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Originally Posted by dobiesrule  I have come to realize it is not so cut-and-dried. Like I always like to do, use our dog/breeder as an example. She has been breeding dobermans for "30 years". She titled (US and Can) a good many of her dogs along the years. A good many she has not. Our dog was born of unfinished, unpointed parents who are both now neutered. Before daddy was neutered, semen was flown off to New Zealand where a litter of puppies was born. Two of those puppies have gone on to NZ championships I understand. That happened when daddy was about a year old. Then our litter happened the way nature intended it, daddy was little over a year. I believe our breeder 'sells' our boys grand daddy as the line 'anchor'. He was US and Can champion and has been studded out quite a bit (our breeder seems to like the frozen semen thing). She still keeps frozen semen from our boys daddy even though daddy is neutered and unpointed/finished. I always ask - why? Our breeder sells pet puppies on a spay/neuter contract but the puppies do not leave her 'fixed'. She crops/docs/shots and all that. Oh, the parent had the core health testing done. Does any of this make this 30 year veteran breeder a BYB? I don't know. Just an example of what is typical out there. |
Don't take this the wrong way, okay? But that litter was not "what nature intended". But wording it that way makes it sound better huh? Also, breeders that go only off the past and not the present generation is not taking good steps to prove each generation and make each generation better than the last, bettering the breed. There are lots of breeders who have been breeding for 30 plus years but are still very much into their dogs, proving both sire and dam before breeding, going to shows and trials, fully health testing, taking their dogs thru the WAE, etc. Personally, it is pretty cut and dry to me. That makes that breeder someone I would not personally buy a dog from or support, also interesting to note by history and reputuation that breeder has had some really strange "stuff" going on with their dogs by their own admission for all to see...a search will give you more information.