If you were watching the puppycam just now, you might have seen one of the puppies just about standing up. Standing up! On all four feet! Shaky and drunk-looking, of course, but definitely standing up!<\/p>\n
Also, I am interviewed (quoted, anyway) along with Sarah Keth<\/a> and Ivy Underdahl<\/a> in March’s Dog Fancy<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 They called me a “champion breeder”, which isn’t true (yet, at least…she types, looking meaningfully at the puppies), but I sure like the sounds of it!\u00c2\u00a0 The only breeder who chose to advertise in this issue is the “commercial breeder” we’re worried about (along with the SVCA<\/a>, which was an attempt to encourage people to do their homework before buying a puppy…especially one from a “commercial breeder”).\u00c2\u00a0 So anyone who happens to be reading this who’s considering buying a puppy from a commercial breeder, please don’t!\u00c2\u00a0 Please do your homework!\u00c2\u00a0 Breeding decisions need to be made carefully in every breed, but especially one with as limited a\u00c2\u00a0 gene pool as Vallhunds have, which is not something commercial breeders tend to do, they tend to just breed the dogs they have to each other over and over again, because they’re in the business<\/strong> of producing puppies for a market.\u00c2\u00a0 Please don’t be that market.\u00c2\u00a0 That sort of thing is what damages breeds in the long run.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" If you were watching the puppycam just now, you might have seen one of the puppies just about standing up. Standing up! On all four feet! Shaky and drunk-looking, of course, but definitely standing up! Also, I am interviewed (quoted, anyway) along with Sarah Keth and Ivy Underdahl in March’s Dog Fancy.\u00c2\u00a0 They called me […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,62,67,51,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breeding","category-dogs","category-nina","category-puppies-dogs","category-vallhunds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=589"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":590,"href":"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589\/revisions\/590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}