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Dog Breeders Directory Winners and Losers

Dog Breeders Directory Winners and Losers

One online dog breeders directory is soaring while others are tanking.  I did a bit of research this month to find out why.  The picture that emerged was interesting:  While most are holding their spot in the market, some are in free fall and one is surging ahead.  Want to know which ones and my guess at why?  Then read on and I’ll show you.

Why is this Important?

Well if a dog breeders…

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What's Great About Backyard Breeders?

What’s Great About Backyard Breeders?

The reputation of dog breeding as a profession has suffered in recent years.   And despised, even by most professional breeders, are the lowly backyard breeders.

Backyard breeders are badmouthed… a lot!  An (admittedly bias) article in Wikipedia defines it this way: Backyard breeding is “substandard”, small scale breeding, normally done at home with the breeders’ own pets.  Welfare groups rightly…

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Best Business Opportunity From Home for Moms

Best Business Opportunity From Home for Moms

What’s the best business opportunity from home for Moms?  For many Moms work at home would be a dream come true.   No-one wants to leave their children to go to work, and many working Moms feel very unhappy because they never get to see their children and their house is a mess because they are  never home.  Working away from home brings chaos into any Mom’s life but often there seems to be no…

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Could Worms Possibly Be GOOD for Your Dog?

Could Worms Possibly Be GOOD for Your Dog?

Until recently the idea that intestinal parasites offer benefits to their hosts would be considered radical.  But thanks to new information, that’s all changed.

The change in attitude began when scientists started to notice that wherever worms are eradicated by improved hygiene and medicine, sharp spikes in auto-immune diseases have followed.

Auto-immune diseases on the rise in us and our pets

Au…

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Quick Dip/Diff Quik Biological Stains Kit

Quick Dip/Diff Quik Biological Stains Kit

This Quick Dip Diff Quik Biological Stains Kit is the same as used in my Canine Fertility Kit.

It is perfect for vaginal cytology staining or staining other biological smears (e.g. hematology specimens) in preparation for microscopic examination.

The staining procedure takes mere minutes.

Each vial holds 70 ml of stain and is good for hundreds of uses.   The first vial is a RED Eosin based dye.…

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Cats, Rats and Dead Puppies

Cats, Rats and Dead Puppies

What do dead puppies have to do with cats and rats?  More than you might at first suspect!

Most breeders wouldn’t be too alarmed about having one or two puppies either born dead or too weak to survive in a litter.  It’s almost normal and usually put down to luck.  After all, birth is an arduous process that even healthy puppies do not always survive.  There are lots of possible explanations. A…

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How Much Are Dog Mating Problems Costing You?

How Much Are Dog Mating Problems Costing You?

How poorly dog mating is managed by a lot of breeders never ceases to amaze me.   Poor management of this most crucial act must be costing breeders thousands of dollars every time in missed litters or stud fees.   Is there anything that can be done about it?  Most certainly yes!  And the considerable cost of not taking effective action should be motivation enough to do something about it.   Well…

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BARF Diet: 5 Things You Should Know About Raw Dog Food Diets

BARF Diet: 5 Things You Should Know About Raw Dog Food Diets

I first read about the BARF diet twenty years ago, in my early days as a dog breeder.  BARF is a raw dog food diet originally espoused by Australian veterinarian Dr Ian Billinghurst.  Standing for Biologically Appropriate Raw Food, BARF advocates feeding dogs in a way that simulates as close as possible the diet they were designed to eat through millions of years of evolution.

Like most…

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Puppy Personality Matching in Practice

Puppy Personality Matching in Practice

Puppy personality matching is so very important to ensuring your precious puppies are adopted by people they’re compatible with.   With the welfare of their dogs and their owners uppermost in their minds, ethical dog breeders personality match their puppies to their best-fit owners so they end up with a dog they can not just tolerate, but love and live happily ever after with.   Such care by the…

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New Puppy Vaccination Protocol Offers Big Benefits

New Puppy Vaccination Protocol Offers Big Benefits

The new puppy vaccination protocol offers big benefits to puppies and their owners.

In a nutshell, after the usual C3 (cover for the basic “big three” in Australia: Parvovirus, Distemper and Hepatitis.  Add Rabies for countries where the disease is endemic) puppy shots done by breeders (at between 6 and 8 weeks old…. the later the better) they only need one more puppy shot given at 10 to 12 weeks…

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Worming Puppies: Why It's So Important May Surprise You!

Worming Puppies: Why It’s So Important May Surprise You!

Worming looking puppy with a baby…Ugh!

Worming puppies is important.  Any but the most amateur dog breeders know that puppies (and their moms) should be wormed every 2 weeks until they are 8 weeks old.  But do you know why this is so very crucial?

There are two big reasons, and both relate to the way intestinal parasites (worms) behave in dogs. 

In adult dogs of good health, adult worms exist in…

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Best Toys for Puppies

Best Toys for Puppies

Are the best toys for puppies Kong dog toys?  I get asked this question a lot by doting new owners.  And as a breeder I have spent several years attempting to condition my puppies to enjoy Kong dog toys.  That’s because toys for puppies are important.

Why Toys for Puppies are Important

Since most of us have to go out and work each day, sooner or later our new puppy is going to have to become…

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Puppy Care: 7 Tips for Breeders

Puppy Care: 7 Tips for Breeders

Smart puppy care will pay for itself over an over again.  Here I will share 7 breeding management tips you can routinely use to prevent the death of newborn and young puppies.

It’s downright heartbreaking when you get your hoped-for litter and get through the woods of the whelping, only to have puppies start dying on you.  You feel so helpless!  It’s one of the most common problems my breeders…

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Dog Breeding Guide eBook

Dog Breeding Guide eBook

This dog breeding guide ebook will show you how to make a healthy hobby income from just a few pampered pets – while raising the standards for ethical dog breeding. This is the most qualified instruction on dog breeding available online today.  It distills decades of application of my veterinary knowledge to the experience of running a dog breeding business.

  Why drag yourself off to a part-time…

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Home Canine Artificial Insemination Kit

Home Canine Artificial Insemination Kit

Canine artificial insemination is the sure-fire solution to dog breeding problems arising from mating hassles. And the great thing is that it’s easy to learn how to do dog AI in your own home.

No matter what size dogs you have….

No matter if you finished high school or not…

Everything you need to do this like a vet is in our Canine AI Kit including:

• Full DVDthat you can play on any computer or…

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Home Canine Fertility Test Kit

Home Canine Fertility Test Kit

This DIY Canine Fertility Kit makes it quick and easy to conduct Vaginal Cytology on your own breeding dogs at home. 

Included in your kit:

Educational DVD demonstrating every step of the procedure, from collecting from your bitch, to preparing and examining the vaginal smear.

Full Instruction Manual with colour step-by-step photographs to illustrate every part of the Vaginal Cytology procedure,…

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Tips on Choosing a Dog: Interview with Professor James Serpell

Tips on Choosing a Dog: Interview with Professor James Serpell

What’s important to look out for when choosing a dog?

I interviewed Professor James Serpell, BSc, PhD to answer that question.  Professor Serpell is the Marie A. Moore Professor of Ethics and Animal Welfare, and Director, Center for the Interaction of Animals and Society., at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine.

He has conducted many studies to uncover important aspects…