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EBOOK: DOG BREEDERS PROFESSIONAL SECRETS - ETHICAL BREEDING PRACTICES
by Sylvia Smart (See other books by author)
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Publisher: Dogwise Ebooks
Edition: 2008 E Book, 192 pages
ISBN: 9781617810190
Item: DG223EBK
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Summary: Breeding dogs is a little like playing god isn’t it? And you need to be well prepared before you start. Here is information you won’t find anywhere else about how to breed dogs successfully without going bankrupt or compromising your standards.
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Expanded Description:
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.”
Learn how to:
· Get started, including selecting your breeding stock for good health and behavior.
· How to build an effective budget and accounting system.
· Network with other breeders and find mentors to help you learn the ropes.
· Draw up contracts that you will need in your breeding business.
· Develop an effective web site and marketing program.
· Involve your family in your breeding operation.
What dog experts say about Dog Breeders Professional Secrets:
You can breed the best puppies in the world, but unless you know how to manage your operation, large or small, from day to day, you won’t survive as a successful breeder. Sylvia Smart guides aspiring and experienced breeders dealing with ethical dilemmas, clients both good and bad, paperwork including contracts and coownerships, kennel set-up, foundation stock, financial management and more, using real examples from her years as a successful breeder.
D. Caroline Coile, Ph.D., columnist for Breeders’ Notebook and Dog World Magazine
Dog Breeders Professional Secrets, is filled to the brim with useful information
for dog breeders
everywhere. Whether you are a beginner or a breeder with many years experience, this well-written book will be a valuable addition to your library. It is written in a easy to read, down to earth format that gives dog breeders generous tips, hints and pathways leading to the most satisfying experience possible when breeding your dogs.
Myra Savant Harris, R.N., author of Puppy Intensive Care and Canine Reproduction and Whelping
Sylvia's words of wisdom are the perfect blend of best breeding practices, taking the ethical high road, and being a business professional all wrapped up into one insightful, detailed, and valuable guide for beginner and experienced breeders alike.
Lisa Peterson, long-time Norwegian Elkhound owner/breeder/handler and author of "Ask AKC," the
syndicated advice column for dog owners.
Sylvia Smart has owned, trained and exhibited Champion Labrador Retrievers. Sylvia has bred numerous qualifying hunting, therapy, and S&R dogs. She is the author of the DVD Whelping Healthy Puppies and now focuses on mentoring and advising other professional breeders. She lives with her Lab and Poodle in Arizona.
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What reviewers are saying...
THE MIDWEST BOOK REVIEW
“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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| F for Effort, April 27, 2010 |
| Reviewer: Raegan |
Points for trying. But do not pass go, and do not collect those points, because the book entirely misses the point.
You cannot breed dogs as a business. Not if you're doing it ethically, anyway. If you're keeping up with your breeding dogs (showing, training, health tests [CERF for example is a repeating test]), there is no way you can sell puppies at a price that people can afford to buy them at and make a profit. It just doesn't add up. |
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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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