Well with due respect Laura I don't think you can equate those figures to Cavaliers where it appears to me that everyman and his dog has jumped on the Cavalier bandwagon if only judging by the prices pet are sold at for a nice little income Now I readily recognise that there are people with many years experience in other breeds now breeding and showing Cavaliers as well as Cavalier breeders of many years standing but I think there is quite a high percentage breeding (and sort of showing) who have no experience at all neither are they adhering to the advice of the cardiologists. Therefore I think there are quite a few what you call "backyard breeders" (how I hate that expression!! VBG) amongst the breeder exhibitors The same thing happened over here in the late sixties early seventies when cavaliers were "discovered" so I am not pointing the finger in anyway. The only hope is that as happened over here the bubble burst after a few years and registrations settled down a bit. Annette ----- Original Message ----- From: "Laura Trunk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 6:27 PM Subject: Re: [CKCS-L] vets
> > was this study specifically about Cavaliers? It is Cavaliers I am > commenting > > on - not an all breed study > > > It was a study on all breeds, showing--on average--who is breeding purebred > dogs. Back when I started in Cavaliers, the vast majority of the breeders > also showed their dogs. I *knew* almost every breeder in the country to > some extent. > > In one month's AKC Stud Book of last year, there were 76 Cavalier litters > recorded. Of these 22 were bred by breeders who don't show. Close to half > of the 22 were bred by 2 or 3 commercial breeders that I've heard of, the > other half backyard breeders or commercial breeders I don't know about--most > of the other half were bitches from Ireland with those funny names like > Fancy's Beauty or Princess Sunshine. 54 were bred by show breeders. So it > seems the Cavalier statistics are beginning to change as well. Of all the > Cavaliers registered each month, the percentage of those bred by show > breeders is dropping. The statistics seem to say the show breeders are > doing a good job of keeping puppies from being bred by backyard breeders. > Unfortunately they seem to be buying them from brokers and pet shops and > starting to breed anyway. > > Laura Lang > Roycroft Cavaliers > > ========================================================= > "Magic Commands": > to stop receiving mail for awhile, click here and send the email: > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=SET%20CKCS-L%20NOMAIL > to start it up gain click here: > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=SET%20CKCS-L%20MAIL > > E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] for assistance. > Search the Archives... http://apple.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ckcs-l.html > > All e-mail sent through CKCS-L is Copyright 2002 by its original author. ========================================================= "Magic Commands": to stop receiving mail for awhile, click here and send the email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=SET%20CKCS-L%20NOMAIL to start it up gain click here: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=SET%20CKCS-L%20MAIL E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] for assistance. Search the Archives... http://apple.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ckcs-l.html All e-mail sent through CKCS-L is Copyright 2002 by its original author.
