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Re: scratching my head??
quote: Originally posted by Jason Thompson
I still cant figure this stud dog thing out. We keep an ad on here but by no means blow up or heavily promote Oz. He is my dog and breeding him to make money has not been the goal. With that said, we paid in my mind a good deal of money for him. He was not free to me. I get calls on almost a weekly basis about breeding to him. We were asking $300 which i think is very fair for a Grnite and 2x htx male that also has won $3500 in the other registery. He has done his part of winning. i have even offered to breed him for a pup or $200 to some of the females that have called. They have pretty much snubbed me and said no pup deal and i should do it for nearly nothing or free just because its a good female. This has happened on more than one occasion lately. I guess thats just how it is.
Jason, man can I relate to what you wrote. When I had Piazon, I tried to charge $200, I did go to $250 on a couple frozen breedings. At first I did a lot of pup (1 pup) deals, but quickly ended up with a hillside full of pups I didn't have time for and we are terrible about getting attached to pups and thus keeping them wheather we ever did anything with them or not. Finally I got to telling people I just didn't have room for anymore pups and just wanted $200 and oh my gosh, it's like I slapped them in the face, guys seem to be like everything you have is worth nothing while everything they have is worth a fortune. I only ever had a handful ever pay the $200. I told some they didn't have to pay till they sold a couple pups, then one of them brought me a cheap rifle, 1 never gave me anything at all. Also once traded a pup for a goat that I never got while guy went and sold the pup. Then there was another guy that acted insulted I asked him $200, didn't breed to him and kept snickering every time I saw him about getting Piazon in his kennel in "a round about way" when someone gave him a female out of him for free that he later bred and sold pups from. Same guy had the nerve to hit me on messenger and criticise me for daring to try to charge him and calling me a liar about what I asked till I finally told him off and cut all ties to him. So I so understand what you mean and so understand why the breed continues to suck hind tit. I've concluded promoting a Bluetick isn't about putting out a quality product that you can take to town and compete with the best with, it's about how much BS you can spread, gotta learn to talk like Timothy Ball, post a video of your dog every time it trees, get a couple buddies to be very vocal and post everywhere "he's got a good un there". Everything BS wise that people like you and me just aren't going to do! As for me, I'm not much of a people person any way, don't really want the hassle of advertising a stud dog or pups and will just breed what I like and can be proud of for my own use until I can't walk well enough to hunt anymore which is probably just around the corner unfortunatly.
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Mike Sheppard
Sheppard's Northern Blue's
Home of UKC GR NT CH, PKC CH
2 time world finalist, 10th overall and high scoring Bluetick of the 2010 UKC World Coonhound Championship
NASHOBA VALLEY PIAZON, (RIP)
his littermate brother
UKC NT CH SHEPPARDS NORTHERN
BLUE LONER (RIP)
UKC GR NT CH RATTLERS BLUE SKY (RIP)
UKC Gr NT CH, PKC Ch Sheppard's Northern Blue Abbie, (PiazonxSky) UKC GR NT CH 'pr' Sheppards Northern Blue Punkin (PiazonXAlice) High scoring Bluetick of the 2015 (50th anniversary) Grand American, 2017 National Grand Nite Champion of breed, 2017 BBOA zone 4 Nite hunt dog of the year. Queen of hunt on 2019 Grand National Bluetick Reunion, 5th place and High Scoring Bluetick of 2019 UKC world Nite hunt Championship, 2019 Triple Crown Winner.
UKC GR NT CH 'pr' Mckintosh's Blue Flame Chopper
Gr Nt Ch Sheppards Northern Blue Goomba (Piazon X Dizzie) 14th place 2017 UKC world coon hound championship 100 purina point cast wins in 2018
and several other blueticks of lesser accomplishments
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