Raging Storm Pit Bull Kennel
"AMERICAN PIT BULL TERRIER BREEDER" Pit Bull puppies for sale ADBA, UKC, APBR, or CKC. Specializing in Solid White Pit Bulls
RAGING STORM PIT BULL KENNEL
ALL OF THE MUSCLE TONE YOU SEE IN OUR PIT BULLS IS STRICTLY GENITICS, PROPER DIET AND EXERCISE. WE DO NOT USE VITAMINS OR TREDMILLS. WE PREFER FOR OUR PIT BULLS TO GET THEIR EXERCISE PLAYING WITH US, EACH OTHER IN THIER PLAY YARD AND/OR ON THEIR WALKS WITH US.
WE ARE A SMALL KENNEL LOCACTED IN UNION GROVE, ALABAMA. WE KEEP IT SMALL SO WE CAN KEEP THE BEST IN QUALITY PITBULLS. WE RAISE PITBULL PUPPIES THAT WILL BE A HAPPY ADDITION TO YOUR FAMILY. ALL OF OUR PITS ARE WELL SOCIALIZED, FAMILY RAISED, AND VERY WELL CARED FOR. WE OWN THE PARENTS OF ALL PUPS SOLD AND ALSO THE GRANDPARENTS OF MANY PUPS SOLD. WE KNOW WHAT OUR LINE IS AND ARE VERY HAPPY WITH IT AS ARE OUR CUSTOMERS. REFERENCES AVAILIABLE ON REQUEST.
OUR ADULT PITS ARE IN AND OUT OF THE HOUSE. ALL OF OUR PUPPIES ARE BROUGHT INTO THE HOUSE ON DIFFERENT OCCASIONS TO LET THEM GET USED TO BEING AROUND A FAMILY, PLUS WE JUST LIKE TO PLAY WITH THEM. THESE PITS HAVE A VERY GOOD TEMPERAMENT AND LEARN QUICKLY.
WE OFFER PUPPIES FOR SALE FROM RAGING STORM'S BLOODLINE WHICH INCLUDES ELI. WE ARE LUCKY TO HAVE THIS STUD. HE HAS AMAZING MUSCLE TONE, GREAT BONE STRUCTURE, HIGHLY INTELIGENT, LOVING TOWARD PEOPLE AND ALL OF HIS OFFSPRING. HE IS ALSO A WORKING PIT. HE WILL ROUND UP OUR HORSES FOR US. HE IS A JOY TO HAVE IN OUR FAMILY. HE KEEPS US VERY WELL ENTERTAINED. WE ALSO HAVE PIT BULLS FROM THE FOLLOWING LINES....GOTTI, GREYLINE, 21 BLACKJACK, COLBY, AND LANDRYS.
ALL OF OUR PUPPIES ARE REGISTERED, HAD THEIR FIRST SHOTS, BEEN WORMED, AND ARE GUARANTEED TO BE HEALTHY. OUR ADULTS ARE APBR, ADBA, UKC, OR CKC REGISTERED. SOME ARE REGISTERED WITH MORE THAN ONE.
WE WILL DELIVER A PUPPY WITHIN 100 MILES OF HUNTSVILLE, ALABAMA TO YOUR HOME OR MEETING YOU SOMEWHERE AT NO EXTRA COST TO YOU. SHIPPING IS NOT INCLUDED IN THE PRICE UNLESS OTHERWISE ADVERTISED. WE DO OUR SHIPPING THROUGH AMERICAN AIRLINES OUT OF HUNTSVILLE, ALABAMA. THE COST OF SHIPPING TO MOST PLACES WITHIN THE U.S. IS $300.00 YOU MAY ALSO PICK UP YOUR PITBULL DIRECTLY FROM US OR MAKE YOUR OWN SHIPPING ARRANGEMENTS.
WE WILL NOT SELL A PUPPY TO ANYONE THAT WE SUSPECT OF USING THE DOG FOR FIGHTING OR ANY ILLEGAL PURPOSE. IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR A FIGHTING DOG YOUR AT THE WRONG WEBSITE AND DO NOT BOTHER CONTACTING US. OUR DOGS ARE RAISED FOR WORKING AND FAMILY PETS.
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RAGING STORM PIT BULL KENNEL
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We have no problem sending updated pictures of our puppies, facilities, and or adult pit bulls. Do you want to see where our pit bull puppies are being raised? Ask us, we will be happy to send you pictures. Do you want to see how our adults are living from day to day? We will take new pictures and send them to you. We take a lot of pride in providing a happy, safe and quality life for all of our pit bulls and pit bull puppies. Finding the right homes for our pit bull puppies and promoting the breed in a positive light is our main goals. Reasonable offers for any of our pit bull puppies for sale is always considered. Feel free to contact us with any questions, requests, or suggestions.
