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Originally Posted by Wolfsirius
Navarre, you write good text, but there is one thing i want to comment:
"neither pay the mate, as the male is of his own."
For this i must say my opinion, that to keep your "own male" is not free.
If you use male owned by somebody else, you do not have to pay food, insurances, shows, bonitations, x-rays, only mating payment.
If male is owned by you, you have to buy it as a puppy (or adult), you have to pay all costs from it during it's lifetime, and you have to take care about it every day. So, to use own male is not so cheap. And very often in countries where is not so many dogs in the breed, there will be no use for many breedings for same male, which is good in fact. (no matador breeding)
-Suski
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Sure, if you think about a dog as a part of "bussiness"
But if I had a female and a male dog, fist of all they are my friends, my companions, someone, who sleeps in my bed (ok ok, I know it is not good, but I like my dog, sleeping close to me), and if there is a man, who says "do you really think it is a place for a dog to sleep in your bed" I can only say "please find another to sleep in
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So in fact mating one's own dogs is cheaper (teorically)
In my situation i am still waiting while Brukne will start to "want to get married" but I know I will give two puppies for free and one for a symbolic price - because I know these people are the ones, that will give their best for their dogs. I have another ways to earn money, so...