Dog Breeding

Breeding Border Collies or Golden Retrievers

Stud Dogs


Border Collies and Golden Retrievers dog breeding

Stud Dogs must prove their qualities before being used


Dog offered at stud usually have to have shown outstanding characteristics in conformation, working ability or have produced outstanding offspring, without these credentials there is no reason for anyone to use your dog in preference to the many show or working champions offered at stud. If your dog is used at stud it could make him more sex oriented and more difficult to live with afterwards, he may insist on "checking" whether every bitch he meets is "ready", he may become more territorial towards other dogs and he may become less settled and more prone to wandering in search of bitches. Good breeders will be looking for the outstanding characteristics mentioned above and will use know and reputable lines and sires, someone wanting to use an untried dog from an obscure background with no credit to his name will be either looking to produce cheap pups (puppy farmers etc.) or be breeding from a bitch with health problems that informed breeders will not allow to come to their stud dogs. A good stud dogs will command a high fee but campaigning a dog to a show or working champion's title is expensive in terms of show entry fees and travel costs and hugely time consuming. A sound dog, Champion or not will have earned his reputation through his many qualities and the quality of his offspring, a bitch owner has the privilege of buying these qualities for her puppies for the modest sum of a few hundred pounds stud fees. Good breeders will have only three or four litters (often fewer) from even an outstanding brood bitch so they are most unlikely to waste one of these precious opportunities on a mediocre dog.
In other respects the responsibilities of the stud dog owner as just as for the bitch owner, dogs must be appropriately health checked, their background and bloodline scrutinised for possible defects, their registration in order and their faults realistically analysed. Whilst the stud dog owner does not have the direct responsibility for homing the puppies few owners who care for their dog would want to see his sons and daughters, homeless, unwanted and facing an early end as just another dog in rescue with too many problems to be rehomed.


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