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Originally Posted by RachelandSadie  go on YTCA for some amazing breeders in your area and hopefully someone can help you. for others reading this it's not a wise decision to go ahead with breeding unless you have previously had a mentor to learn and train under. asking for help is a good thing when you realize you are in over your head, but it would have been much better had you had a mentor all along who could teach you and show you the ways before you tried it all on your own. wishing you the best of luck with the whelp and hoping you don't have any complications and that you find a mentor right away to help in the whelping since it's something you have never done before. prayers for your bitch that she makes it through this. www.ytca.org |
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Originally Posted by concretegurl I'm guessing I posted the negative reply: sorry you feel wanting the best for the welfare of dogs is negative.
I'm not a breeder: I don't have breeding quality dogs, that have been certified as such, I didn't spend years working under an experienced reputable breeder, I don't show, I don't have a kennel club, network of fellow breeders for any emergency support etc: therefore I don't toss my dogs together after reading (which I have) and call it getting started.
Seems you now have the opportunity to do things correctly I hope you seize it. |
Sigh.
For the life of me, I will never understand why anyone thinks that reading a few books or articles and asking questions online constitutes preparing to breed. For some reason, this seems to be an acceptable substitute for spending time with a responsible breeder as an apprentice before you even think about trying it on your own.
At the risk of being chastised again by the polite police, I think it's really pathetic that we always seem to have a cheering squad on her for irresponsible breeding practices who use the line "you have to start somewhere" to defend breeding a dog and then coming online to look for a mentor. Or the line "if we don't tell them the right way to do it here, where else are they going to learn it?" Ummm, how about referring them to people who actually DO know what they are doing? I think it's incredibly selfish to use a dog as a guinea pig. If it's being "mean" to say that, well then so be it. I'd rather be mean than particpate in the abuse of an animal.
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