Rev 9/98
Esquire
Application and Reservation
Form
Thank you for choosing
ESQUIRE Caucasian Mountain Dogs. Esquire
conducts a limited, select breeding program and
puppies are available to qualified buyers by
application and reservation. We are available
to answer breed inquiries and questions about
our upcoming litters at 440-286-2374. We
welcome your telephone calls and hope you will visit
our home and see our beautiful Caucasian Mountain Dogs
in person
*To reserve a puppy,
please complete the following application and
return it to Esquire along with a Reservation Fee
in the amount of $500. Mail to:
- ESQUIRE
- P.O. Box 227
- Chardon Twp., OH
44024
or use the convenient
secured online Pay By Check.
- Once your Reservation
Fee is received, and application are reviewed*,
ESQUIRE will contact you to finalize puppy
arrangements.
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- *Receipt of Reservation Fee
and application is NOT a binding sales
contract. ESQUIRE reserves the right to
refund the Reservation Fee and not sell a
puppy.
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- This application
questionaire is intended to protect the dogs
and protect the buyer in three
ways:
- 1) Finding
suitable, permanent homes for ESQUIRE
puppies;
- 2) Match making!
Getting the right puppy into the right
home;
- 3) To identify
areas where more breed information is
needed.
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- All applicants
complete SECTION A. Home guardian/companion
complete SECTIONS A and B. Family farm owners
also complete SECTIONS A, B and C. Applicants
interested in a Caucasian Mountain Dog as
open range livestock guardian please complete
SECTION A and D.
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SECTION A
- To be completed by all
applicants
- Name:
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- Spouse's
Name:
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- Address:
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- City: State &
Zip:
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- Phone (Day &
Eve):
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- Best time to reach
you:
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- Occupations/hours:
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- Number of children
at home: Ages:
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- Other people at
home (extended family etc):
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- Other pets at home
(describe kind, sex, specify if
neutered):
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- Do you rent or own
home?
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- Amount of
acreage?
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- Do you live in an
apartment?
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- If renting does
lease allow for pets?
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- Are you moving in
the foreseeable future?
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- Are you willing to
allow us to visit your home/farm?
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- Name, address,
phone number of
- Your
veterinarian:
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- 2 other
references:
Do you want a male or
female CMD?
Are you looking for a
"Companion/Guardian" or "Breeding" Dog?
- Are you subscribed
to the Caucasian Mountain Dog Online News and
have you studied the breed information
presented by the Caucasian Mountain Dog
Worldwide Network?
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- What
characteristics attracted you to the
Caucasian Mountain Dog?
SECTION B - To be
completed by home guardian/companion applicants
and family farm applicants:
- Do you understand
that the CMD has historically been used for
livestock and home protection and that the
breed is naturally suspicious and aggressive
toward strange dogs and people?
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- Do you accept the
responsibility of keeping this breed under
control at all times via leash, voice and/or
fence control?
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- Do you accept the
responsibility of socializing this puppy off
property 2-3 times a week as required by
ESQUIRE? Do you accept the responsibility of
introducing new people to your home regularly
as part of the socialization process as
required by ESQUIRE?
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- Do you accept the
responsibility of attending formal classroom
obedience with your puppy until good canine
citizenship is achieved as required by
ESQUIRE?
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- Do you agree that
ownership of a Caucasian Mountain Dog is an
active responsibility throughout the lifetime
of the dog?
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- Do you understand
that despite best efforts to train and to
socialize during puppyhood that dogs of this
breed may at times be inappropriately
aggressive at times or in particular
situations with animals or people?
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- Are you willing to
work through these situations including more
formal classroom obedience upon advise of
ESQUIRE?
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- Do you understand
that dogs sometimes take a dislike to certain
people or other animals and that your dog may
need to be kept apart from some of
them?
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- In the event of a
problem with your puppy, do you agree to
contact ESQUIRE and together with ESQUIRE
find a solution to the problem?
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- Do you agree to be
responsible for this dog throughout for its
entire lifetime which may be 10+
years?
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- ESQUIRE provides
owner support for the lifetime of the puppy.
Should you no longer be able to provide a
home for your dog do you agree to transfer
ownership back to ESQUIRE?
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- Who are you
purchasing this dog for? Self? For
Whom?
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- Do all family
members want a CMD?
Please indicate your
interests in the breed:
- Companion/home
guardian
- Family
Farm
- Livestock
protection
- Competitive
Obedience
- Show
- Breeding
Do you intend to keep
the dog primarily indoors or out? Please
describe:
Describe exercise dog
will receive:
- Do you have a 6ft
fenced yard?Acreage?
