I have never been keen on co-ownerships myself except in very special cases. Once in a while someone may want to own a dog or bitch that I bred that I had decided to keep.for myself. If I know the person well and trust them to do right by the animal, I will let it go to live with them on a co-ownership. In greyhounds, I have done this more often than in cavaliers. The only reason I do this is so that I can continue to produce using the best of my line so that the line will continue. In cavaliers, I am too new,( only about eight years), to really have developed a line of my own. I'm still taking advantage of the knowledge and lines of the talented breeders who have shared with me. It is also much easier to keep an extra cavalier here and there than it is an extra greyhound.
In most circumstances, I think it is very controlling of someone to sell many dogs on coownerships. Sometimes it seems that some breeders are giving buyers the right to pay for a dog, its entries its food and its medical bills, but is one that the breeder continues to feel and treat as his own. I'm careful who gets my pups, and sell almost all on limited registrations but, after that, I think the buyer has a right to feel his dog is his own. Pat ========================================================= "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.
