Re: RC: Re: Re: ride dogs (Ridgebacks)

["Carolyn Burgess" <carolyn_burgess@hotmail.com>]

If you buy a purebred, get it from reputable breeder and expect to PAY for 
the dog.  On Dalmations: I have a girl friend who has two.  Both are 
wonderful.  One is very intelligent, the other painfully dumb, but are both 
excellent dogs.  I hate to see a breed bashed for any reason.  I have a dog 
that is very shy and can be agressive, and you'll all probably say it's 
because he has Pitbull in him (the other half is Beagle), but it has more to 
do with his abusive upbringing (we adopted him at age 5) than his breed.  
There are wonderful Rotweillers and terrible Labs, so I think you need to be 
careful before bashing a breed.

Carolyn Burgess


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>Be very careful with dalmations.  Even before they were extremely overbred 
>as
>a result of the 101 Dalmations movies they had some serious genetic 
>defects.
>One is the inability to produce certain digestive enzymes they need.  They
>also can be EXTREMELY hyper and hard to train.  Best thing to do, as 
>someone
>suggested, is get lots of info on breeds your interested in.  Look at what
>type of genetic diseases or faults they have, look at what the owners and
>breeders who wrote the books say about temperament and trainability, Then
>take that all with a grain of salt, because they wouldn't be writing about
>the breed if they didn't like it.  If it's an AKC breed, check with them 
>for
>genetic problems, also.  You can just about bet that any breed that has 
>been
>popular as a pet has been overbred by backyard breeders who don't know the
>first thing about dog breeding.  Then once you have picked a breed, talk to
>as many breeders as you can, all over the country.  A good breeder will 
>tell
>you what types of situations they don't think their dogs are suited for.
>Good breeders are selective about who they place a puppy with, and will 
>often
>offer to take it back if it doesn't work and will also give a health
>guarantee.  I worked with a breeder of St. Bernards for seven years, and
>learned a lot about reputable breeders from her.
>
>But I have two dogs, and they were both rescues, both mutts.  jeri
>
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