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- Is the fencing
secure and solid? What type of
gates?
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- Can children open
the gates?
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- Is the yard free of
dangerous articles, poisonous plants, objects
the dog could jump on and get over the
fence?
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- Please list
distractions outside your yard such as
neighbor's dog, loose dogs in area,
mischievious children:
- Can strangers gain
access to your yard?
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- Can friends,
relatives, and children gain access to your
home, yard or car without your
supervision?
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- Is anyone in the
family allergic to dogs?
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- If you have other
dogs, would you consider them aggressive or
submissive to other people? To other
animals?
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- What problems have
you had with other dogs you have
owned?
- Have you ever given
a dog away for temperament or health
problems?
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- Has any dog you
have owned ever been lost, stolen or hit by a
car?
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- How do you
discipline your dog?
What brand of dog food
do you feed?
Do you agree to follow
ESQUIRE advise with regard to feeding and
exercise?
Please rate the
importance to you of the following
characteristics in a home
guardian/companion/farm guardian (low, medium,
high, doesnt matter):
- Active Defense
Reaction (how quickly a dog reacts to
perceived threat):
- Trainability
(obeying commands with
enthusiasm):
- Sociability (enjoys
attention from people other than
owner):
- Fondness for
children:
- Independence (acts
on own initiative):
- Judgment (ability
to distinguish between true threat and benign
interference):
- Barking behavior
(low rating indicates that owner would like
quieter dog):
- Instinctual
behaviors including digging, cleverness for
self, livestock guarding (high rating
indicates that owner enjoys dogs exhibiting
strong natural instinct):
SECTION C
- To be completed by family farm
applicants
FAMILY FARM:
If you expect the
dog to work on a family farm, please answer the
following questions.
- How many acres
(total) will you dog be responsible
for?
- How many head of
livestock do you expect your dog to care
for?
- What predator
causes you the most concern?
- How many head of
livestock have you lost to predators in the
past year?
- Do you have other
livestock guardian dogs?
- What are their
breeds, ages and sex?
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- Do you have other
dogs not livestock guardian dogs?
- What are their
breeds, ages and sex?
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- Have you had a
livestock guardian dog before?
- What kind and
sex?
- How long did you
have him/her?
- What happened to
him/her?
Please describe your
farm, indicate fences, barns used by your
livestock and placement of the house. Please
indicate type and height of fencing and note any
area not permanently fenced (such as driveways,
creeks, etc.)
- Do you understand
that the CMD may exhibit more play behavior
and prey drive than
- other livestock
guardian breeds?
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- Do you understand
that the CMD may require a longer training
period and more
- supervision than
other livestock guardian breeds?
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- Do you understand
that the CMD is naturally suspicious and
aggressive toward both predators and strange
people?
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- Do you understand
that the dog may not be effective until 18
months of age or older?
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- Describe your
livestock guardian dog training
process:
What do you do if a
livestock guardian dog injures stock?
- If you have farm
workers, do they understanding the role of a
livestock guardian dog?
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- Are you willing to
accept that the dog may not like all of your
employees and may need to be kept apart from
some of them?
SECTION D - To be
completed by livestock guardian dog
applicants:
- How many years have
you been in business?
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- Do you run your
livestock on open (unfenced)
range?
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- How many months of
the year are your animals on open
range?
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- List
predators:
- How many head of
livestock have you lost to predators in the
past year?
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- Do you have a
full-time herder with them?
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- Do you have other
Livestock Guardian dogs?
- If yes, please list
breeds, ages, sex and whether or not
neutered.
- Have you used
livestock guardian dogs before?
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- What is your
evaluation of their usefullness?
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- What was their
average life span?
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- Name the most
common reason for their deaths?
- Do you understand
that the CMD may exhibit more play behavior
and prey drive than
- other livestock
guardian breeds?
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- Do you understand
that the CMD may require a longer training
period and more
- supervision than
other livestock guardian breeds?
-
- Do you understand
that the CMD is naturally suspicious and
aggressive toward both predators and strange
people?
-
- Do you understand
that the dog may not be effective until 18
months of age or older?
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- Describe your
livestock guardian dog training
process:
What do you do if a
livestock guardian dog injures stock?
- In the event of a
problem with your puppy, do you agree to
contact ESQUIRE and together with ESQUIRE
find a solution to the problem?
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- Do you agree to be
responsible for this dog throughout for its
entire lifetime which may be 10+
years?
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- ESQUIRE provides
owner support for the lifetime of the puppy.
Should you no longer be able to provide a
home for your dog do you agree to transfer
ownership back to ESQUIRE?
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