Selecting a breeder

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The breeders that I am on the waiting list for are both very active in showing and one does agliltiy besides confirmation. I had visited 1 breeder that never asked me any questions at all, I thought that to be very odd.
 
I have a 2 page questionaire that prospective puppy parents fill out. One question that is very telling is "Tell me something about your last dog that made you laugh". The answers I have received have been delightful, except for the one person who wrote the answer "nothing". I don't know whose puppy they are raising now.
 
Nothing?!? Wow. That is just terrible!

What a great question, too. Of course I think you'd get a lot of additional pages from some people...haha!
 
missjenneygirl said:
I have a 2 page questionaire that prospective puppy parents fill out. One question that is very telling is "Tell me something about your last dog that made you laugh". The answers I have received have been delightful, except for the one person who wrote the answer "nothing". I don't know whose puppy they are raising now.
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Oh my gosh, when I did the questionaire for my breeder I think I added a page. How awful to not find some thing they did that made you laugh. That is such a good question and should be an easy one.
 
Great thread everyone.

I know for myself I attended an ASSA meeting and met some breeders there. Got their information and when I was ready, started making calls. Like someone else said...when you call someone up and say so-n-so referred me to you, their reputation is on the line. I met some strange breeders. One wanted to sell me her 8 month old show quality dog, but with the catch that if he STAYED within height limits, she could take him back. WTF! I um wanted pet quality dogs. Not something someone can take back. No thanks.

Definitely do your research, go with your gut. Ask around if you need to. I went back to the same breeder (well, the co-breeder of the litter of my first dog) and got my second. They are completely different personality wise, but temperament wise, they are the same. Which to me, speaks tons.

Okay, this is making me want another puppy. I need to get away now. LOL
 
missjenneygirl said:
I have a 2 page questionaire that prospective puppy parents fill out. One question that is very telling is "Tell me something about your last dog that made you laugh". The answers I have received have been delightful, except for the one person who wrote the answer "nothing". I don't know whose puppy they are raising now.
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Oh! Oh! Oh! I can answer that question.

Family lore is that Shelties are not actually that bright! Their heads are so tiny and therefore so are their brains!

My forever pup would stand at the door staring at me dumbly as I tried to coax him inside. "Come, Timber, Come" He would look blankly at me and on his own schedule gradually mince his way across the door step.

Bacca does the same. I've now decided that this is the Sheltie version of "&*^" you. I'll come inwhen I'm ready to come in.

And of course, the Timber classic: Barking at reflections of himself in glass. Wrow! Wrow! Wrow! That damned dog is back again! He follows me everywhere I go! Intereresting that if I held Timber if front of a mirror with me beside him, he got it. But his reflection on his own...forget it!
 
BarbV said:
My forever pup would stand at the door staring at me dumbly as I tried to coax him inside. "Come, Timber, Come" He would look blankly at me and on his own schedule gradually mince his way across the door step.
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Barb! My forever pup, Aimee, would do the same thing! We would call her in from outside, she would turn around and stare at us for about a minute. Then she would take her time coming back...

I think it's that they're so smart--they want to do it on their own time! :biggrin2:
 
missjenneygirl said:
I have a 2 page questionaire that prospective puppy parents fill out. One question that is very telling is "Tell me something about your last dog that made you laugh". The answers I have received have been delightful, except for the one person who wrote the answer "nothing". I don't know whose puppy they are raising now.
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Funny you should mention that, I just told Ann that Cleveland had a dry sense of humour that you really had to appreciate (having the same dry humour, he and I got each other's jokes) McKinley, on the other hand is slap stick ALL the way. He just cracks us up, and I swear the more we laugh, the more knock down, goof around stuff he does, just to keep us laughing!:winkgrin:

A woman answered NOTHING.............nothing about you past dog made you laugh????? How is that possible? :confused2:

All dogs have such great senses of humour!
 
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