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[quote=Anonymous]I’m doing it right now. It’s not profitable, I will lose money in it, but my dog is so awesome I want a puppy out of her. She won national level events and is just a phenomenal house dog—a combination I’ve waited years for and I want to hold on to these genes.

To do it right though I had to train and title her in multiple things to prove bidability and instinct to justify breeding. She is a herding cross, so I put basic herding titles on her and then have high level sport titles in a couple venues. We had to travel pretty far for the bigger events. I had to submit X-rays to a specialty vet, do a cardiac work up, have her eyes evaluated to prove physical caliber. (She’s a mix so at least I could skip conformation, but most purebreds will want those titles too) I had to research and find a male who balanced her minor flaws and had the temperament and titles I wanted to pass on with on. The stud dog isn’t local, so we went back and forth on shipping semen or transporting the dog for live cover. It didn’t take with shipped, so next heat cycle we’ll be trying to get him to her.

At the end of the day I will maybe get 3-4 puppies (she’s small). I’ll keep one, the stud owner will take one, so maybe I can sell one or two for $1500 (but they will probably go to sport friends who have wanted a clone of my dog forever) Of course, there’s also the chance I get zero, or my dog has an emergency during whelping and something traumatic happens.

But suppose it all goes smoothly, I then have tiny needy puppies pooping and peeing all over their pen for 10 weeks, I will devote all my free time to individual socialization and exposure to the world. It’s a lot.

I have my breeder mentoring me and helping me out along the way, because there is so much involved. I’m grateful she has done this for 45 years so she has seen it all!

But yeah, I’m negative a million dollars in the hole from this. It is a labor of love, not a financial gain.[/quote]

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