Successful Working Line Breeders - Page 4

Interesting fact to note - at the 2006 Schh3 Nationals, the helpers chose a few dogs that in their opinion were the hardest-biting, best gripping dogs in the trial. It was a short list, and the dogs were Eagle v Eichenluft (bred by myself), Eumah v Patiela (bred by Ajay Singh), Rasta and Rocky Germelhaus (bred by Melodee Middleton of CA) and Rob Dunn's dog Zico. molly

IMO opinion buying a puppy is acrap shoot, and the best you can do is try to get the best odds you can. so i would consider the above mentioned breeders due to the accomplishemnts of thier programs. There are many breeders that produce good dogs as well as folks who are not breeders but breed the bitch they own. so i suggest either purchase puppy off of parents that you have seen, a puppy from parents you have heard good things about, from a breeder that has had several dogs do well. Or just by a young dog. you'll find hundreds examples of success or failure down any path.

Germalhaus had 3 littermates in the Nats. all three passed, all engaged, all outed and all had decent scores. THAT is sucess. Just pushing numbers and getting a handful titled is not sucess IMO Patiala's record is enviable. Selective breeding - relatively few litters but going to working homes There are plenty of peopel making puppies for pet homes from titled dogs but no titles from them - see dogs advertised in USA that ads say going to Nats for 3 years and dogs still schh1. so many people breeding dogs here and never see the kennel name getting titles Someone says to look at percentages above. I agree

This is a working dog event. 88 and 86 are pretty soft protection scores for a national event. It is noteworthy that there are three dogs from the same kennel, but engaging and outing are only remarkable at a show dog event.

Great comment spook101. Just to be there is one thing. But to do well is another.

Some of you may have your priorities mixed up. Is being a successful breeder based on the number of litters you produce per year? I don't know how many litters any of these people mentioned, have produced, except for Ajay sigh, because he mentioned he produced 12 litters, excellent percentages, if you ask me. Can some of the other breeders mentioned above, tell this board the number of litters you have produced? Eichenluft, you mentioned the helpers at the nationals, mentioned a few dogs they thought were the hardest biting, best gripping dogs in the trial, and your dog Eagle, was one of these dogs on this short list. Hmm, he may very well be a very good griping dog, but at the nationals didn't he fail protection, for failure to release?

Spook101, What type of scores did your dog receive @ the nationals?

I calls 'em as I sees 'em. I'll be there next year and then you can take your shot.

dogford4 that is hilarious! Someone tried to pat themself on the back, you called them on it. My feeling is tell people how great OTHER people's dogs are, let your scores and results do the talking for yourself.

Spook101, tell me about this dog you will take to the nationals next year, what is this dog's name and bloodlines?