The Placement Fee we charge to home one of our puppies is different for each litter, and it depends on many factors. Those include, without being limited to:

• Longevity behind the parents’ lineage
• Quality of parents’ pedigrees
• Health clearances on the parents
• Conformation & working titles on the parents
• DNA testing on the puppies (optional)

Another factor we take into account is the current prices of Dobermans in Ontario, Canada and North America. Sadly, as your research may have already taught you, there are several types of breeders. From the bottom of the barrel (puppy mills with exquisite Instagram accounts) to the top of the mountain (DPCC Member-Breeders who are also CKC-registered breeder and who health-test and title the parents), and including a wide variety of backyard breeders in-between, finding a healthy Doberman puppy from a responsible and ethical breeder in Ontario is quite the task for a first-timer.

We strongly recommend to NEVER send a deposit until you have done your due diligence, and you feel the breeder has done their own due diligence too. A breeder who brings up the word “deposit” on the first call or in the first email is likely a puppy mill or a backyard breeder, and just breeds and advertises on a regular basis to sell as many as they can. No responsible and ethical breeder would ever take a deposit without having reviewed a potential home’s application, having interviewed them, and if possible met them. No responsible and ethical breeder would agree to send their puppy to a pure stranger, without any screening whatsoever. DO NOT BE DESPERATE when you search for your Doberman puppy, or you will be taken advantage of by unscrupulous Puppy Mills and Backyard Breeders with pretty Instagram pics, a suave sales pitch and who take advantage of your motivation.

Until 2022, Kin Doberman has NEVER had more than a single litter in a year, and we are the only DPCC Member-Breeder and CKC-registered Doberman breeder in the Toronto Area. As such, the number of spots available to “forever-home” our puppies are quite limited.

Finally, do keep in mind that just confirming a breeder is a CKC member provides absolutely no assurance that you are dealing with an honest, ethical or responsible breeder; it just means that breeder paid a $60 membership fee to the CKC, who is merely the steward of the Purebred Registry in Canada – and a rather questionable manager of its adjacent responsibilities, including but not limited to enforcing its own By-Laws, Rules & Regulations as well as Code of Ethics. There are MANY notorious Doberman backyard breeders and puppy mills on the CKC puppy list about whom a multitude of complaints have been filed before the CKC over the years for withholding deposits and refusing to provide the Purebred Dog Certificate of Registration to buyers (among others) and these people are still listed there.