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Originally Posted by Sugar's Mom  hey, you are not raining on my parade at all. i know there is more to it than pictures. but it all in fun and the judges comments were very nice and let me know i am putting nice puppies out there. i didn't sell them as show prospects but the new owners are the ones that are going to try them. I only have one that I know for sure is showing unless as I said before, she dropped out. i haven't heard from her for awhile. true, the only way to have show puppies is to show but you can have some very nice show prospects and then if the new owners don't grab it and go, it's their fault. kentucky might as well be outer space LOl and i'm really not interested enough to travel 600 miles to go to a show. All I want to be is a hobby breeder with nice pups. |
Dee,
I'm glad you had fun, doing what you did and it is nice to have someone say nice things about your puppies.
A bit of unsolicited advice though. Show breeders have 2 different contracts as well as 2 different prices, show and pet. And I'm sure you've heard some of this. Show contracts are a more stringent because when we sell our show puppies we want them Championed, we have more control over it that way. Not only that we have more control over where the puppies are bred as well as where their offspring is placed. We spend more time raising, training, conditioning and evaluating show puppies before we even deem them show prospects.....Picking out that special puppy by evaluating first at 8 weeks, 12, weeks 4 months, 5 months and really never making a decision until you put them in the ring. You don't know the countless hours I spend, table training them, teaching them to lay still for topknots, stack correctly at the end of a lead, making sure they stand still while people go over them, teaching them how to bait and free stack on the floor, watching them gait, making them walk on wierd patterned carpet, slippery floors, dirt, grass, how to give expression.
As you said you'd like your name as breeder on that registration, should that one puppy of yours ever do anything, well the only way you can make sure that puppy is going to do anything is sell it as a show dog with a stringent contract that they will Champion it. There is more aspects to that contract of course, evaluating it various intervals and various times through out it's career. Making sure it's doing something and if not making sure there are stipulations in that contract, if it isn't that it be placed with a professional handler by a certain age......etc.