Our Breeder Screening Process

When evaluating breeders for inclusion or recommendation, we take the screening process seriously to help ensure transparency and integrity. Here’s what we look for:

• Community Reputation: We check whether the breeder is known and recognized within the Shiba Inu show breeder community.
• Active Participation: We look for evidence that the breeder is involved in showing their dogs, which often reflects commitment to breed standards.
• Online Presence: We review their websites and social media pages for accuracy, professionalism, and to identify any signs of misleading or deceptive advertising.
• Health Certifications: We search the OFA (Orthopedic Foundation for Animals) database to verify that their dogs are health tested and/or in the process of getting health results.
• Public Record Check: We check for any news articles, reports, or legal records that may indicate involvement in animal abuse, pet brokering, involvement with puppy mills or other unethical practices.
• Breed Club Affiliations: We review whether the breeder appears on regional or national breed club rosters, which can further indicate credibility and community standing.
• Pedigree Review: We examine dog pedigrees to ensure they are free from known puppy mill kennel names or disreputable breeding lines.
• Breed Standard Alignment: We assess whether the breeder’s dogs reasonably conform to the official breed standard in terms of overall presentation.
• Ongoing Monitoring: We regularly revisit and update breeder profiles based on new information or changes in practices. If concerns arise or circumstances change, we edit or remove listings accordingly.

Our goal is to highlight breeders who demonstrate transparency, responsibility, and a genuine commitment to the health and well-being of the Shiba Inu breed. Although we do our best to screen applications, sometimes it’s hard to know everything so if you have any questions or would like to report concerns about anyone listed please email SIC.

What we recommend for breeders in our list:

1. Breeding Dogs & Litters match the breed standard and focusing on the betterment of the breed.
2. Health Screening on breeding dogs: Breed club recommended requirements per OFA; Eyes, Hips, Patellas and GM1 screening.
3. Keep alert for and work to control and/or eradicate inherited problems and conditions that are particular to my breed.
4. Must Participate in Dog Conformation and/or Sports per legitimate Kennel Club.
5. Dogs are from a reliable pedigree, and not from BYB or Puppy Mill sources.
6. Additional points if you are part of the main breed club or a regional club.
7. Pet Home puppies are being sold on limited registration, a Spay/Neuter and return to breeder contract.
8. Dogs are Registered with AKC (or legitimate registry for those out of country)
9. Full Transparency to buyers about any issues a puppy may have.
10. Refusal to knowingly sell dogs to wholesalers, retailers, puppy mills, dog fighters or any other where there is reason to suspect that the Shiba will not receive proper care or may be used in any way detrimental to the breed or the dog itself.
11. No history of animal abuse or neglect.
12. No history of working as or brokering for backyard breeders or puppy mills.
13. No excessive amounts of breeding dogs (I.e 35+ breeding dogs within one household)
14. Websites with “add to cart” features on puppies without proper screening of potential owners are not permitted.
15. Good sportsmanship as the breed comes before any personal disputes.
16. Refrain from deceptive or erroneous advertising.
17. Knowingly falsify any records, pedigrees or registrations will have you removed.

Application Format

Kennel Name: 
Breeder Name: 
Website: 
Socials:

A. Basic Interactions

1. Be Kind and Courteous: Try to create a welcoming environment. Treat people with respect, healthy debates are ok, kindness is required. 
2. Respect Everyones Privacy: Being part of this group requires mutual trust. Authentic, expressive discussions make groups great, but may also be sensitive and private. What’s shared in the group should stay in the group.
3. No Political Discussion: We will keep any discussion regarding government Politics OUT of the group as that always seems to create problems. This is neutral ground. 
4. No Hate Speech or Bullying: Make sure everyone feels safe. Bullying of any kind isn’t allowed, and degrading comments about things like race, religion, culture, sexual orientation, gender or identity will not be tolerated.
5. No Crypo Posting: This Community is about the dog BREED. Crypto spam will be deleted. 
6. No Blocking Admins: This is an auto boot. 
7. No Promotions Or Spam: Give more than you take in this group. Self-promotion, spam and irrelevant links aren’t allowed. That includes anything related to cryptocurrency.
8. No crossposting from other groups: No cross posting from other groups allowed. Pages are ok as long as it does not violate any other rules. 
9. Community Involvement: Posting only links to pages, kennels, YouTube videos, Instagram accounts should not be the only thing you share. Please participate in the group in other ways. Once things start to become spammy we will start restricting posts. 
10. Shiba Inu Only: Posting about another dog breed or mixed dogs is prohibited. We are a purebred specific group and would like it to stay that way. 

We are a group that supports ethical breeding, rescue, breed standard, health and dog sports. Any commentary offending that will be removed.

B. Breeders & Puppies

1. NO Tolerance for Irresponsible Breeding: Backyard breeders, puppy mill owners, pet brokers, and pet stores. We do not support these unethical practices. We will not support any mention of them or people who participate with such. 
2. NO Obvious Puppy Sales: Approved breeders showcasing puppies are fine. Mentioning that the puppy is open is fine. But any obvious verbiage and “market” type posts will be denied even from approved breeders. We do not want to risk groups being shut down. Avoid words such had “Available”, “Pricing”, “$”, “For Sale”, “Not For Sale”, “Sale”, “Sold”
3. No Privately Messaging Members: Unsolicited advertisement to our members via DM will have you banned if you are in violation of rule 1B. 
4. Litter Videos & Pictures:Any media content that suggests you have a litter and are a breeder will be declined unless you are an approved breeder.

C. Artists

1. Artwork Must Be Tame: no violent posts that depict harm or cruelty, no vulgar or hateful images, no politically driven images, please follow facebooks content rules and keep things G rated.
2. Participate In Other Ways: In order to list your artwork and links you must be at least activity participating with members and other posts.
3. No spam posting: please keep your ads to a minimum and do not post multiple ads in a week.
4. Authentic & Original artwork only: we do not allow AI art to be sold, or any artwork that is not authentic (ie, traced over photos, no skill utilized )
5. No stolen artwork: if we detect that you have stolen someone’s artwork, that is an automatic ban, and it is OK to take inspiration from someone else’s artwork, as long as they are credited.
6. On Topic: Posts must be Shiba themed

• Rules are subject to change