Thank you ACamp and all who have taken the high road. Everyone starts out somewhere on the learning curve and it's usually better to assume initially -- and more accurate -- that someone is on the beginning leg of that curve rather than start the witch hunt.
While agree that there are a lot of "witch hunts" on chaz... and I try to stay out of them. I also agree that some of the comments in this thread were very uncalled for, I know where they were comming from.
I haven't posted because, honestly, after browsing her website, I don't have that many nice things to say.
Some shouldn't still be on "the beginning leg of the [learning] curve" after the time this woman claims to have been in the breed.
This is a direct quote from her website:
About HillCountry Dachshunds
We at HillCountry Dachshunds are absolutely obsessed with quality. We know that you have probably looked through the classified ads in your local newspaper and see the $100 - $300 puppies and think, "How can breeders charge two to three times as much as the ones in the paper?"
The number one reason: Time invested.
Those low-priced puppies in the paper, although certainly adorable, were most likely the product of two dogs being "thrown together" to produce puppies... and that's that.
However, we have spent over 7 years developing our line of quality dachshunds. We stick to the standard to the best of our ability.
We breed only miniature quality dachshunds.
after 7 years of actual breeding I would think it common knowledge not to breed a bitch before 2 years of age.
I mean I even know that and I've never bred a dog before in my life. Also, up until a year ago when I joined chaz, I was one of those everyday people who knew nothing about dogs. I joined chaz because I
liked dogs and my dog was sick, so I was trying to learn more about dogs to help him. Chaz was just one of the avenues I went down.
There is also this quote from this thread:
I've been studying the standard for 10 years and am familiar with the the standard.
10 years she's been studying the standard. That's a LONG time! So she had 3 years of studying the dogs and 7 years of breeding. That's really way to much time for her to not know a lot of the basics of breeding and what a reputable breeder does with his/her dogs.
Now I'm sure Molly is a very lovely lady, and I'm sure that she really does love her dogs. I think a lot of comments in this thread could have very well been left out of it and not said.
Of course, those comments didn't start to appear until after people where(nicely) asking her questions and she got huffy and left.
From that I think that she
knows she's not doing the right thing.
I wish her the best, and I hope that even though she decided to leave this thread that she did realize she has a lot to learn about breeding. I hope she does right by her dogs and doesn't breed those two babies until they reach the age of 2 at least. But mostly, I hope she sits down and takes a good look at her breeding program, I hope she stops breeding for a while and goes under the wing of a practiced, showing, reputable breeder for a while until she decides to get back into breeding.
