Papers!! Papers!!! Papers!!!!

at one time I registered my dogs and sometimes sold pups and put a price on them because of the papers...then I switched to hunting dogs with papers and it didn't take long for me to quit registering the dogs because of the high prices to register...I started filing the papers and pedigrees and for quite a few generations I raised hunting dogs that I just put a few notes down and every dog bred was a top hunting dog as what I thought a great dog was and never deviated from that...

but why is there so many culls in some of these registered dogs???one reason is that when someone pays top dollar for a registered pup from the latest and greatest bloodline that is the latest fad at the time...will have to breed for the money and won't care less if the dog hunts...others hunt the dog and the dog is not really good enough but the dog gets bred anyway...others think they have a good hunting dog but they really don't have a high standard in what a good hunting dog is...

but there are good breeders out there that produce good dogs on a regular basis and know what a good dog is...

I once went to a kennel where the owner hunted his dogs hard and produced good to great hunting dogs but his idea of what the dogs should look like were totally different than mine...at least for that particular breed and strain...he liked his dogs short and stocky and I liked them taller and leggier...a medium athletic build...he had a top female that was given to him and he just gave her to be with the papers...he didn't like the looks of her and she was everything I thought a cur dog should look like in that breed...the other 30 dogs in his kennel I wouldn't have kept...

there are so many variations in what people like and in their working standards that one must do their homework before buying...sometimes one has to breed their own line to be happy with the outcome...whether it be with papers or not...