Dear I love my 10 dogs
.....you don`t know a girl who has a big house and many acres and keeps 17 horses and lots of dogs just outside Bristol do you?

Or is that you?

Says it all really the two that have no health testing done on them also have parents who haven't been health tested

Interestingly if the two dogs that are registered with the KC are bred together this would be the result a COI of 20.9% !!!!!!!!

Oh dear.
Do you have someone keeping an eye on you? Have a chat to them, eh?
I think you need to back off from this and look at what`s real and what isn`t.

What's your BCs name as I have lots of friends down your way who do Rally-O & Obedeince

So there are "quite a few" Husky breeders named Tracey Crump are there?

There are 43 people named Tracey Crump on the electoral roll in the UK.

Bit of a coincidence to find "quite a few" people named Tracey Crump who breed Huskies out of just 43 in the whole of the UK then, eh?

I am rather worried about all your animals though. What is it? Ten dogs, three horses, how many cats? Rabbits?

Who is looking after this menagerie of yours while you are spending so much time on this Forum? It will set my mind at ease to know that your animals are being looked after while you are otherwise occupied.

May I ask how old you are please? Just so that I can understand your situation clearly.

Thank you dear.

Please show me where I said YOU OR YOUR FRIEND breed as a puppy farm...

My, ALL her dogs are champions!!!!!!!!!!!

She must be one lucky lady, something not a lot of people would be able to claim, , that every dog they have bred have achieved champion status

Jezz, you must have been the fastest farrier in the west to be able to have made that kind of money.

BTW, its a bit strange that a farrier cant spell the occupation he/she has been involved in , dont you think.

Just out of interest - how old is this Tracy Crump? I know we can all have friends much older or younger than ourselves, but your posts make you sound VERY young. If this woman has been breeding for 20 years, she much be a lot older than you yourself sound from the way your posts are written.
Furthermore, her own post on a differetn site states she's been breeding for 8 years. Is she telling lies or are you?

You're being ridiculous. Nobody has said you have to stop breeding but you've yet to answer some very valid questions about WHY you are breeding. You have been asked WHAT your breeding program brings to the breed and your only answer is that your dogs bring a lot to the breed. So you've not answered butr only side-stepped every question you've been asked so far.

Nobody has said Tracy Crump doesn't look after her dogs properly. You say they are ALL champions. I don't believe you. Also, stating that she won't be at all happy if she saw this thread, then good. Maybe she'll think about what she's doing. If she's not running a puppy farm then what is it? At the very least she's a commercial breeder and is in it for the money, not for the love of the breed.

If you're going to cry because people have given their opinion and asked questions then why are you here? You asked about showing - you should have already shown your dogs long before breeding them. Furthermore, Crufts and other Champ shows are the same as any other KC show. You wait your turn, wear your number, take your dogs into the ring, hope they do as they should do and look pretty, then you hope they get placed or qualify for a higher show. If you are crying your eyes out because of comments on here (valid opinionsd and questions) then you need to look at why you're so sensitive.

You are a newcomer to this board. Nobody has told you to go away. You are in NO position to tell long standing, more established members to go away purely because you don't like what they post. This is the internet and you will ALWAYS have comments you don't like or agree with. If you think you will onyl get answers you like the sound of, you are VERY sorely mistaken.

Oooohh, "stuff you all". Again you don't like what you've read. Big deal. TYour dogs haven't been health tested, cannot be found on the KC site and you're planniogn on breeding a bitch you have no idea about in terms of maturity, temperament etc. Certainly NOT the actins of a reputable or ethical breeder.

Breeding as you are shows you don't care abou tthe breed imo. It has no bearing on whether you care about your dogs individually; although why would you put a bitch through a pregnancy etc without health testing if you cared for her? You say your dogs bring a lot to the breed. Well exatly WHAT do they offer? What are the advantages to the BREED fo ryou to reproduce more pups from your dogs? What is it that is so special about YOUR dogs with respect to the BREED specifically?

