Our application is very lengthy. Our interviews are quite in depth. We do home checks. We talk on the phone with people interested in buying a dog from us. We meet potential buyers in person and ask they visit us or we meet them at their home or a show or event. We have a
Continue readingWhen we first began this journey with Staffords our intentions were to have some fun, meet new people, travel a bit and study the breed. Somewhere along the way we also broke some breed records and enjoyed some firsts. Bragging isn’t really our ‘thing’ but at some point it does become important to document successes.
Continue readingAN OPEN LETTER TO ALL BREEDERSBy Lynsey Smith -If you don’t have goals: DONT BREED.( Producing “great” pets, or big and impressive ISN’T a goal). Far too many breeds have been RUINED because people breed simply for pets with no REAL goals for the breed. -If you don’t TEST your dogs in some way (health
Continue readingWe receive a LOT of interest in our Staffords. We might receive half dozen plus emails, PM’s, calls and yes even texts from strangers asking to purchase a puppy weekly. Here’s some advice. Don’t send a text asking for a puppy. Further, how about an introduction? We ALWAYS ask everyone to please read this huge
Continue readingThere are many differences in dog breeders, owners, trainers, rescues……. what we all ‘should’ have in common (which we do not) is respect for the animals we represent.
Continue readingWe have been hard at work over the past year building an online shopping ‘mall’ to help support the growing need for funding for Stafford rescue. Sadly we are now helping families re-home their pets mainly due to lack of support from their breeders. Some breeders are also selling puppies to anyone with the cash
Continue readingI made the following suggestion to the SBTCA National Specialty Committee that I am currently serving on – There should be an extra nontraditional class at the national specialty called the “best family” or similar where you have to enter a minimum of three generations, preferably four. The purpose would be to show the direction
Continue readingI volunteer my free time to help Staffords. I do this freely and of my own will. I spend hours each day on some sort of project related to Staffords. I am either promoting The Stafford Knot, helping raise money for the parent club, assisting with rescue, running online auctions where I give away my
Continue readingIn the days prior to Facebook we had Bullbreeds Online. Before that Yahoo groups. Prior to that there was Compuserve chat rooms. Even before that, before the internet, people actually called on the telephone to speak to one another. The phones usually were attached to walls or at least a base unit was. Those who
Continue readingHere it is almost ten weeks later and the first puppy leaves tomorrow. Ordinarily I prefer for them to remain a while longer but this puppy is going to an experienced home with a Stafford bitch they bought from us 4 years ago. They also do Puppy Culture so I feel confident he will be
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