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Originally Posted by BamaFan121s  What "way" is that? To be prepared for the fact that it can be costly? To do your research and learn all you can FIRST? To not venture into it blindly? To breed healthy, good representations of the breed?
I'm sorry, but which part exactly would have you running for the hills?
I've never seen people turn their backs or deny help and information to those researching breeding on this board if they LISTEN and make the process a two way street. Quite the opposite, actually. I have however, seen the members who do help and offer advice and who do genuinely care for the well beeing of these dogs and who have dedicated so much to this breed upset and frustrated by people who come here for advice, ignore it and act in a manner that can be interpreted as having anything BUT the best interest of the dogs first.
If that is wrong, then there is obviously a very skewed sense of priorities among members here...  I know what mine are.  |
I am not talking about the way it is talked about daily, but rather when a new person comes in looking for information, they are bombarded with how expensive it is. I know people need to be informed of what they are getting into, but some of it (not all of it, many are nice about it
) is delivered so catty and almost accusingly. I thought I would love this forum because it's what I have been around much of my life, but perhaps if I could just keep to the positive posts and less negative, it wouldnt be so bad. Sometimes it just seems like some (once again, some, not all) people are saying "If you arent as smart as me, have as much time or money as me, then you have no place breeding anything". Now I understand what my mom meant when she had told me long ago not to get into dog breeding and showing, not because of the dogs, but because of the people (again, not all people, just the few that want to jump down your throat).
Thank God its a free country is all I have to say!