There is absolutely nothing "dirty" or bad in the busniess world about the term "broker" and it is true that the third party should be compensated in some way, but technically, the "payment" or compensation can be simply a reciprocal agreement where each breeder agrees to help with the other's litter and vice versa.
I was not trying to be negative but simply to point out that the term "broker" fits a wide range of business relationships and is not always bad. There is a percieved "bad" connotation in the puppy business because of the big brokers who buy from puppymills mostly I think, but there are also plenty of situations where it is just one breeder helping another out and having a reciprocity going .
It is quite common among mentors and their mentees for example. A mentee will have a litter and sometimes the babies are the product of the mentor's lines since she sold the mentee her breeding stock, and the mentor becomes the broker when she helps sell the mentees littler, and she knows the lines very well because they are her lines but she does not own them so she is a broker not the actual breeder. |