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Originally Posted by crete456  Well get ready to sell a kidney to purchase a puppy...I was at a dog show recently in Pennsylvania and ask a show breeder what a PET quality pup would go for...remind you PET quality...$1600...but for people that responded to this post thats a drop in the bucket...where I live people are just getting by and struggling to put food on the table...unless you sell show pups that is...and I wonder if all that income is claimed on their 1040's...I know a boxer breeder who has produced many champions and asks tens of thousands of dollars for a show quality pup...if I'm spending that much the pup better do the laundry, drive me to work, cut the grass,etc.,etc,...do yourself a favor...see, put a label on a pup...(CHAMPION BLOOD LINES) and people will sell there 1st born...read my first response and you can produce your own Champion...showing is a LOT of POLITICS...breeders get together and stack the deck...any breeder knows what I mean...I've bred and shown boxers...theres no guarantee a pup from a show breeder will be healthy it's entire life...see if you can get a lifetime guarantee from a breeder... |
Oh boy 6 posts on here. Since April interesting and it is interesting because you come out so strongly from the "sidelines". Give me a break, do you truly believe a newspaper ad pup is going to give you your first Champion. Let me remind you, that showing is not about what "could" be finished but what "should" be finished. The great breeders bring to that ring what Should be finished. They have choices, and those ethical ones, go into that ring with what should be finished.
Umm care to share your Kennel name where you bred your boxers? Let us know so we can look up that history. Let us have the info to take your comments in perspective. Oh yes and don't the boxers have a lot of health concerns. Just where were you on testing of your breeding stock for those?
Sure I agree with your advice to the OP. Study, research the breed, go to shows meet the breeders study the standards. What is not to like about this advice? And fyi, yes there are health clinics, but guess what, not consistently all over the country, for easier and cheaper access to those pre breeding tests. In fact I live in Canada in one of the most populous provinces, and since the recession there are NO health clinics offered at shows.
Breeders get together and stack the deck??? I laugh in derision. At the most we try to build majors. There is no guarantee our dog will win, but hopefully someone will win and secure a major. You put three people into a room, and yes there is always politics.
There is quite simply no cheap way to breed, unless you sacrifice quality. By quality I mean all the requisite health checks, the studying, the purchasing of show breed quality pups, the showing of same, the studying of pedigrees, the learning of genetics.
I bow down to all the great Yorkie breeders here. Sincerely, for you are protecting the breed I love. Yours is an awesome task.