Just a thought - Page 3

What are you saying, J B ?   Neuter every  8 weekold puppy you sell ?

  J  quite often if you have a limited registration you also have them on a spay neuter agreement.  But obviously once you leave their kennel with the pup how can they enforce the spay, neuter?  They can't they can only hope you stick to the agreement.  Look at all the posts on the thread and you see how often they don't,  But with the limited registration what it does is if they do breed the dog, non of the offspring can be registered.  The dog can compete in akc events but its offspring can't be registered.   So if there are pups off this dog they won't be able to sell them as akc register able, or anything of that sort.  In that way you are trying to protect the breed.  Your only other choices is to hold back every dog that shouldn't be bred till they are old enough to be spay or neutered.  Yea I don't see that happening do you?

I don't know, but it just seems to me from reading postings on this site that you can do all the research in the world to find a good breeder, but in the end, you can still end up with a dog that has problems. There are people that buy the shepherd puppy from the neighbour and have their dog 14 years without a problem, or there are people on here that spend thousands on a pedigree whose dogs have problems. I think you narrow your chances by doing your research.

From all that I have learned on here and from other sites and from my own experience, once you get your puppy home, the research shouldn't end. How to feed, what to feed, when to feed, how to excersize, when to exercize, how to play, what to play etc... all play a role in the development of the puppy.


I have learned so much from this site.  I wanted to say thank you to all of you whose input over the past while has been invaluable for Maya's development and well being.