Rebanne

doesn't Harri get puppy pennies to put in his purse

Good luck, it's hard when your dog gets diagnosed with something very uncommon.

exactly!

I adopted a greyhound who was desexed at 4 and 1/2 years old. His sac never shrunk, we called it his purse :laugh: But other desexed males I have adopted all had nothing and the one male who I have had desexed, he too ended up with nothing. I wouldn't get it done.

Pity she strung you along for 8 months

you didn't make it very clear, sounded very much like you were defending the breeder. Yeah stuff happens and yes you did used to have 18 months to register the litter but as a breeder you are obligated to provide those papers in a timely manner and if it isn't then to let the buyer know, preferably before they take the pup home. And you don't ignore phone calls and emails from your puppy buyer. I hope they got a good rap over the knuckles

the sponge method seems to be highly recommended overseas. Try putting him on a nipple another pup has got started that may help

As the dog is 4 make sure you get the papers on the day you pick her up and that the breeder has signed the back. Also get her signed microchipped paperwork and vaccination card.

speak to your breeder not your friend, you're dog sounds fine, it's not a competition to get the heaviest dog, quickest. Here's the standard LINK there is no weight recommendation in the standard.

I'd go a chiro/muscle man first.

Normal 3 monthly worming does not do heartworm.

what if it dies or becomes unfit for the purpose you are importing it?

very sad

I don't breed for the pet market, there really isn't one for greyhound puppies unless they are free. My next litter being bred is for me to get a bitch to breed on with and also show, but the breeding side is more important, one other pup is going to a show home most likely not for breeding. It is an outcross so not quite sure what will be produced for showing. The rest will be going to pet homes, we know this but we are not breeding for pet homes, they are a by product. If I was breeding a more popular breed, breeding a pet litter every now and again; yeah why not. I certainly don't think that breeders that do that are bad. I know breeders that have more popular breeds and breed them (registered)for pets to help subsidise their main breed who can be hard to home and have extra costs in the keeping of 1/2 dozen pups for a longer time.

couldn't say it better

Boy greyhounds are the kings of dopey :D

You need to read Steve's excellent post again. Do you have any idea how hard it is for some breeders to find good homes for their pups? We don't all breed cav's or golden's. Plenty of dodgy breeders on DOL eta the cav and goldie breeders also have to weed through potential homes, they just usually have a greater number of people interested in their breeds.

I start advertising my pups once the bitch is confirmed pregnant, first emails to people do include a lot of information including price and the fact I will not know if there is a pup available for them until around 8 weeks.

about 95% i'd say, Did you have people chasing a pup they could breed with to get height or speed in their pigging BA??? 95% that were good is good! The gumtree ones were 2 sending standard emails, I'll buy the whole litter thing, how much, when it was only one pup advertised and yes one was from a woman who got very irate I didn't want any greyhound of mine doing what it was bred to do, catch bunnies on her property. I looked her up and then reported her for selling underage pig dog pups :laugh: A few tyre kickers from the DOL listing including a couple of people who wanted to argue the breed with me, never having owned one, but google had told them several things (incorrect) and wouldn't believe me when I said their info was wrong. Except for one person who was new to showing, all my pups have gone to other greyhound show people in Australia and the 2 pet ones went to Hawaii. eta so I have found that there wasn't really much difference between quality of puppy buyers between DOL or Gumtree and only a tad more DOL enquiries then Gumtree ones. Too many cheap or free ones to be had

Actually I will be interested to see what happens with my next litter, I wasn't really into FB then, I have many more contacts now.

So Angeluca where all your enquires from DOL good ones? Cause I got a couple of doozies with my last litter from my DOL listing. And tyre kickers. And only 3 enquiries from Gumtree, none any good.

Twista

why is that funny? cause you said all your breeder friends only needed their breed club and their DOL listing to sell their pups. So it makes it a bit harder for me when I don't have a breed club, nor a popular breed, or I too could be selling plenty of pups every year.

What a load of rubbish. Next you'll say you should only breed when you have a full waiting list and some spares. Rubbish :laugh: Thanks for that, but typical posting from you I guess. I know many breeders who have quite a few bitches they breed regularly and have no problems finding homes for the pups. Breed clubs and dogzonline are all the advertising they need. I am sure they would use the trading post etc. if need be, but nobody I know needs to resort to that. My breed doesn't even have a breed club.

I'm not sure if you are replying to me but in my experience the people who say you shouldn't advertise on places like Gumtree do usually follow it up with you shouldn't be breeding if you don't have plenty of homes lined up.