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Originally Posted by MRS H i put the original post out because i felt that many people on this site loved the breed and maybe could help me find a suitable little boy i would not have bought a dog that i could not check on first i have also spoken to the breeder of this boy many times so i would be sure i was being responsible and i am definatly not a puppy farmer i find this very hurtful i have 2 bitches who i have allowed to have a litter each this year i will not let them just keep getting pregnant and churning out pups i love my dogs much more than money believe me.
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I am not quite sure you quite get it. What I am saying is that if you are going to breed, you really do need to know all about the background of both sire and dam. The way to do this is to get involved in the show world, meet the breeders, learn about them and their dogs, see how their dogs do in the show rings, learn as much as you can about those lines that are in the pedigrees of any dog or bitch you are considering buying.
You already have two females that you are breeding for example. How much do you really know about them? No, don't answer me, ask yourself that question.
I had started out with one bitch I bought. I knew the breeder she came from had followed the breeder's 'career' via the Yorkshire Terrier Magazine published in California. I also talked to other breeders. I knew an excellent show breeder here in my area, knew her track record as well as that of her dogs. She agreed to a stud service on my bitch. I did the same thing as I moved ahead in my generations improving my dogs steadily as I went.
Fast forward 10 years. I needed some new bloodlines, I knew a breeder here that I had learned had a very nice male she was likely interested in placing. I bought him. I knew the breeder here, knew the lines behind my new boy also knew what he could produce as he had litters on the ground.
This summer I bought another boy from a breeder in Canada that I have known of for many years, know her track record, know her dogs and a lot of her kennel was in the first boy I bought.
Any breeder you buy from especially if you are in England and you are buying over here in North America, can tell you anything. Their websites can tell you anything. All I am saying is be careful you could find out the hard way you have been had.
As I said before it is great if you are willing to stand behind any puppies you sell. However, I have seen breeders that did not or could not really check out the people they dealt with when buying dogs only to find out there were genetic issues that cropped up later in their breeding and although it didn't happen here in Canada it was in the US that a certain breeder got audited by the AKC doing DNA and was found that a certain sire could not have sired a certain litter that was on the paperwork. What happens then is that all the generations after gets their registrations pulled.
This sort of thing can happen not just in AKC , can happen in Canada, CKC and certainly pretty much anywhere.
