What makes you decide to cull a pup, and when?

Yeah, better safe than sorry for sure, especially with the rep these dogs have.

 

the bitch wanst a bulldog.. but thats not the point

 

Yeah, still a valid point.

 

lol he was pissed it was out of his hunting stock.. and he does competition hunts and travels all over the world to do it.

 

I would be pissed too, obviously it's not good for a bitch to have a worthless litter.

 

Only if it has birth defects or something. I guess you just have to really love the breed to understand that their is alot of love out there and it should rarely be an option. I Have APBT's and EBT's. I later cut ties with the EBT Breeder because of his coldness to small pups cull crazy with no remorse so I just found it hard to see a genuine love for the breed. I took one fine bitch from his yard we love her. i have never had a problem with any pups that i would have to cull kill its the same thing it just sounds like a good thing the other way. It should be relegated to a good ol mercy killing or not.

 

So you don't believe that breeders that cull hard truly love the breed? I think it's entirely reasonable to only feed the best... if a pup grows into a dog that won't/can't work then no point in keeping it around.

 

I recently had a litter of 11 pups of which i could not keep all. I decided to keep all the females(4) and 3 males. The rest i euthanized.
Apparently, and not sure if this is common practice, but heard that greyhound breeders always cull the whole 1st litter?

 

My grandfather bred greyhounds (if you like greyhounds you may know one of his dogs JJ Doc Richard, won 37 in a row, 1995) and he did not cull the whole first litter. Never heard of anyone doing so. (Doesn't mean nobody does.) Seems like it would be a tremendous waste to me.

 

Tudor, Harris and Hollingsworth all culled pups. I belief Tudor would cull females so that nobody could breed his blood. Harris and H-worth grabbed a cold one and would watch pups play and by attitude and structure they would pick what they wanted and the rest would get a nap, loooong nap..

 

Unfortunately no, there are pet greyhounds in the family but none racing or being bred. When my grandfather fell ill a several years ago and could not care for the dogs, he gave them to friends of his (I don't know who all took them). He passed away last year. I was rather young when he was at the height of his career but I still do have photographs, records, pedigrees from some of his dogs.

 

only for defects or as was said before if no acceptable home is about.have bottle feed a few(hounds&bulldogs)

 

It's funny watching everybody's answers, you see the answer is going to be different depending upon who your talking to.

Now the people that are into dogs are going to say they'd cull pups that didn't seem as promising as the ones they intended on keeping. It's all about efficiency, you don't want to keep a whole litter if you only have the means of raising four properly, but it's also because you believe you have something worth dedicating your time to, and you don't want it falling in the hands of people who could potentially use it against you even without papers. Bullyson vs Bennybob perfect example.. And especially not with papers for the fear they might make a better name for themselves or just peddle your name into the dirt.

Then you have the breeder/peddlers that just want to make a buck and hopes that some one that buys one of there dogs will make there name famous one day. They'd never cull a dog, because that flushing potential money down the commode.

 

Also there are some people who have dogs they peddle and try to keep the best and sell the rest, it all depends i won't lie this is my strategy culls feed the yard. However if I found say my cowboy and piggy it's not going anywhere..

 

so your saying,that you would sell all of your culls,rather than selling a good dog?i think this is what is wrong with the game today,everyone is selling any and everything rather than putting good dogs on the ground.only bred once in five years,never sold any just placed them and the same people are still asking for dogs til this day,because i never let my culls go!

 

There has been young culls that turned on later on and turned out to be the best in the litter. Its like going to the racetrack and betting on the horses, sometimes.

 

agreed it's all a gamble!

 

I'm not trying to make a name for myself, but tell me who goes and intentionally sells there best dogs? Nobody.. If there's a litter of eight I keep em til 5 mos, sell the half I like the least. Wait another four months and keep the most promising. I'm not saying I don't sell good dogs, the dogs I breed turn on early so it's easy to have a good idea of what I'm looking at, and what I want to keep. Trust me, I only keep bulldogs, some may not like how my peds look, but the proof is in the pudding. Ask around bout the scar blood, and the iron mike blood, and the Boyles stuff, there's people that know trust that..