The Chodsky pup's paperwork bundle
A Bohemian Shepherd, also known as the Chodsky Pes, should come home with lineage or registration papers, a microchip certificate with transfer instructions, a vaccination and worming record with clear dates, a vet health check letter, copies of the parents' health results, a written contract, and feeding and routine guidance. The breed was rebuilt in the Czech Republic from a historic landrace of farm and border-guard dogs, and its modern records are kept carefully by a relatively small community. Because many litters involve Czech paperwork, ask the breeder to order the pages, translate the key entries, and mark which document your own vet and registry will need.
Lineage care in a reconstructed breed
Because the Bohemian Shepherd was reconstructed from surviving farm dogs rather than descending from a vast old studbook, its lineages are unusually precious: every recorded pairing helped rebuild the breed. Read yours with the breeder and ask how the sire and dam lines were chosen for health, temperament, and working character, and note any imported or foundation dogs. Verify sex, black-and-tan markings, and chip number against the puppy in front of you. Ask about relatives' working roles, from herding to search work to family guardianship, and write the answers into your file, because in a breed this versatile the family history predicts the adult you are raising.
Hip, elbow, and genetic copies to insist on seeing
Ask for hip and elbow score copies for both parents, recent eye results where held, and genetic test reports for the conditions the breed community screens for, which can include a degenerative spinal cord condition tested by DNA. Keep laboratory pages showing each dog's registered name rather than accepting a breeder's summary. These are medium, athletic, long-working dogs, and joints and long-term mobility are exactly what screening exists to protect. If a score is mid-range, ask how the pairing balanced it and what the wider family's record looks like; thoughtful breeders of a rebuilding breed expect precisely those questions and answer them with documents.
Health letter, chip, and a watchful pup's first weeks
The vet's health letter should record heart, bite, eyes, coat, and condition, plus a weight baseline for a puppy that will grow into a lean, weatherproof worker. Complete the microchip transfer straight away; a young shepherd with a guardian's instincts and a herding dog's legs should never be carrying identification that stops at the breeder's gate. Ask for the litter's socialisation history in writing: visitors met, livestock and traffic sounds heard, surfaces walked on. Bohemian Shepherds bond tightly and can be reserved with strangers, so that record shapes your first month of introductions, and your trainer will want to read it.
Contract and the meaning of a thin Czech file
The contract should state price, return-to-breeder terms at any age, breeding restrictions, and the breeder's commitments if a screened problem appears. If lineage papers follow from the Czech registry after collection, get the expected timing and litter details in writing. A small breed community runs on trust, but trust is documented: no chip transfer, no screening copies, and no health letter are gaps no reputation should wave away. Filing the translated lineage pages, joint scores, and socialisation notes in KinsLe's Pet Passport gives your Bohemian Shepherd a record as carefully kept as the breed's own reconstruction.