Sled dog breeding

[Americano Blue]

do you have legit harnesses for you dogs? well i guess the real question is do you have a dog you could train right now?

 

[dainerra]

any dog that is healthy can be taught to pull. There was even an all gsd team training for the Iditirod a couple years ago. The weight-pulling champ in many competitions has been a chihuahua.

Get a harness and start working with your brother's lab if you don't have a dog healthy enough at home. Even a old dog can pull light weights as long as their hips/elbows are good. Most pullers start out wit small pieces of 2x4 or landscape timber. It would give you the experience of training a green dog and let you see areas where you need more training yourself.

 

[SternRose]

I dont have a harness, but my brothers husky pulls a sled. Training vocal commands. And it's my dads lab and she has hip/joint problems

 

[Starfire669]

They can be. One of the worlds best show dogs came from a pound. The breeder gave him and his AKC papers and everything to the pound and a handler found him and started his AKC career. He's now I think 9-10 and has produced some of THE best puppies out there.

Do you have proof of this? Every pound and shelter I have ever talked to has a policy to spay/neuter ALL dogs that come through, no exceptions. And a spayed or neutered dog can not be entered into shows because it's for breeding stock only. Because there are so many unwanted dogs and cats, both pure bred and mutts, all pounds have them fixed to reduce the dog population.

 

[SternRose]

It's in one of my AKC books.

 

[Starfire669]

yeah i don't like backyard breeders, but i like them more then puppy mills

My mother was a backyard breeder of pugs. She adored them and bred her pair. She did some things I approve of, a buyer brought back a puppy with a broken jaw, for a full refund. The pup was allowed on the couch, jumped off and broke her bottom jaw, the buyer contacted my mom, and rather than see 1 of her pups sent to the pound, she refunded the money, tried to fix its jaw, but it had already healed crooked, and she found an old man who wanted a companion because his dog past away a few months before and gave the pup to him, after explaining what had happened to the pup and the special care it would need. I always respected my mom for putting the welfare of the pup before money, her heart was in the right place. But she was uninformed of common breed diseases and neve had her pair checked for them. The female dog is still alive, 16 years old and still trucking, but she developed breathing problems later in life that might genetic. The male past away a few years ago, he was poked in the eye with a stick by some viscous kids. It cost 1500 to repair the damage done, and after that the dog had seizures. We don't know to this day if the seizures were caused somehow by being poked in the eye or if it was inheritable to his pups.

After seeing my mothers backyard breeding, there are things I plan to do that she did, such as accept my pups back for full or partial refunds depending on conditions (I am trying to write a sales contract that is legal to this affect). But I want to have my breeding pair tested for any diseases or disorders before they breed. This is to ensure the health of my pups, and so I can provide proof to potential buyers that they are tested and have a health garuntee. I will also screen my buyers, and yes, turn some away that don't seem like a good fit forms babies.

 

[Americano Blue]

any dog that is healthy can be taught to pull. There was even an all gsd team training for the Iditirod a couple years ago. The weight-pulling champ in many competitions has been a chihuahua.

Get a harness and start working with your brother's lab if you don't have a dog healthy enough at home. Even a old dog can pull light weights as long as their hips/elbows are good. Most pullers start out wit small pieces of 2x4 or landscape timber. It would give you the experience of training a green dog and let you see areas where you need more training yourself.

true. if you dont have a large team and you can work one on one. For the leader(s) you work them on leash with verbal commands once they get get that down, put them in harness and start them dragging. start them with something light like a empty milk jug or a small piece of wood, slowly over a period of weeks get them to be able to something equal to or more then their own weight once they can do this and obey verbal commands at the same time. the point of this is so they get used to the noise of the drag and to build up stamina. if they can do this and Perfectly obey verbal command your lead dog(s) is/are ready. you do the same for the other dogs just not with verbal commands. dog you want for future leads run in swing for a year or so

 

[Half-Pint]

I would like to clear some things up. The loose use of "backyard breeder" is incorrect. I know what you are trying to say, but using that term is condemning the wrong people. Technically, I am a "backyard breeder" because, well, I breed in my backyard.

I would recommend using something like "irresponsible breeder" or something of that like.

 

[SternRose]

My mother was a backyard breeder of pugs. She adored them and bred her pair. She did some things I approve of, a buyer brought back a puppy with a broken jaw, for a full refund. The pup was allowed on the couch, jumped off and broke her bottom jaw, the buyer contacted my mom, and rather than see 1 of her pups sent to the pound, she refunded the money, tried to fix its jaw, but it had already healed crooked, and she found an old man who wanted a companion because his dog past away a few months before and gave the pup to him, after explaining what had happened to the pup and the special care it would need. I always respected my mom for putting the welfare of the pup before money, her heart was in the right place. But she was uninformed of common breed diseases and neve had her pair checked for them. The female dog is still alive, 16 years old and still trucking, but she developed breathing problems later in life that might genetic. The male past away a few years ago, he was poked in the eye with a stick by some viscous kids. It cost 1500 to repair the damage done, and after that the dog had seizures. We don't know to this day if the seizures were caused somehow by being poked in the eye or if it was inheritable to his pups.

After seeing my mothers backyard breeding, there are things I plan to do that she did, such as accept my pups back for full or partial refunds depending on conditions (I am trying to write a sales contract that is legal to this affect). But I want to have my breeding pair tested for any diseases or disorders before they breed. This is to ensure the health of my pups, and so I can provide proof to potential buyers that they are tested and have a health garuntee. I will also screen my buyers, and yes, turn some away that don't seem like a good fit forms babies.

U gunna breed sibs? How much you selling them for?

 

[Starfire669]

I would like to clear some things up. The loose use of "backyard breeder" is incorrect. I know what you are trying to say, but using that term is condemning the wrong people. Technically, I am a "backyard breeder" because, well, I breed in my backyard.   I would recommend using something like "irresponsible breeder" or something of that like. 

While that is true in many cases, and I agree with you for the most part, my mother loved her dogs, and made choices to put their health and well being over money or breeding them. She did have her dogs spayed and neutered rather than risk another litter when she was informed of issues she had not previously been aware of. (my sister became a vet and explained some things to my mother.) My Mother even chose to have a young female spayed before it ever bred, because it had been a runt and the male was twice her size, she did not want to risk the little female to delivery. I would label my mother an uninformed breeder, not irresponsible, though I admit she should have looked things up before breeding.
I myself could be labeled a backyard breeder simply because I will be breeding my Sibes. However, a lot of time and effort was put into getting the right male to pair to my female, it was not random, "that pup is cute, let's breed him to our girl". We listed our girls faults, contacted reputible breeders and found a male that comes from a line most likely to correct/balance my girls faults. This included going through many pedigrees and lines to find a good fit. Time will tell if we made the right choice. My hope is to produce a puppy, hopefully female, to show in confirmation as I had originally wanted to do with my female. I may show my male, but am having trouble getting him ring trained, which is why we are attending confirmation classes together now. To help prepare us both, even if he doesn't show, training him, and learning from my mistakes should prepare me to show my future pup.