WE DO OCCASIONALLY LINEBREED SELECT PROVEN PIT BULLS
| Understanding Line Breeding There seems to be a vast misunderstanding about line breeding, what it is, why it is done and how it is done. Often one hears laymen and even some who should know better referring to it in derogatory terms and making the assumption that linebreeding is responsible for canine health and temperament problems. So in this article I hope to try to explain a little what responsible and knowledgeable breeders try to do in their breeding programs. First let me be clear anything said in this article refers to reputable breeders who breed to develop dogs who are the best examples of breed type (what a certain breed should look like according to the breed's standard or blueprint) and are of sound mind and body. It does not refer to puppy mill or back yard breeders as the sole purpose of those sorts of breeders are to supply the most puppies as cheaply as possible for the most profit. Considerations such as breed type, health and temperament are of no interest to these people and any linebreeding or inbreeding done by them is merely happenstance and economically advantageous. In the simplest terms there are three methods used when breeding purebred dogs: outcrossing, inbreeding and linebreeding. Outcrossing is the breeding of dogs with no common ancestors, usually within a five generation pedigree. Continual outcrossing is a method that is commonly used by breeders who have no real purpose in breeding dogs or by novice breeders. Occasionally it is employed by experienced breeders to bring in some needed attribute to their line. Though one hears about such things as hybrid vigour when outcrossing, the continual use of this method can be as dangerous as continual inbreeding as you are always bringing new genetic equations to the mix. Inbreeding is the breeding of close relatives not separated by more than one generation, i.e, brother to sister, father to daughter. This method is used to concentrate good qualities in the line but may also concentrate bad qualities. Only the most experienced breeders should be willing to attempt this method and be willing to make possible hard decisions with respect to the resulting puppies. Continual inbreeding should not be done. Linebreeding is a method that breeders will use to improve upon and try to eliminate structural and health problems from their dogs. It is the breeding together of dogs that have a well bred superior common ancestor who has attributes that the breeder is attempting to reproduce and improve upon in their own dogs. Things such as health, longevity of life, structure, movement and temperament of a dog that one is planning to linebreed on must be taken into account. Linebreeding is an attempt to concentrate the genetic contribution of an outstanding ancestor in the resulting offspring. As well once started one must continue the linebreeding process or all will be for naught. For a breeder who is contemplating linebreeding they must first study some basic genetics and learn how dominant and recessive genes affect the outcome of any breeding attempted. They must learn which attributes are dominant and which are recessive. They must also be aware of the genetic health issues for their breed and the mode of inheritance of those diseases. One must then study the dog that one hopes to linebreed on. Unfortunately in dogs it is not possible to know everything genetic about a certain dog as sometimes recessive genes may lie in wait but one can usually have a reasonable understanding of a dog's makeup through the study of pedigrees, both of the ancestors of that dog and his or her's offspring. For an example of a very successfully linebred dog I have used Eng. Ch. Craigowl Silkience, a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel. (Click here for pedigree, picture and history) She has been linebred on the very well known Eng. Ch. Homaranne Caption, a dog who is generally considered to exemplify the Cavalier King Charles Spaniel. He exuded breed type and lived a long and healthy life. When contemplating linebreeding this is exactly the dog one should consider. Eng. Ch. Craigowl Silkience has proven herself a very worthy descendant, having achieved an English Championship with a CC at the very famous and competitive Crufts dog show and at the age of 11 is still winning at dog shows. While nothing in dog breeding is clear cut linebreeding is the method which is employed as the most reasonable way to both maintain breed type and to possibly eliminate genetic health defects from a breed. |
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The follwing is a quote from Wikipedia, the free encylopedia.......
"Professional breeders are not only aware of their breed standards, but attempt to improve their own line by either linebreeding or by introducing new lines. Linebreeding or inbreeding in itself does not cause birth defects or other genetic health conditions, as is commonly thought. While inbreeding can affect some reproductive traits or decrease size slightly, other genetic defects occur only if the genes are present for these anomalies. This is true whether or not the breeding pair are related; in other words, two dogs mated with hip dysplasia will likely result in dysplastic offspring, whether or not the dam and sire were related or even of the same breed."
The following is the link to the information http://http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_reproduction
A LITTLE INFORMATION OF THE COST OF HAVING A LITTER OF PUPPIES
Most of this information is found on the following link http://www.geocities.com/learntobreed/costs.html
Costs
by Jane Johnson
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Many people believe that by breeding their bitch they can make a bit of money. Let's say that you may have 8 puppies that you can sell for $500 each. Wow - that's $4000, and you haven't even had to do anything except own the bitch!
Wrong.
