Do you plan on showing him, just b/c he's champion produced doesn't mean he's ch quality. as I said, more is judged than personality, theres gait, stack, structure, bite, is he physically and mentally able to perform the job the breed was meant to do? My dogs are herding breeds so they must have a herding cert as well as a ch and a competition title (agility, flyball, obed, Rally-o) but of course I'm breeding all around dogs....

In addition to that I have hips, eyes, and elbows checked on my dogs because the degenerative hip disease is so bad in my breed, though most breeds have it occuring somehwere. By the time I do my health checks and get my titles I don't even come close to breaking even with a litter of puppies even at selling them $300 - 400 but dog breeding should not be a money makeing scheme. I do it for love and stewardship of the breed, because I feel that my dog has a generous contribution to make to the gene pool.

Another thing a good breeder does is take rescues of their breed because sometimes people really don't need that cute fluffy puppy that is going to be eating their couch in two months. I talk more people out of buying my breed than I sell to because some people just see that "cute blue dog, with no tail, it just looks SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO cute!" and don't know that this a a breed used to herd sheep and cattle in the basque regions, they need EXCERCISE not room to run but someone to run with them. ( I also don't believe in yard dogs but that's a dog of a different size.!)

Always
Kyttn

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