Working breeders selling across state lines
The contracts use language that holds up under any US state's contract law, with placeholders for state-specific requirements.
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The Breeder Contract Kit.
The full contract bundle for animal sales, deposits, stud service, live arrival, co-ownership, guardian homes, breeding rights, buyer screening, and go-home handoff paperwork.
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001 / What is inside
The contracts you actually need,
in one folder.
9 documents that cover the full lifecycle of a placement. Sale, deposit, stud service, live arrival, co-ownership, guardian home, breeding rights, buyer screening, and go-home handoff.
Every animal that leaves your program goes home with someone who might come back to you. Sometimes that means a buyer asking why the puppy you sold needs a vet appointment they cannot afford. Sometimes it means a co-owner deciding their show prospect is going to be bred without telling you. Sometimes it means the buyer who picked up at the airport never sending the post-flight photo you asked for.
Every one of those conversations gets easier when you have a contract that says, in plain English, what was actually agreed to.
This kit is 9 of those contracts. The legal foundation for selling, co-owning, leasing, and placing animals you have spent years building. The first drafts came out of a working program. A working attorney reviewed every clause. Then working breeders ran them through real placements and surfaced the gaps. The version you download has been through three rounds of that loop.
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Animal Sales Contract
A 5-page editable animal sales contract with field-note annotations explaining why each clause exists. Built by a working breeder, not a legal template factory.
Deposit and Waitlist Agreement
An editable deposit and waitlist agreement defining pick order, refund terms, and what voids the deposit. Built by a working breeder for working programs.
Stud Service Agreement
A 4-page stud service contract covering live cover, chilled and frozen semen, missed breeding terms, and the puppy back option. Field notes from a working breeder.
Live Arrival Guarantee
A 4-page live arrival guarantee with buyer obligations, remedy options, and reptile-specific shipping provisions. Built by a working dog and reptile breeder.
Co-Ownership Agreement
A 5-page co-ownership contract covering custody, breeding decisions, litter division, and mirrored buy-out terms. Built around the disputes that actually happen.
Guardian Home Agreement
An editable guardian home contract covering retained breeding rights, retrieval terms, health testing, and clean title transfer once breeding obligations are met.
Breeding Rights Contract
An editable breeding rights contract covering health testing, quality standards, breeding limits, and forfeiture conditions. Layers on top of the sales contract.
Buyer Application
An editable buyer application that filters out bad placements before they happen. Lifestyle, experience, references, and fit screening for working programs.
Go-Home Package
An editable go-home package that travels with the animal. Records, first-day care, emergency contacts, and breeder reference info on one document.
Plus, included with every kit
The pieces that make the documents land cleanly with a buyer and stay current as the program grows.
- 9 breeder contract documents
- Digital and print versions
- Field-note annotations
- Welcome and author guidance
- Free updates to v1.x
002 / Who it is for
Built around real programs.
The kit assumes you are running a small to mid-size breeding program, selling to retail buyers, and occasionally working with co-owners or guardian homes. If that matches you, every document lands. If not, the FAQ below covers the edge cases.
Programs with co-owners or guardian homes
Both arrangements have a dedicated contract with the four conversations they eventually require, settled in writing on day one.
Operations moving past handshakes
If your placements have been informal up to now, the kit gives you a complete starter set so the next placement is documented properly.
003 / Frequently asked questions
Answers before you ask.
The six questions that come up most often. If yours is not here, and ask directly.
Every contract in the kit was drafted with input from a working attorney and includes the standard structural elements required to be enforceable: offer, consideration, mutual assent, performance terms. Contracts are interpreted under the laws of the state where they are signed. If your program operates in a state with unusual breeder-specific statutes, a local attorney review is recommended before relying on the kit for high-value placements.
The contracts use language that holds up in any US state. They reference federal terms where they apply (USDA, USPS, FedEx live-animal handling) and leave state-specific terms blank with clear placeholder fields. The kit ships with a one-page note explaining which fields most often need state-specific adjustments.
Yes. Every document ships as a DOCX and a fillable PDF with placeholder fields like [Buyer Name], [Animal ID], and [Specific Terms]. You can edit clauses too, though removing entire sections without understanding why they are there is not recommended. The kit includes a Field Notes companion that explains the purpose of every section so edits are deliberate.
Mostly yes. The contracts were drafted to be species-agnostic. The Stud Service Agreement assumes a breeding pair but applies equally to dogs, geckos, or horses. The Guardian Home Agreement works wherever an animal lives somewhere other than your facility. A few clauses (the Live Arrival Guarantee, specifically) reference shipping conditions that vary by species and include species-specific notes.
Fourteen-day, no-questions-asked refund. Email dmumphrey@builtbydusty.com and you get your money back. No refunds after the fourteenth day, since the documents are digital and have been delivered.
The email address you check out with is the address future updates land in. When the kit changes (a new clause, a state requirement update, a customer-suggested improvement), you get the new version. No subscription, no upsell.
004 / Related kits
Pair it with the rest
of the system.
Three other kits cover the back office, the show ring, and the waitlist. Bundle pricing applies if you grab more than one in the same order.
Working Breeder Operations Kit
The full back office in a folder. Twelve operational templates plus buyer pipeline forms.
Show Trial Kit
The travel-ready system for the conformation and trial circuit. Eight templates from season planner to championship log.
Puppy Waitlist System Kit
Twelve documents that turn an ad-hoc waitlist into a working system. Inquiry to deposit to pickup.
Just starting out
Want to see the format first?
The free kit ships four of the most-used contract templates as PDFs. Same structure, narrower scope. A good way to confirm the writing fits your program before you upgrade.
Get the free kitPast templates
Need a contract drafted from scratch?
Custom contract work and breeder website builds start at $2,000. Workflow diagnostic calls are $199 and end with a written report whether you hire afterward or not.
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