Working Dog Pup - Page 2

Don't believe the breeder about the certifications, ask to SEE them, same with any title that sire and dam may have attained........seeing is beliving.

With your AVATAR name we don't know if this pup is a future prospect? I would think co-workers or assisting agencies you work with would have excelent candidates already in the works? Why go to someone whose "word" appears to be tarnished before you even have the pup?

You guys have CONVINCED me !!! Yes, the dog would have been a Possible candidate. Oh well, Some aren't what they seem to be ....

Hey Pharaoh , I really like your insight, Thanks.....

Pedigree is nothing when it comes to a dogs capability to be a Sar dog its the dog its self. thats why the national sar foundation uses shelter dogs to do it. any dog of Any breed that has the drive and the willingness to do the work can be a sar dog we had a little terrior to a border collie to a golden and shepherds they all have their bonuses and their setbacks alot of people just want a BIG dog so they say crap like that. but i feel pedigree is nothing for sar now for schh and that kind of work it gives you a better insentive to kno the pup may have a good chance at doing the work you ask of them but my male was from Shit parents he was a 50$ dog i picked up from someone in oregon on craigslist. he turned out to have great drive and was a wonderful dog.

    Any dog with ability can do it no matter what breeding correct. Our sar group head guy had pet breeder quality labs doing sar that is when they were sound enough to walk in between the surguries on hips and elbows. Who wants to take just any dog that may work and spend all that money and time training to have odds stacked against you that the dog can hold up physically? Prior pedigree knowledge does help thin the chances you would not have wasted a year or so trying to get a working partner only to have a health issue pop up when the dog starts going hard and it cant handle it.

   Side note: He was breeding these labs and using that they were sar dogs to sell the pet puppies never once telling his buyers of the surguries! His dogs were down and not able to search 85 percent of the year.