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Originally Posted by Mardelin  Hardly a rich man's salary. But, if one is breeding it isn't about supplementing ones salary, every penny should be going back into the dogs.
No, need to duck. But, think of it another way, the possibility exists that other's haven't stepped up to the plate, because they were sold breeding pups from this very same breeding (and the breeder validated using this sire several times). They may have bred those dogs and stepping up to the plate may cause them issues with their breeding programs.
But, as Blueskies have surfaced; breeding 10 month females...using a sire to that produced 40 dogs.......in 4 years that's alot of dogs, not to mention litters produced by other sires. I've been breeding a lot longer than this breeder and haven't produced no where near 40 dogs. It took my mentor over 40 years to produce a 100 Champions....40 is 60 shy in just 4 or 5 years. |
agreed, personally I don't think you can really make money breeding dogs (well maybe puppy mills) but certainly not with the 40 dogs in 4 years but I want to clarify that I don't know that number is correct, I'm just throwing certain assumptions out there. I also have never seen Dee say breeding a 10month old dog is good, but then I haven't really checked either. Has she said so? If so, I'm very disappointed. And since I'm an accountant by trade, if your mentor produced 100 champions in 40 years, I'm assuming she must have produced a whole lot more than 100 dogs to get those champions? Here I go with my assuming again... lets say most litters have 4 dogs just to make the math easy. I don't really know myself but most of the show breeders say they "hope" to have one good dog to show from the litter and lets assume she did and also assume she also finished each of those, based on that, would it not mean that your mentor has produced something in the neighborhood of 400 dogs total to get those 100 champions? Now 400 dogs in 40 years totals 10 dogs per year. If Dee has produced 40 dogs in 4 years, isn't that also 10 dogs per year? Again, lots of assumptions on my part but just playing devils advocate....