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Originally Posted by Nancy1999  If you are doing it right, you won't be able to earn a living from it. I've known many good breeders and some of them work at outside jobs in order to continue breeding.  It's a very expensive hobby. The people making money off of breeding are puppy mills and backyard breeders. They sell to anyone and don't give their dog’s good food, and proper vet care, or even human living conditions. They certainly don't show their dogs and this is an important step in learning how to breed, developing an eye for the breed, and learning what standard is. If you can find a mentor, who will guide you, it would really be helpful, but you really need another job to support yourself. Also, beware of mentors who only want to sell you a breeding dog, if they don’t insist you show it before you breed it, they aren’t doing the breed justice. We already have too many pets available in this country, the only reason to be breeding is to preserve and improve the breed. |
Read and re-read those first 3 sentences over and over and over. No truer words were ever spoken. Do not go into this breeding game, thinking you are going to make a living doing it. You can consider yourself a big success if you can barely break even. Then read the rest of that post carefully, because everything said is brutal facts. This is NOT a retirement plan!!! And SHOWING????? OMG! UNLIMITED CONSTRAINTS ON YOUR TIME, UNLIMITED FINANCIAL RESOURCES, OUTSTANDING SPECIMENS OF THE BREED......these are just the basic requirements!!!! And then there are the crooks........