Most puppies are sold as pets.
What does a family need in a pet puppy?
A person who wants a working dog is looking for an extreme in behavior – that is a large part of what made the types of dogs what they are.
If you want a greyhound, you want a sprinting dog. If you want a tracking hound – you want a dog that will follow his nose for hours.
If you want a herding dog, you want a dog with such ingrained behavioral traits that he lives to herd sheep – and he does it right.
But if you want to produce good pet dogs from a collection of working and hunting breeds, what you want is to delete those genes that code for extreme behaviors.
You don’t want to breed huskies that want to run all day.
You don’t want to breed dogs that obsess over birds or sheep.
But you want to produce healthy puppies. No fair breeding flat faced dog who aren’t hyper because they have to work just to breathe. NO fair getting nice lap dogs who seem so sweet just because they are too in pain to be active.
You want to breed out the hunting, herding, fighting, competing genes. Work to produce dogs who have good social skills with other dogs and people.
Produce dogs who are not startled or upset by noises, or activity, but who are responsive to people.
Produce dogs who can be left alone, loose in the house, are easy to housebreak, who don’t bark often, and who really are good with people.
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