if you had a chance to get a pup from a guy who you would consider a legend for 1k without papers.would you get it?
if you had a chance to get a pup from a guy who you would consider a legend for 1k without papers.would you get it?
What do you mean by "a legend?" Do you mean the dog itself or the man who has the dog?
the man with the dog
To me, a man's "legendary" status isn't as important as his honesty.
I have been burned but some 'legends,' and I have gotten great dogs from nobodies. Toward the end of my buying career, I only bought dogs that I legitimately knew how they were bred, not because someone "told me" how they were bred. The dogs I would buy today would only be of my own breedings, that I know for 100% certainty how they're bred and what to expect.
At this point, most people couldn't give me one of their dogs, let alone me pay $1000 for it, but if I really liked a particular dog and I also like its ped (and if I had the depth of knowledge to be sure that's how it was bred), I wouldn't sweat the papers. If I didn't have personal knowledge of the breeding behind the dog, then I would have to knew the man well enough to know he was a straight shooter.
So, again, some "legend" that I don't personally know couldn't give me a dog. However, if I knew him, and trusted him, and he had a real nice dog with no papers that I really wanted, I wouldn't care about the papers. The papers are only as good as the man's word anyway, so I have to trust "that word" above all else.
Jack
i feel ya,makes sense to me.thanks
do you consider an online pedigree as papers? thats enough for me, never ask for papers
I consider actual knowledge of 1) the abilities of the individual dogs in the ancestry, and how they were actually bred, to be a real "working pedigree," and the rest to be (at best) imagination.Originally Posted by R2L
Jack
i misunderstood the question. i think it is, would u buy a dog if you dont know how its bred??
only an adult if i know what he's capable of but i like to raise all my dogs myself so no
but papers as in registration on a piece of paper, no need for that imo.
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