To piggy-back on your last statement...I think people in general breed dogs for the wrong reason and more often excessively to much. I have own these dogs since 1983 and I did not make my 1st breeding until the late 90s. The reason being I did not feel I had enough knowledge about the breed to properly breed these animals. Now that I feel I have some knowledge of the breed and have had a chance to be involved in every aspect of this breed, I still feel unless you are solely a breeder and producing quality animals on a consistent basis then you should only breed when it is necessary to your program.

Alot of times I see people with 4 or more breedings available forsale every 6 months. I sit back and shake my head, because when you call and talk to these breeders they can barely tell you the name of the dogs that make up the 1st two gen. It is very rare they can tell you anything about any of the dogs that make up these great pups pedigree.