The objective of this page is to provide a sort of reality check on the cost associated with having a litter. The vast majority of breeders do not make money from breeding litters. And it's not because they are bad at managing money. It's because raising a good litter costs money, and raising a disastrous litter takes even more money.
These are some of the costs that you will have to budget for:
- stud fee
- Whelping box, heat pads, heat lamps, thermometer, scissors, towels, baby scales, tweezers, hemostats, baby suction bulb
- milk replacement formula and/or goats milk, baby bottles, tubes for tube feeding, sterilising solution, nail clippers
- puppy wormer (2,4,6,& 8 weeks), puppy diarrhea medicine
- food - a pregnant female may need up to four times what she normally eats, and a nursing female will also need a lot of food. Puppies also eat much more food than what you would think
- vaccinations
- health certificates
Here are some of the hidden and not so hidden costs that you may not have thought about:
- vet checks and health tests to make sure that the bitch is ok to be mated and whelp
- ultrasounds
- lots of extra washing for bedding in whelping box
- emergency vet trips (invariably late at night)for the emergency c-section
- emergency vet trips to save a dying pup
- time off from work that you need to take to help the bitch and to make sure that no puppies get squashed, etc - allow at least 5 days off work for this
- vet visit and antibiotics for the bitch for such things as mastisis
- advertising to sell puppies
- lots of phone calls plus e-mails to and from interested and not so interested puppy buyers
- TIME AND MORE TIME
- cost of running website is paid every month, puppies or no puppies
- camara for quality pictures
- lots of toys for the new babies
- treats from the mother and the babies
- potty pads
So you've read all this and you figure, heck I don't need all that stuff, I can do this cheaper! Well, yes you can. You might buy a few of these things listed above and never use them. Bravo for you. Unfortunately Murphy's law seems to strike, and whatever you don't have, that's what you'll need in the middle of the night.
Ok, you're still not convinced that there isn't some money to be made in this breeding caper. So let's do some sums.
Let's assume that you have a breed that averages 8 puppies per litter that sell for $500 each - ok, many smaller breeds never have this many puppies, but let's stick with this example.
Let's look at the costs:
- stud fee - usually equivalent to the cost of one pup
- neonatal deaths - average 25% per litter - ok so let's say you lose two pups here (this means that so far after the stud fee, we only really have 5 left that we can sell to make money from)
- vaccinations, worming, eye certifications - that adds up to another pup (of course, you can save money by ignoring these important steps)
- food - extra food for bitch, and then food for puppies until the age of 8 weeks - that's half a pup
- emergency vet vists to try and save the dying pup, or the emergency c-section on the mum - maybe both! - that's at least one pup, and more likely two. Let's say 1 and a half pups.
- Health checks on the bitch prior to whelping - checks for hd, annual eye certifications, thyroid checks, etc - that's another pup (but if you want to cut corners and ignore these very important checks you can save money here)
- Advertising the litter and answering numerous phone calls - that's half a pup
- Time off taken from work to whelp litter - that's at least one pup, more likely two, and in some cases, equivalent to the total selling price of whole litter. Let's say one and a half pups.
- Breeder support - for the life of the pup a good breeder will be there to take back those pups whose owners can no longer keep them. Also a good breeder will keep in regular contact with her puppy owners. Let's be really conservative here and say, that's the cost of just one pup.
- And you want to keep one pup for yourself, so you can't sell that one.
Okay, now go back through the list and work out, realistically, how many pups you need to breed from a litter so that you just break even. 12 - maybe. And of course, for those of us that have bred litter with that many pups know exactly how much extra work that is, especially if the bitch is not a great mum, and only has 8 working tits.
Do you think I'm being pessismistic?
Well, this is the unfortunate reality of life. Breeding dogs is not a profit making venture for many breeders.
For those of you who think that you could breed a healthy litter of purebred pups, that come from champion parents, raised in a family environment in the house, provide life time breeder support, and still think you can make money out of this, please email me urgently - I need to know how you do it!
In all seriousness, raising the vast majority of litters is a labour of love. If you are about to breed your first litter I can guarantee you the following:
- You will never make as much money out of it than you thought you would. Actually it is more than likely that you won't even break even
- You will spend a large portion of the first couple of weeks of the puppies' lives awake, and you will not get much sleep
- If you've never assisted in the whelping of a litter before - you will find it significantly harder than what you thought it was
Yes, when I bred my first litter I could see that I was going to make money from the venture. I now encourage you to read the story of Bliss and find out not only how many thousand dollars I lost, and how I lost all the puppies, but also how emotionally damaging it was to me.
Now, I know better. Please learn from my mistakes, and the mistakes of many other breeders out there. Don't enter into the dog breeding business to make money. It is truly a labour of love, and it should never be seen as being a "hobby".
