🧡 We have puppy plans in 2025 – do not hesitate to contact us 🧡
– sable rough collies & tricolour shelties are in plans –

🐾 Rough Collie – elegant, intelligent and empathetic & Sheltie – playful, active and smart 🐾

These two breeds have won our hearts and we decided to dedicate ourselves into their breeding so that they can bring joy to other families, just like they do so to us. Both breeds are suitable for various activities, hiking, for families with children, as a devoted companion, for balanced, calm and naturally intelligent people.

Having a dog is a dream for many people, but it is a serious decision that will change your life, the daily routine of you and your family, so we recommend that you prepare for the arrival of a puppy not only by buying things for dog, but especially mentally. Rough Collies are one of the most suitable breeds for families with children, they know how to protect them and behave empathetically and friendly towards them, but a Collie (or Sheltie) is not a toy for children!!! We recommend that each seriously interested person study the breed before getting the dog.

Puppies from Amnis Rhei kennel

We are a small family kennel with the ambition and dream of breeding Rough Collies and Shetland Sheepdogs. Collies and Shelties are our very pleasant companions, who provide us with many pleasant moments in the circle of family and friends. We don’t have puppies very often, so when puppies are born, it’s a big event for us that we plan in advance. Our bitches are family members and have an average of 2-3 litters in their lifetime, always with at least a year’s break between litters.

Parents of the puppies

We carefully consider the combination of future puppy parents. We select puppy parents with an emphasis on balanced temperament and in breeding we use only individuals with excellent health results – without hip or elbow dysplasia and without eye defects. In addition to clinical examinations, we also monitor the results of genetic tests for diseases occurring in the collie and sheltie population, but the most important thing is the functional health of our dogs and the dogs we use. Since we have the ambition of breeding these beautiful breeds, in addition to temperament and health, the exterior is also important to us. We try to make the future puppy parents match each other in terms of exterior, taking into account their ancestors. We try to preserve the elegance and grace that are typical for both breeds. Therefore, correct body structure, correct graceful and elegant movement and a sweet expression that is pleasing to the eye are very important to us.

Our care for puppies

We raise our puppies with love in the family circle and devote ourselves to them from birth to departure to their new homes all day and night, checking their weight, feeding them properly, socializing them and getting them used to common household and other sounds. From the third week, they have a large run inside the house. From the fourth week, in nice weather, we slowly introduce them to the outdoor environment and wearing a collar. Both outside and inside, the puppies are in constant contact with their mother and later we also allow them to get to know other members of the pack so that the puppies learn to communicate in their company and behave socially correctly with each other.

Visitors are welcome after the puppies are at least 5 weeks old. Using special tools (tunnel, interactive toys, etc.), we try to develop the puppies’ ability to think independently and overcome obstacles. For healthy joint development, we do not allow puppies to run and play on surfaces such as floating floors, which we always emphasize to new owners. However, we introduce puppies to such surfaces as well as various others and let them explore them so that they are not unfamiliar with them in the future and are not afraid of them. We also try to ensure that our puppies have sufficient contact with strangers. We do all this with the knowledge that our care is irreplaceable in this short period and gives puppies the foundation for proper psycho-motor development. Puppies leave us for new homes at the earliest at the age of 8 weeks.

We feed pregnant, lactating bitches with super premium food enriched with raw food (mainly meat and bones), as well as puppies, thus we also try to ensure their high-quality health foundation. Our collies and puppies are under constant veterinary supervision, regularly vaccinated and dewormed.

Our expectations from those interested in a puppy

We recommend that those interested in a puppy from our kennel send a statement of preliminary interest, your expectations and plans with the puppy in advance. We confirm binding interest only a few days after the puppies are born. We are happy if those interested in a puppy introduce themselves first, so that we know in what environment the puppy will grow up. We prefer communication by email as the first contact.

We select the new owners of our puppies very carefully. Puppies will only be placed in families that will guarantee their further high quality and happy life. The future owner of the puppy should know why he chose the breed and have at least basic knowledge about the breed, its nature, specifics and upbringing method at the time of collection. We will be happy to help with anything.

Our puppies have the potential to perform well at shows and in breeding, and therefore we are pleased when future owners decide to show or breed, which we will be happy to help them with. However, shows are not a requirement, the most important thing for us is that our puppies have the best possible life in their new homes, that they are given sufficient attention and socialization, that they live in optimal conditions and that their new owners love them as much as we do throughout their lives <3.

We expressly do not support breeding dogs without a pedigree (certificate of origin), it is also our condition when selling a puppy that the puppy will not be used in breeding without papers in the future. If the owner shows interest in breeding with a pedigree, we will be very happy to help him with this.

We would like to stay in touch with the new owners of our puppies throughout the life of our/their dog. We are happy to receive any information not only about successes at shows or sports competitions, but also about the development and joys of everyday life with their new collie. We are always happy to see photos.

Of course, we are also available to the owners throughout the puppy’s life in case of any questions or help regarding training, feeding, grooming, shows, breeding or anything else.

You can view all our previously bred litters of puppies by us in the section – offsprings.

Those interested in a puppy from our kennel can contact us by e-mail or via messenger. We usually answer during weekends due to our free time.

We ALWAYS sell collie puppies with a pedigree = with a certificate of origin (FCI), with a microchip, petpass, vaccinated and dewormed.

Dr. Miroslav Petrík & Dr. Michaela Petríková & MVC. Sofia Petríková

e-mail: info@amnisrhei.sk or sofipetriks@gmail.com