In a message dated 7/18/2006 9:13:39 PM Central Standard Time, caretti@xxxxxxxxxx writes: No matter how much he/she claims to know...love the breed...have come from a back ground of breeding/training....... Make the decision based on what *you've* learned. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------------------- How about true stories when we all started in the breed of being a newbie and breeding... This is a true story...This was our second litter, we were told to breed to a dog that our handler was promoting..We had never seen the dog, until we got there for the breeding. The dog had a good temperament BUT way too extreme in the rear, I almost freaked...What did we do... like nice newbies we bred the the dog...lets just say it was NOT a good litter.. Listened to our handler again (you think we would have smartened up) 4 blues, 1 esophogus, 3 coats and 1 normal puppy...After that I said, from now on we do our own thing...and dont listenend to anyone no matter who anymore. Started reseaching, seeing the stud dogs in person.doing our own thing.....next litter we bred our first homebred champion. Patty Szymczak ============================================================================ POST is Copyrighted 2006. All material remains the property of the original author and of GSD Communication, Inc. NO REPRODUCTIONS or FORWARDS of any kind are permitted without prior permission of the original author AND of the Showgsd-l Management. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. ALL PERSONS ARE ON NOTICE THAT THE FORWARDING, REPRODUCTION OR USE IN ANY MANNER OF ANY MATERIAL WHICH APPEARS ON SHOWGSD-L WITHOUT THE EXPRESS PERMISSION OF ALL PARTIES TO THE POST AND THE LIST MANAGEMENT IS EXPRESSLY FORBIDDEN, AND IS A VIOLATION OF LAW. VIOLATORS OF THIS PROHIBITION WILL BE PROSECUTED. For assistance, please contact the List Management at admin@xxxxxxxxxxxx VISIT OUR WEBSITE - URL temporarily deleted due to AOL issues ============================================================================