All of that is just a part of the reason I quit registering my dogs. I don't want them to go to the guys who breed for paper and I'm just as happy that as unregistered dogs they are only valuable to someone who will hunt them.
You can say what you like about pups that cost nothing being worth nothing . . but the cold hard fact is that if the $200 puppy price is all that is going to convince someone to work the pup he bought from you then he isn't a dog man at all and doesn't deserve one of mine. Also says a lot about how much demand there really is . . just another example of folks trying this bloodline and that shortcut because they want an easy answer. I'd still rather give a dog to someone who is a friend and I know will hunt it. And I mean hunt it because he is a hunter . . . because he lives to hunt, because he couldn't imagine not hunting a dog that was born and bred to catch game. The world is full of suckers who will buy anything for sale off of the internet or out of the parking lot of a feed store or swap meet. I wouldn't take much pride in selling to them or have much confidence in their evaluation of a dog.
Thats the way I was raised. Keep all the pups that you can hunt, and give the rest to people you know and trust and maybe in the future if you need a pup they will return the favor. That way they are close and you can still hunt with the dog and evaluate every dog in the litter. Ive never bought a dog and only sold one grown dog and sometimes I wish I had her back but thats the way it should be or I did'nt have any business selling in the first place.
Waylon
