Thoughts on co-owning a dog - Page 2

I guess I've been lucky with co-ownerships, but they've worked out very well for everyone concerned.

It is a rare situation for one to
indeed be lucky Blitzen, but it
does indeed happen. Just so much
to consider, what are timeline
expectations for titling/koering etc?
So many 'what if's', it's usually just
better to go ahead and own the
dog outright and have some
sort of a supplemental agreement.

Echo,
Be very careful.  If this person has other co owned females, I would check with those people and see if they are happy.  If this person is a member of this forum you may want to be careful, if it is whom I think it might be.  Don't get caught up in too much hype.  There is really no reason to co own a puppy, IMO.  You will do all the work and they will reap the benefits.  If this was an adult dog that you couldn't afford to buy and loved the dog then maybe.  But puppies are a crap shoot and for the price of a puppy just buy it and own it.  Most breeders will want to help their puppy owners / customers train, show and title the dog.  If you do that it is a good reflection on the breeder and in his interest to help you.  Down the road offer a pup as payback for all the help if you wish.  TO co own a pup is a big gamble and you have everything to lose, not the breeder.  Please don't get caught up in the "next VA dog hype." 

JMO FWIW,

Jim

Couldn't have said it better myself, Slam.

I will not go into details, but you can do a message search on my user name to pretty quickly find out the issue I am
currently facing with the dog I co-own.

Melissa

Echoecho
If you do go ahead with a co-own,
make sure you specify an 'out' clause
so that either you or the co-owner
can buy the other out. I still would
not do it myself, only a very small handful
of co-owns work out, as Slam says, they
tend to benefit the breeder mainly.
And cost you the most

Out of curiosity, does anyone want to shair what they think is fair co-own terms for both parties?  Or is that an oxymoron?

I was going to co-own a dog w/a another forum member who already has a dog from me. It didn't work out but not because of either of us; I just had an opportunity come up to do something else with the dog. If we did it, the deal would go like this: I give her the puppy, she pays shipping only, she takes care of him (lives w/her, she buys his food, etc.) and we split training/showing fees 50/50 as well as vet bills. We split stud fees 50/50 for life, but after he's titled(around 2-3yrs old), he comes home  to me, then I pay for his food and we still split vet bills. I get a titled stud of my own breeding because I do NOT have the ability to spend every weekend on a training field at this point, and she gets 1/2 ownership, including 1/2 of every stud fee paid to me,  for life from a dog she only has to commit to for as long as she takes to title him. 

could be heaven, could be hell

It depends on what each party expects from the other.  I co-own 3 dogs, 1 lives with me 2 live with others.  So far all is going well.  As others have stated, make sure that you find out up front what is expected from each party, and get it all in writing.  If there is something that you don't agree with, then perhaps it is not the right situation.

Sounds like everyone agrees that I need to get everything very clearly in writing. Thank you very much for the heads up on that. Several people have brought up some very good things to think about and get in writing and I really appreciate it. Do you think that if I title this dog that I should receive more of the compensation on the puppies (meaning more litter picks or better litter picks)?