Creating your own bloodline requires commitment to the breed.
Many people underestimate the difficulty in establishing a canine bloodline. A wealth of knowledge and hands-on experience is necessary to produce a purebred dog that looks distinct from others of its breed. Successful bloodline breeders have a rock-firm understanding of what makes the breed unique and aim at developing better specimens with each generation. They also grasp the breed's health concerns and ensure that only sound stock is used for breeding. Love for their dogs rings true, above all.
Instructions
1. Research your breed thoroughly. Find every possible published work on the Basset Hound, for instance, and read each book closely. Locate your breed's national club and request their handbooks, which may feature pieces of advice from the great breeders of the past.
Also read a ton on canine structure. Research the best judges and breeders for your breed and converse with them. Watch your breed performing the task for which it was bred. Attend lure coursing trials, for example, if you breed Whippets or Salukis.
2. Treat your breed's official standard like your Bible; understand it meticulously. The standard's stipulations are what your bloodline should get closer to which each generation.
Concentrate on picking a female of excellent lineage, ideally a full sister to a great specimen of the breed. She may not be the most beautiful dog, but her pedigree distinguishes her and gives you an excellent start for your bloodline.
3. Establish a foster care system for your breeding females. Allow your best girls to live with stringently selected families for free as house dogs, while signing official documents that let you retain full and exclusive breeding rights. This type of arrangement can free up space in your kennel and let you produce more litters, while at the same time being a responsible and caring dog owner.
4. Understand that it takes three generations for your own bloodline to have any legitimacy. Any great dogs produced from your first few litters are due more to your dog's breeders than to your own efforts. Anticipate mistakes and setbacks, and take them cheerfully as learning experiences for your career as a breeder.
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