Who has said you don't love your dogs? Stop trying to be clever and taking the emphasis away from the fact that you are breeding dogs for no real reason other than you can and you can charge money for them. You say you have said what you bring to the breed. No you haven't. Maybe you can answer that now seeing as you haven't already answered that question? You see, refusing to answer such questions just heightens peoples' suspicion of your reasons for breeding.
Why are you telling people to "just shut up"? Is it because you don't like what you're reading? If members have got the wrong end of the stick then put us all in the picture by answering the questons already ansqwered and stop behaing like a 12 year old telling people to go away or shut up. This serves only to prove how immature and silly you are.

@ ILovemy10dogs

Where to start.............................................

To answer your original question - To qualify for Crufts, your dog must win certain classes at a KC Championship Show or by winning at certain other shows (not sure of the details). These are the regulations - http://www.crufts.org.uk/crufts-2011-qualification

You can find all the Championship Shows here: http://www.thekennelclub.org.uk/item/568

If you genuinely want to get into showing, it would be best to find a ringcraft class locally or a mentor who is into showing themselves.

On the question of breeding from your Siberian Huskies - you should be aware that there is a real rescue crisis in the breed at the moment and the vast majority of the dogs in rescue have been bred by people who (with all due respect) seem, like you, not to have much grasp of the realities of the breed or breeding and have just bred their pets and sold them on to naive and unprepared new owners. I know this because I help run the largest and busiest Husky Rescue organisation in the UK. In just four years we have taken in and rehomed over 500 unwanted Siberian Huskies - all but about three bred by people we would regard as unethical, irresponsible breeders.
If you want to breed responsibly and ethically, you will need to follow these guidelines:

You are congratulated for wanting to get into showing your dogs - after all, in the absence of any long distance snowy trails in the UK, the showring is one of our most important arenas for assessing the quality of our dogs. What happens however if your dogs are not successful in the showring? In effect, a dog that fails in the showring is a dog that judges feel isn't good enough for breeding. Would the lack of success in the showring make you change your mind about breeding?

What I would suggest is that you put your breeding plans on hold until you have learned a lot more about the breed - preferably by finding yourself an experienced mentor who both works and shows their dogs.

I've been interested in the breed for 20 years now and have owned Siberians for 17 years and I have to say I've never come across your friend in either the showring or on the trail, and I think that if anyone had produced 13 Champions, she would be pretty well known in show circles.

The negative comments you have received so far in this discussion have been made by people who have the best interests of our wonderful breed at heart and have, like me. been dismayed and disgusted by the state of the breed in the UK today. Because of people who have bred thoughtlessly or simply for money - whether they are large scale puppy farmers, backyard breeders or naive/stupid/greedy "pet" breeders - the Siberian Husky is in a lot of trouble in the UK today and we are doing our best to prevent the situation getting even worse.

Mick

I am sorry you are upset and I can totaly understand as it is a very emotive issue

People are trying to understand and so ask questions, from what you have posted the information does sound alarm bells for many people

From many many threads on breeding the main dogsey view on a GOOD breeder is a person who

Has lots of years experience in the breed and is a expert in the breed
most likely that h uge passion for the breed means they also work with breed rescues and are aware of the extent of the rehoming problems in their breed

Only breed from the best examples they can (health temprament and looks/ability), have great understanding of the faults of their bitch as well as the good points so they know what dog will compliment them

only breed when they need a pup and have quality homes lined up before they breed

Take back any pup ever if there is a problem with the home


In general this is the dogsey line on breeding
so some of your answers ring alarm bells with people
over an internet we dont really know what the truth is so have to ask questions

Not having a go or anything here - just kind of giving you a heads up - I dont know what you do or dont do

imo there are lots of types of puppy farmers - some are horrible and the dogs are kept in horrible conditions
BUT anyone who is breeding dogs for profit is a puppy farmer