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Clodagh

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So this year it’s a definite!
I’ve been scrolling through ads on Champdogs. I’ve got my name down on a litter but no harm in looking.
If you are advertising working Labrador puppies why would you …
Say ‘furbaby’
Show a photo of a dog wearing a pretty pink harness.
Show a photo of a dog wearing a collar and lead?
Read the room… I assume these people don’t want working homes, or aren’t bothered. I immediately scroll past.
 
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I wouldn’t be looking to buy from someone who was advertising on champ dogs!! No harm looking of course but most well established breeders sell by word of mouth or through friends of friends.
 
gallopingby said:
I wouldn’t be looking to buy from someone who was advertising on champ dogs!! No harm looking of course but most well established breeders sell by word of mouth or through friends of friends.
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I got my dog from champ dogs and couldn't fault a single thing about the breeder. I still ask her for advice today
 
Puppy hunting if you're not already 'in' a breed though can be a pain in the bum, there's worse places than Champdogs for people to start. I'm trying to help a friend of a friend at the moment and they'd already contacted several people I know and been ignored, which is all a bit embarassing to navigate. Non-dog-world folk wouldn't have a chance.

Granted I never did find anything on there and having had a look off the back of this thread there's not much there now either. Excepting labradors in pink harnesses (and one working on a long line?!)
 
I've been lurcher puppy hunting for a while, it's a minefield ! Nobody is straightforward, people you think sound good, are in fact awful, I've even had one person suddenly drop contact and it turned out she had sold the puppy to someone else ! It's hard enough finding beddie whippet puppies, but then to find someone who has bred a litter and actually taken good care of them is proving impossible at the moment 🥲
 
Teaselmeg said:
I've been lurcher puppy hunting for a while, it's a minefield ! Nobody is straightforward, people you think sound good, are in fact awful, I've even had one
person suddenly drop contact and it turned out she had sold the puppy to someone else ! It's hard enough finding beddie whippet puppies, but then to find someone who has bred a litter and actually taken good care of them is proving impossible at the moment 🥲
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I’m on some lurcher sites on Facebook and Teddy/whippet crosses sometimes are advertised on the various rescues that use the groups , hairy sighthounds and lurchers is one of the groups
 
Pearlsasinger said:
I certainly wouldn't buy a furbaby but pink harness can be very useful in the right circumstances. One of our Rotters wore a pink harness/collar/lead combo because we didn't want her to wear studded leather, it puts people off. The other wore orange.
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But you weren’t advertising her as a working bitch with sellable puppies, not quite the same thing.
 
Teaselmeg said:
I've been lurcher puppy hunting for a while, it's a minefield ! Nobody is straightforward, people you think sound good, are in fact awful, I've even had one person suddenly drop contact and it turned out she had sold the puppy to someone else ! It's hard enough finding beddie whippet puppies, but then to find someone who has bred a litter and actually taken good care of them is proving impossible at the moment 🥲
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Dropped you a dm
 
Clodagh said:
And jumpers… harness and jumper. The poor, poor dog 🤣
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The working bred lab we’ve just taken on was in a pink harness, she nearly had OH over (you get used to well behaved dogs, it’s quite a shock)! She’s now in a slip lead and heeling nicely (we’ve had her 48 hours).
 
Worrying thing is I no longer think it’s certain breed/type/crossbreed specific anymore.

The entire world of dogs has become a weird and, at times, totally hostile environment for people seeking a pup.

I know when a friend was seeking a Corgi puppy recently, they’d already tried and been blanked or patronised, by some of the folk I put them in touch with. Awful really. They went for something else in the end.

Irrespective of breed or crossbreed/type - half nowadays are only in it for £££, and the other half seem to not quite realise they have bred dogs which will eventually need good suitable homes and they aren’t simply doing a potential enquirer a favour by responding to them/considering them if they’ve done their research/know what they’re talking about/had the breed before.
 
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As the litter I’ve been waiting on is a bit up in the air I’ve put a shout out to three friends this morning.
Now got to choose.
I’d love a relation of Ffee and her brother is being put to an amazing bitch. But she’s not even in season yet. Too late for puppies for me. Gutted though.
 
P3LH said:
I know when a friend was seeking a Corgi puppy recently, they’d already tried and been blanked or patronised, by some of the folk I put them in touch with. Awful really. They went for something else in the end.
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This is the situation I find myself in trying to help someone, I'm now having to go to those people and go 'er, can you please respond to this person, I know you've got litter plans and I promise they're not a numpty' and it's all very awkward. This is someone who knows how the system works though and will continue to play the game, you'd absolutely be put off if you were a family looking for your first dog.

The same people complain when entry numbers are down, no-one wants to help on the committee etc.
 
blackcob said:
This is the situation I find myself in trying to help someone, I'm now having to go to those people and go 'er, can you please respond to this person, I know you've got litter plans and I promise they're not a numpty' and it's all very awkward. This is someone who knows how the system works though and will continue to play the game, you'd absolutely be put off if you were a family looking for your first dog.

The same people complain when entry numbers are down, no-one wants to help on the committee etc.
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Yep, and sit decrying breeds becoming vulnerable and the many merits of them.

You’re right about awkward. I have long since decided it’s all not for me anymore, my attendance at shows (spectating) has dwindled down to nothing now - something I enjoyed since I was a child. Who knows what we’ll do when it comes to future dogs.

I’ve always been open with the fact that in corgis - I lucked out with the breeder of the first one, and it’s only cause of her name that I found getting a second easy, and personally could get about ten with relative ease. Perhaps not now actually, I ask too many questions about breeding draught excluders, and the rise in HD, IVD, DM and all the refusal to accept there are hereditary issues in the breed - like every breed. To start with, I was stonewalled by other breeders over the space of a year, found them really really rude.

T’was the same when I looked at getting another rough collie last year - a long time after the last one. Then when OH was set on a small spitz, most breeders blanked open enquiries, were rude if you declined being offered an older dog, and could even be described as confrontational when I wanted to explore some of the high COI’s and other sensitive topics - we ended up with a purpose bred spitz x-breed instead. Health tested etc and he makes her happy!

What I have found is - of those who do engage with potential pet owners, there aren’t that many who actually want someone asking questions!

Sorry, rather derailed the thread! My cousin and her husband, who are lab people through and through, and use them for shooting etc - have found that the only way anyone can get anything good is by knowing the right people! Took them about three years to find a suitable dog after losing their elderly precious lab. Since then, they’ve acquired a fair few more simply because they can!
 
Clodagh said:
So this year it’s a definite!
I’ve been scrolling through ads on Champdogs. I’ve got my name down on a litter but no harm in looking.
If you are advertising working Labrador puppies why would you …
Say ‘furbaby’
Show a photo of a dog wearing a pretty pink harness.
Show a photo of a dog wearing a collar and lead?
Read the room… I assume these people don’t want working homes, or aren’t bothered. I immediately scroll past.
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I do know of a lovely litter of trialling springers if you fancy one!!!! *scuttles out of the room* LOL

I agree some dog ads are as cringey as some horse ones!!!
 
Round here there a loads of people trying to re-home dogs. All sizes, all ages. Loads of puppies from 8 weeks to 18 months. Many different reasons, some no reason given. Prices from £50 to over £1000. I feel sorry for some of these dogs, but can I trust what the owners are telling me. What has happened to them that they want to get rid of them. Are they even theirs to sell. I can not get one from our local rescue center, we are too old. We are active, go for long walks. The only dogs the rescue would give us is an old dog needing retirement. A tootle round the block. I do not want a dog I have to carry back to the car after an hour or two walk. No I am not getting a push chair.
 
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