cocker pups due

[lurchers 2,878]

if you are crossing these to dogs mate wouldnt that meen you are improving the blood line as you are putting working blood into show blood,the way i look at it what ever faults the show stuff has you are improving it with the working side.just my oppinion but thats how it looks to me atb mate

if you want a working dog your first priority isnt to improve a show line,you are dilutind working blood with show blood

if thats the case why did i have good digging border terriers that was bred off show stuff.was it look i guess not its what you put into them the way i look at it.you get crap dogs thats bred off worker to worker as you do from show stuff to show stuff.the way i look at it if a dog has faults how are you to breed them out of it and its not breed to back to dogs with faults as it will never improve the breed.

[j davies 8]

is crossing the working cocker with show lines commom ?

i'm looking at importing a cocker at some stage but really want a pure working strain.

cross a working dog with a show one i would not get one off you no way mate never working only for me my sister=in law has 3 2 show ones and they are not in the same class as mine

[j davies 8]

nice dogs them how much would you like for a pup mate

 

 

if i can find a vet that will dock as i have rang about 10 vets and all said no, they will be £500 female and £450 male ,

 

as for crossing working and show strain i want a pup off the litter to work and wanted nore working strain in her , as i was giving the mum a phew years back and trainned her up to work under my birds bushing and retreving , she still got a very good nose and drive with all her show strain in her , hope this helps

i payed 450 for mine 4 years ago no matter waht people say they will sell for that

[watchman 256]

i personaly would not have one either,given the choice that is,not to say they wont do the job mate as im sure they will,to some degree,more to the point advertising pups you not yet got seems a bit,counting your chickens,atb with the litter though mate

[askiro 1]

i'm replying to the dockings message, i would doubt that a vet would dock you pups, because you need to produce documents to prove that the dam and sire are from working stock, and also you need some sort of certificate to prove they will be used in the field.

As you will know, the docking of show dogs is illegal and can carry heavy fines or even imprisonment, so i would be very careful about docking the ppups.

Rob

[kevin kiely 66]

if you want a working dog your first priority isnt to improve a show line,you are dilutind working blood with show blood

if thats the case why did i have good digging border terriers that was bred off show stuff.was it look i guess not its what you put into them the way i look at it.you get crap dogs thats bred off worker to worker as you do from show stuff to show stuff.the way i look at it if a dog has faults how are you to breed them out of it and its not breed to back to dogs with faults as it will never improve the breed.

its naive to think putting the same time and effort into show bred dogs you will have the same chance of good dogs as compared to worker to worker for years,it hard enough getting workers from good blood nevermind trying to get dogs working that arent even bred for it.