There are some things that I disagree with Letty. But it is also just my opinion.
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Originally Posted by KoosLetydeGraaff
At first, We have, my husband and myself, several dogs, and we take care of all the dogs, during they day, because we are at home the whole day, so saying something about a breeders with more then 10 dogs, it depends on how may time you will spend with the dogs, during the day.
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Yes, that is absolutely true. But only in case, the time with the dogs is spent actively - by training, working with them, playing with them. If the dogs are at home closed in kennels or cages, then the fact that the breeder is present at home, does not change anything.
I am also at home all the time, have only two wolfdogs and we spent every day at least 3 hours on walks (not counting the little walks) in the forest or parks plus training. On the weekends it is of course even more. And it is quite tiring. Can´t image to do this regularly with more dogs.. But certainly there are people who manage more than me. For example, I quite admire Margo in this
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Originally Posted by KoosLetydeGraaff
About selling a bad puppy over see, I think, you can better send the best puppy away and keep the worst, because it is a recommandation for kennel to send a good one.
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I am not exactly sure, what Letty here means by a good or bad puppy. Of course, it would not be good to send via plane puppy, that has low self-confidence, because the flight and stress would not help the pup. But honestly, what is the point of selling the best puppy (by look and character) overseas? The dog will probably never breed there, will hardly appear on a dog show, in the obedience no one has an idea there, how to train a wolfdog. USA is full of wolf-hybrids with uncertain character, appearance and wolf-blood percentage, thus many people there have strange ideas about wolfdogs or fear them.
Many of the new US owners also have only vague idea, what is CSW and how to socialise it, train it and properly raise it. It can be often seen from their questions here in the forum. I myself see the idea of selling puppy overseas as a big risk and certainly would think twice about it.
To me is more logical to keep the best pups of the litter here in Europe, where they can get to dog shows, proper training clubs, bonitations and affect the genetic pool of the breed, when reproducing.
Keeping a contact with the owner of the puppy (does not matter, in which the country the puppy is) is absolute must and does have nothing to do with the quality of the pup, according my opinion. But of course, with a large number of puppies it must be difficult.
What I stated above, as I already mentioned, is only my own opinion and certainly there will be always people, who will not agree.