Advice Needed! - Page 1

I'm a very small breeder, I only have 1-2 litters a year. I started with more of the working lines, solid blacks and sables, but have since got into the German showlines.  Well anyway, I breed my solid black female (her last litter) to my Kevin Murrtal son and all the pups have his coloring since he doesn't carry the black recessive gene. They had a very nice litter of 7 pups, 2 of them are long coats.

I had a family come out and see the puppies yesterday, she said she was looking for a black and red long coat.  They looked at the 2 long coat boys and she is totally fixated on the fact that the pups have a tiny bit of white on their chest, she picked out one of the long coat boys and put a deposit on him (he won't be ready to go until next weekend). She calls me 1st thing this morning and tells me that she has never seen a German Shepherd with white on them and they are not suppose to have ANY white on them and then she asks me if I'm sure they are pure breeds!  (Well I guess I should send my Bazi von der Urbecke pup back to Germany, since she has a dime sized white spot on her chest, I guess she's not a pure breed then! LOL!!!)

Now she is questioning me about the long coats (remember she is the one that wanted one), how long are their coats going to get? What do you mean their ear hair grows longer? What do you mean they change in color as they get older (dobermans stay the same).  How do you explain, which I've tried and tried to, that as puppies grow, their coats change, the red spreads, the black gets less and the face usually lightens up.  Plus when I try to explain things to her, it's like she doesn't believe me, she knows everything and you can't tell her anything!  I told her the pups were raised on a raw diet and she then told me dogs that eat raw meat  become vicious!

Have any of you had weird crazy buyers? My gut is telling me to send her deposit back to her, I want my pups to go to a good loving homes and this lady is just a too little wierd. The rest of the family just wants a nice puppy, the wife/mother is the wierd one! What would you all do?  Here is a link to the ad with pics of the pups and parents.   http://secure.adpay.com/ClicknBuy.aspx?pid=6D74613675713442393732706271546C704E4C5275413D3D&adid=11393842 

Get out of breeding.

 You wrote: "My gut is telling me to send her deposit back to her". I think you have it already figured out. Send the deposit back. When a relationship starts this way, it almost always is doomed to end in trouble. She does not know what she is looking at, how colors change, about long coat or that indeed some small white may exist on a chest. I don't feed raw for a variety of reasons, but her statement about raw = viscous speaks to complete ignorance.

Do yourself a favor. Send her deposit back immediately and find other homes for your pups.

just gve the deposit back and walk away.

i agree with hodie and tigermouse 100%.  refund the deposit and cut ties with this person.  people like this are much more of a headache than they are worth.  best of luck.

pjp

I totally agree with Hodie, My showgirl GSD has quite a large white patch on her chest and it has never stopped her being in the first 3 in any show she has been in.

I have bred for a few years  and you always get 1 buyer that think they know it all,needless to say they do not have 1 of my babies. So do what is right for your babies. Good Luck.

Sned the deposit back and spare yourself the trouble of this buyer. You are right. She's a know-it-all nut.

This is one of the many reasons, I don't believe in breeding. On the rare occasion I breed, I plan on keeping the entire litter. If I offer pups for sale, potential buyers have to practically beg me to sell them a pup. Then, I spend an hour trying to talk them out of the pup.

How can you even think of not giving this hag  her deposit, and her walking papers. 

I'd send the deposit back and be rid of her.  Any idiot that would go to someone's house who had a litter of GSDs, put a deposit on one, then ask, "oh, by the way, are they really pure bred shepherds" has a screw loose. She obviously knows nothing about the breed and if she isn't willing to educate herself, then it tells you what kind of owner she'd be!  I wouldn't be surprised if she took the puppy that you'd hear from her later down the road saying the dog isn't what she expected and she wants to give it back. 

 I think if you send back the deposit and not sell to her you will prevent becoming the subject of some nasty thread in the next year.  She sounds like she doesn't want to be happy so don't become her pawn.

very sweet looking dogs & pups and a very reasonable price too.

best of luck find great homes for your pups,

Susan