My Bitch Won't Breed My Stud!?!?!

I agree with the others who posted that breeding indiscriminately is totally irresponsible. And unless you have two top of the line dogs, pedigree wise, you have bred irresponsibly.
   
I haven't seen anyone mention how many purebred dogs, including springer spaniels (that's what you bred right?), are available for adoption, through rescue groups and animal shelters. Yes that's right, you can get most any kind of purebred dogs, including springer spaniels, from animal shelters. If they don't have the breed you want they will attempt to get one for you from another shelter. The number of purebred dogs languishing in shelters and foster homes number in the hundreds of thousands. I work for just one rescue group Gordon, English, Irish , Red and White Setters and there are hundreds of these purebred dogs currently looking for homes. So just because you have taken in some mixed breeds does not justify breeding other dogs to justify your own desires. And one last note, there is a good chance that one or more of your new puppies will eventually end up in some shelter or foster home, no matter how careful you are to screen the new owners.
   
The only reason to increase the population of any given breed is if you have two dogs that are perfect breed specimans, with no mental, emotional or medical breed specific problems in them or their ancestors.

I drove roundtrip (700 miles each way) from Florida to Tennessee to pick up my border terrier, from an excellent breeder I might add. I did that because I wanted one of his puppies to the exclusion of others I could have gotten closer to home. So why did you mention your trip and how does that justify breeding dogs when there are perfectly great springer spaniels languishingg in shelters and foster homes?

ok, point number one... my springers are both top of the line AKC registered dogs, both have several champion titles in their pedigree's and both have next to perfect markings as in accordance to akc specifications.
   
Point 2, I pointed out that I drove 300 miles to pick up my puppies because I selected my female from springers all over the united states and I was so empressed with the breeder that I got her through that when I was looking to get my male I went back to the same breeder to ask if she had a male that was not related to my female and then waited for one with perfect markings before purchasing it.
   
Point 3, you complain about how there are purebreds in animal shelters around the world and that there is no reason to go to a breeder to get a dog just because you want a purebred and first of all there are NEVER any springers in ANY of our animal shelters anywhere near here (I have checked) and second of all shortly after mentioning this you talk about how you drove 600 miles to get your dog... FROM A BREEDER so is everyone but you supposed to go to animal shelters to get their dogs?