08/27/2020
THIS IS THE REAL LIFE OF REAL BREEDERS, TAKE THE TIME TO READ FRIENDS 😉
Breeder ...
Some criticize the breeders.
Most people believe that we breed dogs to make money off their backs and only see the basics: we put the females on the male and we make the money. The reality, our reality, is quite different.
Many people come knocking on our door to become breeders on their rounds. They want to know the wonderful adventure of births. To these, we will respond with Gandalf's cultic reply: “Flee, poor fools! ". It is time to abrogate the myths, to clarify the taboos.
Breeding is the wonderful adventure of births, but not only.
The breeder has given up on morning herbs because there is always a dog asking for a hug, wanting to eat, playing at dawn.
At certain times, the breeder has given up sleeping in a bed: he sleeps on the floor, alongside a sick dog or a mother about to give birth ... if he is sleeping.
The breeder spends lavishly on the welfare of his animals.
The breeder often deprives himself to provide for the needs of his dogs before providing for his own.
The breeder is not a seller. She is a mother, a father. Do not ask him to think of you as a king: the kings in his house are his dogs, and you are not his client, you are the future mother or the future father of his puppies.
The breeder does not go on vacation because it takes dog-sitting.
The breeder only has a social life at certain times, when the puppies have grown up, when the dogs are not sick, when ...
If he ends up having a social life, the breeder often cancels himself for an emergency, shortens his holidays or the duration of his outings to what is strictly necessary under the same and unique pretext: "I have My dogs, I must returns ".
The breeder considers that his free time is used to take care of his dogs, everything else is a chore. Moreover, when it is pointed out to him that he should take some time for him, he invariably replies that taking care of his dogs IS time for him.
The breeder cries for a dog from which he must separate as if he had only one and if you point it out to him, he will answer you "Yes, but he / she is not the same", because in his eyes no dog is like any other.
The breeder talks about dogs in general and his dogs in particular with so much passion that he is inexhaustible on the subject, to the point that you have the impression that he has only that in his life (and that is often the case).
The breeder talks to his dogs as if they understand you (and they do ... doubt it?).
The breeder of course talks to the dog very regularly.
The breeder studies throughout his life to improve his breed, but also to fully understand the functioning of this mysterious being that is the dog: genetics, health, food, reproduction, everything will happen.
The breeder has met all his heart, his time, his brain and his finances in the service of his breeding.
The breeder is a being apart, who does not have a normal life in the eyes of others (if you still doubt it, read it again ...).
The breeder makes daily sacrifices, throughout the month, throughout the year, throughout his life ... and after his death, because he has nine lives, like his dogs.
The breeder bears daily the ignorance of people who do not understand his passion or does not benefit from it and makes a point of educating.
The breeder puts up with the preconceptions of those who believe that he is making a lot of money, while he is continually in the red and that he sells a puppy well below the price he paid for him.
The breeder will have refused up to fifty applications from adopters before letting a single puppy go. He would rather keep his baby at home than let him go to a bad family.
The breeder endures daily the stupidity of people who belittle, criticize or do anything with his breed. If it is a lost cause, he will nonetheless fight as if his life depended on it against these people.
The breeder only has the well-being of his dogs at heart.
The breeder supports criticism from people who do not understand his passion or do not sell it, sometimes even among his relatives.
The breeder is continually dragged through the mud by other breeders who are jealous of him or dislike his way of seeing things. As such, he will make more enemies than he will count victories in his life.
The breeder must comply with strict rules of hygiene, finance, morale that he is often the only one to impose.
The breeder must be accountable to his friends, to his family, to other breeders, to dog associations, to taxes, to adopting families.
The breeder spends more time at the vet for a dog than at the doctor for himself.
The breeder worries about the slightest sneezing, the slightest closed eyelid, checks the condition of a female three hundred times a day on the eve of giving birth and ten thousand times how newborn puppies are doing.
The breeder tries to detect more diseases in his dog than he considers worrying for himself.
The breeder chooses the food he gives his dogs better, examine the list of ingredients and nutrients in dog food more carefully than his own.
The breeder weeps for joy the day a long-awaited heir is born ... But he also mourns the broods that perish without his being able to do anything about it. When a puppy dies, it checks the welfare of the rest of the litter twice as often as usual (i.e. twenty thousand times a day).
The breeder mourns the mothers who die in childbirth, the retirees who hide to die, the discreet dogs like those who gave him everything ... But he gets up and starts again.
But, more important than anything: the breeder has chosen this with his soul and conscience.
He would therefore not trade his life for that of any other and is very happy as well. All that matters to him is to share with a few chosen few the love he has for his dogs. Because his dogs have taught him so much, he will strive to provide you with an invaluable companion.
The breeder always expects your new companion to change your life as generations of dogs have changed theirs before yours.