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Why are puppies expensive? (appeared in the club newspaper of the OETH December 2005) What? A puppy costs so much money?", a man on the telephone asks. The next inquires is disappointed that there are not puppies without papers to buy, the puppy should be more cheaper! Such telephone-calls belong to the breeder everyday life, here must be some explanations to the prospective puppy-owner. A responsible dog breed requires a high financial and time-intensive employment. The breeder must fulfill determined conditions and editions in the apron, in order to become member in a breed-book-prominent dog federation, so that its puppies can receive also appropriate geneological pedigrees. Before the breeder can sell a litter, he furnished some high payments in advance. In addition finally belong the purchase price of a breed dog, reporting fees for exhibitions, costs of breed-examination, hips-x´ray, eye examination, cover fee, veterinary surgeon costs, fees of throw acceptance and geneological pedigrees, kind-fair high-quality nutrition, wormings, inoculation and the raising of the puppies. Sometimes an illness, an accident or a life-saving operation of a dog can cost several thousand euro at veterinary surgeon. To the geneological pedigree: "real papers" are to contain truthful data, which are recognized world-wide. Since however each dog breeder and each pedigree dog association can issue geneological pedigrees, the at present only protection consists for the dog buyer of the fact that the geneological pedigree of the dog with the emblems of the respective country (in Austria OEKV Austrian cynologic federation) and the F.C.I. (Fédération Cynologique international) is provided. A geneological pedigree with the seal of the F.C.I. is controlled guaranteed that the breeder adheres to a strict breed order, its breed is logged and visited, nevertheless should the dog buyer an exact picture over the breeder and the raising of its future puppy make itself. A breeder has more than one dog and therefore also more expenditures for liability and dog licence fee. The height of the dog licence fee differs substantially, usually is lower the dog licence fee at the country than in the city. Caution with the dog purchase is required, if: - a breeder offers directly several races - puppies are offered far under customary price for the breed - the puppy is attractive offer, if you would do without papers - where the breeder cannot submit papers to you (inoculation passports of the puppies, papers of parents, breed permission, findings hips-tests of parents animals etc..) - the breeder did not breed the dog - the mother dog is not to see - the puppy is under eight weeks old - the puppy will change the owner on a parking place -Puppies and mother dog exclusively live in the kennel or in the cage - a puppy is thin and generally ungroomed - a puppy is extremely fearful and tired, -dogs in the Internet to be offered. by mouse-click "into the dogs bed" Dogs at the "good deal price" possess rarely papers of a recognized breed federation. The puppies come from backyard “breeders” or from illegal foreign imported dogfarms. During the mating of the parents the dogs were not attached importance with health, nature firmness, socialisation and other zuechterische breeding necessary aspects. The mother dog lives their sad life as puppy birthing machine and their puppies neither are wormed nor inoculated correctly. The purchase of a puppy with a dumping price can come expensively for the puppy buyer. High veterinary surgeon calculations and often a much too short dog life impaired heavily by illness, are not rarity. Do without - even if it falls heavily - on compassion purchases! They help to suffer dubious dog dealers the business and make thereby a genuine contribution to the animal protection. Who concerns itself with dogs, kind-fair attitude and the enormous expenditure of the breeder more near, knows, why puppies from respectable breeders cannot change the owner to "low prices". © Sonja Winkelbauer - Padma Sambhava Lhasa Apso top Dog breeding hobby or profession? (appeared in the club newspaper of the OETH July 2005) Hobby breed, lover breed - these designations are common, but is responsible dog breed no more? In order to concern yourself with this topic, first a definition is necessary. As definition for hobby we can find in the encyclopedia the following: Hobby : Occupation, to which one follows in its spare time (from interest or as reconciliation to the vocational activity) Occupation (with a certain thing) in the spare time as photographing, stamp collecting; something (only) from hobby do, not vocationally and for money, but only from joy in the thing in the spare time.... Profession : learned, skillfully, efficiently, clear structures and successfully functioning mechanisms, professionally.... In contrast to this the appropriate definitions stand for dog breed with all requirements of the animal law for the protection and the breed regulations of the respective breed federation. Dog breed presupposes first of all dog attitude. Dog breed and dog attitude cannot be compared with stamp collecting. Here