Thanks to some members ! - Page 5

I'm new here.  Is there some kind of cyber warring going on?  Some of the posts and threads are ridiculously non dog related personal attaks... 

Amin,

Hang around here long enough and you will figure out that I pretty much say what is on my mind and I don't give two shits what others think!  However, that being said, I don't necessarily agree with what you are doing with your dogs.  If you would like to talk via PM I would be glad to assist.  After all, we all had to start out somewhere, NONE of us on this board was born knowing what is right and what just for our breed!  It is ultimately up to you to learn and be absolved of ignorance.  If, after some mentoring by a knowledgeable breeder, you don't change your ways and ideas then you move beyond ignorant to just plain stupid........ignorant is fine because an ignorant person can still learn, a stupid one can and will not learn! 

Amin,  I know you have been under some attack for some of the things you have posted here but if you are willing to humble yourself I am sure you will learn much!

Vickie
www.PowerHausKennels.com

we all had to start out somewhere, NONE of us on this board was born knowing what is right and what just for our breed!

I sure bred a crummy litter or two when I first started out! I remember one dog, from about my 4th litter in the 80's, that I bought back and put to sleep, replaced with a better (Grando Lechrainstadt son) pup I bought from Willie Ortner, worried that the (WAY oversize) dog I had bred would not be safe with the new baby the owners were expecting. Fortunately that was the only dog in its litter that I had to worry about. The rest were okay. I had to lie and tell the people I found their dog another home to get it away from them. My bad, but I couldn't sleep nights knowing that baby and that dog might get together with heart-breaking results. He went straight from their house to the big sleep, one-way, growling and snarling all the way, though only a little over a year old. They never found out. I don't think I'll go to hell for it anymore than the dog did. He was just too big and too nasty to let live. The beautiful show line stud dog I had used threw a LOT of problems, turned out to be hemophiliac. Gernot and sue (God rest their souls) donated him to UC Davis for research, kind of a clinic pet everybody loved till he died. The mother had 5 other litters with other studs, none as wacked out as that one dog, but a couple were pretty nervy, including my own from her first litter, later PTS at age 3. I kept nothing from her or any of the other dogs from my first 5-6 litters, although I wish I had kept something from Brix Laimbachtal and my Greif Lahntal daughter.

This is the first time I have ever mentioned it to anyone since. That experience is one of the reasons I try to help people who breed dogs on this board and elsewhere. It broke my heart to have to put a dog I bred to sleep, but I still think, 20 years later, it was the best thing. He never seemed happy on this earth for whatever reason. UCD found nothing unusual at autopsy.

We don't even want to talk about some of the hips I brought into this world bred from dogs I purchased from Jo Kuhn back then...
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Hello, I must admire your work for the "showline" german shepherd. I know that in order to have a great show dog, you must have put alot of time into the conditoning and training on top of the schutzhund training for the dog. Great job!! you must feel lonely on this post cause most of these "working" don't understand the work is put into these dog. Again I commend you on your great work!!!

I like both show and working line dogs. My roots are in Schutzhund sport. Can't seriously say my work is all that great but my love for that work is endless. Anyone who doesn't think it takes even MORE work to get a show dog ready for 2-10 times as many events as a working dog is normally entered in can come on out and help me. (Blatant solicitation)

That in mind, its sunny out and the snow is gone. My dogs are dying to go back out and  do some more work today, so.....  :)))))
Hi ho, hi ho, its off to the field I go.
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