A couple of other things that I forgot to mention earlier. Helping me make my mind up about show vs. working lines was some advice given that a lot of people looking for pups to buy as pets (and nothing more) would prefer to see a mixture of show and working lines rather than a pup bred purely from working lines, as they knew they wouldn't have the time or energy to devote to a very active dog. Some good advice I thought, although clearly these puppy buyers are more educated than I was when I looked for a pup - I was certainly not aware of differences such as size, shape and energy levels between show and working lines when I was looking !
The other suggestion was to mate Jess with a black carrying chocolate (rather than dominant black), as some of the pups then will be chocolate, which at the moment, are easier to sell than black pups (I'll cover coat colour genetics in a later post).
I figured that the more people I could attract to Jess' pups then the better chance I will have of a/ finding them all a good home and b/ making sure I was happy with the quality of life the new owners were going to provide for them.
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