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Originally Posted by Shelly Wentling  PLEASE GET YOUR FACTS STRIEGHT... LILIA ONLY HAD 3 LITTLER IN HER LIFE TIME, HER LAST LITTER SHE GOT VERY ILL AND MY HUSBAND AND I DECIDED TO TAKE HER OUT OF OUR BREEDING PROGRAM..A VERY NICE COUPLE PURCHASED HER AND SHE IS NOW VERY HAPPY, LIVING WITH 3 OTHER FAMILY DOGS.  |
Let's quote your site:
This is Lila. Lila is Barrons love. She has had many liters in the past few years. Lila put out very adorable BIG puppies. Unfortunitly she can no longer have puppies. We had to retire her and sale her to a good home. Lila is now living in alabamaI
"Many litters in the past few years". "many adorable BIG puppies" Doesn't sound like three, but if it is, it doesn't sound like she got a lot of rest in between. Perhaps that is why she got ill. Dogs need plenty of time off in between litters. How old was she when she had each of these "many" litters. And, again, the emphasis on size. Or, perhaps, oversize?
My reference is to your SELLING this dog when she could no longer have puppies safely and you "decided to take her out of your breeding program". You didn't keep her and love her, or GIVE her to a loving home. You had to SELL her. It's all about the money, in the end, it seems. THAT'S what I'm talking about.
This information we are concerned about is coming from YOUR website. We are not making it up.
And, you still won't answer directly about OFA certs on your breeding dogs. Tells me you don't have them. And that makes you a large scale back yard breeder. Kennel license or not, that's a puppy mill by my definition. Certainly not an ethical breeder truly concerned about the breed or the long term health of the puppies. Your one year guarantee speaks volumes about that, too. OFA certs can't be done until a dog is two. If one of your buyers discovers a defect after a year, well, too bad for them, it seems.
Ethical breeders will do OFA certs on hips, heart, eyes, thyroid, on breeding stock and share that info with their buyers. They hardly ever own both sire and dam, as they are truly trying to improve the breed by analyzing the pedigrees and health and show/working records of both parents and produce the best possible litter in terms of freedom from genetic defects, conformation, temperament, and proper size (NOT oversize according to the AKC standard) And, they will guarantee for at least two years. Never mind that they will also get conformation and/or obedience or other working titles on their dogs and further prove that they are worthy of breeding. AKC papers, and "OFA and show quality background" are not enough to prove that a dog is worthy of breeding to improve the breed and produce dogs that will live long healthy lives.
Read some of the threads here about the heartbreak of dogs dropping dead from SAS (a heart defect) or suffering from hip or elbow dysplasia or eye defects. Many, if not most, of those dogs came from back yard breeders who didn't do their homework and do the work required to use the RIGHT dogs for breeding. And, they didn't guarantee their pups at all, or for no more than a year. We see situations like this all the time. Most of those BYBs aren't producing the volume of puppies that you are. And that just magnifies the problem.