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Originally Posted by BamaFan121s  With all due respect, the rundown that you gave was noted by durtymydog:
a huge show breeder as illustrated in another post (which I thankyou for sharing and sounds like you really enjoy your hobby/business/passion),
(At least, I took it to be YOU that was noted)
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Oh my, I read that post and didn't even think the poster was referring to me, since I certainly don't consider myself to be a huge show breeder and it certainly is not a business (I have a real job during the days that subsidizes my dog madness). I have been breeding over the course of almost three years now (since January 2006), that is one litter per year until this summer where I decided to unhinge myself and do two litters, and that was only because the spring litter was my disaster no live puppy litter, if that puppy had lived I would have not done a third litter this year. I had 3 puppies in the first, 2 in the second, 3 in the third and then this very unexpected 6 puppy litter. Even with the big litter that is 14 puppies in three years, I don't consider that to be very many but maybe I am wrong. There won't be another litter for well over a year even if then...
Things can go bad in any breeding program. My mentor had bred two bitches this year, one had her 2 puppies early and they did not survive, the other had one large stillborn puppy. She is co-breeder on my two current litters so she will not be "puppyless" but if she had been counting on the income from her own litters (she was not because that is not the point of breeding dogs for her, but if she was a commercial breeder and actually was) she would be in trouble.