11/20/2023
Being a preservation breeder is hard on the heart at times. It’s a lot tougher than some may think. For me, preservation breeding has always being willing to remove a known “defect”  from my breeding program. Not looking past issues just because a dog may have come out of “this” great bitch or been sired by “that” great dog. Keeping my program running on temperament, health and structure. In that order.
Over the years, I have encouraged others to do the same. Breeding healthy dogs, and placing them in the public in order to improve the overall health of my breeds population is what I do.
 For me personally, I always said I don’t think I’d ever have more than 15 dogs. ( what I feel I could handle in terms of attention, cleanliness enrichment )
I currently have half that many.  There was a time between 2006 and 2010 where I had 21 dogs. Only five were mine.
 I breed just one litter in those four years  due to the number of rescues I was caring for. Our property at the time touched the local police department property. Officers would always come over and look at the puppies and talk to us. And it started becoming a habit for them to bring me anything that was picked up. Because our local police department was also animal control. I just couldn’t say no. I turned nothing down. And I took care of all of them out of my own pocket. Including getting vet, care, food, surgeries, etc. 
This is not to say that I am better then another breeder who keeps a high number of dogs and cares for the dogs properly.   I just felt like it wasn’t for me personally.
I probably turn down 30% of people that fill out our puppy questionnaire/application. I’m extremely particular. That’s probably why in almost 20 years we’ve only had 3 dogs returned.  I mention all of this because I have made Kupid available and then took her availability down multiple times. But it’s not realistic for me personally to preservation breed, AND keep every dog.  I love each, and every one of my dogs. Each and every one I’ve ever taken off the street,  each and every one that I’ve ever had from a different breeder, and each and every one I’ve produced myself. And I realized today that I’ve been hanging onto her because she came from “that“ great Pedigree. A Pedigree that Horst Vogel put together to produce Kupid‘s father. It was Horst who encouraged me to place my first show dog in a Companion in Home. And it took me about six months to come to terms with the fact that he was dead, right lol “Gina, if you love that dog, and it’s evident that you do… Place him in a companion home. You can spend the same money, showing a better dog“ 
Whoa….at the time that was a little kick in the gut, you know?…, because I “loved him”.
I eventually did place that dog on a farm with a potbelly pig, another dog, and a wonderful family. He lived his days, running five fenced acres with a Pond. As for me, I moved on to show a better representation of the breed.
 Kupid is a very, very sweet girl. I thought she was going to have some skittish issues, but she quickly grew out of them.
I have her brothers that I will collect to move on with, in the future… I have her sister here. It will be doubly hard to choose between which girl to move forward with if they were the same coat type. We have been keeping back smooth coat bi***es, which have been wonderful for our program, and I’m going to move forward with her sister, the rough coat this time.
I can place her and be OK with that. I can still love her while sharing the result of using that wonderful Pedigree. Now bear with me while I try to leave the post up and not take it down.🥺🙏🏻

Available to approved home :
Kupid. 11 months old. Sire: INT. CH/CH, High Chateau’s Pythagoras. 
Dam: Mt. Harmony’s Nirvana
Would be a nice addition as a Companion, or in a breeding program.