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Dog Breeders Q&A
Please suggest me a good pet shop or dog breeders ?
Can someone please suggest me a good pet shop or dog breeder in Bangalore?
I am looking for any one of the following breeds : -
Labrador retriever
Boxer
English Mastiff
Bull Mastiff
Rottweiler
doberman
No pet shop dogs are good quality - they all come from puppy mills or people who breed dogs for "looks" not health or form. The dogs will have tons of health issues.
If you're not looking for a specific breed, adopt a dog from a rescue or shelter.
How do reputable dog breeders know which of their pups to sell and which to keep for breeding purposes?
I've heard people say things like,
"I bought my dog from a reputable breeder, but he is not show quality. The breeder kept the show quality pups that were eventually going to be used for breeding."
At such a young age, how is it possible for breeders to tell which pups will develop faults and which will go on to become breeding quality dogs?
How accurate can an experience breeder be by examining a potential pup? Because puppies change as they grow.
There are schools of thought that believe a puppy at 8-10 weeks old is proportionally and structurally identical to what it will look like as an adult...just in miniature. A lot of breeders evaluate (or have other knowledgeable breeders evaluate) their litters at this age and select the puppies most fitting the breed Standard at that time.
If a puppy has a major fault, you can rule that puppy out pretty early on. You watch the litter as it develops and keep an eye out for traits.
In my last litter, the little female trotted everywhere she went from the time she could walk. No bouncing, no hopping -- just a smooth, ground-eating trot. That indicates the structure that moves an endurance sled dog 60+ miles a day.
It was no surprise that at 8.5 weeks, she had the front and rear angulation, and the proportions that I was looking for. So she stayed.
As others have said, sometimes your "keepers" don't turn out. I have a beautiful male at home that I felt sure was his champion grandfather reincarnate when he was 8 weeks...unfortunately he never grew past 21" tall, and his tail went tight when he hit puberty.
He's a good lead dog, though -- so he's sticking around until I can find someone who deserves him. He looks so much like his grandpa that it kills me.
So you make the best assumptions you can, based on what you know about your bloodlines and your breed standard. Obviously, the longer you're involved with the breed, the more you know. 
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