All of my dogs are from North American lines with the exception of a couple with some German lines, but I have the complete opposite problem.. I am getting VERY large puppies, and have 5.5-7.5 lbs girls...though I did have a litter of TWO nine lb boys out of two 5 lb parents.. go figure, lucky me.. (not!)
I guess I don't understand why you would have wanted to breed a girl with a bad topline in the first place, size or no.. Which takes us back to the european or brazilian lines.. the fronts on a lot of these dogs are atrocious! A lot of them have toplines that look like a "U"... not something I care to bring into my breeding program.. if I don't have the problem, I'm sure not going to create it. I haven't found a hungarian or brazilian dog yet that I felt would add something to what I already have... with the exception of CH. Rothby's Rockafella At Amwend (YUM!), and heck he's NA born! LOL
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Originally Posted by PrestigeousYT  The first three dogs I bought here in the US at 12 weeks, two of the three Championed, one didn't finish her CH title she just wouldnt move in the ring she was gorgeous and she knew it and she didn't make a real good size for breeding either, she had one litter via csection and did produce one Champion male but the female in the litter was also too small so she was spayed and petted out.
Fourth one I bought here in the US I got her at 12 months thought for sure I had something, when she arrived her rear was well in the air the worst topline I had seen.
I was on CO-Owner to Champion this girl.
A lady who had shown her dog for a year and no points finally got her break when I took this dog in the ring and did what the breeder of my dog told me to do was string her up to level out the topline. Well I told her I would never go in the ring again with her it wasn't good for her name or mine. She signed off and allowed me to breed her well she was also not one of good breeding size so another CSection and spay. I gave her to my sister. So that didn't work out either.. she offered me a discount if i bought another one but to get one at 12 months with a very bad topline/high in the rear I knew that I was not willing to try that breeder again.
My reason for importing was to get some bigger size in my females.
I was able to buy here no problem but the females didn't make size so after going thru that a few times you you broaden your search to meet what your program is in need of.
There is a lot of wonderful European dogs but just as here, there are some that simply are not going to make the cut for Champion.
People have various reasons why they choose to import .
My last import is a dream dog, he is gorgeous. Something about him struck me when I first saw him, and being a friend of the breeder I was very lucky when she agreed to let me have him. We have a wonderful friendship and she had one of my dogs that she Championed in Europe and she will be getting another one of mine, my Diamond will be going to her next year as long as she makes size.
I agree it takes a lot of time, patience and a hard head and tuff skin. I needed all of that to get thru the first ten years of showing and establishing a show home. I can say this from personal experience. |