is organism, which cares for around the clock, to supply themselves, be employed, trained, moved, maintained and kind must be in accordance. Creation, care and preservation of the behaviour - fair accommodation (at best own reason and soil, house, area of raising of puppy, discharge surface, open area) must be ensured. A care person must be there for contact, speech, allowance, body contact, socialisation. Care, maintenance, hygiene measures and cleaning of area of raising of puppy, throw crate, discharge surface necessarily. There are also obligations added for a breeder, which result from a responsible person dog breed. Dog breed defines itself as follows: Dog breed is the according to plan accomplished mating of pedigree dogs, a certain breed goal (e.g. figure, achievement, health and mor.) it corresponds, in expectation that the desired characteristics and characteristics leave themselves and/or improve in the descendants. Breed presupposes a defined goal, which includes the selection of the optimum breed partners. Many breeders travel with its dogs crosswise to exhibitions by Europe , an active exchange over the national borders take place, in order to use each chance of a breed improvement. In order to become fair this requirement, the breeder must acquire himself an extensive knowledge, which goes far outside over dog behavior, genetics, hereditary diseases, development, environmental influences, birth, raising, socialisation, nutrition, health and health prophylaxis, breed procedure, breed choice and extensive race knowledge in the attitude. In addition also attendance of breeding-regulations, exhibitions in the home country and in foreign countries, the study of the geneological pedigrees, breed books and kynologic articles, specialized technical and the exchange of experiences with successful breeders since many years. In addition knowledge of the club-internal regulations and breed regulations comes. The breeder should also have very good knowledge of human nature, and/or acquire himself, in order to find for its dogs the best owners. In addition the breeder must become actively through: Consultation, presentation, selling, support, sales, aftercare, advertisement. Consultation can be realized by telephone calls, correspondence (usually by email), personal discussions with prospective customers, the providing and the conveying of documentation. Presentation of the breed place and dogs requires invitations of dog prospective customer, race presentations on fairs etc.. Selling means to select the optimum candidates, whom the breeder would like to entrust a puppy and from which he is predominantly convinced from the number of prospective customers that the puppy remains there also to to its end of life. In addition are personal knowing necessarily to learn, intensive exchange of ideas, common walks with the dogs and attendance, if necessary repeated. Support up to the delivery age of the puppies is reached by repeated renewed attendance of the future owner of puppy, who can make itself more near familiar with its puppy and pursue the development and raising personally. If it is not possible for puppy prospective customers to see the puppies personal the fetching day ago it will be pleased about regular pictorial material. Additionally pieces of advice for acclimatizing, puppy education, puppy coinage days, feeding, inoculation prophylaxis, literature recommendations. Sales is coupled with the collection of the puppy, which includes again the attendance of the owner of puppy and for the time being locking consultation with tipps and pieces of advice for problem-free acclimatizing, room purity and feeding etc.. A conclusion of a contract and the signing of the sales contract with money delivery follows. The delivery should be connected with collar, food, toy and a written paper with food and lead-in supply of the puppy, in which all discussed themes of advice can be reread at home again. Aftercare effected via feedback of the owner of dog over the condition and the behavior of the puppy, hands one or more renewed attendance with the conception of the young dog over assistance with possible difficulties and problem solutions, contains, in order to examine its development condition, up to the bring back guarantee of the dog, should unforeseeable circumstances in the case of the owner arise, who makes an attitude of the dog impossible. In special cases aftercare extends also to the guidance, the training and consultation of the owner, who develops ambitions for the dog haven or the dog breed with its dog. Advertisements : It will usually take place via exhibition successes, champion-titles, announcements, own meaningful and current Website and possibly also own publications. Dog breed accomplished in this sense, has nothing to do with a hobby. However the expenditure of time blows up the framework of the leisure activities. Dog breed presupposes professionalism, i.e. ability and experiencedness, thus exceeds responsible dog breed the borders of a hobby and is more, its profession, appointment, work and service. © Sonja Winkelbauer - Padma Sambhava Lhasa Apso top

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