Describe your breed and placement priorities. Makeform turns them into a puppy buyer questionnaire covering the household, dog experience, daily care, goals, and puppy preferences.
Send prospective-buyer responses to Slack, Google Sheets, and Zapier.
Sample prompts for the builder
Choose a prompt, tailor it to your breeding program, or send it to the editable Makeform builder.
Audience
Families seeking a companion puppy
Format
Conversational screening questionnaire
Prompt size
223 chars
Example questionnaire structure
Conversational screening questionnaire
Who lives in the household?
Housing and landlord permission
Current pets and dog experience
Typical weekday puppy-care plan
Preferred temperament and energy level
Suggested routing tags
Ready for conversation
Needs follow-up
Future litter
Ask who handles weekday feeding, exercise, training, and bathroom breaks. A concrete routine reveals more than a vague question about time.
Step 1
Ask
home, experience, routine, and goals
Step 2
Review
spot fit and useful follow-up topics
Step 3
Talk
discuss expectations with the household
Step 4
Match
consider the right puppy or future litter
Screen for real-life fit
Turn enthusiasm into details you can discuss: who provides care, what a normal weekday looks like, and what the buyer expects from this breed.
Collect household members, children’s ages, pets, shared expectations, and who agreed to bring home a puppy.
Ask who covers feeding, bathroom breaks, exercise, supervision, grooming, and training.
Identify follow-up topics without treating one answer as an automatic decision.
Adapt to your program
Change the questions for each placement while keeping responses easy to review.
Cover household rhythm, temperament, pets, training, grooming, and lifelong care.
Explore experience, goals, mentors, training time, and desired drive.
Uncover research, support, realistic schedules, and preparation for puppy behavior.
Collect location, transportation, scheduling, communication, and care details.
Questionnaire workflow
Start with what you need to learn, then make thoughtful answers easy to give and review.
Share the breed, placement type, audience, and care or temperament topics.
Remove unused questions and replace vague prompts with practical scenarios.
Show permission questions to renters and fencing details when a yard is mentioned.
Route submissions, tag the next step, and use answers as discussion notes.
Better screening questions
Concrete, neutral prompts help buyers describe their actual plans.
Field guide
Six focused sections create a rounded view of the prospective home.
People and pets
Learn who lives there, who supports the decision, and how a puppy would join the household.
Housing
Ask about permission, secure areas, neighbors, stairs, and how the buyer would manage the puppy.
Experience
Let buyers describe past dogs, training approaches, challenges, and lessons without penalizing first-time ownership.
Daily life
Ask about work, school, travel, and coverage to discuss breaks, supervision, exercise, rest, and alone time.
Preferences and goals
Ask what life the buyer imagines and which traits matter. Turn surface preferences into a matching discussion.
Long-term care
Ask about veterinary, training, grooming, routine-cost, emergency, moving, and schedule-change plans.
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Open toolFAQ
Practical answers for breeders designing a clear and respectful screening process.
It is a form prospective buyers use to describe their household, housing, experience, schedule, care plans, goals, and preferences. Breeders use responses to prepare follow-up questions and discuss fit, timing, and available puppies.
Ask about the household, existing pets, dog experience, daily caregiver, housing permission, time alone, exercise, training, grooming, veterinary planning, costs, goals, preferences, and major life changes.
Keep questions tied to a decision or conversation. Group sections, use choices for structured facts, and use open fields where reasoning, routines, or experience matter.
Require contact and core household facts, but leave optional preferences or sensitive topics skippable. Too many required long answers can produce rushed filler.
Yes. Conditional logic can show permission questions to renters, working-goal questions to sport homes, fencing follow-ups for yards, or extra guidance for first-time owners.
Look for specific plans, consistency, buyer questions, and discussion topics. Avoid reducing a home to one answer or score; use the questionnaire to organize a respectful conversation.
Yes. Makeform provides unlimited free forms and responses, so you can generate, edit, publish, and collect questionnaire submissions without a response cap. The paid tier removes the Makeform badge.
Responses arrive in your Makeform inbox and can connect to Google Sheets, Slack, or Zapier. Add tags such as needs follow-up, future litter, or conversation scheduled.
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