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@lumiere Absolutely they wouldn’t mind. Not all breeders are as open to mentorship, which is fine, because you don’t want to learn from people with shitty attitudes like that anyway. You want to learn from someone who actually gives a shit about newbies entering the breed. I also have a rarer...

@lumiere Find a breeder and have them mentor you

@thelonemusician28 Nah there isn’t. There are very few things in breeding that are a “good rule of thumb”. You don’t know until you’re looking at the female in question. Some girls recover slower. Some are better off if you breed them back to back so you can retire them early. Some are in...

@thelonemusician28 Uterine lining gets weaker as the dogs age, meaning csections are more likely the longer you wait. However breeding a bitch that isn’t fully recovered physically from her last litter is also very high risk At the end of the day, it’s a dog by dog basis that needs to be...

@joy9865 Healthy and strong doesn’t mean a dog can’t have orthopaedic issues. Plenty of dogs who look healthy and normal have lameness issues. Puppy hips don’t look the same as regular adult hips due to the growth plates. That’s why we don’t officially evaluate hips or other joints until a dog...

@joy9865 I work in a rehab speciality clinic - which is where you should go for a second opinion (specifically one with a veterinarian who has a CCRP degree). I don’t think it would’ve been a vaccine poke to cause limping. Sounds like your regularly veterinarian did nothing wrong. I have seen a...

@teecee A proper stack means the dog needs to be viewed directly from the side and not at a 3/4 angle. Sorry. All that can be said from the picture is that she has flat feet and looks like she toes out. She also appears to be quite obese. No commentary can be made of her front or rear...

@donnags1964 Pennhip can be done that early. OFA prelims can also be done that early. Only standard OFAs require a dog be 2 years old. And if you’re only looking for dysplastic or non-dysplastic for this scenario, it’d be ok to rely on prelims. For breeding decisions, you want to wait until...

@teecee Unless a dog is in a stacked position it is impossible to fairly judge structure. Anything other than a perfect stack can throw off a dog and make things that are actually correct look like a serious fault and vice versa

@warriorofyahweh Lots to unpack here. So let’s start with what a hip test is. Hips are a polygenetic trait (controlled by many genes) and thus we do not understand the inheritance of them. There is no such thing as a simple yes or no for hip dysplasia testing like there is for say - PRA, as an...

@samuelh24 1) you own a stud. That’s it. The owners of the females will breed to your stud and that’s it. That’s the end of your involvement. The owner of the bitch takes back their dog. You don’t keep someone else’s dog 2) stud fee is often the value of a single puppy of that breed unless...

@bpps not necessarily, however there are large difference in some breeds between show and working lines, and sometimes the crosses between the two lines don’t get the best of both parents and end up a little ugly. Other times they’re gorgeous. Anyone with more than a handful of breeding dogs...

@tracy67 No responsible breeder scopes out studs at the dog park. Regardless of how nice your dog may or may not be, this doesn’t sound like a responsible breeder so I would be concerned about the health of this puppy you might end up with. This breeder doesn’t even know if your dog is health...