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Originally Posted by whippee
Jeepers talk about going in head first! didn't anyone tell you that you have to learn how to crawl before you can walk??
fyi I did look into syndicates and nothing about them drew my interest. Why the hell would i want to stick my money at a dog and i have no personal attachment to. I am not interested in making money, its strictly a hobby and I want to have a crack at. And if for whatever reason my dog doesnt make the track, I still have a beatiful loving pet. So whats the harm in this? After all its better having this attitude than 7/8ths of the rest of the owners/trainers that put their dogs down quicker than you can shake a stick at. Most of these folks turnover huge numbers of animals and I think its bullshit.
I have started reading this forum to gain some more valuable information from others folks and most here have been alot of help. so i dont need some asshole like you telling me to crawl before i walk.
thank you much.
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7/8ths of the rest of the owners/trainers??? Gee I hope you're not one of the animal libbers that thinks 90% of greyhound owner/trainers don't care about their dogs and put them down if not fast enough??
That isn't simply true. I would say that 90% are decent owner/trainers who care about their dogs' welfare, so that leaves 10% horrible people who are in it for the money and also breeding as many pups as they can just to find one elusive champ and shoot the rest.
I also don't believe in high turnover, and I take in other people's unwanted slow/nonchasing dogs as well, I never buy greyhounds as I think there are already too many around that needs a patient trainer like me lol
Part of the reason I still train the same 4 racedogs that I've had for the past 3 years, is that if I breed a litter, and keep any pups, I can't breed another litter until the pups have retired from racing and goes to the nice little yards for broodies (also a main reason why I like to keep and train bitches instead of dogs, as I would hate to have to put the dogs down when they finished racing, if I couldn't find a home for them), as at least with bitches I can breed with them eventually, at least the ones that I think will make it as a brood.
I have two retired bitches inside the house with me right now, one has had a litter that have just finished breaking in; and one is just a pet, I wouldn't breed with her even though she won races as she isn't commerically viable to be able to sell pups.
Turnover isn't high for me lol I bring in a new dog to train maybe every 3 years! Unless of course I build more kennels (currently in middle of building 4 extra kennels! whoo hoo)
Many of the owners/trainers I know and speak to, absolutely love their dogs and many have a couple or few oldies pottering about their yards.