Seriously?

I’m still trying to wrap my head around this—someone who’s been in dogs like 5 or 6 years is now taking it upon themselves to mentor people new to the breed, as in they bought a pet from them and now want to breed.

So how do they mentor them? Hum, breeding a pet is okay as long as it has all its health tests and that it's a great learning experience for the kids.   Or that inbreeding isn’t really inbreeding when both siblings are from “outcross” breedings themselves. Or this is even better, swearing that a dog can be bred the first time in a split cycle, then bred on the 2nd part of the split and that it will actually whelp two different litters, weeks apart.


At this point in time I should be seeing you with your mouth dropped on the key board, going- no way, really?(which btw are the first three words the Ms' Furbie learned)

I've got to be making this up, right? Any person with a real interest in breeding would never do, think or teach that???

Folks, I’m very serious here.  I have not only run into one of those people, but a couple.  I am ashamed at anyone who has ever sold this person a dog to begin with and hasn’t taken the time to mentor them or even direct them to a person who can. I fear for the breed, the dogs involved and the innocent people who have been swindled out of hard earned money and deceived.

And with that, I think it’s important to clear up a few facts.

Mother nature doesn’t work that way-once a dog starts to whelp, that’s it.  The body can not say, those aren't cooked enough, leave them in and we'll whelp those later.  And if a bitch is having split cycles, at least for me, that raises a red flag that something isn’t right and maybe breeding shouldn’t happen this time around?  Typically in a split cycle, the 2nd cycle is the fertile one, fyi, which is maybe why they cycled again?  And what about outcross, line bred, and inbreeding? Well, I can’t say it better than the people at Topsfield Bassets:

Willis (1989) defines INBREEDING as the mating of animals "more closely related to one another than the average relationship within the breed." Inbred pairings would include brother/sister (the closest form), father/daughter, mother/son and half-brother/half-sister.
LINEBREEDING involves breeding relatives other than the individual parents or brothers and sisters. Typical linebred matings are grandfather/granddaughter, grandmother/grandson, grandson/granddaughter, great-granddaughter/great-grandson, uncle/niece, aunt/nephew and cousin crosses. Linebreeding is a less intense form of inbreeding.

Here’s where I got it from—I highly recommend that if you are considering any sort of breeding, this might help clear things up some.

http://www.topsfieldbassets.com/breederstoolbox/lets_talk_linebreeding.htm

Folks—there is no harm in helping out someone, but if you give out information, please make sure to you know what you are talking about-check your sources, never assume(you know what that does). And no one should quit learning-when we feel we have enough knowledge to pass it on, great, but when we feel we have learned all we can, better dig that hole in the ground, because I never want to stop learning. 

Just sayin'....
C