit of $100. This amount is deducted from
the total price of the dog at sale.
- Your deposit puts you on our waiting list. Simpy emailing us or speaking with us does not put you on the waiting list – we don't want to leave you with any false expectations.
- It's first come, first served except in the event you have a specific request. For example, if one person wants a Beagle and doesn't care
whether it's a female or male and any colour will do, they get the next
available pup when their turn comes up. However, if you definitely want
a tri-coloured female puppy, you'll get one when your turn comes
up and there's one available. We work
with Mother Nature!
- We only take a limited number of deposits, based on an estimate
of upcoming litters and quite often we have 2 or 3 enquiries per day. If you are serious about buying a puppy from us, please email us and be prepared to provide a deposit as demand exceeds supply.
- If something changes in your life and you want your deposit back,
we will gladly refund your money, no questions asked. However, if you
haven't notified us that you can't take a puppy and we have been reserving
one for you (thereby turning away other nice people who would want the
pup), we will refund your money when the pup is sold.
- If you are still interested in getting a puppy, but the timing isn't right for you when we offer you a pup, we are happy to contact you when our next litter is ready. However, if you are not ready when we call a second time, we will ask that you call us when you are ready and we will fit you in at that time. (Top
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Some Comments on Gender, Personality, Size and "Pick
of the Litter"
As you can imagine, we occasionally receive opinions from prospective
puppy owners who have usually received "advice" from well-meaning
friends. Quite often the advice is unfounded when it comes to Beagles
or serious breeders, in general.
We won't argue with you about your beliefs, but we would like to take
this opportunity to dispel some myths.
Kim has been showing and breeding purebred dogs for over forty years and is a life member of the Canadian Kennel Club.
Tim has a degree in Animal Science, has been involved in showing and breeding
purebred dogs since 1976 and has worked in production agriculture breeding
swine for sale as breeding stock. Both of us have also worked in small
animal veterinary practices. We don't presume to know it all, but we've
raised, cared for and shown a lot of dogs over the years.
Regarding personality between genders in Beagles, it makes
virtually no difference whether you get a male or female – they're both sweet and affectionate.
While each puppy has their own, individual
personality, their behaviour is mostly dependent
upon how you raise them. Beagles are affectionate,
loving pets. The best pieces of advice we can give about having loving, healthy pets is to take obedience classes so you and your dog receive structured, consistent training, and keep your pet in a healthy weight.
Some people talk about "the runt of the litter". This
is rubbish. Beagles are classified as 13 or 15 inch varieties. There
are no runts, but in the US, they are divided into two classes: under 13" at the shoulder and under 15".
If you get a puppy from us, you may or may not have a choice of puppies. Our first priority is to retain what we consider the best
potential show/breeding prospects from any litter. This is how we continually
improve: better show dogs, better puppies. Whether you get a choice between
puppies depends on what you are looking for. If you want a female and
there was only one in the litter, there's only one to look at.
We often keep potential show/breeding quality puppies for up to several months to evaluate them. When we have older pups available, they are generally available because they weren't quite what we were looking for in a show or breeding dog – THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH THE DOG, but that's why it's available.
In addition, we have adult dogs available from time to time. We typically post them on this page, the difference being that these adults have a developed personality and we try to match you with a dog whose personality will work withyour lifestyle and conditions. Please email Kim for details.(Top
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Visiting Our Kennel
We do not allow anyone to visit puppies under 8 weeks of age. We understand people are anxious
to see them but we are thinking of the best interest of the puppies. Partly because it is upsetting to the mother, who is still in constant care of her pups and partly from a disease potential. For example, if you came in contact with
a source of parvovirus – through casual contact with an infected dog or
some other source – we could easily lose all young puppies at our kennel.
The risk is just too high.
We do our best to take puppy pictures while they are
small and will gladly email them to prospective owners.
Regarding kennel visits to see our adult dogs or kennel facilities, it is by appointment only, as we both work 7 days a week and are busy, just like you. In addition, we do not give kennel tours between November and April.
This information is not meant to be a lecture, just full disclosure.
If you have any questions, please let us know. We are happy to answer
your questions and concerns in an honest and forthright manner. (Top
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Updated: May 17, 2024
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