I don't assume anything when talking to a new person usually. However, I can determine very quickly what they are up to and how teachable they might be. You see, maybe they don't listen in most cases, but in every case, I listen even though I am half deaf most of the time. LOL
My responsibility is beyond my own dogs. My responsibility for my dogs and my line, goes also to my mentors, the reputable show breeders that trusted me with their lines that are part of my pedigrees, and my responsibility foremost is to the purebred Yorkshire Terrier itself. I will not betray that trust for any amount of money. Whatever I do with my dogs, either stud service or selling a dog for show purposes, neither of which I do, will carry those other reputable long time kennel names in my pedigrees. I will not put my kennel name or those of those breeders in the wrong hands.
You can find pretty much any long time reputable breeder and talk to them. There have been far too many times they entrusted their lines with the wrong person and those lines ended up in some pretty scary hands.
With the Internet now, so many bad breeders are advertising puppies for sale with pumped up prices because such and such a kennel is somewhere in that pedigree often now in the 3rd or 4th generation. You can bet that person selling that puppy can never go to that breeder of that Champion and use their stud for breeding or get a puppy from them as that breeder would never be a party to that type of breeding. |