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    Missing Kilmour Area

    in Dog Rescue (General Rescue Discussion)

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    Harvey is an 18 nth old desexed red cairn boy, clipped in a breed clip..

    Missing from kilmour area, has collar AND TAG..but hasn't been seen or heard off..I bred him, he is his owners Sarah's heart dog and she is dedvestated....

    Please go to my FB page and share to get it out there as I'm afraid he may have been pinched as a bait dog....(he's not dog aggressive but being a terrier boy fires up easily)

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    Missing Kilmour Area..may Have Been Stolen..

    in General Dog Discussion

    Posted

    Harvey is an 18 nth old desexed red cairn boy, clipped in a breed clip..

    Missing from kilmour area, has collar AND TAG..but hasn't been seen or heard off..I bred him, he is his owners Sarah's heart dog and she is dedvestated....

    Please go to my FB page and share to get it out there as I'm afraid he may have been pinched as a bait dog....(he's not dog aggressive but being a terrier boy fires up easily)

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    Amstaff Help

    in Breeders Community

    Posted

    Wow, what a nice positive thread! Well done OP for doing the right thing by the breed and for 3woofs for being very helpful!! Good luck OP with your tests and if all doesn't go to plan, enjoy your lovely dog :)

    Advertising

    in General Dog Discussion

    Posted · Edited by Missymoo

    On the flip side...I imported an Aus Grand Champion in my breed. Different colour to what was normally seen and he couldn't win to save his life...he was far superior than some of the examples I'd shown in the past (as you always wish to improve) and yet, he couldn't be found in the group line up to save his soul....In Canada, to obtain a title, I had to win in the group for points. Not an easy feat but I had done pretty good up til then.

    I was very well known as a handler of other dogs, and breeder/handler of my own breed and yet, couldn't place in a weak group with low numbers.

    Normally I would wait and have a good photo taken of a decent win, and have that printed in the national mag...this time, I took just a good selection of photos taken on a local beach by a good friend with a talent for the right camera angle....and put a well worded ad in place....

    He wasn't even pointed in Canada, but he was a Grand Champion here, so I used that in BIG letters. The weekend after the mag was in the hands of the judges....he placed group 2 and group 1.....he went on to finish his title in a couple more weekends, with more group wins. I campaigned him that year to top in the breed with about six months of showing after the ad came out.

    Coincidence between not winning and then suddenly winning big after publication? No, I don't think so.....

    Agree with your last statement! :laugh:

    If I was rolling in money, I would use advertising. Heck FB is free advertising these days. I have been called three times by friends to "comment" on old win photos the weekend before shows to bump photos, (which I refused to do btw.)

    I have personally spent any spare cash in my breeding though, after all at the end of the day advertising an average dog might make it win (ok many are lovely but there are few meh dogs doing big winning because of flashy adds) but where would your breeding program be? I guess I am a long term thinker?

    Each to their own I guess, I love looking at the creative adds and gorgeous photos though :).

    Quote yarracully "Also worth noticing that one of the mags that has quite a lot of these ads is sent to all judges free of charge. ". I don't think this is doing good things to the dog world in general though..at all.

    Edited for iPad...(roll eyes!)

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