Well known, why do they have to be well known? I don't know how much reading you've done about finding a mentor, but I don't think this is the way to go about it. If I wanted to find a mentor, I might go to shows and find someone and get to know them. You want someone who is fairly close to you. I would then offer to help them with their dogs and I would watch them groom and train their dogs and do any work I could and listen to everything they said. I would want to be there when they had a litter of puppies, and I would make myself helpful as possible. Whenever they needed, even if it were just cleaning kennels. You're looking at this wrong, you seem to be looking at it how she can help you or make it easier for you, and you should look at it like how you can help her. After a couple of years, your mentor might allow you to partially own a breeding dog with the condition that you show it first.
If what you are really looking for as a whelping coach, that’s another matter, and you’ll probably have to pay someone to do that, just like you have to pay for a vet. |