STUD DOG'S CARE AND MANAGEMENT— 4 



WHY QRKOING 9(kSS 



in many cases that the kennels are 

 using their own studs. 



The successful breeder determines 

 what bloodlines he wishes to unite to 

 those of his bitch; then he sends his 

 bitch to that stud, whether the stud 

 be located far or near, whether the 

 stud fee be ten or a hundred dollars. 

 He is the wise breeder; his entries 

 win at shows and his dogs usually 

 fetch high sales prices. 



The other breeder, when his bitch 

 is in heat — and he usually gives little 

 thot to the matter until she is in heat 

 — reasons to himself that by using 

 one of his own studs, he can save a 

 fee of $25 to $50 plus express charges 

 and the labor of shipping and receiv- 

 ing 'back his bitch. 



The last worry of a novice entering 

 into the breeding of dogs should be 

 the ownership of a stud. Yet so many 

 state they are beginning the breeding 

 of dogs, having purchased one male 

 and one bitch, and they add, as proof 

 of their zvisdom, an unrelated pair 

 (a disastrous situation indeed!). 



Benefit from Other's 

 Investment 



The male certainly will not have 

 many services for there will not be 

 rnany bitches in the kennel for some 

 time. Further, the novice who pur- 

 chases a male for stud use, is not pur- 

 chasing a good type usually as he is 

 not expending enuf money to obtain 

 a first-rate male. He is merely in- 



creasing the number of ordinary 

 studs. 



In what does the value of a stud 

 dog consist? In his siring. This 

 value he imparts alike ; surely it is not 

 conditioned upon ownership of the 

 dam. The stud gives his full blood 

 value to every bitch he serves. What 

 cares he whether the abject of his 

 romance is owned by this or that per- 

 son? Hence, the owner of the dam 

 gets the same return on the invest- 

 ment value of a stud which may be 

 perhaps a thousand dollars, as 

 does the owner of the stud when 

 breeding one of his own bitches to his 

 own stud. It is more economical to 

 pay $40 stud fee than a $1,000 pur- 

 chase fee, when the stud dog, likely of 

 far better type than the novice can 

 hope to breed or own in a long time, 

 is available at public stud. 



How to Judge a Stud 



What individual male should be 

 chosen as a stud dog? As already 

 stated, the stud dog is not to be 

 judged ^ alone in himself but also in 

 his entire family. 



The stud dog should be predomi- 

 nant; he should transmit most of the 

 good qualities of his family, whether 

 they are in him or not, to most of his 

 puppies. When we speak of his good 

 qualities, we include clearly those of 

 his general family line. 



There are outstanding instances of 

 studs who could not win at shows and 

 yet who could produce much winning 

 stock. These particular studs were 

 prepotent or dominant in the good 

 qualities of their family line rather 

 than of themselves. 



On the whole, the male dog that can 

 compete at the shozvs and zmn cham- 

 pionship points, thus being declared 

 officially a good specimen of the breed 

 according to the official standard, is 

 to be chosen as stud but with one pro- 

 vision — he may be a freak or an acci- 

 dent, that is, he may not be able to 

 transmit his own good qualities or 

 those of his family line. The show 

 zmnning male is not inevitably the de- 

 sirable stud. Within a year his "get" 

 zmll make or break him. 



