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BTW  Blitzen, you forgot to list the 'best' reason our Rescues name as

why people get dogs back :

"We redecorated;  his colour didn't work with our new carpet."

 

Oh yeah. Heard that one, too!

We just got back one of Bella's pups from last summer. Said he was 'too high drive', and it didn't look like his ears were going to go up. DUH. Well, his mom is a working line from the Bosen Nachtbarschaft lines...you expected a couch potato, maybe??

We already have a potential new buyer who says he doesn't CARE whether they go up or not! He wants a working dog, so it doesn't matter!

In the show world we call them "friendly ears" that wave at you when the dog runs by. I'm guessing at least half of every GSD I've ever seen in the show ring had friendly ears. ASL, GSL makes no difference. It's in the genes and is the result of many generations of breeders taping ears on pups and then using them for breeding. Now people like us get to pay for it.

Hundmutter, the "best" reason I was ever given for a buyer returning a dog to me came from one who was so picky she brought her vet with her when she came for her puppy, pick female. She wanted to make sure the pup was healthy so wanted her vet to examine it.  She took the dog home, a several hundred mile drive one way, put her in a corral with quarter horses. One horse stepped on her and fractured one of her hind legs. An epiphyseal  fracture that needed a pin. So that growth plate was damaged and that leg ended up shorter than the opposing rear leg. Would I take her back because she didn't "walk right" and she really wanted a dog she could use for weight pulling. Sure bring her down tomorrow.

I never argued with or tried to convince any buyer to keep a dog they didn't want. Once their mind is made up that the dog is going to go, it's best to take it back as Joan did rather than to trust an idiot to find a decent home for the dog.

There isn't enough money in the world to convince me to ever breed another litter of dogs unless I had enough room to take back every single dog I bred.

@Paul, I told you it'd help to put some phone books under him. :-)
Dewulf, I believe this pup will get her deserved home.
This guy didn't buy on a whim, called and talked several times before coming out, with family to see the pups available for them. Then he came back by himself to pick the pup up. Said he'd been following my site for a couple years, planning ahead for a pup.

Same thing with the buyer I mentioned above. She checked on my dogs' show records, other dogs I had bred, my parent club membership, what offices I held in dog clubs, asked other breeders for references, etc. I was impressed that she went to so much trouble to find the dog she wanted. Still, she gave the dog back. IMO there is absolutely no way to screen buyers that works 100% so a breeder may as well just assume that any of the dogs they breed can come back at any given time for any reason you can think of and for some reasons you would never think of. Hell I got back a 12 year old because her owner remarried. and her new husband wanted wall to wall white carpet and a white standard poodle to match. 12 years old, can  you imagine?

Hey, it's a throw away society - dont like it, get rid of it and go get another.

I have worked extensively with both horses and dogs, and cannot believe someone would be so STUPID as to turn a young pup out with a bunch of horses!!    WOW! You can't fix stupid...

That story about the 12 year old being returned because they wanted a white carpet and a white poodle turns my stomach!  Were you able to restrain yourself from telling them what you thought of them, Blitzen? I don't think I would have been able to keep my mouth shut, once I'd picked my jaw up off the floor....

As it turned out, after I heard the new husband actually used toliet paper to "wipe" the poodle before she was allowed back inside the house after urinating, I was glad she gave "Blossom" back to me. She divorced him  a year later just after the poodle got skunked and stained yellow around her neck, so I was gratified once again.

Paul, even if you could train that dog to drive the SUV and shop for groceries, be assured that someone here will be able to tell you what  you did wrong and how  you could have taught him to use his turn signals sooner (or later) and how to make better selections in the produce aisle.

 @ Blitzen.

Blitzen,

That is because I am a poor trainer and would not know a good dog if it had HD. LOL