Your first collection with Straws to Paws?
Collection for Freezing Appointments are scheduled on Tuesday and Friday mornings. Call to schedule. 908-689-0800.
What to expect ~
Files & Record ~
Collection for Freezing Appointments are scheduled on Tuesday and Friday mornings. Call to schedule. 908-689-0800.
What to expect ~
Files & Record ~
The following documents are needed to maintain his Record at Straws to Paws:
- Complete the Appointment Request
- Please bring a copy of his AKC (or other) Registration Certificate.
- Please provide a copy of his AKC (or other) DNA number/certificate.
- Please provide this number and/or tattoo number or other identification markers. We will check for a Microchip confirmation.
- Provide a negative brucellosis test if we are not performing the test for you.
- After collection, please sign and return the storage contract. This protects your ownership. Keep a signed copy for your records.
Procedure ~
- Check in with the front office. If your dog needs a brucellosis test we will take a quick blood sample. The test requires 20 minutes to run.
- When ready, we will call you to come in the Straws to Paws entrance (towards the back of the building) where only good things happen. Please knock.
- We provide a bitch in standing heat and she will be ready. Collection should take only a few minutes.
- After collection, you can see the results from our state of the art CASA microscope video monitor (Computer Assisted Semen Analysis).
- Afterwards we will take an identification photo for his record.
- If you need a DNA test, we can do a free cheek swab for you to mail in to the AKC.
- Your part is complete!
- The rest of the afternoon, we will process the collection, do a complete motility and morphological evaluation on the fresh sample, evaluate the motility post-thaw, then freeze and store the collection.
- A complete analysis will be mailed to you with an inventory and a storage contract.
Costs ~
Call for current estimate.
- Collection-Freezing Fee includes complete evaluation with freezing.
- Teaser Fee - a modest fee is collected and provided to the owner of the female for allowing us to use her.
- Brucellosis Test Fee (unless you have the test performed elsewhere).
- Annual Storage Fee. (Pro-rated for the year and billed thereafter at the first of each year.)
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