[Brooklynn]

Originally Posted by yorkielady06

That is kind of what I am getting at though. How would a newbie or lets say a newbie with a mentor find the lines they have researched and love? Continue to study under this mentor and trust me doors will open if you continue to do the right thing in the show world.
If you cannot get it from the source then you get it from a line search and others who have it. Getting something you want will take time and patience and the one who's lines you want trust you. I've waited and been patient for almost 3 years to get what I want this time around.
The girl I have that is 6 months old is from some of the lines I happen to prefer. She has been to conformation classes and from there I found my mentor. Great start and it's good you found your mentor! Nothing better than having a mentor that you trust!
I have asked her honest opinion of my girl and honest she has been. My girl has a very sweet personality but is "soft" and will be difficult in a show ring. She has a dead level topline, great ear set, bite, stop. However, she does not have much neck and leg. I showed a bitch with a soft personality and pulled her out of it
Her lines include Durrer , Pastoral, Fireacres,and Stringers...all in 4 generation pedigree. So with that said, I looked for something with those lines that I prefer and found a boy that has leg and neck and moves like a dream from a reputable YTCA in another state to eventually breed this bitch to if he champions. By knowing how to read pedigrees, knowing lines you like and looking for them, a newbie still is not able to obtain those lines. So you find the next best thing and work from there. That was what I was doing until I found a mentor. Without taking my little bitch to conformation, I may never have had the opportunity to mentor like I have.
So what constructive advice do you have for a newbie in finding a good mentor? Attending dog shows is a great way to find mentors and study unter them.
Mind you finding a mentor is not easy to do sometimes. I have to drive an hour and a half to my mentor. I could have mentored under a lady right in the town next to me, but thankfully I knew of her reputation after the sale of a puppy, and I have steered clear of of her.
How about a good show potential puppy?

My goal is not just to show someone elses dog to a championship. My goal is to have my own homebred champion, and even more so, my own homebred grandchampion someday.

I want my own too but I really don't like the whelping box. I don't mind showing for others as the show ring is where much of my passion lies. That is why I see so much in the ring that doesn't belong. I do want another litter within the next couple of years but only with a champion sire and bitch