Health and Activities

Health

HELIOS COTONS

Health issues

Although Cotons are generally healthy dogs, with very few health problems compared to most other breeds, occasionally, health problems can, and do, occur. Some problems are totally unpredictable, but others can be tested for in order to lower the risk of your loving companion developing one. Breeders who test their breeding stock regularly are more likely to produce progeny with fewer health problems, therefore protecting and improving the health and vitality of the breed. Please ask questions about health testing when looking for your lifetime companion. Click on an area of interest to learn more.

Does the puppy breeder participate in any dog activities?

Is the breeder active in a national Coton Club such as USACTC, ACC, or AACDT that supports and actively endeavors to protect and improve the Coton deTulear breed?

Is s(he) a member of a national Coton de Tulear club that requires its breeders to subscribe to a specific code of ethics that ensure best breeding and pupppy placement practices?

Campaigning, exhibiting, or performing with their Cotons is indicative of breeders who care about perpetuating and protecting all of the many qualities that exemplify the Coton de Tulear.

Conformation shows are competitions that are held to maintain

and improve the quality of the breed through careful comparisions of a particular dog to the breed standard.

Agilty, Obedience, and Rally are performance activities that allow dogs to show their intelligence and physical capablities.

Therapy/Service dogs are Cotons that are trained to enable them to provide comfort and service to humans in need of unquestioning and non-judgmental devotion that only our wonderful canine companions can provide.

Breeder Activities

POSSIBLE TOPICS OF DISCUSSION BETWEEN PUPPY BUYER AND PUPPY SELLER.