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DOG BREEDERS PROFESSIONAL SECRETS - ETHICAL BREEDING PRACTICES
by Sylvia Smart (See other books by author)
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Publisher: Dogwise Publishing
Edition: 2008 Paperback, 192 pages
ISBN: 9781929242597
Item: DG223
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Summary: Becoming a dog breeder is a significant undertaking. And there is so much more you need to know to be a successful breeder beyond just knowing how to whelp and raise puppies. Dog Breeders Professional Secrets goes well beyond other books to tell you what it takes to be a successful and ethical dog breeder. Sylvia Smart shares her real-life experiences (both good and bad) and explores dozens of issues that a prospective breeder must consider to build a high quality dog breeding business.
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Becoming a dog breeder is a significant undertaking. And there is so much more you need to know to be a successful breeder beyond just knowing how to whelp and raise puppies. Dog Breeders Professional Secrets tells you what it takes to be a successful and ethical dog breeder. Topics include networking, financial matters, acquiring breeding stock, kennel design, and many more. Sylvia Smart shares her real-life experiences (both good and bad) and explores dozens of issues that a prospective breeder must consider to build a high quality dog breeding business. This is a practical, educational book with a focus on doing things professionally, with lots of planning and forethought. And you’ll learn how to be financially successful in your chosen profession all the while knowing that you have done it “the right way.” Click here to view an excerpt.
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“There are tricks of every trade, including Dog Breeding. "Dog Breeders Professional Secrets: Ethical Breeding Practices" is a guide for potential dog breeders who want to get into the business and avoid breaking the industry taboos. A step by step guide to getting started, handling the business side of the trade, networking, and other vital elements one would need to get started and stay ethical in an industry where falling off the path is so easy. "Dog Breeders Professional Secrets" is enhanced with resource list, indexes, and more, making an absolute must for would be dog breeders.”
James A. Cox
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| Should be called 'How to make money breeding dogs', March 23, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Joanna |
The author gets one star for attempting to put together some basic 'how not to kill your dogs' practices for raising puppies. You'll find much better whelping/postnatal support in Harris' book and much better breeding advice almost anywhere else, but I appreciate the effort.
Her 'ethical' issues are no-brainers ('Is it OK to change the color of a dog for the show ring?' 'Is it OK to substitute stud dogs and not tell the owner?' 'Is it OK to exhibit a dog under another dog's name?') but it's always good that someone is trying to figure out what makes dog breeding ethical.
Some basic decent advice is given: join your local club, get involved, show at least one dog at least a little, do at least some health testing, do field trials, etc.
Some of the medical advice is OK; some is terrible. For example, breeders are told to put newborn puppies in the freezer to euthanize them because this is 'painless'--totally false. Think about how a puppy even a little chilled will scream, and medical research shows that newborn puppies can live with almost no oxygen for many minutes. Puppies do feel pain and have a surprisingly mature central nervous system. It would be a horrible way to die.
Even beyond that, where breeders who identify themselves as 'reputable' will get very uncomfortable is that this book is all about making 'a very nice living' with dogs, and the author claims that this is one of the 'secrets' we keep. She says that every successful breeder makes lots of money, though we all deny it because it is considered more politically correct to claim that you don't make any.
The advice on making money is pretty much exactly the corners you'd expect to be cut. If you think about your big-chunk expenses of showing each breeding dog, yearly health testing, stud fees for each female, vetting costs, etc., (i.e., all the things that make it impossible to make any money on puppies) you'll know where she's cut down to zero.
The owner is listed as a 30-year breeder of champion Labrador Retrievers, and during that time produced hundreds of dogs. She finished championships on fewer than ten dogs, possibly a lot fewer than ten, from her own breeding.
The term 'ethical' has become a touchstone, used in the breeding community to indicate a breeder who does everything right. We repeatedly tell people to look for ethical breeders or to become ethical breeders. By grabbing this term and telling prospective new breeders that as long as you don't break any AKC rules and don't outright cheat puppy buyers you're ethical, newbie breeders are given an entirely false view of what is expected in the show breeding peer community. |
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| a must have book, February 26, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Cheryl Bullock |
| This is a very informative book. A must have if you are wanting to get into the breeding business. She tells all the aspects of breeding. Opened my eyes as to, (thank goodness I got this book before I started to breed). Now I will be prepared when I do get to start my dog breeding business. The more prepared that you are, the funner it will be. |
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| Great staple, September 30, 2008 |
| Reviewer: tahiya marome |
| This is a great staple book to have in your library. The writing is succinct and to the point and you have a lot of information in a short book. You'll go back to it again and again. Ethical and professional practices are everyone's concern and this book is full of practical, well articulated direction on how to apply those practices. |
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