Mabel it's the obvious language barrier but thus far the op has stated a snake bite is NOT an emergency (then in reacent post changed it) nor is an after whelp check up, who cares about testing hips, the dog can run and "work" it MUST be healthy...and an absolute no interfernce policy on his dogs whelping, which in an ideal world is great, but n reality one breached pup could kill them all, one retained puppy and there goes your female...
This far everything the op has posted leads that this bitch on her first litter whelped alon outside unsupervised with none so much as an after whel check up and clean out. To me, THAT is an unessicary risk plain and simple. Sure it's "natural" for a bitch to breach and die during a whelp, doesn't mean you should just Let it happen if the option to save her and the litter is there...
These are Man Made breeds, no matter how old the breed is...by selectivly breeding you are removing it from natures hands...
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Health testing would be better if the OP did it, but how is what they are doing by not testing, worse than those breeders that do test and know that the dogs are effected but breed anyways??? We had one of them on this board, who was justifying breeding their dog that only had a fair (good? can't remember) reading for OFA. How is that better especially when those dogs also DIDN'T work. The anwser is simple neither is right but I don't recall anyone beating that regular Chazzer up over it the way it has been beaten to death here. The OP does have a valid point that a dog that can work all day for years without showing signs of lameness and comes from a long line of dogs that are the same, is excellent proof of a lack of unsoundness. Backing it up with clearances would just be the Icing on the cake in my opinion. And the OP should seriously consider it.
The working dogs that you are talking about, I would have some serious questions to that person about the dog/s. Yes dogs can be very stoic in the moment of working or performance/dog sports but the next day or two days later they do show it and a good handler/owner that isn't blind to what they are seeing would know (whether they admit it to themselves or others is a different story). I would also question how long the dog was working for, how hard it work and if the lines behind that dog were known for being able to work into their teens (taking into consideration the breed/size/life expectancy of the breed etc).
A breeder in the working dog world if they are not careful very quickly can't sell pups to working people if the dogs have issues whether it be from temperament or lameness etc. Word travels fast through those circles and although working people generally don't care about colour, an ear that isn't correct etc but that dog had better be a good working dog and for years, because the tolerance for a non worker or for health issues that effect working ablility are not generally tolerated very well. I know in my breed, if you know the right people (more importantly if those people will tell you) who has dogs that are known NOT to work and who to avoid if your seriously looking for a working dog. Just as it is no different for the show world, when certain breeders or lines produce non-showy, dogs that don't show well. Everyone who knows, shys away from them, although the novice/newbie is often ripe pickings for such breeders to flog those dogs off onto.
Are or have you ever been a breeder to be giving opinions on what is or isn't done pre or post whelp? I personally know and talk to in person or by email at least 50+ breeders (probably more) and to my knowledge not one of them does a post whelp exam with a Vet on a bitch unless they suspect a problem. I consider myself to be a rather limited breeder in the number of litters I have produced over the years, but I can tell you that on the advice of my Vet, other Vets that I know and fellow breeders plus my breeding mentors, that taking a bitch to the Vet for a post whelp exam generally isn't needed nor advised. Therefore I have never done it.
Good grief, the OP has imported the dogs, waited and done research for years, PROVES the dogs as WORKING dogs....therefore investing a lot in them. So why on earth shouldn't they get something back and profit???? The OP doesn't sound like a mill, brb or commerical, so what is the problem??
Personally I think the reason some people are attacking this person is because they are stinging that there is a lot of truth in what the OP is saying about unhealthy dogs, unfortunately the OP used the words Frou Frou, but it doens't change the fact that there is some merit to it. And the only ones getting weathly because of it are the breeders of such dogs, the Vets and Pharm companies.
If breeders STOPPED breeding from dogs with known health, temperament and genetic issues by culling those animals from their breeding programs instead of doing what they consider to be 'educated risks' in which everyone pays, esp the dog and the breed, we would all be better off.
JMO.