Hello to you all,
At the most of the things, metioned here, I fully agree with it, but there will make a cleaning of breeders again.
At first, We have, my husband and myself, several dogs, and we take care of all the dogs, during they day, because we are at home the whole day, so saying something about a breeders with more then 10 dogs, it depends on how may time you will spend with the dogs, during the day.
When a breeder has one dog and one litter in a year and is working the whole day, especially in winter, when the days are short, (and the most of the litters will be born in this time) and the owner is tired from his work, then it can be happen that the puppy's are also not socialized, because he don't have the energy to do it.
About selling a bad puppy over see, I think, you can better send the best puppy away and keep the worst, because it is a recommandation for kennel to send a good one. Somebody who send the bad one, don't look forward. It hurts also when you send the best one away, because you think, you never see him again, but when you hear that the owners are satisfied and maybe at shows or in obidience they will do it so good, then you are satisfied also and you know then that it was good so.
When you keep the best at home and selling the puppy to a family you know and think that they will do everything with the dog, but they only keeping him at home of in the kennel, but they have told you, to do everything with him, then you are bordering yourself and you are not satisfied at all.
If the new owner is satisfied with the dog, he will recommanding it to other people and so the kennel is in the picture again.
For example, I sold over 10 years ago, a German Shepherd to a family from USA which are at that moment living in Saudi Arabia.
After a few years they went back to USA. During this years till now, we have contact. The dog died a few years ago, but they will come back, next year to take a puppy again from our kennel. That's great, because German Shepherd you can buy at every corner of the street.
What I have written above, is my opinion, and I hope you will agree with it.
Letty
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