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[S_B]

Wise, that is why you worry less about people's opinions and concentrate more on what you expect in your stock. There will always be naysayers, but with a lot of hard work and dedication one can prove them wrong.

[evolutionkennels]

All truth contains paradox, and most people only see (or wish to argue) one side or the other of what is actually a multi-faceted truth.

With that said, while it may be true that "price" (by itself) doesn't necessarily make a pup better than another ... the other side of the truth is the fact that NO ONE is going to sell his very best dogs for the same price as his average dogs. A man isn't going to sell "a game bum" for the same price as his Grand Champion.

By the same token, a man with no breeding record who has (what he says are) two game, but average dogs of so-so pedigree ... or has pups bred the same basic way a thousand other dogs are bred ... will simply NEVER be able to sell his pups for the same amount of money that an established breeder, who has reliably and consistently produced a multitude of winning dogs in top comp, using his very best individuals. And anyone who can't understand this has a thinking disorder.

So, sure, in some sense any "one" pup may (or may not) turn out ... and if that's all the farther some people can think then they really can't be helped.
Because the other truth is some breedings REALLY stack the odds of getting a good dog in your favor ... while other breedings essentially don't give you a snowball's chance in hell of turning out ...

Knowledgeable breeders are trying (usually successfully) to at least produced good, honest dogs ... and I can't think of too many who don't have different price tiers based either on how certain they are of this, the rarity/exclusivity of the blood, etc.



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It is absolutely correct that everyone has "something to say" about whatever it is you're trying to do. As Bill Cosby said, "I can't tell you the secret to success, but I can tell you the secret to failure, and that is trying to please everybody."

It simply cannot be done.





I disagree. You may have found some good dogs, and that is great, but the truth is the very best, most important dogs aren't stumbled-upon by accident ... the lion's share of truly great dogs are usually planned-for by knowledgeable dogmen with a sense of purpose in their breedings ...

Jack

[Officially Retired]

[BONEDADDY]

I read this post a couple of times. I just want to add my opinion. No matter what the price, why buy a puppy from someone you don't know or know people that know them? I have seen people pay a lot of money for puppies/dogs that didn't turn out for them and they bash the breeder. Bottom line, if you don't know the person or know of them, don't be bothered. Some of my best dogs were free. Not because I like them that way, it was that I only deal with a certain group of people. JMHO

[Handsome84]

You can't win with these people in these fuckin dogs these days. If you pay a small amount for a dog there's going to be questions about if it is bred the way the breeder claims, pay to high of an amount and now everybody and there momma has something to say about the parents or what you "could've" got for that amount. Hell I even heard people judge based on where the ad for the pups was, and contrary to a lot of guys beliefs two of my best dogs came right out of the gazette so it goes back to that old saying of "a good dog is where you find it".

[Handsome84]

Wise, that is why you worry less about people's opinions and concentrate more on what you expect in your stock. There will always be naysayers, but with a lot of hard work and dedication one can prove them wrong.