I guess there was nothing in your contract about breeding at a certain age? As in breeding after he's two, had health clearances?? IF there is, you may be able to get them on that,,since he's only 1.5 years old...
The op probably wouldn't care about this, seeing as how she bred her male when he was not even a year old.
Op, i hope you keep reading this thread. and this post.
first off, you are not doing the needed health testing. There are no scores on your site. Getting your dog evaluated by a vet, and them saying whether or not they are healthy is not health testing. You actually have to pay more money for the appropriate tests to evaluate your dogs health, and If you are doing said testing, you should be posting that on your site.
You bred your male to your female when he was not even a year old. that is seriously awful, and not something an ethical breeder would ever do. You are also only breeding your male and your female together. You arent looking at other studs for your bitch, or vice versa to try and expand your line and make it better. You love your two dogs, that much i get, but that is not reason enough for those two to have puppies.
You don't show, normally, sign of a bad breeder. But you breed collies, so i give you a pass on that. What i don't give you a pass on is that it seems you do very little working with your own dogs. I know many herding breeders, who do not show conformation. but they sure as heck show in working trials, do herding and agility and other dog sports. They dont just love it when their pup ends up in a home that works, they Make it happen. They dont sell a pup to anyone who doesnt work the dog. Again, if you do some sort of working sport, then why wouldnt it be on your site? It is easy, and fairly inexpensive to go to agility and herding trials, and the fact that you can't even do that, really tells me how devoted you are to the bettering of the breed, and how much the dollar signs really matter to you.
You say you got your 2 dogs from good breeders. Have they not been helping you? Do you not ask them about breeding everyday? Are they actively involved with the dogs they sold you? If not, then you probably did not get your dogs from as good a breeder as you thought. i have a hard time buying that you happen to do all the wrong things, ethically, when it comes to breeding, but did get your dogs from great breeders. Great breeders would be trying to get their dogs back from you.
And just a piece of outsider advice. your website is horrible. it looks cheap and extremely unprofessional. Your personal info is way more than i needed to know. And i am laughing wondering how many shots it took to get the main one of you with your dog. People looking for a dog, especially a collie, do not care how pretty you are, so you can save the glamor shots for those that care. All it really gave me was the info i needed to know that you really don't know what you are doing.
I knew I would get judged by this and I don't mind it and yes, I need the criticism. I made a mistake 1 1/2 years ago and I have learned from it. I am going to try to contact animal control. I said I do not think I will have any luck. If not, then what can I do about it? They have had the dog for 1 1/2 years. I did look into her. I even visited her veterinarian. He was the one that tested the puppies' eyes. The vet told me they are never late on their vaccines and they do put their dogs through seizure alert dog training if that is what they intend to do with the dog. This dog was put through training and did well, but he was never housebroken or socialized so he does not do well indoors (in retail environments). I have had my dogs health tested. Both are normal eyed and have good hips. Neither have red mange in their pedigrees. I am not someone who just threw two dogs together. They are my dogs and they go and do everything with me. They are not just breeding dogs.
I have mentioned buying the dog back and they won't have it. I have not brought up the contract because I was waiting on evidence. I found the complaint board today. So a lot of this is new info to me. She sends me pics regularly and emails me when he gets back form the vet everytime. My main concern is the environment he is in and with the mother (she is the one I have bad blood with). My other concern is the quality dog she is breeding him with, but there really is nothing I can do about that. I have never been to her home and have never been invited. I am going to talk them into inviting me to let me "visit" the dog. If the home and the dog are in bad conditions then I will bring up the contract. Hopefully some poeple on here are right and that will scare them into giving him back.
As I said before, I have learned from this and I have started screening potential buyers. I have not had any problems out of anyone else.
Now you will start screening? If you knew anything at all, that would have been your first concern when you started breeding (besides the health of the dogs being bred of course). I doubt you even have homes for you next liter (the one you are accepting deposits on, but dont have a price for yet). Im glad that you felt the need to lower your price from 1000/pup to 600/dog.
I would prefer for my puppies to be sold as pets only. I may accept small hobby breeders or those who breed therapy dogs or working dogs.
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This contradicts everything you have said on this thread.
Im sorry if i went a little offtopic (and that is all i will apologize for), but i saw your website and was seriously livid that you could think that you are a judge of where this dog should or should not live. You brought the pup into this world, and it is your fault he is where he is today. Yet when we say, call animal control, all you say is "oh i live in Louisiana, they just ignore me". im sorry but that is bs. if you really cared, youd do everything you could, no matter how little or useless it seemed. I really think you need to re-examine your role in this world as a "young hobby breeder" (your words not mine).
Also, it is appalling that you are a "breeder" and know so little, not only about breeding, but about dogs. Francesca is completely right about service dogs, and the training they receive. Anyone can get a jacket for their dog and say he is a service dog, but that doesn't make it so. The fact that you didnt know that leads me to believe that you are as closeminded as you come across